VALLEY WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION (VWA) LANGLEY
Women Helping Women Succeed YOU'RE INVITED TO ATTEND OUR NEXT LUNCHEONPast Speakers
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Karen Pedersen
Crystal Clear Laughter & Hypnosis
Business Success and your Chakras – Are your Business Chakras balanced?
Our theme for this season is “Seed – Cultivate – Bloom – Flourish”. In keeping with our theme, in this session, we will discuss:
- How do the seven human chakras relate to your business and personal success.
- Assess your seven chakras and discover where you may need a more energetic balance in your business, professional or personal life.
- Be guided through meditation to help you align and integrate your chakra energy for perfect flow and success. Ignite your entrepreneurial spirit!
About Karen Pedersen:
Stress Management Coach and Laughter Leader
As a Coach, Clinical Hypnotherapist and Laughter Yoga Leader, Karen is passionate about helping her clients renew and restore their health and happiness in all aspects of life and manage stress to create powerful results with clarity. She helps people manage and embrace change, fulfill their potential, accomplish goals, execute strategies, enhance their performance, and feel confident. Her joyful outlook, enthusiasm, and high energy are inspiring.
For the past 30 years, Karen has participated in and coached individuals and teams both in business and personal development settings. She is a team player and dynamic team leader. She worked in the financial services industry for 28 years, specializing in many retail leadership roles, as well as trainer, coach and facilitator of learning programs.
Karen@crystalclearhypnosis.com
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
TRISH KIMBLE
Talk Title
When What Used to Fit No Longer Does
The Space Between Then and Next
Description
There comes a point for many women when what once fit, whether a role, a routine, or even an identity, simply doesn’t anymore. In this talk, I share parts of my own journey from corporate life to entrepreneurship and what helped me navigate change with more clarity and confidence. We’ll talk about those in-between moments we often rush past or resist, and why they can actually be the most powerful place to pause, reflect, and reset. It’s an honest, encouraging conversation about letting go of what no longer fits and stepping forward into what’s next with confidence and purpose.
TRISH KIMBLE – BIO
Trish Kimble has spent over 40 years turning chaos into competence, starting with her career in government, where she mastered the ability to stay calm, organized, and unruffled even when everyone else was decidedly not.
In 2019, she left the public sector and reinvented herself as an entrepreneur—just in time for a global pandemic. (Her timing is impeccable.) With the world upside down, Trish built Blank Slate Enterprises from scratch and quickly became the go-to right-hand for CEOs who needed someone calm, competent, and able to find documents they swore they saved “right there.”
Along the way, life handed her enough plot twists to fill a Netflix drama. These experiences helped her build what she lovingly calls her “wall of resilience” – and inspired her to help others channel their inner invincibility instead of their inner meltdown.
Today, Trish is the creator of Invincible VA®, Ageless Thriving™, and the CEO Mindset Matrix™, empowering professionals, solopreneurs, and women 55+ to stop running on overwhelm and start running their lives like the CEOs they actually are.
Her message is simple:
If she can build an empire during a pandemic armed with nothing but a laptop, grit, and caffeine, you can absolutely handle whatever’s on your plate.
Audiences leave laughing, learning, and feeling about 20% more unstoppable.
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Ronda Calder Dickson:
Caldson Financial
Licensed Mortgage Consultant|Financial Consultant
Behind Every Confident Woman Is This One Decision
Confidence isn’t something you wake up with. It’s something you build.
As women entrepreneurs, we make bold decisions every day. We launch. We pivot. We lead. We carry responsibility for our businesses, our families, and often our communities.
But there’s one decision that quietly determines how confidently we show up in every room….
Ronda Calder Dickson is a licensed Mortgage Consultant and Financial Professional with over two decades of experience in personal, business, and real estate finance. I am passionate about walking alongside families and business owners, offering education, clarity, and thoughtful guidance so they can make confident decisions. My approach is rooted in trust, transparency, and long-term relationships that build lasting financial strength.
Wednesday, February 18, 2016
Featured Speaker: Kim Darcey, Finding Your Fit
Kim Darcey is the founder and partner of SKY Fitness, where she is also a fitness trainer.
Kim has volunteered in a number of roles, including Victim Services Worker, the Tri-Cities Local Immigration Partnership, the Coquitlam Multicultural Advisory Committee, and she currently serves on the Board of Directors at Progressive Housing Society.
Kim’s earlier career began in the UK working in the transport and aircraft services department for a global enterprise, followed by work in the Netherlands as a Project Manager and Expatriate Liaison supporting international businesses and families. She has also owned a dance school and promotion agency in Europe.
Since moving to Canada, Kim has worked as a business consultant specializing in Canadian immigration, recruitment, and business development.
Kim is a certified trainer and holds both an MSc and an MBA in International Business and Management.
Wednesday, January 21, 2016
Featured Speaker: Tanya Cameron
From Stuck to Unstoppable – How Understanding Your Brain Builds Confidence, Clarity, and Momentum
Many smart, capable women find themselves overwhelmed, stuck, or second-guessing themselves — especially in midlife, when responsibilities grow and our brains are pulled in every direction.
In this inspiring and deeply relatable talk, ADHD & Executive Function Coach Tanya Cameron shares her late-in-life ADHD journey and the surprising brain-based patterns that affect confidence, focus, follow-through, and everyday decision-making.
ADHD or not — if you’ve got a busy brain and a big heart, this is for you.
You’ll learn why certain tasks feel harder than they “should,” how your hidden strengths can become leadership superpowers, and simple strategies you can use immediately to reduce overwhelm and create steady momentum.
This session blends story, science, humour, and hands-on learning, leaving you feeling seen, supported, and empowered with tools you can put into action right away.
Theme Connection
Love yourself as you are, laugh at the relatable moments, feel inspired by the journey, and walk away empowered to move forward with clarity and confidence.
Tanya Cameron is a Certified ADHD & Executive Function Life Coach and the founder of ADHD Inspired in the Tri-Cities, BC. After discovering her own ADHD at 51, she became passionate about helping adults and entrepreneurs understand how their unique brains work — so they can move past procrastination, overwhelm, and self-doubt, and move forward with calm, clear momentum.
Wednesday, November 19th, 2025
Alma Tarelli
Alma Tarelli is a Money Mindset Mentor, Energetic Wealth Strategist, and former CRA accountant with over 23 years of experience in the financial sector. Today, she empowers women entrepreneurs to rewrite their money stories, dissolve subconscious scarcity blocks, and activate soul-aligned abundance through a unique blend of strategy, energetics, and identity work.
After navigating her own transformational journey from financial fear to embodied confidence, Alma now guides others to build a new relationship with money—one rooted in self-worth, ease, and feminine flow. She is the author of Gratitude Is the Way chapter and the creator of the Money Blocks Quiz and Activate Abundance book in Amazon
Alma is passionate about helping women rise—especially during times of transition—by reconnecting them to their voice, power, and purpose.
Learn more at www.almatarelli.com
