Our Signature Morning of Connection, Empowerment, and Expansion
VCBW Coffee & Connection is a welcoming networking experience where local business women come together to build meaningful relationships, share ideas, increase visibility, and discover new opportunities. Whether you're an established entrepreneur or just getting started, it's a space to connect, collaborate, and grow alongside a supportive community of women who believe in lifting each other up.
Here's what to expect:
A warm, welcoming space to meet new faces and reconnect with familiar ones
Meaningful conversation that goes beyond the typical small talk
Featured businesses and tables to browse, shop, and support
A front-row seat to what VCBW is growing into together
Come as you are. Bring a friend. And leave with new connections, new inspiration, and a real sense of what this community is becoming.
Event Flow
8:30 AM – 9:10 AM | Open Networking
Coffee, tea, pastries
Visit Table Features
Browse the community promo table
Add your marketing materials
9:10 AM – 10:30 AM | Guided Networking
Share who you are & what you do
Explore community events & resources
Connect deeply with other women
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM | Guided Community Raffle
Spotlight member products/services
Opportunity to share your products/services
10:45 – 11:00 AM | Open Networking
Final connections
Resource sharing
Relationship building
Pricing:
Free to Ecosystem Members | *Ecosystem Members register for event in the Member’s Portal.
$15 Guest Pass for Non-members
Event Host: Felicia Mason
VCBW Chief Strategy Officer
Fellie Mason is a strategist and community builder with a gift for turning vision into movement. As Chief Strategy Officer of Ventura County Business Women, she leads strategy and growth with a focus on creating a community shaped by the women within it. Her work brings together organizational leadership, entrepreneurship, facilitation, and a belief in the power of connection, contribution, and participation.
Event Co-Host: Tawney Noriega
VCBW Founder
Tawney Noriega is the Founder of Ventura County Business Women, a community created to connect, empower, and expand opportunities for women in business throughout Ventura County. With a passion for building meaningful relationships and creating spaces where women can grow together, Tawney has shaped VCBW into a thriving network centered on connection, visibility, collaboration, and community.
Event Co-Host: Kenzie Mayberry
VCBW Operations and Event Manager
Kenzie Mayberry is the Operations & Events Manager for Ventura County Business Women, helping bring each event from idea to execution. She oversees the details, coordination, and behind-the-scenes planning that help create organized, welcoming, and intentional experiences for the VCBW community. With a strong eye for logistics and guest experience, Kenzie helps ensure every event runs smoothly while still feeling personal, connected, and aligned with the heart of VCBW.
Vision Sponsor: Chayanna Dib
MVP Build Lab
Cultivate Empowering Ideas
Ventura
Somewhere in Ventura County, a great idea is sitting in someone’s Notes app between a grocery list and a password they will never remember.
I’m Chay, a senior product designer, and I’ve spent my career turning other people’s ideas into apps their customers use every day. My partner, a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of California, and I started MVP Build Lab to get those ideas out of the Notes app and onto a screen.
You bring your idea in two sentences, and we help you build the first version with AI tools right there in the room. You don’t need tech skills or a coding cofounder. Each lab has eight seats and two instructors, so nobody gets left alone with a blinking cursor.
Our next labs are November 21, December 5 and December 12. Bring your idea and leave with an MVP. The grocery list can stay where it is.
Vision Sponsor: Cecelia Settem
Crowns And Hearts Boutique Spa
Self-Care made Sacred
Downtown Ventura
Hi! I’m Cecelia “Cece” Settem, owner of Crowns & Hearts Boutique Spa in Downtown Ventura. I’ve been a massage therapist for nearly 20 years and an esthetician for over 8 years, and I created Crowns & Hearts around one simple belief: self-care should be the standard, not the exception. I specialize in personalized facials, massage, waxing, and wellness services for women who spend so much of their lives taking care of everyone and everything else. My goal is to give them a space where they don’t have to figure anything out, they can simply show up, exhale, and be taken care of.
Vision Sponsor: Natalie Puglisi
Natalie Puglisi
Protect the brand you’re building
Ventura County
Natalie Puglisi is a trademark and business attorney who helps entrepreneurs, coaches, course creators and product brands protect what they’re building. She has helped more than 500 business owners secure their brands and businesses with trademarks, contracts, copyrights and business entity formations. Most entrepreneurs don’t discover a legal problem until it’s already costing them time and money. Natalie helps them get the right protections in place early, while the fix is still simple and affordable.
Table Feature: Emily Velasco
Living the Cleaner Life
Helping you Add Life to your Years
Thousand Oaks, CA
Table Feature: Miranda Khivrenko
Simple Business Solutions
Santa Barbara, CA
I started Simple Business Solutions 3 years ago and offer full charge bookkeeping for service based businesses. My current client base includes mostly health and wellness businesses- therapists, women owned gyms, salons or estheticians, acupuncture, massage therapists, etc. I also assist clients in real estate and property management, as well as construction. I serve clients from Santa Barbara all the way through Orange County.
Table Feature: Avghi Constantinides
Homeopathy For Life / Adamas School of Homeopathy
Your Local Family Homeopath
Ventura, CA
Featured Coffee: Lovewell Tea & Coffee
Lovewell Tea & Coffee is a community based cafe in Ventura, California. We offer exceptional coffee, tea and treats in a welcoming and relaxed atmosphere. We desire to be the place you can come to plan, dream, breathe and just be. Our doors are open to both serve and love our community well.
