The Founder's Arc - Nonprofit Founders, Every Stage of the Journey

September Mastermind Roundtable

Featured Panelists & Organizations

• Dr. Bruce Purnell – Love More Movement: Builds healing stations and trains life coaches to address community trauma through love-based frameworks  
• Candace Wheeler – Restoration 199: Nonprofit mental health agency serving complex trauma survivors; embedded at Exodus Treatment Center (Ward 8) 
• Rachel Needle – Hope and Light Collective: Monthly charity bingo events in Montgomery County (Pike & Rose/Pinstripes) featuring rotating local nonprofits
• Beverly F. Smith – Mama's Safe Haven: Grassroots organization in SW DC offering youth programming, barbering/cosmetology, healing center, meals, and STEM partnerships   
• Tony Covington – I Am Underdog, Inc.: Mental wellness and mentorship for youth via barbershop-style trust-building 
• Diamond Crystal - Back 2 the Water:  Empowers Black women 55+ to reclaim confidence, confront fear, and create a life-changing relationship with water.
• Natalie Clayton - Fair Girls: Helping girls and young women escape harm and build lives free from exploitation.
• Dr. Patricia Watts - WeModel USA: Helping shape future Queens with purpose, poise, strength, and vision.

The MasterMind Roundtable Series is a monthly live conversation inside the Wishful Doing Hub, where respected leaders and practitioners sit down together around a single topic that shapes how people actually lead — not the version that makes it into a keynote, the version that's true.

Each month takes on a different dimension of powerful leadership: the decision to build something of your own, the money conversations no one prepares you for, the work of leading people and systems without losing yourself in the process, and everything in between. The topic changes. What stays constant is the format — a moderated panel of leaders and experts who've actually lived the challenge, in real conversation, without the polish that usually stands between a leader and the truth of their own experience.

This isn't a lecture series, and it isn't content for content's sake. It's a room. The people at the table have made the decisions, survived the mistakes, and kept going — and they talk about what it actually took, not what it was supposed to look like.

Every Roundtable includes:

— A live, moderated panel conversation with leaders and experts at the center of that month's topic — Live audience Q&A

— A recording inside the Legacy Lab, so the conversation stays with you long after the room closes

The MasterMind Roundtable Series is for leaders who've outgrown passive content and are ready to sit inside a real one — the kind that gives you language for what you've been carrying, and company for the parts of leadership no one applauds.