👋 Meet the Speakers - Neurodiverse Entrepreneur Summit®

Meet Your Host

Claire Paniccia (she/they)
Business Coach for Neurodivergent, Spoonie, and Creative Rebel Online Entrepreneurs
Doing Business Differently: How to make your business work for your brain

Hi! I’m Claire, creator of Brain-Friendly Business and the Neurodiverse Entrepreneur Summit™. I help neurodivergent, spoonie, and creative rebel online entrepreneurs build should-free businesses that work for your brain while still making the money you really want to make.

I’ve got ADHD, autism, general anxiety disorder, and chronic depression, as well as wildly fluctuating and unpredictable energy levels (#spoonielife )

For years, I would beat myself up for not being productive enough, for not getting the thing done on time in the “right” way, for not getting “further along” in my business growth faster…

Eventually I decided that if what I was “supposed to do” wasn’t working, there must be a different way to do things — a way that works for my brain.

Over the 8+ years I’ve been in the online business world, I’ve figured out (and continue to figure out!) how to do this whole entrepreneur thing in a way that actually works for me and my brain and body.

And that’s what I want this summit to help you do too.

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Meet Your Speakers

Crystal Silvas (She/Her)

NeuroSpicy Biz Coach & Marketer

Crystal Silvas is a neurodivergent business coach and marketing strategist who helps spicy-brained entrepreneurs build businesses that work with their brain, not against it. With a background in funnels, tech, and design, she brings real-life experience as a late-diagnosed ADHDer navigating business with chronic depression, sensory quirks, and executive dysfunction. Crystal helps her clients ditch the pressure to “do it right” and build feel-good, sustainable businesses on their own terms—without burnout, overwhelm, or boring advice that doesn’t work for spicy brains.

Dani Schnackenberg (she/her)

Business Systems Strategist

Business Systems Strategist Dani Schnakenberg helps entrepreneurs establish boundaries and systems to create sustainable, fulfilling businesses without overwhelm. With 10 years of entrepreneurship experience, she believes success comes from building effective systems and relationships rather than constant hustle.

Alexis Burnett (she/her)

Alignment Coach + Human Design-Based Strategist

Alexis Burnett is an Alignment Coach on a mission to help high-achieving women stop performing for their worth and start creating lives that feel as good as they look. With over 10 years of experience in corporate risk management, she learned to spot patterns before they spark fires; now she channels that skill toward bringing calm to chaos, helping clients define success on their terms and create sustainable frameworks that actually support their energy. She’s a certified life coach (ICF ACC), a 2/4 Emotional Projector, and a proud dog mom to Waffle.

Danielle Klemm (she/her)

Founder of The Neurodivergent Hobby Club

Danielle Klemm is the founder of the Neurodivergent Hobby Club. A soft, low-pressure membership designed to help multi-passionate squiggly brained people to show up for what brings them joy without the shame spiral. As a multi-business owner, she spends her days finding ways to build businesses and strategies that work with your energy…not against it. Whether it’s simplifying a funnel or reigniting hobby motivation, her approach centers emotional safety, flexibility, and tiny tools that actually work for neurodivergent brains.

Liz Wilcox (she/her)

Email marketer

Liz Wilcox is an Email Strategist and Keynote Speaker showing small businesses how to build online relationships, package up their “magic” and turn it into emails that people want to read and purchase from. In the span of 5 years, Liz grew and sold a successful blog, got bought out of her second company, and built the third into a multiple six-figure party that just won’t quit! She’s best known for her 4000+ users membership, 20 Minute Newsletter technique, and the Email Staircase framework she’s taught to tens of thousands of small businesses across the globe.

Amelia Stewart (she/her, they/them)

ADHD + AuDHD Coach

Amelia Stewart helps neurodivergent business owners make life easier, work better, and build worlds—on their terms. Through a blend of coaching, storytelling, and systems design, she supports clients in untangling workflows, rewriting inherited narratives, and crafting tools that fit how they actually think. Her work is grounded in perception-first practices, helping people move like the person they already are—without needing to perform, conform, or fix themselves. Coaching, creativity, and clarity—on their terms. She’s here to get you unstuck and out of the loop of canned responses.

Vanessa Victor & Becky Smith (she/her & she/her)

Co-Founders

Vanessa and Becky are co-founders of Remarkable Minds, an Auckland-based business dedicated to empowering neurodiverse adults – especially those with ADHD and dyslexia – to thrive in life and work. Their approach blends deep understanding with practical tools, helping individuals build confidence, find balance, and live authentically as their remarkable selves. At the heart of Remarkable Minds is a belief in the power of empathy, generosity, and the unique potential within every person. Through innovative programmes and a values-led approach, Vanessa and Becky are reshaping what it means to succeed as a neurodiverse adult in today’s world.

