Cultural Creatives and Innovators who are looking to re-define their "work" as a vehicle for creative expression, financial freedom and societal transformation. divider

Friday, November 4th
HELEN MILLS EVENT SPACE
135 W. 26th St (btw 6th & 7th Ave)
TRAINING: 9:30am - 5:30pm
RECEPTION: 6:30pm - 9:00pm

Entrepreneurial Innovation has always been at the heart of the American Dream but success as we know it is undergoing a radical reinvention. The next generation of Entrepreneurs want to Stay True, Get Paid and Do Good. A collaborative 8-hour workshop, True.Paid.Good introducing participants to the core principles of conscious entrepreneurship. With an innovative, multidisciplinary curriculum, engaging experts and awesome, like-minded peers, participants learn how to leverage their unique creativity, strengths and passion to achieve their own flavor of success. Register now

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Rha Goddess

Rha Goddess

CEO & Co-founder of Move The Crowd

"Success is about alignment; when we are TRU'ed up with our Vision-Mission-Purpose, then great things start to happen."

Speakers Bio
Rha Goddess is a cultural innovator and social entrepreneur who brings over two decades of transformational "crowd rockin'" in the name of social change. As a world renowned performing artist and activist, her work has been internationally featured in several compilations, anthologies, forums and festivals.

Rha's work has been reviewed extensively and she has received rave industry reviews from Time Magazine, Ms. Magazine, The Source and The Miami Herald among others. As Founder and CEO of Divine Dime Entertainment, Ltd., she was one of the first women in Hip Hop to independently market and commercially distribute her music world wide. In her 30+ year tenure as a creative organizer Rha has worked on issues of racial justice and equality, electoral politics, offender aid and restoration, mental health and youth and young women's empowerment. Rha is a 2008 recipient of the National Museum of Voting Rights prestigious Freedom Flame Award and a 2009 recipient of the Herb Alpert Award's Hedgebrook Prize. Also in 2009, Rha was part of a special delegation invited to the White House and served as a US Cultural Envoy to Rwanda.

In her latest venture, Rha combines her hard earned business savvy with her longstanding passion for social change to launch Move The Crowd, LLC a professional development and entrepreneurial training company dedicated to teaching Conscious Urban Entrepreneurs how to "Stay True, Get Paid and Do Good."
Damon John

Daymond John

Founder of Fubu / Celebrity of "The Shark Tank"

"It's the small things in life and business that either hurt you, or help you"

Speakers Bio
Daymond John is a world-renowned marketing and branding expert, most famously known as the CEO and Founder of iconic fashion brand FUBU. He is currently co-starring on ABC's hit business reality show Shark Tank from acclaimed television producer Mark Burnett.  From humble beginnings to a self-made multimillionaire with over $6 billion to date in global product sales, Daymond John is the personification of The American Entrepreneur.

  With over 35 awards to his credit including Brandweek Marketer of the Year and Ernst & Young?s New York Entrepreneur of the Year, Mr. John continues to set standards of excellence while expanding his interests in fashion, branding, marketing, consulting, entertainment, and beyond. This industry leader, and ground breaking entrepreneurial expert has evolved into a highly sought after business and motivational speaker.  Most recently John was named "Entrepreneur in Residence" at Babson College, the nation's #1 school for entrepreneurship.

Mr. John continues to share his keen insight on marketing, branding and business with his two highly successful books, Display of Power and The Brand Within.
Corey S Kupfer

Corey S. Kupfer

NY Enterprise Report's Attorney of the Year / Partner at Hamburger Law Firm & Senior Strategist at MarketCounsel

"You cannot be successful without leaps of faith. Sometimes you need to jump off the cliff and make your wings on the way down."

Speakers Bio
Corey Kupfer, Advisor - Corey S. Kupfer is Partner at the Hamburger Law Firm and is also Chief Strategist at MarketCounsel, an affiliated business, regulatory, and compliance consulting firm for entrepreneurial investment advisory firms nationwide. Corey oversees the firm's Corporate Practice Group, concentrating on the lifecycle of entrepreneurial business entities including business combinations, reorganizations, and mergers & acquisitions, succession planning and transition strategies. He also specializes in real estate, intellectual property, and labor and employment law.

Corey believes his role as counselor is to foster business dealings by assessing and managing risk, not by restricting the options and opportunities of his clients. His ability to serve as a trusted advisor, strategist, and deal maker is a rare and valuable quality that has won the respect and long-term loyalty of his clients. Honored in the summer of 2011, Corey received NY Enterprise Report's Attorney of the Year and Corporate Attorney of the Year Awards.
Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski

Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski

Award Winning Performance Artist

"True.Paid.Good is about owning that your success is not linked to another's suffering, but to another's well being."

Speakers Bio
Artist, Activist, and Alchemist (by way of creative transformation) Amaryllis is an experienced muralist, poet, playwright, and youth organizer.

