Virtual Women’s Health & Wellness Summit
Welcome — Opening Remarks
9:00 AM

Mary Grate-Pyos, MBA, CFBS®
MassMutual Capitol District
Emcee
Meditation Moment
9:10 AM

Richa Badami
Personal Transformation Coach
Morning Meditation
Anxiety Solutions During These Unprecedented Times
Coach Monique is a Change Management Expert with 17 years experience working as a Life and Executive Coach. All of her work is based in Brain-Science, Emotional Intelligence, The Science of Well-Being, and The Psychology of Happiness.
During this presentation, you will:
- Discover the 4 Universal Triggers for Emotional Suffering
- Have access to an exclusive tool to help you uncover your primary emotional trigger
- Learn Coach Monique’s trademarked Delete Delete Technique™ so that you can easily shift negative stressful thinking to more positive thinking
- Get a “user’s manual” to help you understand how to get your mind to work for your rather than against you when it comes to your negative emotions
- Learn Coach Monique’s trademarked Peel Away The Story Technique™ to overcome limiting beliefs
Lots of experts will tell you what to do, but Coach Monique will actually give you her easy to learn, easy to use, and immediately relevents tools, techniques, education and solutions to help you overcome your stress and anxiety TODAY.
Opening Speaker — 9:20 AM

Coach Monique DeMonaco
President
Coach Monique & Associates
Monique is a Change Management Expert and professional speaker. During her 17-years experience as a coach, Monique has worked with C-Suite executives, she has developed and implemented a behavior-centered assessment, as well as trademarked techniques based on Brain-Science, Social and Emotional Intelligence (EQ), and Psychology of Happiness.
She has successfully coached C-Level, mid-management, and celebrity-turned-branded business leaders in the following enterprise sectors: corporate, privately-held companies, nonprofit organizations, and million-dollar technology startups.
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Through her work with leaders, Monique has gained keen insight into the executive world. As a coach with longevity in the leadership arena, Monique has witnessed the negative impact that high turnover, low morale, constant conflict, and the communication gap has on her clients’ success. She coaches leaders with fractured teams, blurred boundaries, and inconsistent allegiance.
Monique helps brilliant thinkers develop effective communication skills to become intentional leaders who initiate powerful organizational standards, build cohesive teams, and a collaborative workplace. Through her methodological coaching process, these executives evolve into well-respected, highly effective, and culturally-driven strategists. She meets her clients where they are and takes them to where they need to be.
Clients say Monique is personable, intuitive, and approachable. Leaders find her conversational coaching style complements her passion for change management. Utilizing an Emotional Intelligence Profile, GE Executive Assessment, and her A→B→CC Conceptual Model™ as part of her strategically-proven coaching tools, Monique’s clients drive innovation for their teams, increase productivity and profitability.
She coaches clients to discover their untapped leadership potential to become high-performing executives. Her C-Level clients develop lateral thinking, encourage intergenerational communication, and cultivate skills necessary to anticipate future change while acquiring stronger leadership competencies.

Success thru Story
In this breakout session we will discuss Story, how it impacts your self-esteem, your relationships, and your ability to live your best life.
Takeaways:
- Unique techniques to reframe self-talk and build self worth
- Visualizations tools that can help you manifest success
- A story template to reframe how you see yourself and how you communicate
Breakout Room — 10:00 AM & 11:00 AM

Cyndy Porter
Owner and Success Maker
Success thru Style
Your image is powerful. Creating and showcasing your personal style is a building block for professional success. Cyndy’s personal branding expertise, fashion and style guidance will lead you to a better understanding of your strengths and best features. Cyndy brings fashion and function together, a vital combination for every woman everywhere. With Cyndy Porter’s expertise, there are no flaws, only a flawless personal brand that is reflected from head to toe while radiating from within.
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You are art in motion. Success thru Style provides a variety of programs to teach individuals, groups, companies and large audiences how to create a personal brand and apply art principles to how they dress–the same principles used to create beautiful portraiture or art of any kind. Success thru Style teaches how to see oneself in artful terms and how to express oneself through image, style, and photography.
Professional success is a combination of hard work, dedication and confidence in yourself. Your personal brand should reflect this, as well as your unique style. With Cyndy and her understanding of business, photography, and branding, you are given the tools to achieve Success thru Style.

