The 38th Annual USU-Eastern Women’s Conference will take place on Friday, March 24 beginning at 8:30 am till 3:30 pm in the Jennifer Leavitt Student Center. The cost to attend will be $25.00 per person and there is still plenty of time to sign-up.

“We’re the longest running women’s conference in Utah at this point,” stated Susan Polster, Chair-person. “We keep trucking on, as long as people come to the conference, we just say – ok, one more year and one more year. We have a cut off date of the fortieth, so we probably only have two more conferences and then we may change it to an education conference or something.”

This year there will be two keynote speakers featured. Merrilee Boyack will be the morning speaker. “She’s incredible, she calls herself a renaissance woman. She’s written a lot of books, she’s a speaker, she calls herself a life coach. She’s an attorney. She’s a community leader. She’s a politician. She’s a mother, a grandmother and she’s also a breast cancer survivor,” stated Polster. Boyak has written books entitled, “The Parenting Breakthrough,” “Strangling Your Husband is Not an Option” and “In Trying Times, Just Keep Trying.”

The afternoon keynote speakers are Brighton & Josie Solomon. “They are out of Springville and she was born with bi-polar disease. She spent a hundred days in her car, living out of her car going around the United States just interviewing people to write a book. Her topic is, “You don’t have to be healed to help” and she struggles with bi-polar and mental illness,” said Polster. Attendees are sure to walk away with a different perspective on mental illness, as well as a new-found purpose and motivation to be brave and choose joy in their lives after listening to the Solomon’s speak.

This year will feature 15 breakout workshops for guests to choose from, there is sure to be something for every woman to enjoy. Topics range from Meals in a Jar-Healthy Eating, Opiate Addiction Affects Everyone, Indigenous Gardening for SE Utah, Living without Stress, Natural Organic Living, Leadership & Body Language and much more.

Women interested in attending the conference this year may register online at http://www.usueastern.edu/womensconference/