CelebrateHER Navigating Mentorship: Finding and Connecting with the Right Guide

The CelebrateHER Mentorship Series is a chance for women who work in the seacoast area to network, connect, and celebrate each other's achievements. This will be the final event in the three session series, where we'll explore Navigating Mentorship: Finding and Connecting with the Right Guide in a largely interactive two hour session. Join us!

About our moderator
Lauren Wolf, founder, Portsmouth Soap Company
Lauren is the founder and manager of Portsmouth Soap Company since 2019. Her passion from a very young age was helping others and supporting great teamwork. She recently retired from her 32 years as an RN. Lauren received her BSN from University of Massachusetts and her MSN in Nursing Management & Leadership from St. Joseph’s College.

Throughout her career, Lauren worked in a variety of hospitals in the Northeast as a Staff RN, Preceptor, Clinical Practice Leader, and Nurse Director. As a nurse, she was devoted to advocating for individualized patient care, collaborating on implementation of patient care initiatives, and mentoring new nurses, student nurses, and nursing aides.

She is very grateful to the mentors she has had throughout her journey.

About our participants

Brylye Collins, Founder of Rose Talent Consulting
Brylye is a top Talent Acquisition Partner in the recruiting industry. With 15 years in management before launching her recruitment career, she excels at building connections and creating impactful career opportunities. Having interviewed thousands, she understands the importance of finding work that brings joy. In addition to recruiting, Brylye is a Certified Relationship Coach and owner of Building Confidence with Brylye – Singles Empowerment. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Woodman Museum and the Business Program Advisory Committee for Spaulding High’s Roger Creatu Career Technical Center, always bringing passion and positivity to her work.

Carrie Penna, Executive Director, Soul Models 
Carrie grew up in Durham where she resided for 21 years. After receiving her Bachelor’s in Business/Marketing from Stonehill College in Easton, Mass., she worked for nonprofit organizations such as Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and San Diego Hospice. In addition to helping others, one of Carrie’s passions is traveling and exploring different countries and cultures. She is active in many women-led groups such as Seacoast Women in Business, Seacoast Women’s Network, Portsmouth Women’s City Club & the Women’s Business League in an effort to share Soul Models' mission and work across all ages. In 2017, Carrie became Soul Models’ first Executive Director, helping to empower young girls in our community to become strong leaders and find their authentic voices.

Laura Meyer of Laura Meyer Editing
Laura’s career path has been a diverse one with time spent in education, writing, management, marketing, and her love of fitness where she directed the fitness department of a 6,000 membership facility in Westlake, Ohio. Laura devoted 13 years to teaching high school English in a challenged urban district. Within the classroom environment, she motivated and encouraged her students to always reach higher. Her students continually performed above state required exam minimums with college acceptance at many of the nation’s esteemed institutions including Dartmouth University, Oberlin College, Howard University, and The Ohio State University Honors program to name a few.


After moving to New England, Laura was the Director of Career Services at Gibbs College in Boston. When the school closed, she went back into fitness for several years as a personal trainer at Fitness Options in York, Maine before returning to higher education at Northeastern University where she currently serves as Director of Cooperative Education for Multidisciplinary Graduate Education Engineering within the College of Engineering. She is also a private editor focusing on dissertations. In her spare time, she loves to cook, read, stay active, and garden where you can see her handiwork on the Atlantic Heights Garden Tour.