Meet the Team

Michelle Markwart Deveaux

Michelle Markwart Deveaux

Owner / Founder / BeastyBoss

CliftonStrengths:

Communication • Connectedness • Individualization • Significance • Restorative

Michelle Markwart Deveaux is the CEO of FaithCultureKiss Studios™ and Founder of The Speakeasy Cooperative®. When she’s not teaching singers, actors, podcasters, and influencers to use their voice to change the world, Michelle revels in the nitty-gritty of entrepreneurship, business shenanigans, and personal development.

She’s been featured on podcasts such a What Works, Rebel Therapist, The Women’s Advocate, Dr. Dan’s Voice Essentials, Vocal Fri, The Naked Vocalist, and The Full Voice. A frequent speaker and workshop leader, Michelle has led seminars for NATS, University of Utah, New England Conservatory, The What Works Network, and Expand Online.

BA in Music from Patten University, MA in Worship, Theology, and the Arts from Fuller Theological Seminary. Cut formal education teeth at University of Northern Colorado in Musical Theatre and Vocal Performance. Based in Rancho Cordova, CA, Michelle and her husband are raising their two amazing kiddos to be deep thinkers and strong leaders through careful study of The Fugees, Star Trek, and the MCU.

Christin Coffee Rondeau

Christin Coffee Rondeau

Support Coach: Copy & Programs

CliftonStrengths:

Intellection • Activator • Input • Connectedness • Relator

Inside The SpeakEasy Cooperative®, she serves as copy coach, helping members write effectively in their business-related communication. Outside The SpeakEasy Cooperative®, she is co-founder of Sand Dollar Music and director of its voice and piano studio. She sings, teaches singing, mentors new singing teachers, and just generally has a grand ol’ time.

Her writing has been featured in Dr. Robert Sataloff’s “Professional Voice: The Science and Art of Clinical Care,” NATS Inter Nos, and at The Full Voice, and she has been a guest on The Full Voice, Vocal Fri, and The Voice Culture podcasts. She has been a presenter for NATS and The SpeakEasy Cooperative® and is a frequent guest clinician for workshops and masterclasses with independent studios.

Christin holds a BM from Mercer University and an MM from Miami University, and she has completed Level 1 in both Estill and LoVetri and Level 2 in Orff Schulwerk. She currently lives in Las Vegas, NV, but it’s temporary–this is her 9th address in 14 years. Oh, and if you like Doctor Who, The X-Files, or 90’s alternative music, you’re already her friend, even if you haven’t met yet.

Sara Campbell

Sara Campbell

CMO / Coach

CliftonStrengths:

Achiever • Individualization • Activator • Input • Strategic

Sara Campbell is a Business Strategist, Marketing, and Mindset Coach for music studio owners and online education experts. She’s worked with hundreds of music entrepreneurs to create customized branding foundations, business plans, and marketing and social media strategies.

She’s helped clients become the go-to music studios in their area, build successful online businesses, and increase their income streams – without overloading their schedules. As a mindset coach she works with teachers to develop their “awesometicity” so that they can run awesome AND authentic music studios and online businesses that bring joy to their lives and the lives of their clients.

Sara’s been featured in Clavier Magazine, Piano Bench Mag, Upbeat Piano Teachers, and has guest blogged for numerous experts, including Jennifer Foxx, Joy Morin, and Tim Topham. She’s been a guest on Teach Music Online, Music & Marketing, The Full Voice Podcast, Inspiring Music Teachers, and Teach Music Co. She’s a coach in The Speakeasy Cooperative® and The Prepared Performer. Sara lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, her two cats Freja and Bjørn, and can be found at savvymusicstudio.com.

Keith J Eldridge

Keith J Eldridge

CTO

CliftonStrengths:

Connectedness • Learner • Intellection • Achiever • Relator

Keith is the CTO and digital strategist for FaithCultureKiss. He is constantly looking for ways to make your online experience better at FcK and within the SECO membership area.

He has the mind of a creative engineer. In the USAF, he studied electrical and mechanical engineering and was the soprano section leader in the Drum and Bugle Corp during technical training. He went on to become a network engineer at Kinkos where he managed a world class network operations and datacenter. He created the internal website for and provided team training on standard operating procedures, increasing team efficiency and communication.

After moving back and forth between Japan and the U.S. to learn the different cultures, he now calls his wife’s hometown of Hiroshima home and runs his own English school. When he’s not redesigning the website or solving your membership issues, Keith enjoys studying Yin/Yang theory, practicing and teaching Tai Chi and expanding on his original healing art at Keith Dream.

