Not your average business conference…
Trailblazing for tomorrow!
A Midwest Movement for Women Building Businesses with Sisterhood, Soul & Strategy
Sister Circle Summit isn’t just another business conference—it’s a movement of Midwest female founders, dreamers, and doers gathering to climb new heights together and rewrite the rules of entrepreneurship!
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What is Sister Circle Summit?
Whether you’re just beginning your business journey or scaling new peaks, Sister Circle Summit experience is designed to help you reconnect to your why, refine your strategy, and rise with the support of powerhouse small business sisters who get it. With three ticket options you can join us just for Basecamp, climb higher as a Trailblazer, or enjoy the Peak experience with a Summit VIP ticket, you’ll be surrounded by visionary women who are forging their futures with intention.
Join us at the scenic Stoney Creek in Onalaska, Wisconsin for two transformational days of sisterhood, soul and strategy to experience the best blend of personal & professional growth! Learn from trailblazing business leaders, engage in both strategy focused and soul-fueled workshops, enjoy activation & collaborative time to implement, and ultimately and walk away with tangible tools to grow, lead, and thrive in 2026.
This is more than your average business conference—it’s where visionary Midwest small business sisters gather, grow, and collaborate to blaze new trails, build with soul, and trailblaze for tomorrow, together!
Who Is Summit For?
- You’re a female small business owner looking for your next level expansion of your BIG dreams!
- You’re looking for other growth minded women in business to connect + collaborate with
- You need to fill up your cup and get inspired to dream big again
- You want to leave with tangible takeaways you can implement in your business immediately
- You’re ready to invest in yourself & your business vision!
Hotel Accommodations
We’re thrilled to welcome you to Sister Circle Summit 2026! For your convenience, we’ve secured special rates at our Summit venue, Stoney Creek Hotel in Onalaska. Enjoy the cozy woods of Wisconsin & beautiful views of the Bluffs!
Use Group code SUMMIT26 at checkout.
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Schedule & Speakers
Let’s break it down…
Schedule & Speakers
The Soul Session: Capacity Before Strategy
The Soul Session is an immersive leadership experience designed for female entrepreneurs who are carrying vision, responsibility, and momentum—and want to do it sustainably.
Trailblazing isn’t just about pushing forward. It’s about knowing when to pause, regulate, and reconnect so you can hold what you’re building without burning out.
Through subconscious work, nervous system regulation, ritual, and embodied movement, this session helps you step out of survival mode and back into grounded leadership. You’ll move, reflect, release, and integrate—so clarity doesn’t just live in your head, it lives in your body.
This is where ambition meets capacity.
Where self-care + awareness becomes strategy.
Where soul supports the summit.
Why the Soul Session is essential for women building businesses:
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Regulated leaders make clearer decisions
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Burnout isn’t a strategy problem—it’s a capacity problem
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Your nervous system determines how much growth you can hold
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You can’t think your way out of fear—embodiment creates real shifts
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Sustainable success requires an integrated leader, not just a smart one
This is why Sister Circle Summit is different.
This session is for the woman who knows that the next level of her business doesn’t require more hustle—it requires more presence.
For the trailblazer who wants to build boldly and take care of herself along the way.
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Manifest, Disrupt + Build: Becca Mattie & Stephanie Ross
Clarify what you’re calling in, release what no longer fits, and reconnect to the vision you’re here to build. -
Rest, Ritual & Remembering = Resistance: Cailee Rae
Reclaim rest as a leadership practice and interrupt the patterns that keep you leading from depletion. -
Walking Beside Fear Embodiment: Jamie Dorn
Learn how to move with fear instead of letting it drive your decisions. -
Primal Movement Embodiment: Vanessa Kavulish
Release stored tension and reconnect to instinct, confidence, and grounded presence. -
Soul-preneur Integration: Stephanie Ross
Anchor the experience so what you access here moves with you into your business and life.
