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Get to know the authors, doctors, coaches, psychologists, and all-around pioneers who are blazing trails at Campowerment experiences for women and business (men, too!).
“How can you flourish in one area of your life & flounder in another? Let's get in to it.”

Aisha R. Shabazz LCSW, MSS, MLSP

Psychotherapist; Anxiety Relief Specialist and Confidence Strategist
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“Instead of ‘I have to,’ try ‘I get to.’ Using the right words can radically transform your life and business.”

Alicia Dunams

Corporate Leadership Speaker and Peacemaker
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“Om bolo Sat Guru Bhagvan ki…Jai! 'Bowing down to the greatest teacher, inside of your own heart…victory to that!”

Alyson Khan

Yogi Trailblazer
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“Every dream takes us, step-by-step, deeper into ourselves and helps us return to our soul selves.”

Amy W. Trafford

Archetypal Dream Practitioner
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“Do not waste your time trying to make not your people your people.”

Andrea Quinn

Empowerment Coach
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“You cannot have a thought about the present moment, you can only have an experience of it. If you are always in your thoughts, you are missing your life!”

Anne Sussman

Certified Meditation and Mindfulness Instructor
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“Protecting Nature's Protectors.”

APEX Protection Project

Wildlife Advocates
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“You are a fighter, and you will make it.”

Arabia Mollette, M.D.

Emergency Medicine Physician, On-Air Medical Contributor
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“Live the way you move and move the way you live.”

Ariana Bates

M.A., Resident Teacher: Ecstatic Dance LA
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“I create a world of freedom by teaching people to break their chains.”

Ashanti Branch, M.Ed.

Award-Winning Educator, Community Leader & Speaker
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“Let this be your mantra: For now. Everything is subject to change. Go with the change rather than fighting it.”

Barbara Palmer

Professional Development Coach
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“When a group of people gather, all looking for answers outside, they seem to reflect back the answers they see.”

Caitlin Peterson

LCSW, Integrative Psychotherapist, CHT, Founder: The Soul School
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“Unlocking and tapping into our rhythm is one of the most powerful ways to access creativity, self-expression and joy. ”

Caleb Spaulding

Percussionist and Facilitator: Rhythm of Happiness
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“The stories that we tell ourselves shape our reality. It's an incredible time to go blind. ”

Chad Foster

Blind Black Diamond Skier; Author: Blind Ambition
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“The way our bodies look is the least interesting thing about us.”

Chrissy King

Writer & Speaker on Anti-Racism, D&I and Equity for the Wellness Industry, Creator of The Body Liberation Project™
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“I think of myself as a happy drill sergeant. No quitting allowed on my watch.”

Courtney L. Alexander

Trainer + Fitness Instructor
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“You are incredible and still, you are not for everyone. Be kind to others but have boundaries like a motha'f*cker.”

Cyndie Spiegel

Founder, Dear Grown Ass Women™ I Keynote Speaker I Author I Truthteller
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“Becoming your own chief medical officer is a huge part of self-care. Patient wisdom is essential for optimum health.”

Cynthia Ambres

Medical Doctor, Acupuncturist
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“Self-love is about acceptance and seeing yourself as the gift you are.”

Dana Perri

Celebrity Trainer
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“Real-life, honest communication got kicked to the curb when our voices got pared down to 140 characters.”

David Swanson, Ph.D.

Doctor, Clinical Psychologist
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“Don't wait for plans to be polished or perfect. Take sloppy, rapid action. Let your trusted advisors contribute to you.”

Dawn Andrews

Business + Life Strategist
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“I still find that laughter is the best medicine.”

Deborah Finklestein, M.D.

General and Addiction Psychiatrist
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“Self-mastery helps you feel like and become a better person today than you were yesterday.”

Debra Heslin

NLP Master Coach & Trainer
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“Sexuality is vulnerability in action. Understanding your sexuality in a holistic lens is the final frontier of self-development and exploration.”

