For the woman standing at the edge of her Leap, a sponsorship isn't a line item on a budget. It's a yes. Yes to the idea she's been afraid to say out loud. Yes to the risk she's finally ready to take. When your business sponsors In Her Words, you're not just supporting an event — you're telling a room full of women that someone believed in them before they'd proven anything. That kind of belief changes what she does next.

What Lights Your Heart? The Small Acts That Change Everything is a presentation built for audiences navigating disconnection, burnout, or the quiet sense that something important is slipping by. Drawing on HeartMath research and her own twelve-year practice of witnessing what matters, Ellen Webster gives audiences a concrete, immediately usable framework for noticing what lights them up — and for making others feel truly seen.

Bio: Ellen Webster spent twelve years writing more than 10,000 handwritten thank-you notes — not as a project, but as a way to survive. That practice became the foundation of her work as a keynote speaker and media personality. Known as The Thank You Note Lady, Ellen has appeared on Good Morning America, The Kelly Clarkson Show, NPR, and Today Show digital and speaks nationally on the small acts of attention that change how we experience our lives and each other.

www.ellenwebster.com

This is Playback Theatre, an improvisational art form where a spoken true story is spontaneously reflected back through movement, metaphor, and song. Erin invites each woman participating or watching to notice how the stories unfold, how the events connect, and how they arrive at their outcome, then ask yourself: has anything shifted inside of me? By the end, you'll see your own story honored, and glimpse yourself inside someone else's.

Bio: Erin Curren, PhD, is a Newfield Certified Life Coach and Playback Theatre improviser based in Maine. She partners with clients to source their wisdom through hands-on coaching, drawing on years of experience as a teacher, dancer, performer, and facilitator. As creator and performer of Solar Playback, she has led monthly solo improvisational performances since 2023 — both online and in person — using improv to reflect audience members' true stories back to them in the moment. Her work blends deep listening and presence, and clients and audiences alike describe her performances as transformative and full of wisdom.

www.erincurren.com

Dance is not just about learning the right steps. It's a place where you can connect with yourself, express yourself, and feel completely free to be yourself. It can be an experience that is almost out of body yet fully embodied: thinking disappears, and you drop into pure feeling, moving from sensation instead of thought. In that place, you are completely present, alive, and free.

In this session, Laurel invites the room into experiencing presence. Moving beyond steps and choreography, she'll guide every woman into feeling, expression, and the joy of simply being in her own body. There is nothing to memorize and no right way to move. Just an invitation to drop in, feel the music, and reconnect with the aliveness that's already there. Let your body remind you — who you have always been.

Bio: For Laurel Card, dance is as essential as breathing — a language of confidence, connection, and self-expression. As owner and lead instructor of Laurel Card Latin Dance, a woman-owned Salsa and Bachata studio in Philadelphia's Center City, she's spent over two decades helping people find their rhythm, on and off the dance floor. Laurel is certified by DVIDA (Dance Vision International Dancers Association) and recognized for her excellence by the National Dance Council of America. Laurel teaches her students how movement itself can be a powerful storyteller, helping women reconnect with their bodies and discover joy through the transformative art of dance.

www.laurelcardlatindance.com

“A guard at the gate stopped the wizened traveler and demanded answers to these three questions before allowing him to pass: “Who goes there? Where are you going? Why are you going there?”

The traveler paused and then calmly asked the guard how much he was paid to ask each passerby these questions. Taken aback, the guard awkwardly revealed his daily wage, and the sage replied: “I will pay you double that amount to stop me each day and ask me those same three questions. They are so very important to contemplate.”

Our stories are the guides that inform us from the past, ground us in the present, and point us in the direction of the vision story we seek. We’ll talk about how to be the guards at the gate who cause you to pause and reflect, as well as the sage travelers who use their storied insights to create a desired path.

Bio: Lani Peterson is an award-winning storyteller, keynote speaker, and story coach with over 25 years of experience helping people find, shape, and share the stories that define them. She holds a doctorate in psychology from William James College and has taught Healing through Our Stories at Lesley University. Lani has worked with an extraordinary range of people — from Fortune 500 executives to hospital patients and individuals experiencing homelessness — guiding them toward deeper connection and growth through story.

www.lanipeterson.com/