Following up on our hugely-popular fall summit The Big Reset 2020, the TFD community is coming together again for a second all-day conference designed to transform our habits, mindsets, networks, and ways of building the futures we want. This time, we’re focused on all things career (professional & entrepreneurial) and professional development with Career Day at TFD. Whether you’re just starting out in your career, looking to change paths, thinking of starting your own project, or just want to be earning what you’re really worth, this all-day conference will give you the skills, tricks, and key habits you need to curate the career you’ve always wanted (no matter what income you might be working with).

We’re bringing back some of your favorite speakers and experts from around The Studio at TFD, and adding tons of new voices to share their insights and expertise on all things professional development.

Thank you to our sponsors for partnering with us on this event!

This ticket is non-refundable and we do not accept price adjustments.

What Your Ticket Gets You:

• Access to the full-day event, including more than 15 sessions and interactive components, all centered on building, transforming, or rebooting your career.

• Full access to video recordings of the Career Day sessions for 2 months following the event.

• A hands-on, downloadable and printable workbook with more than 50 pages of activities, lessons, and guides to continue your work from the conference and enhance your career-building skills.

• Access to the conference Slack, featuring dedicated networking spaces based on interests and industries.

• A virtual goodie bag full of freebies, discounts, and downloadables to use before, during, and after the event.

Reminders:

• This digital summit will take place from 10:00am - 6:00 pm (EST). Please make note of your time zone.

• And, in case you can't make it, all ticket holders will have access to the panels following the event!

• Additionally, you will receive an email closer to the event date inviting you to access the event online.

• If you're interested in joining as a panelist or sponsor, please email us at events@thefinancialdiet.com!

Full Agenda Just Announced!

Featured Speaker

Kimberly B. Cummings' Bio:

Kimberly B. Cummings is a career + leadership expert whose mission is to help women and people of color navigate the workplace, make more money and become industry leaders. Her personal and professional development company, Manifest Yourself, LLC, provides organizations with tailor-made solutions to hire, develop, engage, and retain women and people of color. . Her work has been featured on Forbes, MONEY Magazine, TeenVogue, Glassdoor, CNBC, Fox 5, and more. Kimberly is a graduate of Long Island University and received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Master of Science in Counseling. Her highly anticipated book, Next Move, Best Move: Transitioning Into a Career You'll Love, will be released in Spring 2021.

Featured Panelists:

More panelists can be found on the Career Day webpage!

Chelsea Fagan's Bio:

Chelsea Fagan is a writer and the founder of The Financial Diet. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and dog.

Lauren Ver Hage's Bio:

Lauren is the cofounder of The Financial Diet, and serves as its in-house graphic designer and art director. Since 2015, she’s cherished the opportunity that TFD has given her to create work that informs, educates, and delights our followers across video, social media, and print. Lauren is also the illustrator and designer behind Statement Cards. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, hiking, reading science fiction, and generally obsessing over her dog, Luna.

Paco de Leon's Bio:

Paco de Leon is the founder of The Hell Yeah Group, a boutique financial firm for creatives, freelancers, and the self-employed. She has worked as a small business consultant, financial planner, and wealth manager and is also an author, illustrator, and co-host of Refinery29’s Money Diaries podcast. Her work has been published or featured in places like The New York Times, The Cut, Business Insider, and Vice. She is the co-founder of the arts-based non profit organization, Allies in Arts. She publishes a weekly finance-oriented newsletter called The Nerdletter.

Kea Meyers Duggan's Bio:

Kea Meyers Duggan is an award-winning entrepreneur and recognized coach + speaker on overcoming fear in order to make a career pivot. She has worked with hundreds of driven professionals globally to help them manage their fears and stop doing things they hate by breaking down their vision into realistic steps they can take immediately. With training in transformational coaching and 20+ years of experience in creating and implementing marketing campaigns for companies like Intel and Sony Pictures Entertainment, Kea is widely regarded as a badass coach, mentor and speaker by senior marketing and HR leaders and CEOs. Her insights have been featured in Thrive Global, Elite Daily, Career Contessa and other digital platforms.

Emily Durham's Bio:

It’s a jungle out there and career lifestyle expert Emily Durham (aka “Emily The Recruiter”) has all the tools you need not only to survive, but to thrive! As a longtime career coach, recruiter and goal-setting guru, Emily is a one-woman success-building machine; creating digestible, informative, and entertaining content designed to turn navigating the often tricky and tumultuous waters of life and career advancement into smooth sailing. Through her popular and engaging Instagram,TikTok, YouTube channel, and her “The Straight Shooter Recruiter Podcast, Emily’s mission is to break down and demystify what it takes to succeed in the pursuit of professional and personal fulfillment and achievement.

