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The Embodied Business Summit
Sunday, September 20, 2026
10:00am to 4:15pm ET · Five sessions · No cost to attend
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One Sunday. Five conversations.
Sunday, September 20, 2026 · all times ET

Kiel Dowlin
10am – 11am ET
AI as Your Growth Partner: Scaling Your Practice Without Losing Your Voice
Most practitioners know AI could help their business — but don't know where it fits, what to trust it with, or how to use it without sounding generic. In this session, you'll learn a practical framework for using AI as a force multiplier across your marketing: clarifying your positioning, creating content that sounds like you, reaching more of the right people, and freeing hours each week for the work only you can do. You'll leave with specific tools, real prompts, and a 30-day plan to put AI to work in your business.
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Kiel Dowlin is an entrepreneur, investor, and operator focused on building and scaling mission-driven businesses at the intersection of healthcare, education, and innovation. He previously served as VP of Innovation Investment and Managing Director of GEHA Ventures, where he led early-stage investments, strategic partnerships, and enterprise value creation initiatives aligned with member health and well-being. In addition to his corporate venture leadership, Kiel has operated as a strategic growth partner to founders across digital health and education platforms, including The Embody Lab. He specializes in scaling digital brands, structuring complex equity and partnership arrangements, driving go-to-market strategy, and building systems that translate vision into operational execution. With a background spanning venture capital, healthcare strategy, and financial markets, Kiel brings a disciplined investment lens to entrepreneurial growth — combining capital allocation, brand positioning, and execution rigor to build durable, high-margin businesses designed for long-term impact.

Niyc Pidgeon
11:15am – 12:15pm ET
Building an Unstoppable Business
Expect practical, evidence-based tools for building confidence, staying grounded through the ups and downs of running a practice, and creating a business (and life) you're genuinely energized by — not just one that looks good on paper. Niyc's work centers on the idea that becoming 'mentally wealthy' is the real foundation for entrepreneurial success, so this session will blend positive psychology frameworks with concrete steps for practitioners looking to grow without burning out.
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Dr. Scott Lyons
12:45pm – 1:45pm ET
The Psychology of Money & Success
Explore how your beliefs, emotions, and past experiences shape the way you earn, spend, save, and define success. In this engaging summit class, you'll uncover limiting money stories, understand the psychology behind financial decisions, and learn practical strategies for building confidence, and resilience. You'll also expand your definition of wealth beyond income, examining how purpose, well-being, relationships, freedom, and fulfillment contribute to a meaningful and sustainable experience of success, both personally and professionally.
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Psychologist, somatic therapist, author, and founder of The Embody Lab — a platform now serving over 500,000 practitioners and professionals across more than 100 countries.

Sarah Baldwin
2pm – 3pm ET
From Selling to Inviting: How to Share Your Work Without Pressure
This session explores how to replace high-pressure selling with genuine invitations rooted in clarity, connection and service. Participants will learn to describe their work with confidence, identify the people it can truly help and create offers that respect choice and timing. Through practical examples and reflective prompts, we will reframe visibility as a generous act, build trust without persuasion and leave with simple language for sharing ideas, services and opportunities authentically during conversations and outreach.
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Pardis Mahdavi
3:15pm – 4:15pm ET
Seeing Without Flinching: The Craft of Conscious Leadership
Every institution lives or dies by the distance between two stories: the official story it tells about itself and the lived story its people actually experience. When those stories drift apart, a gap opens, and people quietly stop believing. Trust does not vanish, it migrates, out of institutions and into networks, communities, and machines. Most leadership training teaches us to defend the official story more skillfully. Conscious leadership is the opposite discipline, and it is a craft, with three commitments at its core: seeing without flinching, naming without fear, and building without a complete map.
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Dr. Pardis Mahdavi has held nearly every seat in the American academy, from tenured professor to university president, and has spent twenty-five years as an anthropologist studying how people rebuild meaning and trust when the systems around them stop making sense. In this talk she shares the Four Crossings at the heart of her Story Gap Leadership framework. Witness the gap with an anthropologist's eye, starting with your own life, because the body registers what is breaking years before the mind agrees to. Name what is ending, out loud and without spin. Bridge with a Third Story, truer than the official version and more hopeful than despair. Then cross, bringing your people with you. You will leave knowing the most powerful sentence a conscious leader can say: "Yes, this is broken. And we are going to cross it together."
SAVE YOUR SEAT
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WHAT YOU'LL WALK AWAY WITH
Not inspiration. Instructions.
A working AI system for your marketing
Real prompts, specific tools, and a 30-day plan for using AI to clarify your positioning and create content that still sounds like you.
Language for selling that doesn't feel like selling
How to invite people into your work: offers, conversations, and follow-up that hold integrity and still convert.
A clearer relationship with money
The psychology underneath pricing, earning, and growth, and where your own patterns are capping the business.
Leadership you can stay in
How to see hard things clearly without flinching or burning out, the craft of conscious leadership at scale.
BEFORE YOU RSVP
Questions
Is this live or can I watch later?
Replays are only available to The Embody Lab members. Join us live to maximize your learning!
BECOME A MEMBERWho is this for?
Practitioners, coaches, therapists, and somatic professionals building a business around their work, whether you're at your first paying clients or scaling a team.
Do I need business experience to get value from it?
No. Each session is built to be practical at any stage: you'll leave with frameworks and next actions rather than theory.
How much is this summit?
100% completely free.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2026
One day. Five conversations that could change how you build.
Join us live for a full day with the people building this industry. Free to attend, and worth showing up live for.



