ABOUT SHMIKO COLE
Business Expert, Impact Entrepreneur Coach, RVP Financial Education/Literacy

Shmiko Cole is a transformative heart-led leader, with more than 30+ years of cross-industry experience in business, corporate, and retail management. She has overseen and successfully built businesses ranging from billion-dollar operations to small nonprofit foundations. She specializes in the fields of business, financial education, and operations management. She is the executive TV producer of the IGNITE Your Essence TV talk show, and LiT (Leaders In Transformation) Magazine owner.

Shmiko, also referred to as The Money Multiplier in the financial education and wealth-building industry, is a financial educator/advocate, empowerment coach, and partner to many well-established companies focused on business solutions for every level of a growing organization.

She is an acclaimed mentor of the world’s next generation of positive impactful leaders and is known for grooming capable, purposeful leaders who build effective and successful collaborative business teams.

The type of results Shmiko exacts can be seen in her vast business networks and the level of growth for her clients, partners, and proteges. Additionally, she makes time to educate underserved youth and adult communities in areas of financial literacy, legacy building, and actionable methods for achieving a growth mindset. She instills in others the values she lives by with her uniquely supportive and flexible coaching and mentoring style.

Shmiko loves Buckminster Fuller’s insight that “Integrity is the essence of everything successful.”
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ABOUT MICHELLE QUEVEDO
Consultant, Wellness Expert, Podcast Host, Talk Show Host, Speaker

Michelle Quevedo is co-founder and host of IGNITE Your Essence TV talk show, co-founder of LIT Magazine, and CEO of Inner World Inc.

Michelle has over 23 years of experience in health & wellness and over 20 years of experience in entrepreneurship, starting with her first investor-funded company at age 27. Since then she has been a source of guidance and training for many entrepreneurs, physicians, healthcare practitioners, corporate executives, corporate employees, and government officials who strive to keep their health & wellness intact by balancing productivity during the rigors of empire and career building.

She has been public speaking since six years of age and values the art of communication with the strong belief that everyone has a poignant and inspirational story to tell, yet they also hold the ability to find their authentic voice and can convey their thoughts verbally, with confidence and relatability. This is how her style of interviewing as a TV talk show host developed, and why she is currently working on the completion of her program – The Global Speaker Lab.

From trekking through the Himalayas, journeys throughout India, to the heights of Mount Kilimanjaro, Michelle has studied, observed, and practiced meditation, healthcare, and forms of energy movement. She has searched out experts of the most effective wellness methods throughout the world and has integrated this knowledge into her practice, wellness strategies, and private mentoring sessions. As a result, she is also known for connecting her clients with a network of extraordinary health and wellness professionals around the world. During this journey, she has also learned from and connected with mentors and leaders in transformation, personal development, and business.

Michelle holds a degree and certifications in business, leadership, and health theology along with other treatment modalities. Her approach towards health and wellness for herself and her clients has been often referred to as life-changing but she maintains that none of this can be accomplished without the collective knowledge from her teachers and contemporaries. She is a practitioner and lineage holder of an ancient Asian acupressure technique utilizing the entire acupuncture point scale and will continue on some level until this knowledge has been passed on to the next lineage holder.

Michelle’s podcast Inner World Health & Wellness can be found on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, and other platforms. Reboot coming soon in Spring 2021!
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ABOUT MICHELE A. WILSON
Transformational Leader, Mompruener, Best Selling Author, Mentor, Host

Michele A. Wilson is known as a heart-centered transformational leader. She is an intuitive business coach, mompruener, 2X best-selling author, and a columnist at The Los Angeles Tribune. She is the founder and president of Mompreneur Universe a Division of Velocity Group Global Inc. Michele has also been an international mentor for Avanti America International Business Academy since 2014 and loves giving back to the community.

For over a decade, Michele has taken her 20 years of entrepreneurship experience of work-life balance and has coached over 300 businesses and families to start, and protect the business they love in harmony while raising a family and making a bigger impact. She is also grateful to be able to join forces with a collaborative and innovative team at tThe Los Angeles Tribune that wants to make a difference. Michele is honored and thrilled to be co-hosting the IGNITE Your Essence TV show on The Los Angeles Tribune Network which airs on Roku TV.

