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Amy Shelling

Amy Shelling is an author whose work currently explores one of the few environments we have the power to intentionally shape: our homes. Through psychology, observation, and everyday life, she examines why our homes matter, not simply as places we live, but as environments that influence how we think, feel, connect, and function.

While much of life is shaped by environments we inherit and expectations we don't choose, our homes remain one of the few places where we have meaningful agency. Rather than striving for a perfect home, Amy explores the lifelong practice of intentionally shaping our environments to reduce unnecessary friction, strengthen connection, and continue supporting the lives we are actually living.

A writer for more than two decades, Amy’s writing has earned national recognition, including a fellowship from Varuna, Australia's National Writers' House, and funding from the Canada Council for the Arts.

Alongside her writing, Amy's most influential classroom has been motherhood. Raising a family sparked a deep curiosity about the connection between our emotional lives, our daily functioning, and the homes we create. Today, she is writing her first nonfiction book and developing a collection of essays, while completing her professional counselling training. Through her writing, speaking, and future counselling practice, she hopes to inspire greater awareness of how the environments we build become the environments that build us.

Anna Gorman

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Jeunesse Pearson

Jeunesse Pearson is a speaker, storyteller, and creator of Curious Human, an exploration of how we come to know what we know—and what becomes possible when we begin to see more clearly.

Drawing on more than 35 years in mental health and human services, including as a Master Therapeutic Counsellor, Jeunesse has become fascinated by the beliefs, assumptions, and stories that quietly shape the way we experience ourselves and the world. Rather than telling people what to think, her work invites them to become more curious about how they think.

She is also the creator and host of Happy on Purpose CA, where she shares conversations with everyday people whose stories remind us that meaning, resilience, and connection are often found in ordinary lives.

After contracting COVID-19, Jeunesse developed Long COVID and was later diagnosed with ME/CFS. The experience challenged many of her assumptions about identity, achievement, and self-worth, becoming the catalyst for the ideas she now explores through her speaking and writing.

She lives in Vernon, British Columbia, where she continues asking thoughtful questions, collecting meaningful stories, and encouraging others to become curious humans.

Lillian Marchand

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Lindsay James

Lindsay James, known online as Shameless Elle, is a content creator with over 2.5 million followers who started making videos out of boredom during the pandemic. As her audience grew, she joked that there had to be a glitch in the algorithm, that people would eventually realize they had accidentally followed her and quietly leave.

Being introduced on stage as the keynote speaker and “social media expert” at the Pomeroy 2026 Summit made it difficult to keep calling her success accidental or continue believing she needed to become something more before she had something worth sharing.

That realization became the foundation of her work: helping individuals and businesses examine what they may have traded in pursuit of ‘something more.

Her TEDx talk, “The Exhausting Full-Time Job of Becoming Acceptable,” explores the hidden work many of us do in pursuit of acceptance, and the stories we carry from the experiences that shaped us.