Meet Your Host
Leah Kearns
Leah Kearns is the founder of enlightenly, a values-led tech platform helping solopreneurs turn their wisdom into income with done-for-you shopfronts, AI marketing assistants, and simplified digital systems. As a neurodivergent CEO, consultant, and creator, Leah blends strategy, spirit, and systems to support coaches, creatives, and consultants in building businesses that feel aligned, easeful, and genuinely impactful.
With a background in executive operations and energetic business leadership, Leah has guided hundreds of heart-led entrepreneurs to step into their version of success—without burning out or masking their true selves. She brings a mix of deep empathy, practical brilliance, and innovative tech to help others build businesses that work with their brain, not against it.
Through her work, Leah champions inclusion, transformation, and self-led marketing, offering real tools (like her AI Brand Assistant, Verah™) to lighten the mental load and amplify purpose-driven voices.
enlightenly | @enlightenlyco
Meet Your Speakers
Polly Pollock
Polly Pollock is a marketing and sales coach for ADHD entrepreneurs, focused on leveraging ADHD traits as business advantages.
In Polly’s session you’ll hear her journey from tarot reading and reiki therapy to building successful businesses, ultimately refining her niche to support neurodiverse clients.
She’ll explain how qualities often seen as disadvantages, like over-communication and emotional sensitivity, can be used as strengths in your marketing. The session includes practical marketing strategies, and the all important “different way” for measuring marketing success.
Michelle Whitehead
In this session, you’ll hear about how relational AI can transform your marketing strategies by shifting from a transactional approach to a more personalised, supportive partnership.
Michelle will explain about Companion-focused AI can help you recognise and gently shift self-sabotage patterns, address your unique mindset needs, and provide compassionate support that evolves with you. Especially for your marketing.
The practical takeaways will offer you actionable strategies to engage with AI as an active thinking partner, enabling you to reconnect with your values and vision while navigating the challenges of solopreneurship.
Join Michelle as she shares her innovative approach to “marketing with a difference,” empowering you to bring your best self to your work and create meaningful connections in your marketing efforts. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to leverage AI in a way that truly supports you!
@MichelleWhiteheadAU
Yo Natasha Berta
In this session, Natasha Berta affectionately known as “Yo,” will share her insights on the incredible potential of word-of-mouth marketing.
You’ll hear about the importance of word-of-mouth referrals for solopreneurs, and why they’re essential for growing your business. Yo will explain how to tap into your personal motivations and leverage the natural connections you already have to cultivate a thriving referral network.
The practical takeaways from this session will offer you actionable strategies to dedicate time to word-of-mouth marketing, engage in meaningful client connections, and build collaborative partnerships with other professionals. You’ll also learn how to manage your energy effectively to enhance your interactions and attract more referrals.
Join Yo for this unique approach to “marketing with a difference” and discover how to transform your business through the power of word-of-mouth!
Dana Johnson
In Dana’s session, you’ll hear about how Pinterest can transform your marketing strategy into a low-energy, lead-generating powerhouse. Dana, a Pinterest strategist for creative solopreneurs and neurodivergent business owners, will explain how to leverage Pinterest as a visual search engine rather than a social media platform.
The practical takeaways will offer you actionable insights on repurposing existing content, creating effective pins, and automating your marketing efforts to save time and energy.
Join Dana to discover a marketing approach that not only supports your creative vision but also allows you to grow your business sustainably and effortlessly! Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from a specialist in “marketing with a difference” for neurodiverse and creative entrepreneurs.
Stasha Washburn
Author of Bloody Brilliant Business and founder of The Period Coaching School Stasha Washburn, will guide us through the empowering practice of syncing your marketing with your menstrual cycle.
She’ll break down how each phase of your cycle holds unique strengths that can support visibility, content creation, and authentic connection with your audience. You’ll hear how to stop fighting your energy levels and instead use them as a blueprint for sustainable, cycle-informed marketing.
This session is especially powerful for neurodivergent entrepreneurs who find traditional marketing exhausting or misaligned.
You’ll walk away with a fresh lens on “consistency,” practical tools to align your launches with your natural rhythm, and permission to do marketing your way.
Join Stasha for a refreshing take on body-first business strategy, and discover why marketing with your cycle is not only possible, it’s bloody brilliant.
