Jenn Sebastian, MBA, PMP

Chief Operations Officer

Jenn Sebastian is our ‘pint sized’ Chief Operating 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 three kids and her amazing husband. She goes to sleep deeply grateful for her family every day.

Shannon Fisher

Head Coach & Sales Manager

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 genius behind our live events, coordinating our largest event of the year, the annual Women’s Leadership Summit.  She’s also 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!

Sarah Taylor

Finance Administrator

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.

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 a Community Love Manager. Together with a systems mind, she rocks logistics and brings a deeper skill set from her Masters in Spiritual Psychology. 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 the client care details, she loves traveling, experiencing the richness of other cultures and landscapes, and sharing her award winning nature photography in galleries and shows. She lives in Corralitos near Santa Cruz, CA with her helicopter pilot husband Paul and their two furry felines.

Tonia Kalafut

Event Lead

Tonia Kalafut manages our events department and the planning of all our events. Her grounded and nurturing character works to support our clients’ experience at our events She brings to the team a willingness and desire to support each woman in her pursuit to grow her business.

Tonia has previously held professional positions as project manager, marketing director, patent writer, until 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.

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.

Clare Cui

Coach & Core Faculty

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.

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.

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.