Dr. Juliana Hauser

Sex Educator, Couples and Marriage Therapist, Ph.D.
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“Turn off your music + TV; listen to yourself and your environment. The space between the sound and ’stuff' can be the most powerful.”

El Larson

Sound Practitioner & Wellness Designer
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“Learn to take the heat, and welcome to my kitchen!”

Eliana Wittels Goldman

Chef
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“Our beliefs about money make as big an impact on our prosperity as what we actually do for a living.”

Ellen Rogin

CPA + Abundance Activist
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“It’s time for patients (the silent majority) to have a voice in healthcare...a loud, strong and system-changing voice.”

Erika Schwartz, M.D.

Internist + Medical Pioneer
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“To get what you want, ask for what you need clearly and to the right people. ”

Erin Rayne

Leadership Coach & Founder, Good Culture Works
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“Knowing what turns you on is your responsibility and no one else's. Luckily, the journey to self-discovery is a blast!”

Freda Hobbs

Life Coach; Sexpert
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“DO. RISK. GROW.”

Fulcrum Adventures

Leadership Facilitators
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“Yoga is not a practice of self improvement but self acceptance”

Gabbi Johnson

Yoga Teacher, Holistic Coach, Sound Healer
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“Creating psychic healing superheroes”

Garz Chan

Chinese Energy Healing Practitioner
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“Let's learn to make JOY our North Star!”

Grace Harry

The JOY Strategist
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“Start with a puja, a sacred space, where you practice reverence to whatever it is you care about in this time. ”

Heather Berg

E-RYT, Buteyko Breathing Method instructor
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“There is more to this life than is commonly perceived.”

Isabeau Maxwell

Medium, Spiritual Teacher
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“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.”

Iso & Alex Mora

Co-Founders, Legalize They; Inclusivity Advocates
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“Donec nec justo eget felis facilisis fermen tum. Aliquam porttitor sit.”

Jackie Cantwell

Sound Practitioner
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“Where you point your eyes is actually less important than where you point your belly button.”

Janine Driver

International Communications Expert
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“My wish for every person in the world is that they could feel what it’s like to be Grandy at Campowerment for a day!”

Joan “Grandy” Leader

Good Will Ambassador
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“There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are separate from the voice of your Inner Critic.”

Joanna Kleinman, LCSW

Psychotherapist, Life Coach, #1 Best-Selling Author
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“Creating a space where people can enjoy a NEW IMAGE for themselves ”

Joanne Lavin

Fashion Consultant, Celebrity Stylist, Personal Shopper
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“Empaths represent a new model for leadership by being vulnerable and strong.”

Judith Orloff, M.D.

Psychiatrist, Author, Empath
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“Positivity, like anything, starts with a decision and follows with action. Our minds believe what we feed them.”

Julie Nee

VP Training, The Jon Gordon Companies
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“Feel at peace in your body. ”

Julie Rothenberg Grossberg

Registered Dietitian / Licensed Nutritionist Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor
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“It’s not what happens to us…It’s how we represent it in our minds that determines whether we simply survive or we truly thrive.”

Kathleen Mojas, Ph.D.

Clinical Psychologist
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“The goal isn’t to keep chaos or change from happening...The goal is to practice improvising through life, so you become flexible and courageous and can handle anything.”

Katie Goodman

Comedian, Author, Activist, Coach
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“Bringing awareness to your breath can change your whole experience of life.”

Krista Rauschenberg

Advanced Akashic Reader; Breathwork Facilitator
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“When people try to take advantage of you, protect yourself. Building rapport and detecting deception will do just that.”

Lena Sisco

Body Language Analyst
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“An astrology chart is like a car owner's manual. It tells not what the car will do, but how it is configured.”

Leslie McGuirk

Astrologer; Human Designer
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“When visionary leaders wonder what’s next, they call me.”

Levina Li

Leadership & Creativity Coach
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“Nurturing our inner beauty allows us to be our most beautiful self.”

