Women2Women Conference & Expo 2020 - Digital Summit Kick Off + All Day Expo
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Women2Women Conference & Expo 2020 - Digital Summit Kick Off + All Day Expo
Date:
June 25, 2020
Time:
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
Registration:
Register Now
Event Description:
Women2Women Conference + Expo 2020 - Digital Summit Kick Off + All Day Expo
We are excited to announce the transition of our annual Women's Conference + Expo to a Digital Summit, spanning across 4 months, 1-2 events per month PLUS our well-known Expo. This is not a time to stop making connections; this is the perfect time to make NEW ones. Join us at our Digital Summit this year and grow to lead during this time and for the future while connecting with other women.
June 25th kicks off our Digital Summit and features our always-awaited ATHENA Ceremony followed by our kick off Keynote Speaker, Jessica Holmes. Following the session, enjoy the Women2Women Expo featuring Women2Women sponsor tables, local women-owned business tables and meet some of the local nonprofits at their tables. All virtual tables of course!
View 2020 Women2Women Digital Leadership Summit AGENDA
In 2020, each session per month is a separate price so YOU have the choice to attend what you'd like. As always, you also have the choice to attend ALL for the full Women2Women leadership development experience. With each registration you will receive Full Day Access to the Virtual Expo as well!
ATHENA Ceremony
2020 Recipient: Crystal Gilmore Harris
What better way to kick off our Digital Summit than to celebrate the 2020 ATHENA' recipient's accomplishments and work for the community. Crystal Gilmore Harris is the Social Services Administrative Assistant at the Reading School District. Learn more about Crystal, the ATHENA award and past recipients here.
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Kick Off Keynote Speaker
Jessica Holmes - Celebrated Comedian, Author & Mental Health Advocate
Depression the Comedy
This is a frank and hilarious account of how it took Jessica Holmes two years to get diagnosed as depressed. It started small: she resented “fun stuff” like girls night out, developed a loathing for words like “wellness,” and avoided foods that promised to prolong her life. Even when she yawned her way through an emceeing job for Oprah Winfrey didn’t sound any alarms for her. By the end of 2013, Jessica slept more than the cat, gave her husband a hall pass, and told her TV agent “hold my calls for six months” before diagnosis. In the nearly two years that she had transitioned from “cheerleader” to “zombie”, she hadn’t taken stock of how far she had veered from her ideal life of fulfillment and gratitude. Jessica’s story, which has a deeply happy ending, relates to anyone who has ever been on a downhill trajectory, whether with health, relationships, or career, who forgot to stop and ask “where am I?”
Jessica Holmes has opened for giants like Jerry Seinfeld, Ellen DeGeneres, and Oprah Winfrey. Combining stand-up, music, and improvisation, she performed at Just For Laughs and The Second City before starring in her own TV series, The Holmes Show.
Also a wellness advocate, Holmes mixes comedy with a validating message about life’s challenges in her book, Depression The Comedy, and has become a celebrated voice in fighting the stigma surrounding mental health issues in her hilarious and inspirational keynotes.
A mother of two (and wife of one), Holmes’ passion is finding the laughs in life's imperfections and turning embarrassments into punchlines.
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Women2Women Virtual Expo
Each year at the Women2Women Conference we offer our attendees the opportunity to peruse tables filled with goods, services and education (+ swag)! Enjoy our Virtual Expo Experience and meet some of our Women2Women sponsors, local women-owned businesses and nonprofits from our community.
Instead of one day for our Expo, now you will have the opportunity to enjoy the Expo at your leisure across FOUR DAYS. You will receive an Access Pass for each event registration. The Pass will available all day to you. Instructions to follow with your registration.
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Media photos from 2019 Expo. Courtesy of Zerbe Photography.
