Marci Hopkins is an award-winning TV host, on-air personality, creative executive and author. As Executive Producer and Host of the popular morning show Wake Up with Marci, she shares stories of triumph and transformation, celebrity inspiration, hopeful stories, and candid conversations to help viewers gain new insight and perspective to live their happiest lives. The show airs on CBS-owned WLNY-TV 10/55 at 10 AM EST on Saturdays, and can also be found on Hulu Live, YouTube and major Podcast Platforms.
Marci also authored the book, Chaos to Clarity: Seeing the Signs and Breaking the Cycles, which helps readers identify harmful patterns and behaviors in their lives and pave a new path to recovery. The book offers a healing guide with an educational approach, giving readers the tools and hope to take themselves out of pain and into love.
Driven by a desire to help others in all that she undertakes, Marci shines a light on hardships and transformation, empowering viewers and readers to break free of dysfunctional generational cycles and step into their power. She consults with experts and people who have experienced the extraordinary, and she herself is also the living testament to the power of transformation, having achieved sobriety and winning her battle over alcoholism.
Recently, Marci was honored as a 2021 Top 25 Leading Women Entrepreneurs by Leading Women Entrepreneurs. She has also been recipient of the Women’s Achievement Award from The New Jersey State Federation Women’s Clubs, and was recognized by the Ramapo-Bergen Animal Refuge. Marci was named a top influencer in New Jersey by 201 Magazine and has been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, Yahoo, CBS New York, PEOPLE en Espanol, Latina Magazine, News 12 NJ, Park Magazine, Thrive Global, New Jersey Family Magazine, The Bergen Record, BOLD Global, and many more.
Marci holds a bachelor’s degree in Music and Television Business from The Art Institutes and serves on the board of the YWCA. Originally from Texas, she moved to Los Angeles, where she became Director of On-Air Promotions for FX Network, before ultimately settling in New Jersey with her husband and two children.
Outside of her professional endeavors, Marci is devoted to charity work, serving on the committee of Julia’s Butterfly Foundation, and fundraising for the Kumali Organization and SWS Organization.
Women’s Networking Association Member Marci Hopkins can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.
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Molly Welton is Owner of California Kahve, where she sells custom cookies, doughnuts and all kinds of coffee drinks. She owns a vintage Layton camper that was rebuilt during the stay at home order. To Welton, staying true to her values comes first. This means supporting sustainable industries that benefit the common good, like Tiny Footprint Coffee Company, which plants one tree in Ecuador’s Mindo Cloud Forest for every bag of coffee sold.
Her mobile cafe business is located in San Francisco, California and offers organic espresso, small batch drip coffee and specialty teas. Her specialty latte menu includes a dark chocolate orange mocha, a wildflower honey latte and a matcha rose latte. Using all organic ingredients and high end products, Molly curated a menu of botanical and herbal lattes which are soothing, non-caffeinated drinks. They include the Butterfly Pea Flower latte, a mushroom steamer, and chamomile & rose cordial latte. She launched my first mobile cafe out of a vintage trailer that she converted into a cafe herself with the help of people in the trades. She had a vision of what she wanted and it came to life. It was so successful that she purchased a second vehicle, this time a beautiful Chevy truck with bright colors. She has enjoyed every minute of this journey and plan on purchasing a third truck to expand and add another location!
Women’s Networking Association Member, Molly Welton, can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.
Website: www.californiakahve@gmail.com, instagram @California.kahve and here is a link to a newspaper article in the San Francisco Chronicle from just last week: SF Chronicle.
Therese Keyes is a dedicated Litigation Paralegal with more than 30 years of experience working in the areas of law which include plaintiff’s personal injury, insurance defense, risk management, employment law, worker’s compensation, and some family/divorce law. Throughout her career, it has been Therese’s purpose to continue her professional development and education in order to advance her career within the legal industry with an end goal of using what she has learned to give back to those considering a paralegal career-path.