Lia J. Smith

Founder: BEAUTY TRANSCENDS, Beauty Industry Expert, Celeb Manicurist, Possibility Facilitator
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“The world needs more of you: more of your story, laughter, joy, and essence. ”

Liana Naima, M.Ed.

Spiritual Wellness Practitioner
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“Yoga is my saving grace, my outlet, but more importantly - my inlet - it enhances everything for me.”

Lindsey Valdez

Yoga and Meditation Instructor
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“Use all your senses. Lend your ear to your own intuition. Watch your world expand.”

Lisa Catherine

Tarot Card + Intuitive Reader
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“When Lymph flows, everything else flows too”

Lisa Levitt Gainsley

Lymphatic Drainage Expert, Author, and Lymphatic Health Educator
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“Even when you're taking care of the parent, remember that YOU are not the parent.”

Lois Nachamie

LCSW, MFA, Board Certified psychotherapist, Parents Choice Award winning author, and Certified End of Life Counselor
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“It's time we recognize prevention of cancer will be our most effective cure.”

Maggie DiNome, M.D.

Chief of General Surgery at Saint John's Hospital
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“I'm here to share two fundamental truths: 1. You are not alone and 2. You are enough.”

Maria Loida

Yoga and Meditation Teacher
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“In medicine, there cannot be a single cookie-cutter treatment method.”

Marisa Chang, M.D.

Interventional Neurologist
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“THE truth is where two people's truths intersect. You can't make another person's experience wrong.”

Marnie Nir

Life + Love Coach, Handel Group
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“Know this: your kids, no matter how many epic meltdowns you have, are going to love you!”

Mary Ann Zoellner

Sh*tty Mom
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“Trusting your Body has All the Resources it Needs to Heal is Foundational”

Melanie Yukov

Certified Holistic Health Coach, Community Herbalist and Flower Essence Practitioner
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“It's not about what's on your table, it's about who's sitting at it.”

Melissa d’Arabian

Celebrity Chef
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“{via Carl Jung} I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

Melody Murray

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
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“Change the story, and pursue the truth relentlessly, always.”

Mercedes Soler

Ancestral Practitioner
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“How we live our lives becomes our legacy.”

Merle R. Saferstein

Legacy Educator, Author, Journaling Facilitator
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“Live in the pause.”

Meryl Russo

Heart-Centered Life Coach
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“44% of adults say their sleep has gotten worse over the past 5 years. Let me tell you why.”

Michael Breus, Ph.D.

Doctor, Sleep Specialist
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“Strive for progress not perfection.”

Michele Stanten

Walking Coach + Journalist
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“The only limits we have are the ones we put on ourselves.”

Nikki Porcher

Founder, Buy From a Black Woman & Black Woman Advocate
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“We all deserve to have a sense of home in our bodies, identities, work, and organizations. Sometimes things get in the way of that.”

Noel Ramirez, DBH, MPH, LCSW, BCD

Behavioral Health Innovator, Clinician
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“Before you can speak up FOR yourself, you must learn how to speak up TO yourself. I can help.”

Olga Lomanovitch, LCSW

Psychotherapist
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“We are here to wake up, and then to wake up the world. ”

Olivia Frazao

Healer, Meditation Teacher, Spiritual Guide
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“Go outside.. lay in the dirt or the grass or the sand.. and let mama earth remind you of the truth of your being.”

Peggy Fitzsimmons

Soul + Spirit Connector, Ph. D.
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“The future of our cities depends on our youth.”

Peter Gold, M.D.

Surgeon; Founder, Strong City
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“Donec nec justo eget felis facilisis fermen tum. Aliquam porttitor sit.”

Peter Greenberg

Travel Detective, Peter Greenberg Worldwide
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“It’s so beautiful how you never truly know the beauty you hold.”

Raegan Dyas

Dance Instructor
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“Cutting toxic people out of your life might be the single most important health intervention you undertake. ”

Ramani Durvasula, Ph.D.

Relationship Expert
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“Would you expect a child to grow without nurturing? It won't happen with your money either.”