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The Intimate Mastermind Dinner
This VIP experience is where conversations slow down, walls come down, and real connection happens. It’s an intimate, curated space for women who want more than surface-level networking, but who crave depth, honesty, and perspective from others walking a similar path.
Around the table, you’ll find:
✨ candid conversations you don’t have in big rooms
✨ shared wisdom from women who are building and leading
✨ clarity that comes from being seen, heard, and challenged
✨ a sense of belonging that lingers long after the night ends
Led by our Mastermind Dinner Sponsor, Cat Roten. Cat brings her experience of leading Immersive Retreats & Masterminds to create a unique, connecting experience where strategy is shared over intentional conversations. This is where sisterhood becomes tangible.
This VIP ONLY experience is intentionally designed like a high-level mastermind, where the environment, the people, and the conversations are curated on purpose. It’s for women who know that proximity and perspective are catalysts for growth.
This is why Sister Circle Summit is different.
Western Disco Dreams Pre-Party
We believe fun is part of the strategy...
And you don’t have to leave the woods of small town Wisconsin to have an incredibly intentional experience that fuels not just your strategy, but your soul + sisterhood too!
The Western Disco Dreams Pre-Party isn’t just a fun kickoff—it’s a core value in action. At Sister Circle, we know that when women feel relaxed, seen, and joyful, real connection happens. And authentic connection changes everything.
This Pre-Party is where the Summit fun truly begins. A western disco twist set in the woods of Wisconsin, this night is all about celebrating trailblazing female small business owners of the Midwest who are building businesses their own way.
Because we wholeheartedly believe you don’t have to fly across the country to have a transformational experience. Some of the most powerful rooms are built right here—in small towns, in the Midwest, surrounded by woods + cornfields with women who know how to work hard, dream big, and have a lot of fun along the way.
This isn’t your typical business conference kickoff. It’s sparkle and boots. Disco balls and dare I say, line dancing? Intentional connection wrapped in laughter, movement, and ease—because real sisterhood is built when you feel comfortable enough to be yourself.
We start with fun ON PURPOSE.
You don’t have to leave the Midwest to experience transformation!
This is a movement—and it starts right here at Sister Circle Summit!
If this is your vibe? We want you there!
All that Sisterhood + Soul before we even begin…
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What You’ll Experience Throughout the Day:
- Intentional Connection From the Start
We begin by grounding into the room, connecting with one another, and expanding our vision for what’s possible—setting the tone for a day built on sisterhood and shared momentum. - Main Stage Keynotes That Focus on Sustainable Growth & Trailblazing Your Sales
Learn how to scale in ways that honor your capacity, ambition, and real life—so growth supports you, not drains you. Trailblaze your marketing with strategy so you can sell more with soul by building a sales ecosystem that feels aligned, sustainable, and effective. - Trailblazer Talks
Short, powerful talks from women who are living the work—covering mindset, ambition, change, mission-led business, and choosing new paths when what worked no longer does. - Campfire Chats
Built-in, intentional connection time to discuss what you just heard and want to activate—because ideas come to life in conversation, not just note-taking. - Powered by Sisterhood Panel
Real Sister Circle members share what it looks like to build businesses in community—and how sisterhood has impacted their confidence, decisions, and growth. - Midwest Movers & Shakers Panel
A powerful conversation with women doing big things in small towns across the Midwest—proof that you don’t have to leave home to build something meaningful and impactful. - Interactive Experiences
From a scavenger hunt to hands-on accountability activities, you’ll actively participate—because engagement creates retention. - Integration & Activation
You won’t leave overwhelmed. You’ll leave anchored—with clear insights, accountability, and next steps you can actually implement.
This is a day designed to fuel your ambition, expand your capacity, and remind you that you don’t have to trailblaze alone.
Introducing Your Host, Stephanie Ross
Stephanie Ross is a seasoned business educator, enthusiastic community leader, empowering speaker and author dedicated to helping female entrepreneurs build thriving, soul-driven businesses.
