The Sustainable Success Summit
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The Sustainable Success Summit
Created 3 weeks 3 days ago
Organizer Nikki Cruise
The Sustainable Success Summit
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Timezone: Central Time (US and Canada)

Event date(s): -

Registration ends: Fri, Jun 19, 2026 5:00 PM (2 weeks 19 hours from now)

Open: Accepting Speaker Applications Until Tuesday, 16 June, 10:00 PM
Description

The Sustainable Success Summit

Build a Business That Works For You, Not One That Burns You Out.

Request for Speakers

A Meaningful Invitation to Share Your Wisdom

The Sustainable Success Summit brings together purpose-driven entrepreneurs who are ready to redefine what success truly looks like. Our audience consists of business owners, coaches, consultants, and leaders who have spent years building, achieving, and showing up for everyone around them — yet quietly feel stretched thin, overcommitted, and disconnected from the freedom they originally hoped entrepreneurship would bring.

These entrepreneurs don’t need another productivity hack or pressure-filled growth strategy. They’re looking for a more sustainable way forward — one rooted in clarity, alignment, well-being, and intentional success.

We’re seeking experienced leaders, mentors, and experts who can help entrepreneurs create businesses that support their lives instead of consume them.

Do you…

  • Help entrepreneurs recognize when ambition has shifted into overwhelm, exhaustion, or constant pressure?
  • Teach sustainable business practices that prioritize clarity, balance, and long-term fulfillment alongside growth?
  • Guide business owners in creating healthier rhythms, boundaries, and systems that reduce burnout and increase freedom?
  • Share lived experience around building success without sacrificing personal well-being, relationships, or peace of mind?
  • Help entrepreneurs reconnect with the reason they started their business in the first place?
  • Teach mindset, leadership, or lifestyle shifts that allow entrepreneurs to grow sustainably instead of operating in survival mode?
  • Empower business owners to stop chasing endless hustle and start building from intention, alignment, and clarity?

If you feel called to share wisdom in any of these areas, we invite you to apply as a speaker for The Sustainable Success Summit.


About This Transformational Event

The Sustainable Success Summit is a virtual event designed to help entrepreneurs step away from burnout-driven business models and build success that feels energizing, aligned, and sustainable.

This summit is for entrepreneurs who are no longer willing to sacrifice their health, joy, relationships, or peace just to keep their business running.

Event Details

Format: RECORDED virtual presentations and conversations focused on sustainable growth, mindset, leadership, well-being, and aligned business practices

Session Length: 25 minutes, including introduction and Q&A. Please prepare approximately 20 minutes of teaching content.

Audience: Entrepreneurs and business owners seeking a healthier, more sustainable approach to success and leadership

This summit provides an opportunity to support entrepreneurs who are successful on the outside but know something internally needs to shift. They’re not giving up on success. They’re redefining it.

Suggested Presentation Topics

We welcome thoughtful, practical, and experience-driven presentations aligned with themes such as:

Sustainable Leadership

  • Why Hustle Culture Is No Longer Sustainable
  • Building a Business Without Constant Overwhelm
  • Leadership That Supports Your Life, Not Just Your Revenue

Clarity and Alignment

  • Success That Actually Feels Good
  • Building a Business Around Your Values
  • The Difference Between Growth and Overextension

Energy and Well-Being

  • Preventing Burnout Before It Happens
  • Protecting Your Energy as an Entrepreneur
  • Why Rest Is a Business Strategy

Systems and Simplicity

  • Simplifying Your Business for Greater Freedom
  • Creating Sustainable Workflows and Boundaries
  • Doing Less, Better

Mindset and Identity

  • Letting Go of the Pressure to Do Everything
  • Redefining Productivity and Success
  • Building From Confidence Instead of Constant Urgency

Long-Term Success

  • Sustainable Growth Over Short-Term Wins
  • Building a Business You Can Actually Enjoy
  • What Changes When You Stop Running on Empty

Partnership Guidelines

Content Alignment

Presentations should provide practical insight, encouragement, and meaningful strategies that support entrepreneurs in creating sustainable success. We encourage speakers to teach from real experience, offering both wisdom and actionable takeaways.

Presentation Structure

We encourage speakers to begin with a brief personal story or turning point that shaped their understanding of sustainable success. The heart of your session should focus on relatable insight, practical guidance, and realistic steps attendees can implement immediately.

The goal is not perfection. It’s transformation, clarity, and sustainable momentum.

Promotion Requirements

To maximize the impact of this event, speakers are expected to promote the summit to their audiences through email and social media. Promotional graphics, swipe copy, and your unique tracking link will be provided.