How to Harness Your Intuition – (Reaching Your Potential Through Divine Guidance)
Living empowered lives often means weathering the storm that surrounds us. From external forces to our own internal conflicts, we often find ourselves in a state of confusion and worry, keeping us from experiencing the peaceful flow in life we long for.
Using energetic alignment tools to tap into our intuition helps us side-step the mind and allows us to learn from the expansive intelligence of our body and spirit.
Join Mina as she shares innovative, yet practical tools to tune into our higher selves – easily accessing the guidance available to all of us.
In this session you’ll learn:
- How to energetically clear past life experiences that are draining your energy
- Use the power of the pendulum and muscle testing for daily guidance
- Understand the manifesting process to bring thought into form
Breakout Room — 10:00 AM & 11:00 AM

Mina Fies
Intuitive Guide | Energy Master | Zen Designer
The road trip was full of unexpected (and often hilarious) twists and turns, however, the most profound moments included visits to places which held childhood memories she thought she had buried long ago. The ability to release those hurts once-and-for-all created an opening and pathway towards the healing and awakening she had always longed for.
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Ever since that shift in consciousness, the unfolding of her life has been magical. Her marriage and love for her husband and her work is deeper than ever and she’s rekindled the passion for helping others create tap into their own unique gifts and create the Sacred Spaces within themselves to live their best lives.

Beyond the Mask and Hand Sanitizers – How to Thrive Holistically Through the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond
Up to 70% of the world’s population is expected to get the Coronavirus.
It is frightening to learn the odds of getting COVID-19 are quite high and for some consequences severe. In this enlightening presentation Ranjana Chawla will provide concrete, actionable plans that you can implement immediately to limit the impact of COVID-19 on your life. She will provide:
- Lifestyle recommendations on how to build your immune system holistically to minimize the effects of Coronavirus
- Basic tips to keep your digestion, elimination and sleep balanced – The three main pillars of healthy immune system
- Breathing techniques to increase capacity of your lungs
- Herbs to boost your immune system
- What to do at the first signs of symptoms
Plan to walk away from this workshop with inspiration and a positive outlook on how you can take control of your health and immune system.
Breakout Room — 10:00 AM & 11:00 AM

Dr. Ranjana Chawla, Ay.D
The Ayur Ayurveda and Yoga Practice, LLC
Ranjana is a Doctor of Ayurvedic Medicine and a Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist. She also works as a supervisor & faculty for the California College of Ayurveda. Ayurveda is holistic medicine that is both preventative and curative and customized to your own body constitution. It originated in India over 5000 years ago and is the best herbal medicine in the world.
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Don’t Fear The ER
Come learn the myths and facts about visiting an Emergency Room during these stressful times. Dr. Laura Cook, ER Medical Director, will answer your questions on how to identify what health related symptoms require emergency medical care.
Breakout Room — 10:00 AM & 11:00 AM

Laura Cook, M.D., FACEP
Chairman and Medical Director
Department of Emergency Medicine StoneSprings Hospital Center
Dr. Cook was an attending physician at Reston Emergency Department since July 2010. She worked at the free standing StoneSprings Emergency Center and was the first assistant medical director of the Emergency Department when the hospital opened in 2015.
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Preparing Your Body for Crisis
Learn how what you are doing TODAY can help you prepare you physically and mentally for the next crisis. Loriana will share the 3 steps to best meet traditional medicine half way to become your own advocate and health hero.
Closing Speaker — 11:55 AM

Loriana Hernandez-Aldama
Survivor | Educator | Speaker
ArmorUp for LIFE
It wasn’t until Loriana’s own cancer diagnosis (AML Leukemia) and fierce one-year battle that she uncovered the biggest story of her career. It was then that she discovered the true medical advantages of leading a healty life – her doctors told her that the more fit she was, the more aggressively they could treat her and the better her chances of survival. Inspired by this, Loriana founded ArmorUp for LIFE with the core message of PREhabilitation tm, meeting the medicine halfway, showing up fit for the fight and becoming an equal partner in your own success.
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TRANSPARENT. BOLD. HONEST. Those words are often used to describe Loriana’s delivery and impact when she’s on stage sharing her story and inspiring her audience about finding work-life balance. She sheds light on the real impact of cancer, the potential consequences of not recharging and why the time is now to make a change in your own life and become your own HERO.
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