As a Midwest native with more than a decade of hands-on experience, she founded her first business at just 20 years old, scaling it into a successful six-figure business.
Throughout her entrepreneurial journey, Stephanie encountered significant obstacles, yet these challenges inspired her to pivot and create Small Business Sister Circle®—a community focused on sisterhood, soul, and strategy where women have fun building
profitable, sustainable, and scalable businesses.
Through her podcast, speaking, and book, Seasons of a Soul-preneur, Stephanie shares authentic conversations and practical wisdom, empowering women to align their business with their deeper purpose. Awarded the 2024 7 Rivers Rising Star Under 40 & 2025 Small Business Champion of her city, Stephanie cares deeply about cultivating
powerful community experiences that leave you feeling motivated and inspired to design a life you truly love.
Main Stage Keynote Speakers
Bre Cain
Bre is the Founder of ICON & Lightning, a remote team agency where she handmatches elite virtual assistants into founder-led businesses and provides CEO advisory support as they scale. She built her company to nearly $2M in cash collected in just three years as a mom of three, working from her four-year-old’s bedroom by investing in Team early and treating it as her biggest growth lever. She’s trained nearly 500 VAs in EQ, tech skills, and leadership identity, and has helped hundreds of Founders build Strategic Teams that actually grow their businesses instead of just checking boxes.
Jillian Murphy
Jillian Murphy is a highly sought after sales and business mentor who has mastered the art of sales and scaling not only her own business, but has helped hundreds of other online business owners as well. With over 20 years of business experience in sales/marketing and growing multiple businesses of her own, she has now made it her mission to help online business owners gain REAL results in sales and messaging. Sales is truly the oxygen of your business and the most important skill any business owner can acquire. She has been able to grow her own business from 0 to 6 figures in 1 year; hit her first 6 figure month in 18 months and just under a half million by year 2. All without any fancy systems, ads, or even a website. It was all done with the art of communication and the art of sales!
Powered by Sisterhood Panel is a heartfelt panel featuring Sister Circle members sharing what it truly means to build a business in community. These women will speak to the authentic connection and collective support that come from not doing it alone—and how sisterhood, soul, and strategy has directly shaped their confidence, decisions, and growth. This conversation is a reminder that community isn’t just a bonus in business—it’s the catalyst.
Chris Sander, Cedar Rapids Chapter Leader & Founder of Flourish Financial Coaching
Asia Jacobs, Speaker & Founder of Small Town Beauty by Asia
Becca Mattie, Speaker & Founder of Grow Beyond Collective
Michelle Egbert, Author, Speaker, & Founder of Framework for Success
Cailee Rae Hoerter, Speaker & Founder of Deep by Cailee Rae
Trailblazer Talks are short 10 minute hits of inspiration + tangible takeaways! These are powerful talks from women who are living the work—covering mindset, ambition, change, mission-led business, and choosing new paths when what worked no longer does
Stefanie Dingbaum: Mindset, Manifesting & Moving Forward
Jodi Vandenberg-Daves: Stop Apologizing for Your Ambition
Asia Jacobs: Small Town, Big Mission
Cheryl Killilea: Choosing a New Trail, The Courage to Change What Isn’t Working
Midwest Movers & Shakers Panel featuring small business sisters who are building bold, impactful businesses right where they are. These women are proof that you don’t have to leave your small town to make big BOLD moves—you just need vision, grit, and the right support. Join us for real conversations about ambition, community, and what it actually looks like to grow something meaningful in the Midwest.
Krystle Frey, Founder of Pivot Ball Change Podcast Production Company out of Wisconsin
Bri Nicholson, Founder of Avery McCoy Collection and Simply Made Market out of Iowa
Bre Cain, Founder of ICON & Lightning Virtual Assistant Agency & VA Fest out of Minnesota
Lauren Najar, Sales + Visibility Strategist & Founder of Growth & Connect out of Indiana/Illinois
Choose Your Trail…
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