Girlfriends Weekend Retreat
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Womanhood. Motherhood. Life.

Girlfriends Weekend Retreat:
"Level Up in Life, Business, and Leadership"

The 2019 Girlfriends Weekend Retreat is centered on helping women to "Level Up in Life, Business, & Leadership". The weekend, taking place at the beautiful Hilton Garden Inn Williamsburg,  will focus on the core of how women can grow exponentially in their life and business or careers with strategies from some of the best coaches and entrepreneurs in marketing, social media, multi-level marketing, and more! Plus, Monique along with other coaches rooted in personal growth and development will focus on the level up needed to manage your balanced life and growing success! Whether you decide to grab a group of girlfriends, or decide to fly solo and meet new girlfriends when you join, this is the PLACE to be this summer

Speakers & Panelists

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 Hostess & Organizer: Monique Williams, MA, Certified Life Coach
Monique is the face and inspiration behind the Girlfriends Weekend Retreat! After launching Beginnings Family Enrichment, LLC full time in fall of 2016, Monique experienced the overwhelming feelings of it not being "the right time".  She had her own doubts about her ability to manage a business and support her family when the finances changed, and battled the thoughts of feeling like a failure when numbers didn't add up. She braved the questions about quitting a stable career path, especially when better job offers were beating down the door.  All of this on the foundation of a single mom entrepreneur. However, she was determined to not to let those limiting beliefs prevent her from fulfilling her God-given purpose and lifelong passion. So Monique created the space to help women rediscover themselves and unearth what they truly want and deserve​ in life! Monique continues to nurture her thriving business offering consulting and coaching services.
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Shanita Brown, Mindset Coach & Life Strategist
Purposefully B-Coming
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Level Up Your Mindset: Coffee & Conversation -
"Discovering You!"
Shanita is a Mindset Coach and Life Strategist helping women gain clarity around their purpose through the purging of pain gained through past experiences which have hindered their ability to be purposeful and intentional in the way that they life.  She also helps them value and implement self-care that they can use for a life time without apology with a clear understanding that choosing themselves first is not a selfish act but a self-preservative NEED. 

​Shanita started Purposefully B Coming in 2018 after 9 years of blogging through her pain to inspire others on her website, Within Her Words. Realizing God was calling her to serve on a higher level, she accepted the call to coach and made a smooth transition into providing powerful, motivational and transformational programs, products, and services to her target market. Learn more about Purposefully B Coming


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Katy Blevins Calabrese, Chief Leadership & Training Officer
Business Among Moms

​Level Up in Leadership: "Prioritization + Process = Productivity"
​After a lifetime of faking perfection and clawing her way up the corporate ladder, Katy decided to drop the curtain and get real with her friends, her family, and most importantly, herself.  With over a decade of experience in sales and marketing, Katy was recognized as a 2016 Inside Business "Women in Business" honoree. An avid writer, Katy was the original writer behind the mommy blog, Chaos & Kiddos, and has contributed to a variety of respected media outlets, including Scott’s Local Business Corner: The Drive, The Huffington Post, The International Bloggers Association, She Knows: Experts Among Us, FamilyShare.com, The Female Entrepreneur Association, Inside Business, Curatti, UK Linkology, This Woman Can and more.

Katy speaks regularly to small business groups, entrepreneurial circles, workshops for professional women and working moms, high school classes, virtual seminars and public events. Learn more about Business Among Moms

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Sonja Keeve, MBA
Inspiring Nations with Sonja Keeve, Walk in Love Productions

Level Up Your Connection: "Power in Partnerships"
Sonja Keeve is an author, inspirational speaker, entrepreneur, and international podcaster. As a wife, mother, mentor and leader in her community, her passion lies in inspiring young ladies and women to fulfill their dreams every day! As a professional in the mortgage industry, she dedicates her time to building strategic relationships with loan officers and clients offering solutions to home ownership. Sonja is the CEO and founder of the Walk in Love 2 Creations where they specialize in clothing apparel for men, women and children. She is also a first time published author in the anthology, Women Inspiring Nations. Some of her volunteer work in the community involves participating as the Chair of the Legislative Committee for the PTA at Open High School, participating as the VP of Education for Toastmasters International, teaching elementary, middle and high school children valuable concepts through Junior Achievement, volunteering as a Sunday school teacher in church to 3 year olds, and volunteering with Women in Technology and Operations to introduce high school girls to the importance of pursuing a career in the areas of Technology. Sonja earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and her Executive MBA from the Jack Welch Management Institute, both at Strayer University. She continues to use her gifts to encourage others and she recently became a Teacher Assistant for Strayer University. She continues to have a positive impact on the lives she touches every day. For her own children, she teaches this motto: "You must see yourself successful before you can ever be successful." Learn more about Sonja Keeve
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Cynthia Williams-Bey, Warriorpreneur
Spring Forth, LLC

