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Welcome to our Women’s Empowerment Summit 2026 spotlight series — a behind-the-scenes introduction to the powerhouse women who will be speaking on February 21 at Treetops Resort in Gaylord, Michigan. Each panelist brings a unique lens to women’s growth, courage, and connection. Some people walk into your life carrying stories that feel like novels. Layers. Chapters. Plot twists. And a whole lot of heart. That’s exactly why we’re honored to welcome Linda Durant  as a featured

We’re living in a time when people feel more connected than ever, and somehow more alone than ever. We have access to endless information, yet many of us struggle to access ourselves . The pressure to be productive has never been higher, but the space to simply be human  has never felt smaller. It’s no wonder so many people feel burnt out, overwhelmed, or disconnected from their own potential. At The Human Development Collective, we believe the problem isn’t that people aren’

Meet Rachel Teeter-Longendyke: The Woman Who Can Turn Any Room into a Community and Any Moment into a Movement Some women bring snacks to gatherings. Rachel brings connection. She’s the type of person who makes you feel like you belong before you’ve even hung up your coat. Service is a love language: not the performative kind, but the “roll up your sleeves and let’s do this together” kind. Rachel believes in contribution as a path to belonging. She believes advocacy is a musc

Welcome to our Women’s Empowerment Summit 2026 spotlight series — a behind-the-scenes introduction to the powerhouse women who will be speaking on February 21 at Treetops Resort in Gaylord, Michigan. Each panelist brings a unique lens to women’s growth, courage, and connection. Meet Dr. Nicole Persing-Wethington, The Scientist-Scholar-Yoga-Ninja Who Can Explain Your Nervous System Better Than Your Last Therapist If Hermione Granger grew up, learned trauma-informed yoga, dove

Meet Jillian Tremonti: The Dancing, Community-Building, Plot-Twist-Surviving Woman Who Knows How to Create Belonging Anywhere Welcome to our Women’s Empowerment Summit 2026 spotlight series — a behind-the-scenes introduction to the powerhouse women who will be speaking on February 21 at Treetops Resort in Gaylord, Michigan. Each panelist brings a unique lens to women’s growth, courage, and connection. Every community has a heartbeat. Jillian is the person who listens for it.

Meet Anita Merchant: The Financial Fairy Godmother You Didn’t Know You Needed, but Absolutely Do Welcome to our Women’s Empowerment Summit 2026 spotlight series — a behind-the-scenes introduction to the powerhouse women who will be speaking on February 21 at Treetops Resort in Gaylord, Michigan. Each panelist brings a unique lens to women’s growth, courage, and connection. Today, we’re highlighting Anita Merchant, who will be presenting on Banking and Building Credit. If you’

Meet Jamie Medler: The Woman Who Can Keep a Whole Town Safe and Still Make You Laugh at a PTA Meeting Welcome to our Women’s Empowerment Summit 2026 spotlight series — a behind-the-scenes introduction to the powerhouse women who will be speaking on February 21 at Treetops Resort in Gaylord, Michigan. Each panelist brings a unique lens to women’s growth, courage, and connection. Today, we’re highlighting Jamie Medler who is speaking on Personal Safety. There is a special type

Meet Dr. Stacey Gedeon: The Woman Who Explained My Feelings to Me Before I Knew I Had Them. At the Summit, she’s bringing Emotional Intelligence down from the mountain - not as a buzzword, not as homework, but as an accessible, almost immediate form of self-permission.

Welcome to our Women’s Empowerment Summit 2026 spotlight series — a behind-the-curtain look at the powerhouse women joining us at Treetops Resort on February 21 in Gaylord, Michigan. Each brings a different lens, a different story, and a different kind of magic. Consider this your warm invitation to meet them… and then meet us in person. There are certain moments in life where you can feel  something shifting before it even happens — like the air right before a thunderstorm,

What do you do when the universe keeps dropping the same person in your path like a cosmic hint you’re too busy to notice? Well… eventually you take the hint and go into business together! Life in a small northern Michigan town makes this sort of thing feel almost inevitable. You bump into the same people everywhere: at the beloved hole-in-the-wall restaurants, the live music spot where someone’s always tuning a guitar, during school events where you’re trying not to cry at t