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Fox Valley Women's Power Summit

This is Fox Valley Women & Children's Health Partners inaugural event, raising awareness and funds for the Living Well Cancer Resource Center, which helps cancer patients and their families throughout Fox Valley with free classes, products, services and fellowship. This event is presenting breakthroughs and inspiration in the fields of health, beauty, fitness, and the arts with the help of Aviva Medspa, The Delnor Center for Breast Health, Inglenook Pantry, The Geneva Green Market, Shear Ambition Hair Salon, B-Shique Brow Boutique, Optique Optical Boutique, Tranquility Day Spa & Wellness Center, and Arcedium Coffee.

With Special Guests:

JILL KIRSH, Red Carpet Celebrity Color Stylist and Hollywood’s Guru of Hue – Jill will give attendees a lesson on “color correcting” their wardrobes to look their most vibrant and healthy. Jill has taught actors, TV news anchors and CEOs how to look their best, all the while entertaining the crowd with her hilarious style.

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RENEE FERGUSON, author, Talk Turkey to Me Renee appeared in the FOOD NETWORK’s THROWDOWN WITH BOBBY FLAY, as the result of her reputation as a renowned turkey baking expert. Renee authored the book Talk Turkey to Me about her first-hand experiences as a customer service rep for a certain turkey company are unbelievably funny. She could take this act on the road!

MARSHA ENGLE, author, 100 Sounds to See Marsha is a marketing dynamo who worked with all of your favorite major consumer brands until her profound hearing loss abruptly ended her career. Marsha has found the “second chapter” of her life just as rewarding and she will inspire you to hear the world in a whole new way.

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KERRIE KUNTZ, founder, Fitness Fusion – Spunky, funny and inspirational, Kerrie Kuntz endured a car accident that dictated she never run again. Six months later, she proved her doctors wrong with her first five-mile run of many to follow.  Listen to her share her personal triumph story and her views on why she would never allow Jillian Michaels to train anyone she cares about, not even her favorite pet.

D.C. BROD, author, GETTING LUCKY – D.C. Brod is Fox Valley’s very own best selling author and Publisher’s Weekly just said of her new book, “Surprisingly intense characterization propels Brod’s likable sequel to Getting Sassy“. D.C. Brod will explain how her resilience has paid off with a successful and wildly satisfying publishing career.

CONNIE WEAVER, Co-Founder, GENEVA GREEN MARKET and Co-Owner, Inglenook Pantry – Connie Weaver has a passion for sustainable, locally grown food and she’s not afraid to share it! She helped organize the not-for-profit Geneva Green Market into a successful organization that continues expanding, as well as the Geneva Winter Market, also for locally grown produce and food products.

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