Jenn Sebastian

Chief Operations Officer

Jenn Sebastian is our ‘pint sized’ Chief Operations Officer, an online business ninja with a Masters in Getting Sh*t Done, AKA The “Wizardess” of Oz.  You may not always see her, but you know she is there.  She’s ultimately responsible for the tens of thousands of women entrepreneurs who benefit from the dozens of online trainings and offerings we craft every year.  Jenn is tiny but mighty when it comes to technology and none of us are really sure if we’d be in business without her.  

Jenn’s super power is her Cyber Power!  She’s the mastermind behind launch funnels, conversion, Google docs, spreadsheets, opt-in and sales pages and pretty much anything cyber and business related.  Jenn is a Mom-preneur which means when she’s not working she can be found hanging with her family and traveling.

Shannon Fisher

Head of Coaching & Trainer

Shannon Fisher rocked dozens of leadership roles throughout the workshop and self growth industry for more than a decade.  Shannon is an excellent coach and mentor to our clients, lovingly holding up a mirror where they can clearly see their blind spots and close their gaps to achieve authentic, feminine success.  Shannon runs our coaching department and mentors our clients who are starting businesses in the year long Entrepreneurial Leadership Academy.

Shannon is the magnetic, warm hearth of many staff meetings AND her family, finding ways to do it all WHILE holding down her role as a carpooling Mompreneur!

Sylvia Valentine

Program Fulfillment Manager

Sylvia’s been a leader in the spiritual and transformation industry for more than 20 years. She’s known as The Client Care Queen! True to her name, she shows up with a huge heart as our Program Fulfillment Manager. Together with a systems mind, she rocks logistics and brings a deeper skill set from her Masters in Spiritual Psychology at USM. She’s worked with spiritual leaders, celebrities, non-profits, for-profits and top coaches. When Sylvia’s not being an 8-armed goddess juggling all our client care and program details, she loves traveling, experiencing the richness of other cultures, and sharing her award winning nature photography in galleries and shows. She lives in Santa Cruz, CA with her helicopter pilot husband Paul and their two furry felines.

Marina Galinger

Executive Assistant

Marina is Sage’s right hand woman! She has over six years of experience in support roles and is fully dedicated to making people’s lives easier. Her favorite word is YES!

You can find her behind a desk helping with admin responsibilities, or around town running errands for Sage. Originally from Washington state, she left her hometown in search of something BIGGER– and she found it right here at Women Rocking Business! She is now located in beautiful Santa Cruz, California and is living her dream with her high school sweetheart.

In her spare time, you can find her tending to her (many) houseplants, cooking, or working out at the gym. She loves spending her weekends outdoors in all the beautiful places Santa Cruz has to offer.

Sarah Taylor

Finance Manager

Sarah is the mastermind behind all the number crunching. She brings enthusiasm and passion to an otherwise dull and sometimes boring side of the business. If you don’t like looking at numbers you will soon be interested when you see how Sarah approaches this vital ingredient of any successful business. She is responsible for providing financial guidance and support for Team Sage and our clients.

In her spare time you can often find her reading and sharing the love of her Christian faith with her friends and family. She spends her weekends relaxing in the outdoors at her weekend home on Lake Nacimiento.

Clare Cui

Sales Manager & Coach

Clare is our “willing-to-stand-in-the-fire-with-you-no-matter-what so-you-will-kick-butt” coach. After turning her yoga and strength based business into a rocking leveraged system that doubled her income in 6 months using the same systems and processes as in ELA, Clare found her specialty in helping others sell their packages and programs from a heart centered and service based way that results in more yes’s. In addition to being a Yoga Goddess and Queen of feminine authentic sales, she is simply committed to women being great despite their own gremlins because she has been through the fire herself, and knows that YOU can do the same thing.

Based out of beautiful Colorado, Clare comes to join us for our events to support our women in California and practices what she preaches by working a schedule based on her needs.

Tonia Kalafut

Event Coordinator

Tonia Kalafut provides support in our events department! She brings to the team a willingness and desire to support each woman.