Michele’s purpose is to be a light of the world. She is passionate about serving and creating a loving community for mompreneurs that empowers and equips them with innovative solutions, and live an expression of their highest potential so that they can tap into their God-given genius and achieve their dreams. She does this by helping mompreneurs to discover their worth, gifts, talents, and skills so that they can create a purpose-driven business that they love and in harmony with raising their family. Michele is also excited about her online course launching in 2022 which focuses on work-life balance for mom entrepreneurs.

She has raised three children, worked two jobs while attending college, and graduated from the University of Phoenix with a BS Degree in Business Management. Michele also graduated from Ventura County Leadership Academy, which develops leaders to enhance the quality of life in Ventura County. However, her real education came from the school of hard knocks. Michele grew up in Simi Valley, California and she had big dreams growing up. Dancing was her passion and she wanted to be a professional dancer. At the age of seventeen, her dreams slipped away when she became a teenage mom, but she was blessed to be gifted with great parents who were very caring and loving and taught her strong Christian family values.

Michele worked in the banking, insurance, real estate, and dot-com industries, yet she struggled for years as a single mom, however, she never gave up. When she discovered that a JOB (Just Over Broke) was not going to provide her with the lifestyle of freedom she always dreamed of, she took a leap of faith and left corporate America to be her own boss. However, when Michele’s six-year-old son was rushed to the hospital and diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, she learned the art of gratitude and gained strength from her faith. Through her son’s journey, Michele has learned so many life lessons, and how to overcome adversity. The biggest lesson she learned was from Napoleon Hill “Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” Michele is so thankful for her family, friends, and business partners, team members, and mentors who have poured into her and continue to believe in her.

A few of Michele’s accomplishments are; 2020 IBMTV Awards Excellence In Women Empowerment, 2x best-selling author, three-time president chapter for Business Network International (BNI), 2018 University of Phoenix nominee of the Leadership Impact Award, and 2016 nominee for the Los Angeles Business Journal’s Women’s Summit.
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ABOUT LAURA IBARRA
Graphic Designer, Speaker, Business Consultant

Laura Ibarra is a Graphic Designer, with more than 17 years of experience in editorial design, printing systems, and the development of new business models.

As a business consultant, she has established the business plan for the Cocineros Mx por el mundo company based in Dubai, UAE, and worked with renowned business marketing expert Kathy McAfee. She is an advisor of the IGNITE Your Essence TV show.

She is also a specialist in printing systems and owner of más-in design brand dedicated to social design and souvenirs, based in México.

As part of her commitment to personal development and mentoring, she consistently supports Carlos Medina’s mission to share experience and provide business support to growing companies.

Laura is now pouring her talents into serving non-profit organizations advancing personal development among Hispanic women, increasing educational opportunities to Hispanic students, while also preserving their Hispanic culture.

Laura sets an example for what Hispanic women can achieve when they set their minds to win.
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ABOUT AVA V. MANUEL
Educational Speaker, Storyteller, Virtual Events Organizer, Physical Therapist

Ava Manuel is a physical therapist with multiple clinical specialties who has been taking patients from bed-bound to walking, to thriving in life for over 25 years. Her book You Got Covid. Now What? A Physical Therapist’s Guide to No Politics, No Controversies, and No Bullshit Guide to Your Kick-ass Fight Against Covid is releasing at the end of January 2022 and will be coupled with an online program.

In business, she has expanded her expertise in creating virtual and physical events including summits, tours, fundraising events, challenges, athletic events, and expos.

Today, Ava serves as an international educational speaker, storyteller, virtual events organizer, and coach. She is an editor for the LiT Magazine, an executive producer with the IGNITE your Essence talk show, the creator of Own Your Health Today, and the chief experience officer and founder of Recharging Your Superwoman Virtual Show and Events; all while still enjoying being a hospital physical therapist.

As a way of giving back, Ava serves as the second vice president of the Redding Breakfast Lions Club with projects that support disadvantaged kids and youth in her community; a volunteer certified boating crew for the US Coast Guard Auxiliary; and a global mover of the Everything is Right About You Movement with projects that bring tools for self-love and self-development to children around the world.