Key promotional periods include:

  • 2 weeks before launch
  • 5 days before the event
  • The day before the summit begins

Promotional Guidelines

Direct selling, pitching, or affiliate promotions during presentations are not permitted. Speakers may offer a free resource or lead magnet to continue building relationships with attendees after the event.

Speaking Fee Policy

Speaking is complimentary when all speaker guidelines are followed and at least 25 registrants join through your unique referral link. Failure to meet promotional requirements or minimum registrations may result in a speaker participation fee of up to $47.

Join Us in Creating a New Definition of Success

If you’re passionate about helping entrepreneurs build businesses that support their lives instead of draining them, we invite you to apply.

Together, we can help business owners step out of constant pressure and into a version of success that is sustainable, fulfilling, and deeply aligned with the life they truly want to live.

Because success should not cost you your peace.

And building sustainably doesn’t mean thinking smaller — it means building smarter, healthier, and with intention.

Speakers
Growth Without Burnout: Why Personal Growth Is The Missing Piece of Sustainable Success
Aaron Clark Founder & CEO

Many entrepreneurs believe burnout is the price of success. In reality, burnout often occurs when responsibility grows faster than personal capacity.

In this presentation, leadership coach Aaron Clark will challenge the idea that working harder is the answer to sustainable growth. Drawing from proven leadership and personal growth principles, Aaron will show how intentional growth increases your capacity to lead, make decisions, handle pressure, and navigate the demands of a growing business.

Attendees will learn why success creates new levels of responsibility, how to avoid the trap of constant overwhelm, and practical ways to expand their leadership capacity without sacrificing their health, relationships, or peace of mind.

If you want to build a business that supports your life instead of consuming it, this session will provide the mindset shifts and growth strategies needed to create long-term, sustainable success.

Business Education +3
Personal Development Positive Leadership +4
From Survival to Surrender
Amanda Hietter CEO/Founder

In this powerful and faith-filled keynote, Amanda Hietter shares her personal journey from trauma, addiction, unhealthy relationships, and survival mode to healing, restoration, and purpose through surrendering her life to God. Through authentic storytelling and practical life lessons, attendees will discover how unresolved wounds can shape their choices, why healing requires honesty and healthy environments, and how God can transform even the most painful experiences into a platform for impact. This inspiring presentation offers hope, encouragement, and actionable steps for anyone feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or exhausted from simply surviving. Participants will leave empowered to embrace healing, strengthen their faith, and begin walking confidently in the purpose God has for their lives.

Travel & Adventure
Healing
Spend less time Marketing and Get High Ticket Clients with Speaking
Cari Brunton Speaker Trainer

You've probably heard that speaking is a great way to grow your business. Cool. But why does it feel like you're giving great talks… and then hearing absolutely nothing but crickets afterward?

The problem isn't your speaking. It's your system. In this session, Cari Brunton breaks down exactly how women business coaches are using speaking to book high-ticket clients consistently — without chasing leads, posting every day, or feeling gross and salesy at the end of their talks.

You'll walk away with a clear path from talk to booked call, and a simple strategy you can actually use — starting this week.

If you're ready to stop giving great talks to quiet rooms — this one's for you.

Marketing
Marketing Strategy Speaking skills
Sustainable Success Through Tech
Carrie Wu Sustainable Success Through Tech

Most small business owners work harder than their businesses—not for lack of effort, but for a lack of systems and clarity. In this session, Carrie identifies the three critical areas where your business is quietly leaking time and energy. You’ll leave with a clear roadmap for optimizing your business using tech and finally freeing yourself to lead sustainably from a place of vision and purpose.

What you will Learn:

  1. The Connection System: The automation architecture that ensures no relationship is ever dropped.
  2. The Intelligence System: How to identify the "North Star" metrics in your business to eliminate decision fatigue.
  3. The Presence System: The framework for training a personalized AI to handle high-level tasks in your unique voice.
Why You Keep Saying Yes And Why It's Costing You Growth. SUBTITLE: The Hidden Decision Patterns That Are Slowing Your Revenue, Impact, and Leadership
Clestine, the Purpose Coach International Speaker, Author, Coach

You don't have a time problem. Nor a strategy problem. You have a decision problem.

Every time you say yes out of pressure, guilt, or expectation, you dilute your focus, drain your energy, and delay your results.

In this session, Clestine Herbert will walk you through the exact patterns that keep high-capacity leaders stuck in overcommitment and underperformance.

You will learn how to make clear, confident decisions without second-guessing, how to say no without damaging relationships, and how to align your time with what actually moves your business forward.

