Meet the International Women’s Day Charity Fundraiser panel

This International Women’s Day, we are celebrating with a charity fundraiser event for The Sanctuary, a privately funded Gold Coast refuge for women, children and pets escaping domestic violence. It is my pleasure to introduce the incredible line up of women who are our speaker panel for the event.

Our brilliant panel of speakers who will be discussing what #BreakTheBias means to them, as well as:

  • Their experience with bias
  • The rise of women is not about the fall of men
  • Everyone has a role to play in forging gender equality
  • Gender balance is not just a women’s issue, but also an economic issue
  • What is bias and how does it play out?
  • Advocacy, inclusive mindsets and tangible actions

Meet our panellists

Those2Sisters – Diane McKendrick & Michelle Anne

Diane Mckendrick and Michelle Anne are experts in personal empowerment. They became game-changers in the industry, guiding and facilitating people to connect to their true power and unlock their greatness. To monetize their Soul Purpose and create the life of their dreams Diane and Michelle are international guest speakers and come highly recommended with their contagious presence that will wow your audience and leave everyone in the room feeling loved, powerful, and ready to change their world. Online programs, spiritual retreats, and one-on-one coaching. supported by the message of Diane’s Amazon Best Seller books has been the catalyst for supporting many people to click off the autopilot and start creating a fulfilling and financially rewarding life. Using a combination of science and spirituality, they will help open the flood gates and encourage people to stop merely responding to life and alternatively, use the tools, techniques, and strategies they share, to step into their power, claim their freedom and start creating the life they desire and deserve with absolute certainty. They have a unique gift of engaging any audience and guiding them into a powerful present and resourceful state. If you want personable, dynamic, and insightful speakers who connect with your audience have an uncanny ability to gently but fiercely challenge peoples’ model of the world and reframe it into possibility, passion, and presence – contact Those2sisters now! Depending on your needs, they can adapt each presentation to your industry or profession.

Matryarch – Anthea Balfour

Anthea Balfour is a Consulting  Somatic Psychotherapist & Executive Mentor specialising in business strategy & leadership. She is a Cultural Ambassador for the Mental Health Foundation Australia;  and Founder of Matryarch Consulting. Anthea Educates & speaks internationally on corporate culture, performance, emotional intelligence & leadership, specifically teaching her students how to use their WILD nature to create  socially responsible & economically sustainable  abundant businesses. she is captivating, informative and inspiring in her message and her mission to empower the work force & the leaders within it to Innovate with power, passion & purpose. With a professional background in public & Corporate Relations, Marketing Communications & Complimentary Medicine she is at ease playing, learning and growing with clients in the Medical field, Alternative health as well as corporate, Government & Creative sectors, globally. Leaders & organisations work with Anthea to optimise their leadership potential and create powerful, passionate & purposeful workplace cultures & human-centric businesses. Teaching resiliency, agility and embodied intelligence for emotional efficacy & business growth through a cultural competency & community participation framework, her clients are highly effective leaders adaptive in times of change and catalysts for innovative action. Combining ground breaking peer reviewed research in neuroscience, linguistics & human social & sexual behaviour, Anthea has an unrivalled & unconventional approach to executive mentoring, business consulting & DE&I training , only suited to those who dare to be different. Anthea’s clients go on to pave a meaningful life, creating impact & influence in the boardroom and beyond, without the stress synonymous to high performance & achievement. Having trained & Studied under industry leaders such us Mantak Chia, Dr Peter Levine, Dr  Esther Perel, Dr. Robert Sapolsky, Dr. Kenneth Ray Stubbs, Dr. Gabor Matè, Dr. Steven Porges  and the late Psalm Isadora, she believes transpersonal, inter-relational somatic intelligence is the way in which we will continue to push the boundaries of our human capacity: And says: “We are now moving towards a new bio-energetic Economic Paradigm, where wholeness, balance and pleasure within each of us, can comfortably co-exist and compliment the performance driven and results based world of business” Anthea Balfour is an Agent Provocateur  leading us into an evolutionary way of Thinking, Being and Doing.

Renae Ferris

Renae is an inspiring young woman who has built a personal brand through social media that educates, encourages and empowers people to invest in themselves. Gently guiding her followers to rediscover their greatness, their worthiness and their personal power to become conscious creators of their lives. Renae masterfully uses her background as a human behaviour specialist and mindset coach to help these men & women to integrate their passions with their profits, through personal branding and affiliate marketing. Renae is on a mission to help people get out of their own way and reconnect the mind, body & soul so that we can spend more time doing what we love while creatively getting paid for it. To let go of outdated ways of doing things, play outside of our comfort zone and create our own miracles. But instead of just talking about what’s possible, Renae is leading the way. While building her online business and prioritising her health and self care, Renae travels around Australia in their family caravan working closely with her husband Dean to amplify his success as a Professional Athlete, is pro-actively raising & homeschooling their two young daughters and helping manage their other small traditional business from her mobile office. Renae loves to BE the example, showing Mums everywhere that you matter too. You don’t have to put your life and needs on hold until your kids grow up. You truly can integrate motherhood, life and business. All it takes is a new perspective and enough courage to take the first step.

Joyce Santiago Savage

Joyce Santiago Savage is a Fashion Buyer who turned her passion from fashion design and development into guiding women to personal development that leads them to designing a life that they want. She shares techniques on how to dump doubts and destroy your inner villain, methods that she learnt with immersing herself in self-investment mentors such as Napoleon Hill, Tony Robbins, Joe Dispenza, Gabby Bernstein and Abraham Hicks. She is a great believer of Think and Grow Rich world known quote “Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve”

The International Women’s Day Charity Fundraiser event will be one to remember, complete with lunch, drinks package, photo booth, passionate speakers, and $1000’s worth of raffle prizes to be won. All proceeds from the day will go to supporting The Sanctuary’s incredible work here on the Gold Coast.

Everyone is welcome at the event, so get a group of friends together to book a table and save! Tickets are selling quickly, so get yours today.

Date: Tuesday March 8th

Time: 11am – 3pm

Venue: Hyde Paradiso, Level 2, Soul Peppers, 8 The Esplanade, Surfers Paradise