Katie Horwitch is a nationally recognized author, speaker, mindset coach, media correspondent, and self-talk activist. She is the founder of WANT: Women Against Negative Talk, a platform that gives women tips, tools, motivation, and inspiration to live fearlessly by shifting their negative self-talk patterns. Her first book, Want Your Self: Shift Your Self-Talk and Unearth The Strength In Who You Were All Along, (October 2023, Sounds True), guides you to change your self-talk at the deepest level—so you can move forward fearlessly into the life you were meant to live.

“Want Your Self is a book to help you shift your negative self-talk patterns in a real, lasting way that goes far beyond ‘speaking nicely to yourself,’” Katie shares. “Instead of starting with the ‘talk’ part of self-talk, Want Your Self gets to the root of the issue by diving into the ‘self’ part of self-talk — giving you a strong base to make real shifts that last in the long run.”

Katie has spent almost two decades studying the conversations we have about ourselves, and the implications of them out in the world. She has spoken across the country — from places like SXSW and Dreamworks to corporate workshops and creative non-profits — about self-confidence, living fearlessly, and shifting the stories that help shape our negative self-talk patterns. She is the host of the WANTcast: The Women Against Negative Talk Podcast (currently in its 10th season) where she tackles subjects like loneliness, jealousy, self-worth, and inter-views visionary women about taking a pragmatic, proactive approach to the full spectrum of life's high highs and low lows. Katie is a prominently featured mindset and self-talk media expert on both national and local TV, a regular guest on NBC News Daily’s “Mental Health Check” segment, and has been praised by CNN as a “woman empowering others around the world.”

As a mindset coach specializing in self-talk, Katie helps clients work through their shame, doubt, overwhelm, and fears — both personally and professionally — so they can be proactive leaders in their own lives. She is a certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Coach Practitioner by the NLP Center of New York, and uses a combination of NLP strategies as well as her own methods honed over the last decade to meet each client with deep empathy, fierce support, and a highly individualized game plan. She has consulted with and coached some of the world’s most prominent brands and leaders on building confidence and creating impact on both a micro and macro scale, and works with each client to craft systems, structures, and goals so that they walk away from Katie feeling clear, self-assured, and self-sufficient.

Katie is the ultimate “self-talk multi-hyphenate.” She was a founding editor of The Chalkboard Mag, and has been teaching group fitness for over 15 years. She is currently a top indoor cycling instructor for Equinox — where she helped launch their signature beat-based, emotion-driven class format, ANTHEM — and as a trainer for the leading audio fitness app Aaptiv, Katie brings her signature style of encouragement and mindset-based coaching to walks, runs, meditations, and cardio-based workouts downloaded by over 100K users per month. As an actor, singer, and host, she's been seen on network TV and feature films, as well as on stages both regionally and Off-Broadway. Most recently, she made solo debut by writing and performing in WANT YOUR SELF: A Book Launch Cabaret — a joyful celebration of what it means to live the full spectrum of your Self out loud. Her goal, on whatever stage or page, is to use her unique voice to help others find, use, and own theirs. She holds a BA in Drama from University of California, Irvine, where she also studied sociocultural anthropology and creative writing.

Katie lives in New York City with her husband Jeremy and dog-daughter Frankie. She spends her energy on shifting the cultural self-talk paradigm, producing engaging new content both online and off, advising creatives and entrepreneurs on how use their unique strengths to make the biggest impact possible, and singing loudly while she runs.

Mike is a Senior Corporate Counsel with Amazon. He's been with the company for about three and a half years and before going in-house, had the privilege of practicing employment law at Seyfarth Shaw and Littler Mendelson. Mike day to day focuses on a mix of traditional employment law, data privacy, government contracting, and, increasingly, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Outside of work he enjoys reading, coding, and traveling.

As co-chair of the Appeals and Issues Team, Jonathan helps clients design winning legal strategies in appeals and high-stakes litigation. Jonathan has argued nine cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and filed more than 150 briefs at the merits and certiorari stages before the Court. He has handled appeals and dispositive motions in other federal courts and state courts across the country. He has significant experience nationally in assisting clients in formulating appellate strategy, both in pending appeals and at the trial court level before judgment. And he has challenged and defended federal agency actions at every level of the federal judiciary.

Before joining McGuireWoods, Jonathan served in the Office of the Solicitor General in the U.S. Department of Justice. As an Assistant to the Solicitor General, Jonathan represented the federal government before the Supreme Court and helped oversee the government’s appellate litigation in lower courts throughout the country. He briefed and argued cases involving patent and copyright law, constitutional law, administrative law, ERISA, international arbitration, securities regulation, and other areas of federal law.

Jonathan graduated first in his class from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and has served as a lecturer at the school. After graduation, Jonathan served as a law clerk to John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice of the United States, and to Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He also previously served as a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from North Carolina State University.

Vin Weber is a Partner at Mercury in Washington, D.C. He provides strategic advice to institutions with matters before the legislative and executive branches of the federal government. Vin has successfully advised numerous clients on matters pertaining to mergers & acquisitions, crisis management, strategic communications and international strategies.