Mel Ryan
Mel Ryan is a life coach, best-selling author, and soulful mentor known for helping people come home to themselves. In this deeply resonant session, Mel shares what happens when you move from self-criticism and shutdown into self-acceptance and aligned expression—especially in how you market your work.
In From Sabotage to Self-Love, Mel invites you into a compassionate reframe of marketing. No more pressure to push, perform, or pretend. Instead, you’ll explore how to soften into visibility in a way that honours your nervous system, aligns with your voice, and builds trust with your audience—without abandoning yourself.
This session is especially nourishing for neurodivergent solopreneurs who’ve felt frozen by visibility, overwhelmed by advice, or stuck in comparison spirals. Mel offers tools for working with your resistance instead of against it—and opens a path to authentic marketing that flows from who you really are.
Join Mel for this gentle and transformative exploration of marketing as an act of self-love—and begin to unhook from sabotage and embrace being seen on your own terms.
Aisle For All
In this powerful conversation, Sarandon Smith and Becca Mai – 2-parts of the amazing organisation “Aisle for All” bring their lived and professional experience to the forefront as they explore why inclusive marketing isn’t just a nice-to-have. It’s a non-negotiable.
Together, they’ll unpack how traditional marketing practices often exclude people with disability, chronic illness, and other intersecting identities, and how businesses can shift toward strategies that genuinely welcome everyone. Through thoughtful discussion and real-world examples, they’ll share what’s working, what needs to change, and what it looks like to centre humanity in every marketing decision.
For solopreneurs who want their business to reflect their values but feel overwhelmed by rigid, one-size-fits-all marketing advice, this session offers an inspiring reframe. You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of the opportunity cost of exclusion—and practical ways to start making your own marketing more accessible, collaborative, and authentically you.
Join Sarandon and Becca for this eye-opening panel on why alternative marketing isn’t just more inclusive—it’s more effective.
Zoe Plumley
Zoe Plumley is a powerhouse of resilience, impact, and unapologetic inclusion. As Managing Director of L&L Specialist Services Ltd and Founding Director of Courage, Fortitude and Inclusion CIC, Zoe blends deep lived experience with professional expertise to reshape how we think about success, visibility, and sustainability—especially for those navigating disability, chronic illness, and neurodivergence.
In this session, Zoe shares what it really takes to build and scale your marketing without burning out or flaring up. Through personal storytelling and practical strategy, you’ll learn how she’s turned systems that often exclude into platforms for advocacy, accessibility, and agency. From being told she might never walk again to building award-nominated businesses, Zoe’s path challenges every “no” with courage—and clarity.
For neurodivergent solopreneurs navigating capacity limits, inconsistent energy, or workplace exclusion, Zoe offers both validation and vision. You’ll walk away with real strategies to grow in alignment with your body, your values, and your impact goals.
Join Zoe for an unfiltered, energizing conversation on reclaiming visibility, redefining professionalism, and rewriting what thriving actually looks like.
Alan Kearns
Alan Kearns is a seasoned tech lead, systems thinker, and the quiet force behind enlightenly.co. But more than that, he’s the deeply attuned partner of summit founder Leah Kearns, and someone who’s walked the path of learning how to show up in a supportive, grounded way for a neurodivergent entrepreneur building a business with heart.
In this thoughtful and down-to-earth session, Alan shares his insights on what true support can look like. From partners, team members, or even friends. For those navigating marketing from a neurodivergent perspective. He offers simple ways to co-create systems that honour sensitivity, protect energy, and nurture focus without controlling the process. For neurodivergent solopreneurs who’ve struggled to articulate what they need, or who feel isolated in the marketing process, this session offers language, validation, and practical ways to build safe, sustaining support.
Join Alan for a powerful reminder that you’re not meant to do this alone, and discover what’s possible when partnership is built on presence, patience, and purpose.
Leah Kearns
AI tools can be incredible allies for solopreneurs, speeding up content creation, organising your ideas, and helping you stay consistent.
But if you’ve ever felt like the more you use AI, the more your marketing starts to feel… flat, generic, or just not you. You’re not alone.
In this practical and eye-opening session, enlightenly founder Leah Kearns will help you identify and avoid the common pitfalls that neurodiverse creators face when using AI for content and branding.
You’ll leave with a new lens on how to work with AI on your terms. And with a creation method you can use again and again to keep your message clear, connected, and genuinely you.