Yanely Espinal's Bio:

Yanely Espinal was born and raised in a low-income family in Brooklyn, NY. She received a scholarship to attend college and later became a classroom teacher, but was buried in $20,000 of credit card debt. After two decades of school, she still can't believe that she never had a class about making smart money choices!

Now, she's on a mission to help millennials learn personal finance in a fun and engaging way. After becoming debt-free, Yanely combined her love for teaching with her passion for financial literacy, creating a unique YouTube channel for students and working professionals to engage with topics like credit cards and credit scores, budgeting, saving and investing for retirement. You can follow her on social media @missbehelpful or reach her directly at missbehelpful@gmail.com.

Brenna Harwell's Bio:

Brenna Harwell is a startup veteran with over 8 years of experience in HR, Recruiting, and Employer Branding. Along with tech industry experience, she's worked with groups like TOMS and FabFitFun to build Best In Class recruiting programming with a dedicated focus on equitable hiring and retention practices. She's taken teams from 5 employees to more than 700 and has historically filled roles with 66%+ BIPOC. Brenna writes about intentional company culture, career development, and financial feminism under a pseudonym for her own blog, and has been featured on Cultivitae, Rock Star Finance, The Financial Diet, and more.

Charnay Haynes's Bio:

Charnay has written 4,000+ resumes, has nearly 10 years of Talent Acquisition experience and has coached hundreds of professionals to help them land their dream job. She has built a following of 35,000+ on social media. Charnay has an expert understanding of what it takes to make your resume stand out from others and encourages every person to live the life they deserve. Find Charnay on Instagram @ResumeAddict!

Emily Liou's Bio:

Emily Liou is a career happiness coach and career expert at CultiVitae (www.cultivitae.com) that helps professionals land jobs they love via solution messages. She believes life is way too short to not wake up happy on Mondays. As a former recruiter and HR professional for Fortune 500 Companies and Silicon Valley startups, she knows exactly what allows professionals to stand out, get visible, and get hired. Emily’s career advice has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Business Insider, Fairygodboss, and The Muse. Through her career coaching programs and ecourses, Emily not only provides the strategies to make any career transition possible but also works from the inside out, allowing clients to build a positive self-image to conquer all of their ambitious goals.

Erin Lowry's Bio:

Erin Lowry is the author of Broke Millennial, Broke Millennial Takes On Investing and Broke Millennial Talks Money: Stories, Scripts and Advice to Navigate Awkward Financial Conversations. She’s written for The New York Times, Bloomberg and Cosmopolitan and been on The Rachael Ray Show, BBC, and CBS Sunday Morning.

Rosie McCarthy's Bio:

Rosie McCarthy is an ex-Corporate Recruiter and Human Resources professional turned online Career Coach for ambitious female professionals. Originally from New Zealand, Rosie has her Masters degree in International Human Resources from the Sorbonne University in Paris and 10 years of experience working for multinationals, tech startups, and Fortune 500 companies like L'Oreal and the Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy Group. You can find Rosie dishing out fresh, modern career advice that resonates on her Youtube channel, Instagram and LinkedIn.

Kelsea Olivia's Bio:

A visual storyteller with a passion for genuine connection, Kelsea Olivia, is a NYC-based, California-born, wild-hearted entrepreneur. Motivated by her lifelong dream to create beauty in the world, Kelsea and her women-led creative agency, East Olivia, harness their talents to conceive, design and build sustainable one-of-a-kind floral works.

Through ephemeral beauty in blooms, East Olivia fosters an intimate bond between the viewer and their work, creating tangible experiences for their clients. From large-scale installations at the Flatiron Building to defining event aesthetics at Create & Cultivate summits across the country, East Olivia executes impactful works of art and advertising that once viewed are not easily forgotten. Find Kelsea on Instagram @EastOlivia!

Jazmine Reed Clark's Bio:

Jazmine Reed-Clark is a Dallas-based content creator, career wellness coach, and mental health advocate focused on helping millennial women feel secure at work, inspired at home, and confident in their skin. She offers 1:1 coaching, job hunter packages, and hosts the anti-girlboss podcast, Office Politics. Reed-Clark has been featured in The Financial Diet, Refinery29, Cupcakes & Cashmere, and The Everygirl.

Full session schedule and talent lineup coming soon!

In addition to all of the panels, keynotes, and interactive workshops, this conference will also feature a community-based Slack hub with various networking rooms for different needs, interests, and industries, where you can continue your professional network-building. Each attendee will also receive an over 50-page downloadable (and printable!) workbook full of everything you need to keep your career development going well beyond the end of the conference.

If you have been looking to take your career in your hands and shape it into the future you want to work in every day, this conference is a must-attend. We’ll see you there, ready to get to work!

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