Raina works as the Marketing and Communications Specialist at Heartland Equine Therapeutic Riding Academy (HETRA), where she oversees all external communications. She shares the heart of HETRA’s mission—improving lives through equine-assisted activities—by helping others discover how they can get involved. Through storytelling, outreach, and brand visibility, she builds awareness and strengthens community engagement.
A founding member of HWN, she has spent 10 years on the board as Web/Creative/Social Media Chair and 4 years as an Advisor. Her leadership experience also includes 4 years as Secretary and Membership Chair for the Millard Business Association. In 2019, she started her own Center Sphere group, where she served as President and recently moved to the role of Vice President.
With a strong background in leadership, business, and community involvement, Raina looks forward to helping lead HWN through an exciting year of growth and opportunity for its members.
Katie is the Group Events Manager at The Amazing Pizza Machine, a family entertainment center in Millard. Her motivation is to help facilitate fun and create JOY! Her natural enthusiasm encourages play and team spirit, which has been fundamental in her career and in the growth of those she has had the pleasure to work with over the years. She has over 25 years of experience in corporate management, leadership, planning, sales, customer relations and organization. She adores cuddling with her dogs, spending time taking pictures of the natural world and relaxing outdoors. She is an advocate for mental health awareness, animal welfare and environmental/conservation issues.
Julie is the founder of Split Second Strategies, a new Omaha Startup teaching active shooter survival and verbal de-escalation skills. Julie has spent 11 years as a deputy sheriff in Sarpy County, and many years in Security Management. Julie is passionate about teaching businesses, organizations, and anyone else who wants to learn how to survive a gun violence incident.
Julie launched the company in January of 2023 and has developed the Split Second Strategies curriculum along with a professionally produced 6 video series that is part of the curriculum. Julie believes that not enough is being done to instruct unarmed citizens on how to survive these increasing and tragic events.
Julie is married to her husband Doug of twenty-one years and they have 3 beautiful daughters.
Beth is dedicated to helping women achieve their financial goals by providing financial planning and wealth management services to women and their families in the Omaha area. With over 15 years of experience in the financial services industry and 10 years with her employer: RBC Wealth Management, she has accumulated a wealth of knowledge related to saving, investing, and tax-efficient retirement planning. She is a Financial Advisor and CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ who utilizes a compassionate and collaborative approach with her clients to educate, articulate and identify financial goals by creating customized wealth plans to achieve major milestones, such as planning for retirement, funding a college education, purchasing a home or leaving a meaningful legacy for the next generation.
Beth is a Nebraska native, has lived in Omaha for the last 18 years and is a mom to two cool teenagers, 1 rescue pup named Molly and is an avid cyclist on the weekends. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her kids and uncle on the family farm in Stromsburg, NE.
Mary Grosserode grew up in Lincoln, NE. Graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a Bachelor of Science in Fashion Merchandising with a minor focus in Marketing. While Mary worked for Brandeis Department Stores in college; she was promoted to Omaha where she worked as a buyer and store manager. In addition to retail sales and management, she has a strong and successful background in office equipment and medical sales. A few of the major companies she has worked for are XeroxCorporation, Avon, and Dorsey Pharmaceuticals.
Starting in 2002 Mary entered the world of Senior Living. For the past 22 years, she has worked with seniors and their adult children helping them decide on when to move into a retirement community. Her current role is as an independent agent helping families find the right retirement community for their parents/grandparents. Her passion for serving seniors comes from watching Alzheimer’s Disease take over her mom’s life and the effect it has on her dad and family. She has the knowledge, passion, and connections in the industry to help families navigate the maze of senior living communities in the Omaha area.
Her personal life includes being a grandmother to her two adorable grandsons, Tommy and Jonny Garvin. Her only child is Dr. Teresa Garvin married to Scott Garvin. She enjoys getting together with her Bunko Buds for a game of Bunko, a night of drinks and dinner, or their monthly book club meetings. Her passion is also in taking walks and bike riding.
With over 13 years of experience in homeless services, Tina is passionate about providing people-centered support that empowers individuals to thrive. She built the Crisis Engagement program at Together from the ground up, specializing in developing processes, workflows, and policies. Tina firmly believes that knowledge is power; by sharing information, communities can be better served and supported.
She finds immense joy in helping women advance their careers—whether through resume enhancements or offering comprehensive guidance on their professional journeys. Tina sees her strengths aligning well with the needs of HWN, particularly in a role as Secretary, but she is open to assisting in any capacity that supports the collective mission to foster growth and opportunity for future members.
Katie has been a resident of Omaha all her life with the exception of the few years she spent in central Nebraska attending and graduating from the University of Nebraska Kearney. Her career path began in the travel industry in the meeting, incentive and group travel sector, but then transitioned into event planning at Creighton University. Her favorite title has always been ‘Mom’ given to her by her two amazing daughters, Elizabeth and Leah. In her 8th year at the Greater Omaha Chamber, she is experienced in membership development and retention. Katie brings with her many skills in management, customer service, strategic planning, leadership and team building.
Lisa is the Chief Memory Organizer at HOPE organizing. HOPE specializes in helping families organize, preserve, share and celebrate their memories. She has loved taking and looking at photos, sharing stories and organizing since elementary school and loves that she gets to do it every day.
Lisa enjoys being part of the Omaha community! Besides Heartland Women’s Network, Lisa is an active member of Downtown Rotary, a sustainer advisor for the Junior League of Omaha and each year trys to find a new organization that she can support with her time and skills. (typically related to kids)
Lisa is a native of Bertrand, NE but not a small-town girl. She loves living in midtown where they are close (often within walking distance) to a lot of fun activities the city has to offer. She met her husband Bruce while they were both on the board of the Omaha Jaycees and they like to volunteer as a family with their 7-year-old son, Anderson at least once a quarter. The also really enjoy traveling and have a goal to get Anderson to all 50 states before he graduates high school. (he was at 30 by his 7th birthday so has a great start)
Mindy is a licensed residential REALTOR® at RE/MAX Results. She is a proud second-generation REALTOR® with over 16 years of licensed experience working in the real estate field.
While originally from the Kansas City Area, she moved to Omaha, Nebraska in 2002 to finish her Bachelors of Science at Grace University. After graduation, she bounced back to KC to be an office manager for a real estate firm then moved back to Omaha (for good!) in 2005 to marry her amazing husband and started selling Real Estate full time here in 2007.
In her first year of selling real, she received the Top Outstanding New Associate award from her company and has since consistently exceeded the industry average helping 30+ families make moves each year. Real Estate is not a hobby, it is her passion. She works tirelessly to sell homes and provide the best service in the industry. In her free time, she enjoys serving on boards, cooking for (and with friends), volunteering through Omaha Jaycees and snuggling her basset hounds, Magnolia and Juniper!
Sandy is the Catering Sales Representative for Qdoba Mexican Eats in Omaha, Lincoln, Council Bluffs, Sioux City, Kansas City and North Dakota areas. She has been working for Qdoba for over 8 years. Sandy is an Omaha native and went to Westside High School. She is married to Bruce who works at UNMC. They have 4 children ranging in ages from 30-42 and 7 grandchildren with 1 on the way. They are very fortunate to have all of our children living in the Omaha area.
As a Millard resident, Sandy believes in supporting local businesses to the best of her ability. Those who know Sandy, knows she doesn’t sit still well, so she has a side business called Sandy’s Stitchery where she embroiders baby clothes and gifts. She also likes to bake and unfortunately eat what she bakes. She’s been a member of HWN for 6 years and thoroughly enjoys being a part of this organization!
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