Through innovation, integrity, and intuition, Amaryllis is dedicated to standing with countless others in the movement to leverage creativity and expression for community liberation, and the means by which we may all realize our sparkling dreams.


DJ Chela

DJ Chela

The Grand Diva, DJ, Social Activist

"Celebrate advances no matter what size/ Dive in the Yes Current, let's flow, let's fly!"

Speakers Bio
DJ Chela is the DJ for the now generation, representing her music and values with urgency and passion. Since her beginnings in 2002 she has performed on four continents, branding her name in everything from radio, nightlife, mixtapes, DJ battles and live shows to healing and political activism movements.
JLove Calderon

JLove Calderon

a pro-liberation, anti-racist, hip-hop feminist & CEO of JLove Calderon Enterprises

"To embody your sacred calling work, take bold risks and leap with joy into the unknown."

Speakers Bio
JLOVE CALDERON is an author, activist, producer, and social entrepreneur working on issues of social justice, race, and gender. She has authored four award- winning books, including her life story in That White Girl, which has been optioned for film. She currently has seven TV and Film projects in development, and is finishing her fifth book, entitled Some of My Best Friends Are White.

JLove is committed to Truth, Love, and Freedom, and spends her time raising her family and working with courageous people on bold projects that inspire dialogue and action toward peace and liberation for all people and the planet. JLove graduated Cum Laude from San Diego State University with a B.A. in Africana Studies and received her M.A. in Education from Long Island University.

Marla Teyolia

Marla Teyolia

CEO of Marla's Kale Kitchen

"Find your unique voice, what only YOU are meant to uniquely bring to the world...then make that your life's work."

Speakers Bio
Marla Teyolia is a mother, green entrepreneur, and the CEO of Marla's Kale Kitchen, a raw food business specializing in all things kale. Her flagship products, raw, vegan, and gluten-free kale chips and pestos, have taken the Hudson Valley by storm. Founded this year, Marla's Kale Kitchen, combines a love of food and agriculture with a deep commitment to sustainability. Marla brings years of training as an empowerment coach, food justice advocate, and wellness expert to her newest venture.
Carissa Reiniger

Carissa Reiniger

Founder & CEO of Silver Lining Ltd.

"Your business is only as good as you are so make sure you spend as much time working on yourself as you do on your business."

Speakers Bio
Carissa Reiniger is a next generation entrepreneurial innovator. Her first business, Silver Lining Ltd. was inspired by her passion to see more small business owners making money doing what they love.

At Silver Lining, Carissa created the SLAP™ (Silver Lining Action Plan) which is a business development tool that small business owners use to set a one year financial growth goal and then gives them all of the resources and accountability to actually hit their goals. In under 6 years, Carissa built Silver Lining from nothing to a 10M business and replaced herself with a President/COO, leaving her free to work on expansion and growth. Silver Lining currently has joint head offices in New York and Toronto with Locally Owned Branches across Canada, the US and Central America and aggressive expansion plans for other countries. Carissa advises Move The Crowd on its financial model and business growth strategy.

Michael Waas Smith

Michael Waas Smith

Global Vice President at Terracycle, Inc.

"Constantly adapt to the situation at hand but never let your vision waver."

Speakers Bio
Michael Waas Smith is the Global Vice President at Terracycle, Inc. the world's leading 'upcycling' company, which seeks to eliminate the idea of waste by creating collection and solution systems for anything that today ends up in our trash. The company converts difficult-to-recycle waste materials into eco-friendly, affordable products available at major retailers worldwide from Walmart to Whole Foods.

TerraCycle engages more than 20 million people in 16 countries to collect waste that typically isn't recyclable. To date TerraCycle has diverted more than 2 billion units of waste and paid more than $3 million dollars to schools and non-profit organizations for the collected waste. Michael joined TerraCycle after a chance encounter with Tom Szaky, TerraCycle Founder and CEO, at O'Hare airport in Chicago and over the last four years has grown TerraCycle's largest business unit to more than $15M in annual revenue while developing partnerships with many of the worlds largest corporations, including Kraft Foods, Nestle, Johnson and Johnson and PepsiCo. Michael joined TerraCycle after completing the Starting Bloc Fellowship and holds a B.S. in Music and an M.A. in International Relations from Central Michigan University.

Friday, Nov 4th

This will sell out! Register!

Entrepreneur Training:

  • 9:00am : Checkin begins
  • 9:30am: The Story og True.Paid.Good.
  • 10:00am: Conscious Entrepreneurship?
  • 10:30pm: You Are In Business!
  • 12:00pm: Fashion Show, then break
  • 1:30pm: Mastermix Midday Party
  • 1:45pm: The Art of True.Paid.Good.
  • 3:00pm: Business Panel w/ Experts
  • 4:00pm: How Do I Take This Home?
  • 5:00pm: Q&A, Next Steps

VIP Reception:

  • 6:30pm: Doors open
  • 6:30pm: Open Bar & Hors d'oeurvres
  • 7:30pm: Reception Program
  • 8:00pm: Dance Party w/ DJ Chela

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