If your calendar is full but your results don't reflect it, this session will show you exactly why and what to do instead.

Leadership
Mindset Transformation for Entrepreneurs
Close without Selling > AI + LINKEDIN + HUMAN
Daniel Ruke Dream Champion

Create space for them to give themselves permission to say yes. Strangers become Super Fans. Super Fans become Clients. You can’t close a stranger. You close a Super Fan.

Most people practice their pitch. Nobody practices knowing them. I’m going to change that today.

I’m teaching you the Sales Dance… the system that turns Strangers into Super Fans into Clients. We play a live game where you feel exactly what it takes to have someone genuinely want to know what you do. And then I show you how AI does the heavy lifting for every person you meet. Every person you want to meet.

From Broken to Profitable: Turning Life’s Hardest Moments into Leadership Power
Debi Lynn Certified Grief Educator

Have you ever woken up at 4am, heart pounding, staring at the ceiling…

…asking yourself, How am I supposed to lead when I can barely breathe?

Or maybe it sounds like:

“How do I keep my business alive when I feel like I’m falling apart?”

“What if they find out I’m not okay?”

If you've ever had a moment like that… you're not alone.

I lived that. Not once—but twice.

Presentation slides:

https://storage.googleapis.com/msgsndr/gZZKaITbDwfnRP2LCY1s/media/686d544b856566bfd7b570f1.pdf

From Successful to Significant - For Accomplished Women of Faith
Donna Londot Alignment Coach

In a world that celebrates hustle, comparison, and performance, many successful women still feel disconnected from the life and leadership they were truly created for. In this powerful and faith-centered talk, Donna Londot introduces women to the concept of their God-given genius — the unique way they were designed to think, lead, create, and influence.

Drawing from over 40 years of entrepreneurship, leadership, and mentoring, Donna shares how many women unknowingly build lives around expectations, pressure, and survival instead of alignment and purpose. Through practical insight, personal stories, and biblical encouragement, she helps women recognize the signs of misalignment and begin understanding the strengths, wiring, and calling already placed within them.

This talk is not about becoming someone else. It is about discovering who God already created you to be so you can lead with greater clarity, confidence, peace, and impact in your next season of life and business.

Business Education +1
Business Empowerment +13
The Five Little-Known Action Stoppers that are Destroying Your Business & What to DO About Them!
Dr Barnsley Brown President, Spirited Solutions
  • Discover the 5 little-known action stoppers that may be silently sabotaging your life and business
  • Learn why unfinished tasks keep showing up on your to-do list again and again
  • Identify the hidden patterns keeping you stuck, overwhelmed, and spinning your wheels
  • Understand what’s fueling procrastination around the actions that actually grow your business
  • Find out what will turn it all around for you so you can go from burned out to badass in business
Business Education +2
Business Mindset +6
Sustainable Success Starts With Alignment, Not More Effort
Dr. Anastasia Chopelas Founder of Healer's U.

More effort isn't the answer — alignment is. In this talk, Dr. Anastasia Chopelas bridges quantum physics and energy healing to explain why so many driven women feel chronically exhausted despite doing everything right. When your thoughts, words, feelings, and actions pull in different directions, no strategy will carry you far. Dr. Chopelas breaks down the science behind energy coherence and offers practical tools to bring your inner world into sync with your outer goals. Because true sustainable success isn't built on willpower — it's built on alignment. Walk away with a grounded, intelligent framework that honors both your logic and your intuition, and finally understand why alignment isn't a spiritual luxury — it's the foundation everything else is built on.

The Neuroscience of Mindset: Why Just Changing it Does Not Work, and What Does.
Ell Graniel Founder

You understand what mindset is, and you've probably already paid for workshops or coaching on how to change it. Yet, in as little as 3 days you find yourself back at the beginning, having the same thoughts (mindset) you know are holding you back AND not the truth you desire.

There is nothing wrong with you. You are not weak or lazy. And you certainly aren't spinning your wheels for nothing. The truth is, it's not about your mindset - it's about your lack of understanding in how the brain works so you can create MindFlow.

Today you'll learn how to create the sustainable shifts that bring the success you deserve. The success that has been waiting for you.

Health & Well-being Leadership +2
Mindset Wellness +43
The Entrepreneur’s Path to Sustainable Healing
Eva Vennari True Holistic Healer

The problem today is we stop our health journey too early thinking diagnosis and treatment are the end. We've normalized relief as the finish line, when for many its only the first step. The meaning of optimized health isn't being symptom-free or pegging out on energy all day long. It's knowing all the invisible factors that lead up to symptoms are being handled. We need a clear path to True Holistic Healing. Apply what I did to reverse all 30 of my chronic illnesses in this presentation.

