Celebrating Powerhouse Women salutes and recognizes women who are making an impact, whether it’s in business, philanthropy, public service, or elsewhere.
Tia Cummings/925 Consulting
925 Consulting is a boutique marketing consultancy offering fractional CMO services to Black-owned businesses across a variety of industries.
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Hosted by Amanda Pearch
Melissa Del Toro International is a media company that empowers people with big goals dreams to make them a reality.
Melissa Del Toro Voiceover, a branch of Melissa Del Toro International, provides broadcast quality voiceover services that give a compelling and relatable performance to engage your listeners and viewers. Services include audiobooks, podcast intros/outros, corporate narration, explainer videos and character voices. 
Melissa Del Toro International is also the producer and chief narrator of The Untold Tales short story, sci-fi podcast.
Melissa Del Toro Schaffner is an American Voice Actor and co-creator/producer/narrator of The Untold Tales Podcast – a short story sci-fi audio drama.
In addition to being in the Mom after 40 club, she wears multiple hats including international best selling author, accomplished Accountability Coach, and creator/ illustrator of the Minority Girl Empowerment Coloring Book “Careers for Little Sisters” (available in English and Spanish).
Melissa was also a contestant on the nationally televised game show “Who Wants to Be A Millionaire” and was an Electrical Engineer and a Project Manager before she took the big leap into her dream of business ownership.
Her current mission to inspire one million women to live the life of their dreams.
Connect with Melissa on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Conscious Gear is an outdoor gear and apparel startup specializing in designs for the plus-size, big & tall community. Our initial offering is the VestaPak, a hydration pack designed for bigger, providing safe hydration along with long-lasting comfort and durability with a snug fit, so the pack doesn’t move around when running or cycling. 
The pack is made with performance textiles and available in an array of vibrant colors.
Charlotte Young Bowens, founder of Conscious Gear a company she started after stumbling into a love of ultramarathons, triathlons and various endurance sports, By profession, she’s been in university research administration and has a dual-degreed in Math & Biochemistry.
She’s proudly queer-identified with she/they as her preferred pronouns. She’s on a mission to get more people of color as well as bigger-bodied people to explore the great outdoors because she’s personally benefitted with increased physical fitness including an over one hundred pound weight loss and she credits trail running to pulling her out of a deep depression with improved overall mental health.
Bigger bodies deserve to be the center of design in the outdoor gear and apparel industry.
Connect with Charlotte on LinkedIn and follow Conscious Gear on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
