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Date and Time
Tuesday May 19, 2026
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM CDT
Tuesday, May 19
11am-1pm
Location
Riverside Receptions
35 N. River Lane
Geneva
Fees/Admission
$30 Members
$35 Non-Members
Website
Contact Information
Robyn Chione
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Description
Topic: Work & Boundaries
Jamie Saam is a small business owner, marketing strategist, and passionate community leader based in the Fox Valley. She is the co-founder of Start Something Studio, a collaborative space dedicated to helping women entrepreneurs grow their businesses with clarity, confidence, and practical strategy.
Jamie also owns her family business Bulldog Plumbing Inc., where she leads marketing, operations, and business development, giving her firsthand experience in balancing growth, leadership, and real-life demands. They just celebrated 15 years in business this April.
With a background in public service as a former Batavia alderman and former Executive Director of Batavia MainStreet, Jamie brings a deep commitment to supporting local businesses and building strong communities. She is an active leader in the Kiwanis Club of Batavia Geneva, and serves in a division leadership role, continuing her passion for service and impact.
Jamie is known for her honest, approachable style and her ability to turn overwhelm into actionable plans. Through her work, she empowers women to create sustainable businesses by setting clear priorities, building systems that support their lives, and, most importantly, establishing boundaries that protect their time,
energy, and growth.
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Alissa Crouse, Rooted Elevation Wellness
Topic: People Pleasing
Alissa Crouse is the founder of Rooted Elevation Wellness, a massage therapy practice in Geneva, Illinois. She is passionate about helping people restore balance in both body and mind through therapeutic bodywork and mindfulness-based practices. Through her online work, she also helps people move beyond burnout, release patterns of people-pleasing, and rediscover their authentic voice. Alissa serves on the board of Second Act, Scene 2, a nonprofit dedicated to mental health and suicide prevention."
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Yewande Banire, Serene Infusion & Wellness Lounge
Topic: How your gut & hormones shift in midlife and what to do about it
Yewande Banire is a Family Nurse Practitioner, founder of Serene Infusion & Wellness Lounge, and women’s health advocate who has made it her mission to close the gap between what medicine offers women and what women actually need. Based in St. Charles, IL, she specializes in perimenopause, hormonal balance, and metabolic health translating complex science into real solutions for women who are tired of being told everything looks fine.
With a background in biochemistry and years of clinical practice, she brings a rare depth to women’s hormonal health connecting the dots between lab values, lifestyle, and lived experience
in ways that finally make sense.
As a speaker, Yewande breaks down complex health topics with warmth, authority, and zero jargon partnering with organizations and women’s communities who believe midlife women deserve real answers. Her work empowers women to finally understand their bodies and reclaim their health on their own terms.
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Sara Emmerson, Sara Emmerson Coaching
Topic: Time Management
Sara Emmerson is a professional Life & Business Coach who helps women get clear, trust themselves, and take their next right step .... even when it feels uncomfortable.
With over 20 years of experience as a business owner and coach, Sara has a gift for helping people cut through the noise, quiet the overthinking, and move forward with confidence. She creates spaces where business owners feel seen, challenged, and supported, because she knows that real growth doesn’t come from having it all figured out, it comes from being willing to take the risk anyway.
Sara leads coaching programs and masterminds for individuals and organizations and is passionate about helping women build lives and businesses that feel aligned, and that they actually enjoy,
not ones that just look good on paper.
She lives in the Geneva area with her family and loves being part of the Geneva Chamber and the community of business owners who are growing, stretching, and going for it.