Therese was most recently employed as a Lead Litigation Paralegal (Trainer/Mentor) at the global law firm of Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, LLP for a little more than three years. In this role, Therese coordinated activities across the firm’s internal Paralegal Services Department, and she became confident and comfortable in managing projects, delegating, quality control, and teaching others to become productive paralegals through the use of collaboration, training and mentoring. Her communication skills and knack for identifying talent have proven to be beneficial in forming cohesive teams that became supportive of each other and committed to being resourceful and successful. Sharing her knowledge with an intent to assist others in being the best they can be is one of Therese’s passions. In addition, she managed her own case assignments and tasks to meet or beat the firm’s annual paralegal billing requirements. She credits her success to dedication, drive, and perseverance. A quote she strives to live by is:
“Change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and rewarding in the end.”
About a year into her role as a Lead Litigation Paralegal, Therese began researching and developing a business plan to form her own independent consulting business of highly skilled, independent paralegals. Two years later, Therese made a bold move to break away from her traditional role as a Litigation Paralegal within a law firm to begin her freelance consulting business – Keyes Freelance Paralegal Group, LLC.
Throughout her career, Therese came to understand first-hand what it meant to juggle working full-time, staying in tune and up to date with changes in the legal industry, continuing an education while working, raising children, managing a household, and trying to have a social life, because she lived that life. The struggle was real, but she persevered.
While researching various aspects of the legal industry for her own business, it came to Therese’s attention that attorney burnout and mental-health issues were on the rise. In fact, according to a 2021 (Q1) Bloomberg Law survey, nearly half of the attorney respondents reported that their well-being had worsened over that first quarter. For the legal industry during 2021, productivity was up by 6.1% for the first nine months, making attorney burnout a real issue for many firms where productivity was already high. The demand for lawyers was and remains strong, and currently there are not enough lawyers to go around. Therefore, lawyer burnout and mental-health issues are increasing. Burnout can be avoided if lawyers and the industry as a whole take actionable steps to identify, resolve and prevent it. This is where Keyes Freelance Paralegal Group, LLC can step in to assist.
After conducting research, and through trial and error, mentoring from others, and devotion to her passions, Therese developed her freelance paralegal group into a program designed to provide senior level paralegal services on a 100% virtual basis to small and mid-sized law firms and solo lawyers at a realistic, cost-effective price that will help reduce attorney burnout, stress and mental-health issues while saving time and money.
Attorneys need assistance and support when they find themselves struggling to meet deadlines, unable to take on new clients due to heavy workloads or find themselves with little to no time to focus on increasing productivity and revenue; no time to attend professional development seminars, barely enough time to develop case strategies. The goal of Keyes Freelance Paralegal Group, LLC is to help attorneys free up their time, streamline their workload processes, and delegate what they can to one or more paralegals without having to add the costs associated with hiring an employee (W-2). Keyes Freelance Paralegals are available via a monthly subscription contract, or on a project-by-project basis. Customized plans are available upon request.
Keyes Freelance paralegals bring solutions to the day-to-day grind of staying on top of deadlines, collecting records, organizing and managing case files, drafting pleadings, motions, and discovery, preparing demands and document productions, streamlining office and case processes, and a whole lot more by providing a professional and high level of expertise, integrity, honesty, and quality work product. Keyes Freelance is in the service industry, and we look forward to continuing to provide our services to those in need.
Therese holds a Professional Associate Degree from Milwaukee Area Technical College in Legal Administration. She is also a Thomas Education Direct/Penn Foster graduate as an Accredited Paralegal Associate. She earned her BAS (cum laude) in Organizational Leadership with an emphasis in Internal Corporate Communications from the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay.
She is a member of the Greater Milwaukee Association of Legal Professionals, Wisconsin Association of Legal Professionals, NALS – National Association for Legal Professionals, NALA – The Paralegal Association, and is a Notary Public for the State of Wisconsin.
