Julie is a MultidimensionnELLE woman who is devoted to making an impact in her community. Passionate about all things wellness & spirituality, she is the founder of Pureprep, a plant-based meal prep company. She also helps women reclaim their sovereignty through her mentorship, events and retreats. Dance is a medicine for her and played a big role in her journey of reconnection to the Divine Feminine energy.


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Facebook-  https://www.facebook.com/julie.guerard.75

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Biography-

My journey started when I was 19 years old. I was hired by the Attorney General’s Office of British Columbia and spent two years travelling the province; speaking to youths from 5-18 about racism and violence. I might be speaking to 60 kindergarten students in the morning and 4 at-risk teenagers (in a youth detention centre) in the afternoon. It was here where I discovered my first insight: People learn best by doing. In every situation we saw an increase in attention, energy and retention when we had volunteers! That is why my workshops are always highly interactive involving individual, partner and group work.

While at the Desautels School of Management at McGill  I was selected as one of the top 4 students in the program and as such travelled nationally and internationally representing the university in case competitions . From Copenhagen, to Dallas to Singapore this is where I had my second insight: Your presentation starts before you say a word. How much communication is supposed to be non-verbal? We make decisions in fractions of seconds based on what we see and we rarely remember what people say but we will always have an opinion about the speaker.  

Before I graduated professors started asking me if I might teach their students how to present. That is when my love of teaching was born, but it was to take a back seat as I entered the corporate world. 

I also turned a love for dancing into my first business.  A dance academy which at it’s peak had 4 locations. It was here that I started experimenting with teaching techniques and discovering that so much of what is taught doesn’t work!

Fun facts about Ivan-

• He is a top-rated instructor on Coursera with over 100,000 learners
• He is a top-rated instructor on Udemy with over 50,000 students
• He was the official host for the Invictus Games in 2017 & PanAm Games in 2015
• He was co-founder of the Vancouver International Salsafestival
• The largest crowd he ever spoke in front of was 30,000
• He wrote a book called "End Boring: A Tactical Approach to Public Speaking"

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Instagram-  @salseroruiz
Facebook-   Ivan Wanis Ruiz
Website-      www.publicspeakinglab.com


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Gabriela Calderón Equiz, Originally from Mexico City. She is the daughter of Nancy Equiz and Pablo Calderon, graduated in political science and law respectively, Gabriela grows up in a political environment, and from the first year of life, she moves with her family to the city of Tijuana, where she studies Ballet and Flamenco from the age 4 in the Gloria Campobello Dance Company. During the summers she attends artistic training courses (singing, dancing and acting) at the Milton Gio school in Mexico City and Flamenco Dance courses in Madrid, Spain. As a university degree, she studied electronic systems engineering at CETYS Universidad Tijuana and a master's degree in robotics at UCLA. She obtained studies in Industrial Engineering and production at Loyola Marymount University and undergraduate studies in Economics from the Autonomous University of Baja California.

From 1999 to 2001 she had a record deal with Warner Bro Studio's Giant Records as part of an American pop girl band "i5", which led her to share the stage with artists such as Christina Aguilera and Backstreet Boys as well as open the National tours of Britney Spears, NSYNC and being part of the Nickelodeon television channel tours. In 2003 she recorded a solo album produced by Mario Quintero y los Tucanes de Tijuana. In 2005 Alma Latina Performing Art School started in Tijuana, in 7 years Alma Latina positioned itself as the most awarded Latin dance company in the world, with more than 60 world titles including categories of children, adolescents, adults and seniors. in levels: soloists, couples and teams amateur and professional levels. There are currently five Alma Latina dance studios (Tijuana, Playas de Tijuana, two in Mexicali, and CDMX). For nine years she has been producing an intensive summer course which people from all over the world take. In 2011 she is included in the Tijuana walk of fame. In 2013 she launched the Alma Latina franchise and currently has around 24 franchises distributed in Canada, the United States, Mexico, South America, Europe and Asia. Gabriela travels around the world teaching dance classes, presenting shows and participating as a judge. Since 2018, she currently serves as the International Judge representing Mexico in the World Latin Dance Cup.

She is the world champion of Bachata and director of the largest and most award-winning Latin dance company in the world. She is currently studying Engineering in Software development and is developing an app to streamline the exchange of dance knowledge, and connectivity between the communities of dancers and the local salsa and bachata industry. The beta version of this app can now be found in the Apple store and google play under the name "dancedrills The App". Gabriela Equiz has a TedXTalk conference and numerous presentations at universities and business groups in the state. Gabriela developed an online dance class distribution platform and her most recent project is “Salsa Bachata University”, an educational institution that seeks to legitimize and provide structure to the Latin Rhythms industry and whose ultimate objective is the creation of the first Bachelor of Dance specialized in Latin Rhythms of the country and the world. Gabriela seeks to enter the world of motivational speaking through a podcast called "Dance Boss Lady" in which she shares her passion for helping people to follow and fulfill their dance dreams.

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Instagram  @gabrielaequiz
Facebook   Gabriela Equiz Dance