Level Up Your Faith: "Counted Out for the Comeback"
In 2005 Cynthia Williams-Bey was a single mother struggling to take care of her asthmatic son who couldn't stay out of the emergency room for the first few months of his life. Those circumstances caused her to miss work and ultimately resulted in her being placed on a final warning at her job with Bank of America. She was running out of options and there were no daycares in the City of Richmond that provided care after 6 pm. That moment was her turning point. By the time her son turned 5 months her journey as a full-time entrepreneur started, and the first of her THREE businesses birthed. What began in an one-bedroom apartment with 5 children has since evolved into Heaven Sent Child Care, LLC.  Today, Cynthia is the owner of Heaven Sent Child Care LLC, Spring Forth LLC and Co-Owner of Dream Productions.  Cynthia holds an Associate degree in Early Childhood Development and is currently studying for her Ministerial License. Her work has superseded her in Honduras, Haiti and throughout the United States. Cynthia has appeared on Young Women on a Mission Podcast, WTVR PBS Instagram page, and was a presenter for Sharvette Mitchell's Hey Girl Hey Lunch & Learn Series. You can follow her on all social media platforms @mrswilliamsbey and Learn more at MRS. WILLIAMS-BEY


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Kanya Ford, Certified Sexologist
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Love & Intimacy 101 & Kay's Kandi
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Level Up Your Love Life: "Letting Love Flow!" 
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Kanya Ford, better known as "Coach Kay", is a wife, entrepreneur and mother of 5 amazing children. Kanya has worked in the human resources for over 15 years before she decided to embark on a multilevel marketing journey with Bedroom Kandi, providing intimate massagers and luxurious bath & body items. The opportunity presented for Kanya to take her business to another level as she focused on branding and building Kay's Kandi into her own family hustle! Seeing a need to provide greater education and empowerment about sexuality, provide safer sex practices, and teach you how to love yourself, Kanya completed a rigorous training focusing on the history of sex and sexuality, biology of sexuality, and overall best practices in intimacy enrichment sparking her coaching practice, Love and Intimacy 101.
Yvonne Stewart, Certified Health Coach
Single Mom on Purpose

​Level Up Your  Goals: "Starting NOW!"
​Yvonne Stewart is a Certified Health and Life Coach with a focus empowering you through health, wellness and all things life! While her focus is on helping single moms, whether a single mom by circumstance or choice, Yvonne's message spans far and wide. She believes women can do it all and is proving it everyday. With any obstacle, Yvonne believes that they are not set backs, but more of a push forward to keeping moving! Yvonne is living life on purpose, as a Single Mom, a Corporate Director, an Entrepreneur and a Student.   ​

Putting Your Best SELF Forward
Mae Williams-Anderson and Wendy Goodman share powerful strategies to help women who are balancing a multi-level marketing (MLM) with multiple responsibilities. In their business, it's all about putting your best self forward! Mae Williams, a Senior Director with Mary Kay continues to grow in sales and her team (downline) all after spending a long career as a truck driver! Wendy Goodman is a wife, mother, and multipreneur! She started in the business of Senegence after searching for a make up product in preparation for her wedding and the rest is history! Now she is juggling her work and family life, in addition to her family HVAC business, real estate, and luscious Lip. Life. Love. brand!
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The weekend was all about us, fun, networking with women and making connections. Ladies if you missed this experience, be sure to get on board next time around. Can’t wait for the next one. ~Dominique

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The Girlfriends Weekend Retreat was so amazing. Monique is very down to earth and inspirational. I look forward to attending more fun events in the future. ~Shanice
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...don't miss the fun this year!

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