Tonia has previously held professional positions as project manager, marketing director, and patent writer, using those skills to start a consulting business helping others pursue their passions. Tonia and her husband founded a consulting business with the purpose of developing small, under-funded startups. Wanting to explore the Country they put their business on hold, packed their family of six in an RV and spent an adventurous year traveling the United States. This trip led their family to Santa Cruz. They fell in love with the landscape and people, and ultimately making it their home in 2013. Tonia is now happily tying together all aspects of life and business that she loves in this role of supporting women entrepreneurs to grow their business and live their bliss.

Kat Kim

Head of Graphics

Kat is the sorceress behind many of the graphics Sage Lavine and Women Rocking Business related. In addition to creating compelling online designs, website banners, color palettes and inspirational imagery for us, she also provides graphical support for our clients. Kat has used her fierce feminine determination to launch other businesses as well, including her own design business, creating apps for iPad, and her latest partnership in a cold-brew coffee company.

When Kat’s not designing or brainstorming new project ideas, she can be found zooming around town in her mini-cooper on her way to yoga and dance classes, surfing, or running down by the ocean.

Sirena Andrea

Head Trainer & Coach

Sirena Andrea is a Master Storyteller and Story Marketing Consultant, specializing in coaching entrepreneurs, authors, speakers and artists to write and deliver powerful true life stories for greater impact. She currently our Lead Trainer for our ELA program and supports thousands of Women every year to create profitable businesses.

Sirena is also the Director and Creator of a wildly successful Storytelling Performance Program, the YoniVerse Monologues that reaches hundreds of people throughout the Bay Area every year through sold out performances featuring true life stories told by the courageous women who have lived them.

Shana James

Coach & Core Faculty

Shana James, senior coach and guest faculty for our advanced clients, has been facilitating, presenting, coaching and designing workshops for nearly 15 years. Shana has built several successful workshop based businesses that have served thousands of men and women all over the world. While she uses her Masters in psychology to help women entrepreneurs move through their blocks to success, she’s also rocking the internet marketing stage with her own telesummits and online programs for men.

Shana uses her chaos-wrangling skills to create her ideal business–life balance, working three days/week and spending the rest of the time mothering her son Ari, doing spiritual practice, growing food and dreaming of co-housing community.

Meghan Neeley

Coach & Core Faculty

Meghan Neeley is an international speaker and business coach who’s grown a multiple-six figure company mentoring women who know they’re meant be their own boss, to turn their purpose and passion into profits. Meghan has grown her list by thousands through hosting tele-summits, hosted her own 6-figure events three years in a row and is an enrollment master. You can count on Meghan to give you laser focused feedback that will set you up to rock your own events and fill your programs.

She believes you really can have it all – grow your impact and income on your own terms… while designing a life you love and she supports our Leverage and Lotus clients to do just that!

Blending nearly 20 years of yoga teaching experience with 10 years in coaching and management, Meghan sees being an entrepreneur as the ultimate spiritual path.

Debra Artura

Coach and Core Faculty

Debra Artura is a coaches coach – she’s been supporting influencers for over a decade and continues to be dedicated to supporting & empowering women to bring all of themselves to the world wholeheartedly. As a business coach she serves women who are ready to leverage their business’s, learn how to rock internet marketing, increase their income & live balanced juicy lives on purpose.

Debra’s passion for conscious healthy relationships & doing her part to create peace on earth inspired co-founding with her incredible husband, Steven Cervine the Institute for Happy Healthy Couples. As love & intimacy coaches & mentors for couples they bring their care & skillfulness in relational mastery to support the transformation of painful dynamics into deep nourishing connections. It is her greatest hearts desire that all children are raised in homes where they feel safe, are well cared for and have access to clean food & water.

Michael Stetina

Technical Administrator

Michael is a Tech Expert and Certified Online Business Manager who’s grown a six figure business supporting entrepreneurs who want to get their work out into the world. Michael has personally worked with scores of online applications and created hundreds of Marketing Campaigns, Launch Funnels, Webinars, Membership Sites and Affiliate Programs. His technology implementation is responsible for the marketing funnels that have produced multiple six figure launches.

Blending 13 years of online tech experience with a BS in Business Management from Ohio State University, Michael helps entrepreneurs create the business of their dreams.

Working from his home office in Thomasville, North Carolina, Michael is supported by his wife Wendy and his son Walter plus family. Providing daily inspiration and good feelings are his rescue animals, a dog named BB and cats named Paisley and Ziva. When he’s not managing a product launch, he’s project managing the evening meal.