Courtney Chaal (she/her)

Business Coach

Courtney Chaal is a neurodivergent entrepreneur, copywriting strategist, and founder of Yay for Clients, The Sales Page Kit, and The Magic Quarter. Since 2012 she has guided thousands of service providers and course creators to design magnetic offers and implement simple, repeatable systems that keep their client roster full (without the hustle hangover). Drawing on her own ADHD-fueled creativity and knack for turning complex ideas into actionable frameworks, Courtney delivers candid, high-energy sessions packed with storytelling, pragmatic strategy, and a dash of sass. Expect practical takeaways you can put to work before the next dopamine hit wears off—and get results.

Jennie + Meredyth Mustafa-Julock (she/her + she/her)

Repeatable IP™ Architects

Meet Jennie and Meredyth Mustafa-Julock, the powerhouse married duo and creative minds behind Repeatable IP™. This disruptive concept is the secret to their success that they are no sharing with other establish entrepreneurs who want to make an impact. Their approach helps businesses create unmissable, repeatable, and reinvestable experiences that clients naturally want to come back to again and again. Between client breakthroughs, they’re living their best life as digital nomads, adventuring across North America in their tiny-but-bougie 28′ Airstream trailer with their trusty pint-sized pup-pup, Sadie.

Sewa Awosunle (she/her)

Business Strategist and Consultant

Sewa Awosunle is a neurodivergent project manager, strategist, and founder of The Business Helpers; a support service for entrepreneurs who need structure without burning out. She holds an MSc in Business Analysis and Consulting, and brings over nine years of corporate project management experience, alongside lived insight as a black AUDHD woman. She supports neurodivergent business owners move from feeling overwhelmed to progressing using gentle planning, clear next steps, and light-touch admin support. Her Talk It Out sessions reduce mental load, create clarity, and make business feel manageable again for entrepreneurs. Her work centres accessibility, sustainability, and neurodivergent-friendly systems.

Emilia Farrace (she/her)

Creative Director

Emilia Farrace, founder of The Launch It Co. – a WP host, design agency and template shop – and Launch It On the Fly, is an entrepreneur in the business of helping entrepreneurs in the health, wellness and lifestyle space have a sustainable online presence so they can focus on their passions, impact and share their voice with the world. In her free time, Emilia loves to do yoga and explore the local trails and restaurants close to their home in Niagara, Ontario with her husband and two young daughters, while connecting with other parents of neurodivergent children.

Coco Madari (they/them)

Creative Business Coach

Coco Madari (they/them) is a queer, neurospicy, multi-passionate visual artist, producer, DJ, singer, performer, clown/comedian, and business coach who helps other multi-talented creative entrepreneurs create a business on their terms.

Krista Miller (she/her)

Virtual Summit Strategist

At Summit in a Box®, Krista helps online business owners replace slow-growth and costly marketing strategies with high-converting virtual summits that lead to record-breaking course, membership, and group program launches. Her method incorporates highly-targeted positioning and feel-good, engagement-based strategies that lead to higher-than-average conversion rates, true connections, and making a difference to create ongoing benefits for months after the event wraps up. The best part? She makes it easy in her Launch with a Summit Accelerator®! With every strategy, template, script, tutorial, resource, and support element you’d ever need, your summit just got a whole lot easier AND more profitable!

Zoé Carroll (she/her)

ADHD Coach and Mentor

I am a neurodivergent coach, former elite athlete, military veteran, and sports scientist who empowers neurodivergent folk to reclaim confidence, purpose, and joy. Through transformative programmes like Activate YOU, I help people break free from societal expectations, embrace bold living, and create lives that support their neurodivergence. My work combines deep compassion with fierce resilience, focussing on practical ways to enjoy neurodivergent life, grounded in lived experience and a commitment to systemic change. I also lead retreats, design impactful tools, speak at events and train businesses to be more neuroinclusive. I’m here to celebrate our neurodiversity!

Lindsay Padilla (she/her)

CEO

Dr. Lindsay Padilla is an ex-community college professor who accidentally started a business while on the tenure track. Now, as the CEO and co-founder of Hello Audio, which takes your content and creates private audio feeds to make learning on the go much easier for your people, Lindsay challenges online industry norms of unfinished courses and unconsumed content with her product. All of her business ideas were born out of her tenure-track years teaching adults online at a community college, the ridiculous amount of learning she’s done in all things education, and the years spent growing her course creation business online.

Megan Dowd (she/her)

Equity-Centered Coach® & Copywriter

Megan Dowd is an Equity-Centered Coach®, former classical actress, and fluent translator of “I swear this makes sense in my head.” She helps values-led entrepreneurs challenge the norms of the shiny-but-shallow Online Business Industrial Complex and build regenerative, strategy-forward businesses. Her signature? Words that feel good in your brain, good in your body, and good on the page – and a business model that can hold your full humanity, not just your ambition.

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