Health & Well-being Leadership +2
Personal Development Spiritual Growth +25
Every-Day Resilience: Achieving the Impossible When Life Says You Can't
Janet Perez Eckles Award-Winning Author, Public Speaker

Success becomes unsustainable when we rely solely on circumstances to determine our strength, confidence, and peace of mind. In this powerful session, Janet Eckles shares how losing her sight at age 31, enduring the murder of her son, and facing seemingly impossible setbacks taught her a profound truth: resilience isn't reserved for crises—it's a daily practice that fuels sustainable success.

Attendees will discover practical strategies to build "Every-Day Resilience," manage adversity without burnout, maintain purpose during uncertainty, and lead with strength even when challenges arise. Through compelling storytelling and actionable insights, Janet will help entrepreneurs shift from merely surviving pressure to developing the inner resilience needed to thrive in business and life. Participants will leave equipped to create success that lasts because it is built on strength from within rather than circumstances around them.

Speak So People Act
Jeff Brandeis Jeff Brandeis

Most presentations don’t fail because the information is bad. They fail because the audience never fully connects to the message.

In this high-impact session, Jeff Brandeis reveals why audiences disengage within minutes and what top communicators do differently to hold attention, create emotional connection, and inspire action.

Attendees will learn practical strategies to transform presentations, webinars, meetings, and sales conversations into experiences that drive engagement, trust, and measurable results.

Participants will discover:

  • The biggest attention mistakes presenters make
  • How to structure presentations for influence, not information overload
  • Why engagement drives conversion and decision-making
  • Techniques to keep audiences mentally present
  • How to create presentations people remember and respond to

Ideal for leaders, sales professionals, entrepreneurs, and anyone who needs their message to create real impact.

Business Marketing +1
Marketing Client Attraction +10
3 Conversations Your Can't Afford to Avoid (In Business and Life)
LaQuincia Nichols

Ready to break the cycle of being overlooked, underpaid, and unheard?

Join LaQuincia Nichols—creator of the S.P.A.R.K. Framework and the voice behind “Unmute Your Power: From Chronic Undervaluing to Unapologetic Success”—for a high‑impact, no‑fluff 25‑minute session for professionals in business who are done paying the “nice” tax.

You’ll learn why chronic undervaluing isn’t your fault—but why changing it is your responsibility and a power move. You’ll walk away with mindset shifts and practical scripts to command higher rates, set fearless boundaries, and turn awkward conversations into real opportunities.

Rooted in lived experience—from boardroom burnout and silent frustration to unapologetic wins—LaQuincia’s approach helps you stop negotiating with your self‑worth and start leading out loud.

If you’re ready to go from silent to seen and turn conversations into game‑changing wins, this session is for you.

Protecting Your Energy as an Entrepreneur
Lola Oyafemi Messaging Strategist

Entrepreneurship can quietly become emotionally, mentally, and physically draining when business owners constantly operate in survival mode. In this presentation, Lola shares practical insights on how entrepreneurs can protect their energy while still growing and managing a business successfully.

The session explores the hidden ways burnout affects decision-making, creativity, communication, productivity, and business growth, especially for entrepreneurs balancing multiple responsibilities. Attendees will learn simple but effective ways to create healthier work rhythms, manage mental overload, set boundaries, reduce unnecessary pressure, and build a business without constantly running on exhaustion.

This presentation is designed to help entrepreneurs work with more clarity, sustainability, and peace while maintaining growth and ambition.

Turn Your Inner Voice into Income
Maggie Salter Psychic Medium and Intutive Coach

Your inner voice isn’t just guidance—it’s a powerful asset that shapes your income and impact. Learn how to recognize, trust, and refine your intuition so it becomes a reliable decision-making tool in your work or business. We’ll explore how aligning with your intuitive strengths opens new opportunities, attracts Ideal clients, and increases confidence in what you offer. This is a grounded, practical approach to turning intuition into real-world results.

Maggie's talk is interactive and experiential and can include readings for the some participants as time allows!

Your Business Is Running You. And You're About to Fix the Wrong Thing.
Matthew Sayles Founder, Stratus Business

The pricing. The bottleneck. The burnout.

Here's what almost no one will tell you: those aren't the problem.

They're symptoms of something one layer up — something you've never been asked to look at. And every month you spend fixing the symptom makes the real thing harder to see.

In this session, Matthew Sayles unpacks why capable founders keep solving the wrong problem, shares the client conversation that changed how he works, and gives you the single question that locates what's actually holding your business down — one you can ask yourself on Monday morning.

