The Empower Exchange event was produced in conjunction with parallel Artistic Productions and ZeroPoint Om Productions  as a networking initiative to allow women entrepreneurs of all nationalities a forum in which to exchange goods and services as well as build community to inspire and support one another and thus allowing them break down barriers and to take their businesses to the next level.

Just of few of the many attendees to came out to support the Awakened, Empower Exchange event.

The event featured  a benefit show the included artists, airiel performers, spoken word poetry  , dance performers,  music and poetry   “This is a celebration of womanhood to uplift and guide women in their personal journey” said Xitlali.

Maricruz from Herbal Life offering various health products as well as exercise programs.

Among the women entrepreneurs taking part were Maricruz from Herbal Life offering various health products as well as exercise programs.  Sherry Delaney was there to promote her business “Celebrating Women’s Health”

Crucial resources included Sherry Delaney Celebrating Womens Health Founder and Director  on the African American Breast cancer Council for Susan G. Komen on the Inner City Health Center Board of directors, Chaplin for National Council of Negro Women.

Also Sandra Robinson from organizations like The Robinson Abused Women and Children Shelter Inc.

Performers and speakers included spoken-word artist and visionary Doe Renee, Amara Martin – Executive Director of Dress for Success Denver, Jana Smith – Creator of Denver Unique Week of Fashion and live Musician Zay Alejandro Camara Rios as well as Mila Popovich and Ifiok Fetuk.

Event host, international performer and fashion designer, Xitlali also showcased her students performance. Women leaders from different genres attended the event offering their support. The evening ended with a raffle for a variety of services to the attendees.

Jana Smith – Creator of Denver Unique Week of Fashion and host for the Empower is a movement for all women that reminds women of their full potential. “Its about networking, supporting each other and living out our dreams reminding all of us that we can do whatever we set out to do as long as we have strong people supporting us and we just hustle and going forward.” she said.

 Amara Martin – Executive Director of Dress for Success Denver from Dress for Success told the audience of the more than 13,000 women her organization has helped toward obtaining careers that can sustain them and their families. ” We help them by providing professional attire, career tools and a network of support through six programs”.

MILA POPOVICH is the founder of EVOLving Leadership – program, consultancy and community for transformational leadership on the scale of personal excellence, organization development to planetary path-finding. As an independent academic, she is a humanities expert, systems thinker and future education consultant. An international lecturer and speaker, she specializes in ecological literacy and sustainability, cultural diplomacy, new paradigm of human development and creative sides to future making. She is the Chair of the Membership Communications Committee at the World Academy of Art and Science. She is a Fellow of Vital Voices – Global Women’s Leadership and an Associate Expert on ethics and gender issues at the European Commission. She is an Expert on the Gender Equality Impact Panel of the Katerva Award – the so-called “Nobel Prize in Sustainability.” Mila has developed a distinctive spectrum of practices – a confluence of academic engagements and artistic creations – for the art and science of transformation, which she lectures on and teaches locally and internationally. Coming from Montenegro, an ancient part of the world where the East and the West meet, she draws on that cultural heritage for her artistic expression as a performing artist in multiple dance forms, bilingual poet and experimental theater art director. She is an educational and social innovator and creative entrepreneur – a social artist sourcing her diverse engagements as an academic, artist and activist to engender social transformation and systemic change for individual and collective thriving.