KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
JERMAINE HARRIS Empowerment Speaker and Coach
TRACEY SMOLINSKI Networking Specialist and Speaker
TIME: 2:30 – 3:00pm
TIME: 11:30 – 12:00pm
It took a major car accident – and then one year later nearly having his leg amputated – to turn Jermaine Harris’ life around. Prior to this, Jermaine had been living a self-destructive lifestyle of excessive drinking, gambling and womanizing. At times, he drank as many as 24 bottles of wine and vodka per week, was in nightclubs 6 nights of the week, and was £30,000 in debt. When firemen cut him from the wreckage of a car, it shook him up momentarily as he thought he’d never walk again. But it was a football accident a year later – when he was told that he may lose his leg, that finally convinced him to change his life. Since then, Jermaine, who has a Sports Psychology BSc (Hons) and MSc (Dist), has read over 380 self-help books in the space of 4 years and left behind his destructive lifestyle. In this time, Jermaine got himself out of debt, lost a stone of body fat, put on ten pounds of muscle, cured himself of asthma, ran a half marathon as well as the London Marathon earlier this year, started a business, wrote a book, became an award winning speaker, met the woman of his dreams and is now a father.
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Jermaine now works as an empowerment speaker and coach where he helps his clients with everyday problems and encourages health and wellness in order to do better in life and business. He is also the founder of the Empowered Results Programme.
Tracey Smolinski is the founder and managing director of Wales’ leading independent business network, Introbiz.
Overcoming further adversity, Jermaine is a keen fundraiser for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust after his son was diagnosed with the condition at 4 weeks old in 2015.
Since the company’s birth back in 2009, Tracey has become a highly successful businesswoman. Today, the network boasts over 300 members from a wide range of industries and sectors, while hosting 70 networking events a year in various 4 and 5 star locations throughout South Wales.
Jermaine, who is based in Cardiff, has condensed his experience and wisdom into his book ‘THE RUT BUSTER: The Secrets to Taking Control of Your Body, Money, Career and Life’.
She offers free training sessions for the members whilst also training in schools on behalf of the Welsh Government and is a proud Big Ideas Role Model.
She started networking in the correct way, by building relationships and trust and went on to sell £100,000 worth of advertising revenue over the next 6 months. She saw firsthand how powerful and profitable networking could be for business. Tracey spotted a gap in the market and decided to start her own networking company, and so Introbiz was born! Tracey has shared the stage with Sharon Lechter, an international bestselling author who is widely credited as being the genius behind the Rich Dad brand. Sharon is Tracey’s mentor.
She is known for her commitment and drive to providing valuable information. Her talks are extremely powerful and compelling as she leaves the audience feeling completely energized and ready to take on the world!
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“I’m making feeling good, fashionable. I talk about the secrets to taking control of your body, money, career and life.”
One of the reasons Tracey stands out as a speaker is that she brings her own personal experiences to her talks. She speaks openly about how she got networking very wrong during her first three months as she was giving it the hard sell and almost completely gave up on it, but not before she took on some very sound advice.
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“I always say surround yourself with the best people because they’ll bring out the best in you. Enjoy, engage and connect to be a successful networker.”
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