Business
Small Business Business Success +5
Internal Alignment: The Missing Link Between Success and Sustainable Living
Nicole Potter Internal Alignment Coach

A lot of people aren’t struggling because they lack strategy — they’re struggling because they’re building in a way that doesn’t actually match who they are.

So even when things are working, it still feels like pressure, pushing, and constantly trying to keep everything going.

This talk explores the gap between success & internal alignment, and why so many people are realizing that hustle culture is no longer sustainable long-term.

We’ll look at what happens when life, leadership, and business are built from external pressure instead of internal alignment, and how that disconnect quietly creates overwhelm and exhaustion.

This is about redefining success in a way that actually fits your life — where what you create becomes an extension of who you are, instead of something you constantly have to force, manage, or keep alive.

Because sustainable success doesn’t come from doing more. It comes from building in alignment with who you are.

Building a Business That Protects Your Joy
Nikki Cruise

Sustainable Systems, Strategy, and Alignment for Long-Term Success

Success should not cost you your peace, health, relationships, or the joy that inspired your vision in the first place.

In this powerful and practical session, international speaker and Kingdom Business Architect™ Nikki Cruise shares why sustainable success is not built through hustle alone, but through intentional structure, aligned strategy, and systems that support both growth and well-being.

You’ll discover how pressure and overextension silently drain creativity, clarity, and momentum, and why many entrepreneurs unknowingly build businesses that depend on exhaustion to survive.

Nikki will explore practical shifts that help leaders create healthier, more sustainable businesses through aligned systems, boundaries, and intentional growth strategies that protect both performance and personal well-being.

Because success that costs your joy is simply too expensive.

Business Leadership +1
Business Entrepreneurship +2
Success with Purpose
Patricia 'Trish' Hodges Spiritual Mentor, Podcaster, Author

Success with Purpose is an uplifting and thought‑provoking presentation for entrepreneurs who feel successful on paper but quietly drained, disconnected, or unfulfilled. In a world that celebrates hustle and constant achievement, this session invites leaders to pause and reconnect with the deeper “why” behind their work.

Through personal storytelling, practical reflection, and encouraging insight, Trish offers a fresh approach to success, one rooted in alignment, authenticity, inner clarity, and sustainable growth. Instead of chasing paths that exhaust them, attendees are encouraged to build from their God‑given strengths, values, and true purpose.

Entrepreneurs will leave inspired to pursue success that not only produces results, but also creates peace, fulfillment, and lasting impact.

5 Steps to a Fulfilling Career or Business
Full Caseload, Empty Tank: Building Your Practice Profits Ecosystem Beyond One-to-One Client Work
Sarah Czopek Business Coach for Therapists

Many clinicians, coaches, and other service providers build practices that look successful on paper: full caseload, steady referrals, high demand, and no breathing room. But a full calendar does not always equal a stable business, and too many solo and group practice owners find themselves exhausted, under-leveraged, and financially vulnerable despite doing excellent clinical work. Drawing from her own experience scaling a small group practice to million-dollar revenue with multi-six-figure profits, building diverse revenue streams, and generating an additional $41K beyond one-to-one sessions in just 11 weeks during a cash flow crunch, Sarah introduces the Practice Profits Ecosystem framework to help owners identify where their current model is leaking time, energy, and revenue and begin building a more sustainable path beyond the client hour.

The #1 Thing Keeping You from BIG Success
Shiraz Baboo Reality Interventionistâ„¢

This session helps entrepreneurs and coaches identify and rewrite the unconscious stories that are limiting their success. Through powerful mindset shifts and practical tools, attendees learn how to break through income ceilings, eliminate self-sabotage, and create sustainable business and life results.

Business Mindset
Wealth Manifestation +1
Built to Thrive: How Solopreneurs Get to Clarity and Clients Faster
Vicki James Founder & Solopreneur Mentor

Nobody handed you a roadmap when you started. So you figured it out as you went — and the gaps you didn't know existed started quietly costing you time, money, and momentum.

Most solopreneurs don't stall because their idea is bad. They stall because they're making foundational decisions alone, without a clear reference point — and without anyone who's already walked that terrain.

Vicki James, founder of Thrive Hive, shares real stories and hard-won lessons from a 21-step roadmap built from watching solopreneurs get stuck in the same places — and get unstuck when they stopped going it alone.

You'll leave knowing where your gaps are, what to address first, and what becomes possible when you have the right support at the right time.

Clarity and clients, sooner. That's what this session is about.

Business
Community Building Startup Support