Regina Bedoya

Financial Advisor
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“Donec nec justo eget felis facilisis fermen tum. Aliquam porttitor sit.”

Rodolfo (Rudie) Altamirano, Ph.D.

DEI Professor and Leader at University of Pennsylania
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“If you take good care of the inside of your body, the outside will take care of itself!”

Ronni Litz Julien, MS, RDN/LDN

Nutritionist, Author, Lifestyle Coach
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“Corporate courage is rarely a solo journey. Rather, it’s a team sport. Make it a 'we' thing, not a 'me' thing.”

Ryan Berman

Founder, COURAGE Brands
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“You are never the same person twice, every single day you shed an old part of yourself that is no longer needed, in an attempt to be better.”

Savon Bartley

Poet, Writer, Educator
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“Sweat. Dance. Be excited about waking up every day.”

Selena Watkins

Dancer, Fitness Instructor
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“For me, being trans isn't about hormones or pronouns or identity. It's quite simply having the audacity to live a full life, to no longer shrink who I am, to embrace all that I am. It's the most radical act of self-love I could've ever imagined.”

shawndeez, Ph.D.

Trans Scholar, Gender Consultant, Public Speaker, Spiritual Guide
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“Mindset is medicine.”

Shelly Bhowmik, MD MPH

Founder: Platform Wellness
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“What you give power to ultimately has power over you.”

Shelly Fisher

Founder: The Philly Service Award
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“Become your own healer and leader by reclaiming who you are.”

Shirin Eskandani

Coach; Founder, Wholehearted Coaching
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“When we share our gifts with you, you share those gifts with the collective.”

Shivarasa

Music Producer, DJ, Technoshaman
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“You really do have all your answers but you may have forgotten. Get quiet and listen. They are there.”

Susie Goliti

Strategic Intervention Coach
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“We need to de-stigmatize the aging process and enter what can be the greatest phase of our lives FEARLESSLY!”

Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz, M.D.

OB/GYN, Advocate for Integrative Women’s Health
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“Grief can translate to wisdom and awareness. It doesn't have to define the life that succeeds it.”

Suzanne Wachtel, LCSW

LCSW + Grief Therapist
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“Life is not what you can take; It’s what you can give.”

Tahir Whitehead

Retired NFL Linebacker; Dedicated Philathropist
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“You can't plan an inspired life. You have to follow the breadcrumbs moment by moment.”

Tama Kieves

Career Transition Coach
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“You want to be living fully? Then you've got to 'get good' with your dying. She's the doorway between your life and your legacy. ”

Tamatha Thomas-Haase, MPA, & Chelsea Leader Gold

Co-Founders & Co-Hosts: Grand Exit
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“I left my TV career with two Emmys and a dream: to build communities of happy, empowered people ready to propel themselves forward.”

Tammi Leader

Founder, Campowerment
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“Sound changes everything.”

Tasha Blank

DJ, Coach + Movement Catalyst
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“You should never let anyone stop you from dreaming, or tell you what you can't do.”

Tatiana Lee

Hollywood Inclusionist, Actor, Model
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“Donec nec justo eget felis facilisis fermen tum. Aliquam porttitor sit.”

Tovi C. Scruggs-Hussein

Founder: Tici'ess, Inc. and Leader, Healer & Speaker
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“There is a reason that they call it The Art of Medicine. There is a very big difference between being a doctor and actually doctoring.”

Tracey R Childs, M.D.

Colo-Rectal Surgeon, MPH, FACS
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“Liberating yourself through self-compassion, self-acceptance and nervous system regulation.”

Vanessa Fernandez

Enneagram and Somatic Informed Coach
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“A good (wo)man leaveth an inheritance for [her] children’s children.”

Vickie Frazier-Williams, MBA

Financial Literacy Coach
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Way-Fun Fact #28
Campowerment campers range in age from 21 to 80+. Intergenerational friendships made at Campowerment continue + grow, long after the bugle blows.
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