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Mindbody on-demand webinar

Mindbody Capital: Your Questions, Answered

Duration: 60 minutes, including Q&A

You've heard the fanfare. You've seen the announcements, emails, and blogs. You keep glancing at your offer. But you wonder: Is Mindbody Capital legit? Are there invisible strings attached? Is this too good to be true?   

Join us for a moderated session to get your questions about Mindbody Capital answered. You'll hear from leaders in the financial tech and wellness industries about what makes Mindbody Capital unique, and how other business owners have been using it to rebuild, innovate, and expand their businesses. 

What We'll Cover: 

  • What exactly is Mindbody Capital? 

  • Panel discussion detailing why Mindbody introduced Mindbody Capital, and what makes it unique in the market. 

  • How Mindbody Capital makes funding more accessible to small businesses by leveraging data already in Mindbody system. 

  • The ways other business owners are using their Mindbody Capital funds to invest in their businesses. 

Presented by:

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Emily Bartels

Senior Vice President, Payments

Mindbody

Emily has worked for Mindbody since 2010, with the last 8 years specializing in Payments and, now, embedded Financial Services. She has led high-performing teams spanning Sales, Operations, and Risk, while growing and managing high-impact strategic partnerships across the financial technology space. In her life before Mindbody, Emily worked in corporate wellness and as a wellness professional, helping others live healthier lives. She also spent four years at Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit organization focused on access to affordable mortgages that helps families build and improve the places they call home. Emily is passionate about her own personal wellness, wellness in communities, and the role technology can play to improve financial wellness for all. She lives in San Luis Obispo with her husband and two young boys, enjoying all the surfing, hiking, and mountain biking that the central coast of California has to offer. She holds an MBA from California Polytechnic State University.

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Sahill Poddar

Co-founder & CEO

Parafin

Sahill is the co-founder and CEO of Parafin, Inc, a fintech infrastructure company serving small businesses and the platforms they sell on. Parafin powers embedded financing products for platforms such as Mindbody, DoorDash, Amazon, and WorldPay. Prior to Parafin, Sahill led the machine learning engineering team at Robinhood. Sahill got into the world of data science via a PhD in particle physics at CERN, Geneva, where he helped discover the Higgs Boson particle at the Large Hadron Collider.

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Kristin Abel

VP of Finance

Boutique Fitness Broker & Mindbody-Certified Business Consultant

Kristin Abel is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for business and wellness, and has built her career combining the two. With over 15 years of experience as a CPA serving small businesses and 17 years as the owner of her own successful yoga studio, Kristin brings a unique blend of expertise to her current role as a consultant and advisor to fitness and wellness businesses with Boutique Fitness Broker. As a wellness business consultant and coach, Kristin has spent the past few years serving boutique fitness studio owners, helping them to create systems for success and achieve their business goals. As a self-proclaimed math nerd and former yoga studio owner herself, Kristin is deeply committed to helping boutique fitness businesses thrive and reach their full potential.