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

Director of Programs, and Head of Coaching

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!

Caroline Thompson

Director of Marketing

As an Intuitive Marketing Coach & Content Strategist, Caroline works with thought leaders to create CLICK-ASS content so they can 3X organic sales, without the stress or spam. She combines practical, data-driven strategies with sales spirituality to transform the customer journey into a life-changing experience, for brands AND their audiences. Featured in Yahoo Finance’s “Top 10 Female Sales Coaches Thriving in 2020,” Caroline is breaking the stigma around self-promotion & empowering women to feel confident in their marketing.

Now, Caroline is bringing her 10+ years of experience to Women Rocking Business as our Director of Marketing. Thanks to her, we can further expand our mission to reach more conscious entrepreneurs who want to build purpose-driven businesses.

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.

Leah Pow

Client Care Manager

Leah is our client’s travel guide into the Women Rocking Business world – a role that suits her perfectly considering her personal love of global travel and culture.

Bringing 8+ years of high-level executive support experience to the team, she provides thoughtful care, outstanding attention to detail, and top-notch service to our entire community.

She is devoted to enhancing the client experience and bringing her warm heart to every interaction she has with clients and colleagues alike.

When she is not emailing clients or working behind the scenes to support our client journey, you can find her enjoying adventures with her husband and 2 sons, whether it be having fun in her New England backyard or exploring her husband’s hometown in Nicaragua. 

Velina Taneva

Event Manager

Velina has been rocking events since 2013. She started off in the world of weddings where her creativity and attention to detail allowed her to pull off beautiful and memorable events and grow her own full service wedding business.

Now, she applies her same passion and aptitude to Women Rocking Business!
Some of her specialties include: thinking 3 steps ahead (or more!), ensuring seamless communications across all departments, and her striking, original flower arrangements.

When she isn’t helping our events run seamlessly, you can find her spending time with her family in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Linda Walkowich

Copywriter & Content Manager

As our copywriter & content manager, Linda captures Sage’s vision in writing and crafts content for our email campaigns, web pages, training resources and more. Fueled by her feminine ambition and passion for creative writing, she has developed the content strategy for six- and seven-figure websites and served as an author for globally recognized media publications.

Linda lives in Tampa, FL with her husband, daughter and a collection of rescue animals. She is excited to support women who rock business and offer amazing gifts to the world.

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.

Steph Leis

Project Manager

In a nutshell, Steph is a details queen, taskmaster, and traffic controller. As our cross-functional Project Manager, her genius is taking complex strategies and breaking them up into bite-size pieces for the team and implementing systems and processes for optimal efficiency.

Steph joined the Women Rocking Business team in November 2021. She has 5+ years of industry experience managing multimillion dollar launches and large-scale conferences and events. Her passion for personal development, philanthropy, and women embracing their stories & sharing their unique abilities with the world adds to the heart of our team.

Steph’s remote office changes frequently as she travels the world with her 3 dogs from her home base in western Canada. In her spare time, she can be found outdoors hiking, paddle boarding, snowboarding, beach hopping, chasing sunsets, and volunteering at wildlife rehabilitation centers.

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.

Lucas Karanja

Senior Full Stack Software Developer

Lucas is a senior full-stack website developer, masterful problem solver, and guru of all things tech! Bringing nearly a decade of tech expertise to his role, he manages our website and technology platforms at Women Rocking Business. When it comes to development, he does it all – including building new web pages, implementing high-performance systems, and making our technology more efficient and effective.

Lucas enjoys being part of a purpose-driven team where he can contribute his web development superpowers to a greater mission.

Living in scenic Seattle, Lucas enjoys playing soccer, hiking, and playing computer games in his spare time.

Sirena Andrea

Coach & Core Faculty

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 a coach 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 & 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.

Erika Neeley

Coach & Core Faculty

Erika Neeley is a paradigm shifter, visionary leader, and your personal cheerleading coach. She has over fifteen years of experience in personal development, embodiment and healing practices, leadership development, and supporting women to live into their dreams. She has hosted sold out retreats, has her own Podcast, and created her own successful business using the same strategies she teaches our clients in the Entrepreneurial Leadership Academy.

Her passion for conscious leadership and supporting the LGBTQ+ community to step into their purpose and remember who they were before the world told them to be led her to co-create her business Queer Empowerment alongside her wife Meghan Neeley.

She believes that women are the gatekeepers for the new paradigm of business, and is so passionate in supporting them to create the business of their dreams while having abundant success!

Jill Stein

Coach & Core Faculty

Jill is a business coach and author that has spent years perfecting the art of being an entrepreneur. She has grown multiple companies, always being ready to pivot when the time was right to move onto her next calling. She is currently a coach for our Leadership program and loves connecting with each and every woman while helping them find clarity and the tools they need to grow their businesses.

Jill was a native Californian and has now relocated to Texas, embracing a new adventure for her family. She is a private pilot and the freedom of flying herself through the sky along with the freedom she has created in her career nourishes her soul.

Theresa Kepple

Coach & Core Faculty

Theresa brings her background of 15+ years of business and leadership experience to assist her as she helps women entrepreneurs build heart-centered businesses that nurture their souls. As a Leadership Coach, she guides women to remove mindset barriers that are holding them back, believe in themselves, and identify the next steps to their success. She feels the path of an entrepreneur is also a spiritual path, and coaching others is a form of service.

Theresa calls Santa Cruz home, and loves outdoor activities such as walking along the ocean with her favorite pup, camping, and anything where she can feel the sunshine! She has a regular yoga practice and supports many people through her Conscious Living community.

Reverend Deborah Johnson

Guest Teacher & Faculty

Rev. Deborah L. Johnson is a teacher, advocate and guide supporting leaders in the area of wealth mindset, cultural diversity & spiritual alignment. She’s the founding minister and president of Inner Light Ministries and President of The Motivational Institute, an organizational development consulting firm specializing in cultural diversity serving the public, private, and non-profit sectors. Her clients range from Fortune 500 companies to community-based organizations. She is a dynamic public speaker, known for her ability to bring clarity to complex and emotionally charged issues.