We are excited to announce the transition of our annual Women's Conference + Expo to a Digital Summit, spanning across 4 months, 1-2 events per month PLUS our well-known Expo. This is not a time to stop making connections; this is the perfect time to make NEW ones. Join us at our Digital Summit this year and grow to lead during this time and for the future while connecting with other women.
June 25th kicks off our Digital Summit and features our always-awaited ATHENA Ceremony followed by our kick off Keynote Speaker, Jessica Holmes. Following the session, enjoy the Women2Women Expo featuring Women2Women sponsor tables, local women-owned business tables and meet some of the local nonprofits at their tables. All virtual tables of course!
View 2020 Women2Women Digital Leadership Summit AGENDA
In 2020, each session per month is a separate price so YOU have the choice to attend what you'd like. As always, you also have the choice to attend ALL for the full Women2Women leadership development experience. With each registration you will receive Full Day Access to the Virtual Expo as well!
- July 21st Breakout Session "Unapologetically Authentic" - Register Here
- August 12th Breakout Session "Game On: Using Mental Toughness as a Compass" - Register Here
- September 22nd De Mujer a Mujer Ceremony + Send Off Keynote - Register Here
ATHENA Ceremony
2020 Recipient: Crystal Gilmore Harris
What better way to kick off our Digital Summit than to celebrate the 2020 ATHENA' recipient's accomplishments and work for the community. Crystal Gilmore Harris is the Social Services Administrative Assistant at the Reading School District. Learn more about Crystal, the ATHENA award and past recipients here.
_____________________________________________________________
Kick Off Keynote Speaker
Jessica Holmes - Celebrated Comedian, Author & Mental Health Advocate
Depression the Comedy
This is a frank and hilarious account of how it took Jessica Holmes two years to get diagnosed as depressed. It started small: she resented “fun stuff” like girls night out, developed a loathing for words like “wellness,” and avoided foods that promised to prolong her life. Even when she yawned her way through an emceeing job for Oprah Winfrey didn’t sound any alarms for her. By the end of 2013, Jessica slept more than the cat, gave her husband a hall pass, and told her TV agent “hold my calls for six months” before diagnosis. In the nearly two years that she had transitioned from “cheerleader” to “zombie”, she hadn’t taken stock of how far she had veered from her ideal life of fulfillment and gratitude. Jessica’s story, which has a deeply happy ending, relates to anyone who has ever been on a downhill trajectory, whether with health, relationships, or career, who forgot to stop and ask “where am I?”
Jessica Holmes has opened for giants like Jerry Seinfeld, Ellen DeGeneres, and Oprah Winfrey. Combining stand-up, music, and improvisation, she performed at Just For Laughs and The Second City before starring in her own TV series, The Holmes Show.
Also a wellness advocate, Holmes mixes comedy with a validating message about life’s challenges in her book, Depression The Comedy, and has become a celebrated voice in fighting the stigma surrounding mental health issues in her hilarious and inspirational keynotes.
A mother of two (and wife of one), Holmes’ passion is finding the laughs in life's imperfections and turning embarrassments into punchlines.
_______________________________________________________________
Women2Women Virtual Expo
Each year at the Women2Women Conference we offer our attendees the opportunity to peruse tables filled with goods, services and education (+ swag)! Enjoy our Virtual Expo Experience and meet some of our Women2Women sponsors, local women-owned businesses and nonprofits from our community.
Instead of one day for our Expo, now you will have the opportunity to enjoy the Expo at your leisure across FOUR DAYS. You will receive an Access Pass for each event registration. The Pass will available all day to you. Instructions to follow with your registration.
_______________________________________________________________
Media photos from 2019 Expo. Courtesy of Zerbe Photography.
Women2Women is a special program of the Greater Reading Chamber Alliance with the mission to be Berks County's leading resource for building a healthy, competitive business community. GRCA/W2W policy does not allow active campaigning or distribution of campaign materials at is event. No solicitation. Photos are taken at event and may be used on social media and in future advertising; by attending you are consenting to the use of your photo.
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