Find out more about Therese at www.keyesfreelanceparalegalgroupllc.com. Here you will find testimonials/recommendations from former colleagues and attorneys, more information about the services offered by Keyes Freelance Paralegal Group, LLC, information on costs savings and advantages of using a freelance paralegal, as well as monthly blogs which vary from paralegal advice and resources to subjects pertaining to freelance paralegal benefits for attorneys.
Therese is also a professional mentor. She provides mentorship and guidance to paralegal students or new paralegals who may be struggling or need support with deciding what type or types of law to specialize in, course studies, actual case assignments or tasks, or who may need reassurances.
Women’s Networking Association Member, Therese Keyes, can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.
Neha Khatri is Director of her own Consultancy Firm where she provides services to various companies and owner of E-commerce website https://www.hollistic.online. Currently she works for Federated Co-operatives Limited as Senior IT Data Consultant, after working for BVD Group as a Senior Portfolio Manager for two years. She is PMP, CSPO, CSM, Lean Six Sigma, RPA Certified Professional, and ITILV3.
Specialty : Contracts; Information Technology; Executive Management; Human Resources; International Business Management; Entrepreneurship.
In her current role she is responsible for providing technical project planning, management and oversight for key initiatives and implementation of projects. She analyzes alternative problem solutions and presents cases for the recommended solutions with a detailed analysis of risks and return on investment. Another of her previous roles was working as Senior Database Consultant at Canadalife Insurance Company followed by Senior POS Data Consultant at 3M, Head Office, Canada.
IT consultant with over 9 years of experience of building and delivering cutting edge software product across multiple industries (Financial services, manufacturing, and transportation). Self-starter with entrepreneurial mindset who navigate through large organizations using a structured approach to solving problems using management skills; Proven track-record of conceptualizing and deploying innovative products/services within financial services and manufacturing services.
She is highly skilled in Project Management, Agile and Waterfall methodologies, Software Development, Business Analysis, Process Improvement, Account Management, Business Development and Customer service.
She holds her M. Tech in Computer Science & Engineering along with MBA in Marketing and Finance. Currently She is on her path to finish her PhD. In Computer Science & Engineering under Jamia Milia Islamia University, New Delhi, India. She has published several international paper in Data Security and Cloud Security with Encryption in Recognized Journals and reviewed several books chapters published by famous authors like Dr. Mansaf Alam etc.
Women’s Networking Association Member, Neha Khatri, can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.
Dr. Chunita Vick, Ed.D., LMSW is the President and Chief Executive Officer of See Believe Achieve through Life Coaching, LLC. Working closely with wounded, ill or injured soldiers, veterans, families and their caregivers, Chunita helps guide them through recovery and processes that will enable them to reach a new state of independence. She is affiliated with the Army Wounded Warrior Program, where she serves as Lead Coordinator and Recovery Care Advocate. Prior to establishing her coaching firm, Chunita honorably served in the United States Army for four years, as an 88M truck driver.
Also a bestselling author, Chunita’s research has focused on the transition experience of veterans and families facing an unexpected medical retirement. She was coauthor of the book Camouflaged Sisters, “Behind the Rank Volume 4”, and her best-known research article is “A Phenomenological Study of the Distress of the Army Medical Board Retirement: Applying Schlossberg’s Transition Model.” Chunita Vick also teaches Sociology as an Adjunct Professor at Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology.
After earning a bachelor’s degree in Social Work from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Chunita went on to complete a Master of Science in Social Work at the University of Texas at Arlington. In 2012, she completed her EdD in Organizational Leadership, with an emphasis in behavioral health, from Grand Canyon University.
A native of Shreveport, Louisiana, today Chunita calls Liberty Hill, Texas home. She is committed to making a positive difference in other’s lives, and credits her success to focus, drive and perseverance.
Women’s Networking Association Member Chunita Vick can be found on the Association Directory, where she is looking forward to networking with you.
