Meet the Speakers
We’re honored to feature two powerhouse women who bring decades of experience, purpose-driven leadership, and deeply impactful work to the Empower Your Path Retreat. From high-performance coaching to functional nutrition and nervous system healing, Cynthia Mordecai, Ali Zuur-Arneric Mayra Hernandez offer unique, complimentary approaches to transformation. Their wisdom, warmth, and guidance will help create a retreat experience rooted in growth, healing, and empowerment.
Meet Cynthia Mordecai
Chief Operating Officer and Partner at WSI Smart Marketing
Cynthia Mordecai is the Chief Operating Officer and a Partner at WSI Smart Marketing, a Northern California-based agency helping businesses grow and get found online through AI-powered marketing strategies. Under her leadership, WSI delivers data-driven marketing solutions that increase visibility and drive revenue.
With over 15 years of experience in marketing, operations, and team development, Cynthia’s work centers on building strong systems, leading with clarity, and developing high-performing cultures. As a certified Business and High-Performance Coach, she’s passionate about helping others lead intentionally, grow with confidence, and create meaningful impact.
Outside of work, she finds joy in time with her husband, family, and friends, cuddling her Golden Retriever puppy, reading, and hitting the gym.
A favorite quote she lives by: “The way out is in.”
Meet Ali Zuur-Arneric
Functional Nutrition & Life Coach | Breathwork Facilitator | NLP & EFT Practitioner
I help women reconnect with their energy — physically, mentally, and emotionally — so they can thrive in their everyday lives.
With over 20 years in the healing arts, I’ve blended a background in massage therapy, birth work, and functional nutrition with tools like blood sugar tracking, breathwork, EFT, NLP, and nervous system coaching to support personalized hormone and metabolic balance.
My approach is grounded in science and elevated by embodiment.
We track what matters.
We shift what’s no longer serving.
And we rebuild health from the inside out — one aligned habit at a time through online courses, group programs and 1:1 coaching.
Meet Mayra Hernandez
ICF-certified Leadership & Mindset Coach | Leadership Coach for the University of Michigan’s M-Lead Program
Meet Mayra Hernandez: Your Guide to Breaking Through Limiting Mindsets & Owning Your Power.
Mayra is an ICF-certified Leadership & Mindset coach who guides women entrepreneurs, creatives, and leaders to recognize and dissolve constraining thought patterns that are getting in the way of what they most want and desire.
A Sonoma County resident since 2014, Mayra was born in Venezuela, and brings 15+ years of operations leadership experience to her transformational coaching practice. She’s a chemical engineer who led large teams and operations in the wine, spirits and glass industry. Through her unique blend of neuroscience & somatics training rooted in mindfulness and emotional intelligence, she empowers women to break through mental barriers, gain crystal clarity on what truly matters, and create lasting transformation that ripples through every aspect of their lives: whether in business, relationships, or bold life changes.
Beyond 1:1 coaching, Mayra serves as a leadership coach for the University of Michigan’s M-Lead Program and Dream Big Darling’s FLOurish program. She’s a sought after coach, speaker and facilitator in Sonoma and Napa County and beyond, for her playful, insightful, and practical workshops that leave the audience empowered and ready for their next big step. She’s leading her 4th women’s Bali Renewal Retreat in Ubud, May 2026.