If you’ve got questions related to the technical aspects of your membership, Keith is your go to guy.

Karen Michaels

Karen Michaels

Social Media Manager

CliftonStrengths:

Empathy • Positivity • Activator • Ideation • Futuristic

Karen is the Social Media Manager for FcK and a long time member of SECO. You will find her bouncing around in the group chatting up all things voice and changing minds about social media one person at a time!

Karen is living her best multihyphenate life as a multi – biz owner. She is a performer in Las Vegas (singing pianist and founding member of Dangerous Curves, vocal jazz trio), runs her home music studio, The Las Vegas Voice Teacher and is the creator and social brains of The Social Butterfly Group, a coaching and done-for-you social media and marketing agency.

Amy Cappadony

Amy Cappadony

Money and Finance Mojo Coach

CliftonStrengths:

Developer • Adaptability • Woo • Empathy • Communication

Amy Cappadony is an accountant and SECO Support Coach with over 16 years experience helping small businesses problem solve financial obstacles and grow toward their full potential.

She has an extensive background in taxation, financial statement creation, cash flow analysis, and budget creation. She has used this background to teach many small business owners how to utilize these tools as a means to assess business’ strengths and weaknesses to grow and develop.

Amy earned her BS in Accounting from Western Governors University, UT and an AA in Liberal Arts from Chaminade University of Honolulu, HI. She has been enrolled to practice before the IRS since 2017 and is employed as a Tax Manager in Oklahoma City, OK.

Saiisha B

Saiisha B

Business Manager

CliftonStrengths:

Intellection • Input • Strategic • Connectedness • Deliberative

Saiisha is the Business Manager behind the scenes at The SpeakEasy Cooperative. Her zone of genius is to keep the backend processes in order so that the rest of the team can focus on what they do best, giving them an opportunity to live out the mission and vision as an organization.

You’ll go to Saiisha when you have a question about billing, links, processes, and if you need to do something fancy with your membership. You’ll also hear from her when you join How to Run Your Biz Without Hating Your Boss Accelerator or The VIPRoom.

She is based on the East Coast of the USA. She has a bachelors degree in Computer Sciences and Engineering, and a masters degree in Computing Sciences, and thrives on resolving tricky tech situations.

Georgia Aussenac

Georgia Aussenac

Learner Liaison

CliftonStrengths:

Strategic • Learner • Relator • Individualization • Achiever

Georgia is the Learner Liaison at The SpeakEasy Cooperative. She collaborates with our community of artists and educators to create engaging and effective continuing education opportunities, and foster a fun and supportive learning environment for our members. Georgia organizes and facilitates events within our community, such as our Virtual Champagne Brunch Member led trainings, Bookclub, How Do You SECO?, and Co-Working sessions. She loves meeting people from all over the world and connecting with other curious minds.

Georgia is a New Zealander living in France. When she’s not hanging out in SECO, she’s running her boutique online voice studio where she works with individuals to build confidence in their voices. She believes that everyone deserves to have easy access to their voice; that everyone should get to use their voices the way that they wish, with comfort and confidence. Georgia is also the President of the France New Zealand Association and cares deeply about cross-cultural connection and building strong relationships across differences. She comes from a family of eccentric adventurers, which makes for lots of great anecdotes.

Being a mother is her latest adventure, after following her French love to the other side of the world, embracing a new culture, language and lifestyle. She’ll always treasure the vast horizons of New Zealand, but the comfort of a perfectly laminated croissant has become home for Georgia. Talk to her about food, cats, and historical fiction.

Liz Jackson Hearns

Liz Jackson Hearns

Multi-Teacher Studio and Team Based Business Coach

CliftonStrengths:

Learner • Achiever • Futuristic • Individualization • Empathy

Liz is the owner of The Voice Lab, Inc., a multi-teacher voice studio in Chicago and online all over the world, where their team specializes in supporting LGBTQ+ singers and voice users.

As a SECO coach, Liz works with leaders and managers to identify and develop their company culture and SOPs for team-based business management.

Liz has an extensive history as a disruptive educator, researcher, and author, finessing the lines between disruptive comfort and productive discomfort.

Core values and individual strengths from the foundations of her coaching work; she is driven by ceaseless curiosity and fierce belief in the vision and possibilities of clients

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