Are you an entrepreneur or small business owner looking for authentic ways to attract your ideal clients?

Join us for an insightful conversation featuring the incredibly talented Chelsie Tamms, an award-winning artist and branding expert, who is known for helping clients visually express their passion projects & brands through impactful visuals that connect on a deeper level.

Chelsie has built a values-driven business that supports local causes and empowers small businesses to shine.

Here are 5 key takeaways from our conversation:

1. The unconventional path Chelsie took by starting her own business straight out of college after winning startup funding, bypassing the traditional 9-to-5 corporate job.

2. The importance of pursuing work that aligns with your personal values and passions, as it can lead to more meaningful impact.

3. The power of intentional and thoughtful design to help organizations effectively communicate their uniqueness, connect with audiences, and raise awareness for their missions.

4. The valuable advice to reach out directly to potential clients or partners you admire, even if they seem unattainable at first, to explore collaborations.

5. The need to hold yourself accountable as a business owner to continued growth and learning, while also defining success on your own authentic terms aligned with your purpose.

Chelsie is proof that you can build a values-driven business focused on creativity + passion. Her example gives fellow female entrepreneurs inspiration to stay true to your purpose.

Chelsie Tamms is an artist, educator, and entrepreneur. She founded Lettering Works in 2016, combining her love of hand-lettering with her expertise in marketing. Since then, she’s grown her business to offer custom branding packages, courses for artists, and wholesale products and merchandise—all with the mission to bring more creativity into her community and beyond. She is especially drawn to cause-driven projects surrounding mental health, chronic illness, and underrepresented communities.

You can connect with Chelsie Tamms here:
Website: https://www.letteringworks.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chelsietamms/

Dr. Sina Smith had dreamed of being a surgeon since she was 5 years old. She went through years of intense medical training to achieve that goal. However, close to finishing her surgical residency, she suffered a sudden injury that changed the course of her career.

After over a decade of medical school and training, Dr. Smith woke up one morning unable to move her right arm. Despite treatment, tests, and time, she did not regain full function. This meant she could not continue her surgical training.

Devastated, Dr. Smith had to ask herself - now what?

Around this time, Dr. Smith tried acupuncture to treat her injury. She was amazed to find that it helped with her arm's function and her pain. She also found the emotional release profoundly powerful. This mind-body connection fascinated Dr. Smith and led her to pivot into studying acupuncture and functional medicine.

Now Dr. Smith helps patients as a licensed acupuncturist and functional medicine doctor. She focuses on complex, chronic health issues that conventional medicine doesn't always resolve - things like:

• Migraines
• IBS
• Menstrual problems
• Sleep issues

Her passion is uncovering the root cause and puzzles of each patient’s health picture.

An area Dr. Smith feels strongly about is nutrition. She shares practical tips for using food to control inflammation and pain. Her advice? Skip processed foods, shop the perimeter of the grocery store, and eat more omega-3s!

Even now, Dr. Smith continues learning new healing modalities like culinary medicine and homeopathy. She believes there are always new directions to explore in helping people achieve full health.

Dr. Smith's story shows that major pivots can lead to meaningful work. Her injury may have ended one dream, but it sparked the passion that guides her today. Through an openness to explore beyond the traditional path, she found her true calling.

Dr. Sina Leslie Smith is an international speaker, medical doctor, author, and educator who discovered acupuncture after pain and paralysis of her arm left her unable to be a general surgeon. Amazed by the power of traditional East Asian medicine, she became a licensed acupuncturist and over the years has mastered integrative medicine, culinary medicine, homeopathy, and functional medicine. In addition to her MD, Dr. Smith has earned three Masters degrees—Physiology and Biophysics, Medical Education, and Acupuncture—and has completed a Fellowship in Surgical Education.

She has delivered over 100 invited talks, workshops, and courses for conventional and alternative medical schools, businesses, not-for-profit organizations, and governmental agencies, including the US Department of Defense and Walter Reed Medical Center. Dr. Smith was the founding Director of Integrative and Culinary Medicine at SIU School of Medicine, has been on faculty at several other medical and acupuncture schools, and has served on the boards of multiple state and national organizations.

She is the author of the book, “Demystifying Acupuncture: Modern Answers About Ancient Medicine.” Dr. Smith is the founder and medical director of Chicago Healing Center, offers courses and workshops online and around Chicagoland, is passionate about empowering people to understand how their bodies work, and emphatically believes that food is our best medicine.

You can connect with Dr. Sina Smith here:
Website: https://sinasmithmd.com/
Learning Platform: https://chicagohealingcenter.podia.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sinasmithmd/

We are buzzing with excitement for the upcoming The Savvy Summit on May 23rd in Chicago. We're all about empowering women to lead fulfilling careers AND lives!

On today's episode, we are sharing the scoop on one of our amazing keynote speakers - Beryl Greenberg, an accomplished executive and career coach. She’s turning the tides and helping women get "unstuck" in their careers and lives to pursue more fulfilling paths.

Do you feel stuck in your career or life? Unable to make a change or move forward, even though you want to? You're not alone. Many accomplished professionals get stuck in limiting perspectives that hold them back from achieving their goals.

Beryl understands feeling stuck all too well from her own career pivots. Now, with 15+ years of coaching experience, she helps women get unstuck so they can create the life and career they want.

Here are some key highlights from our conversation:

Embrace Your Pivot Points:
- Whether it's moving from one industry to another or stepping into a new role, recognize these moves as opportunities for expansion and self-discovery.

Analyzing Common Pain Points:
- "I only know how to do one thing."
- "I'm skilled in many areas—what should I focus on?"

Shift Your Perspective:
- Sounding stuck often means you need a new viewpoint.
- Take the time to understand this feeling of stagnancy.

Strategies to Get Unstuck:
- Introspect to realize what 'stuck' truly is for you.
- Use these realizations to see your situation with new eyes.

Beryl is a certified coach, leadership facilitator and group coaching leader in private practice. She works with individuals and groups privately and within companies, as well as leads groups through CHIEF, the women’s executive community.

Her career story involves two major career transitions for both career progression and lifestyle reasons: from advertising agency director to an executive recruiter and from executive recruiter to executive coach/solopreneur.

Her coaching philosophy is driven by the bedrock of self-awareness, clarity of vision, and uncovering internal obstacles. While she meets each client where they are at, she brings an order and framework to her coaching engagements that supports transformational progress and outcomes.

Beryl's next GET UNSTUCK cohort is forming now for the week of May 6 start!

GET UNSTUCK is a group coaching experience designed to support advertising and marketing professionals who are looking to make a career transition but feel stuck on how to make it happen.

• Perhaps you are in a job search and are not getting the results you want
• Maybe you desperately want to make a change and don't know where or how to start
• Possibly you are unclear on the direction you want to take your career
• Consider you know what you want but just haven't been able to make time for it

The key to addressing these situations really starts in a surprising way, and it's not with re-writing your resume or applying to jobs online. It's about shifting your mindset! In turn, you learn how to achieve your career goals with ease instead of stress.

Check out this link for more information. https://forms.gle/9oU779aGLRZ1RZwr5

You can connect with Beryl here:
Website: https://coachberyl.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/berylgreenberg/