Lash Fary is the Hollywood Gift Guru and Founder of Distinctive Assets. For the 23rd year Distinctive Assets will deliver its “Everyone Wins” Nominee Gift Bags, worth over $200,000 each, to 25 top acting and directing Oscars nominees. Distinctive Assets has teamed up with Bright Harbor, a disaster recovery service that helps survivors navigate insurance, government assistance and vetting vendors for remediation. Each nominee is getting a one-year subscription in addition to 10 one-year memberships that they can freely regift to friends, family and even fans who perhaps lost their homes in the LA fires. For more information visit www.distinctiveassets.com.
Sam Hoss is an Independent Financial Advisor and wealth manager of his independently owned and operated Hoss Financial, Inc. and as an Investment Advisor Representative with Foundations Investment Advisors, LLC. Sam Hoss focuses on the needs of successful professionals, high net-worth individuals, business owners and retirees. Sam focuses on estate, retirement and business planning. Honesty, empathy, hard work, a solid education and a passion to truly serve his clients are some of the principles Sam follows every day as the rule of ethical conduct. He is also the author of “Simple Strategies to Reduce Estate & Income Taxes”. Visit hossfinancial.com to learn more.
Sisters Natalie Elliott Handy and J.J. Elliott Hill are caregivers for their mom, a CVS Specialty patient with Parkinson’s disease. The sisters will highlight how a caregiver advocate sometimes needs an advocate, which they learned firsthand when a CVS Specialty patient representative helped them quickly manage a critical and expensive medication situation. The sisters, who host the popular “Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver” podcast, will also provide tips on other common situations when advocates for caregivers are beneficial. Visit cvsspecialty.com and confessionsofareluctantcaregiver.com to learn more.
Matt Clunan is the VP of Global Brand Marketing at Fiverr. Matt will be sharing how AI & freelancers will work together in the future. Fiverr is launching a new Freelancer Equity Program that will grant shares to U.S. based top performing, eligible freelancers on the platform. The Freelancer Equity Program offers an opportunity to add supplementary financial value alongside individual earnings. The program is structured to encourage continued growth and excellence for those top freelancers, while at the same time serving as an aspiration for up and coming freelancers on the platform. Learn more about Fiverr’s Freelancer Equity Program at www.fiverr.com/cp/freelancer-equity-program
Dr. Emily Trunnell is the Director of PETA’s Science Advancement and Outreach division, where she leads a team working to improve science policy and publishing and to replace the use of animals with superior research methods. PETA scientists have recently released Research Modernization NOW, a bold, innovative strategy to end failed experiments on animals and transition to cutting-edge, human-relevant science that can propel us toward treatments and cures. Dr. Trunnell will be sharing details about Research Modernization NOW and exactly what this plan entails. For more information, please visit peta.org/RMN.
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