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April’s professional career started as a cake designer, under the namesake April Cakes. Her next company, Granola Girl was founded in 2008 and sold in 2020. April is also a co-founder of Serendipity Tea Party networking events. She is an intuitive life purpose coach, business consultant and advisor at Iveycorp Advisory Ltd., and guide to Discover Your Sacred Gifts.

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April is a wife and proud mother of 3 teenagers. Her professional career started as a cake designer of special occasion cakes, under the namesake April Cakes. Her next company, Granola Girl was founded in 2008 and later sold in 2020 during the pandemic. Granola Girl serviced over 350 grocery stores in Western Canada. In 2017, April launched the Granola Girl Foundation, a fundraising platform to provide scholarships for youth in the areas of girl empowerment and entrepreneurship. April is also a co-founder of Serendipity Tea Party, heart based networking events. Since 2015, April has been serving her community as an intuitive coach and start-up business consultant. Most recently, April has been certified as a Guide to help others Discover their Sacred Gifts and start living and feeling on Purpose. She is passionate about connection, deeper conversations and finding Spirit, Truth, freedom, and love in all the work that she does.

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April Bellia is an entrepreneur with a baking background. Her professional career started over 20 years ago as a dessert chef and wedding cake designer, under the namesake April Cakes. Her next company, Granola Girl was founded in 2008 and later incorporated in 2011. Her granola is made with high quality, wholesome ingredients and is naturally delicious. The company services over 350 grocery stores in Western Canada. April is a wife and mother of 3 teenagers, so she understands the importance of life balance and the challenges that come up when raising a family and doing work you love. April is known locally to be the face for the conscious entrepreneur that is making an impact. Her energy and enthusiasm for life is contagious and she continues her mission to encourage young girls and women to believe that they are enough, as the beautiful natural spirit they embody. April is also a co-founder of Serendipity Tea Party, heart-based networking events since 2011. Since 2015, April has been serving her community as an intuitive life purpose coach and start-up business consultant. In 2019, April became a certified Guide to help others discover their Sacred Gifts and live on Purpose. During the pandemic of 2020, Granola Girl was successfully sold so that April could focus more on her life purpose of helping other creative entrepreneurs expand or exit their business through coaching and advising with IveyCorp Advisory Ltd. In all the work she does, April is passionate about finding Spirit, Freedom, Truth, and Love in all forms.

Recent Podcasts and Interviews:

This Commerce Life with Phil Chang and Ken Vanucci
― Starting with your WHY. Panel discussion with Paul Brassard at ICubed Summit hosted by UNBC
― ESSENCEtial Conversations with Lucca Hallex and Rebecca Mears
― The Exchange with Sunil Prasad: From Cake Maker to Granola Girl
― Cool Conversations with Caroline MacGillivray and George Froelich: The Importance of Community Building
― Urban Yogi podcast with Will Blunderfield
― Genicca Whitney Radio Show: Wake up to your Sacred Gifts.
― Human Unleashed with Deidre Sirianni: Honest Entrepreneurship with April Bellia
― Vancouver Real (Video): Entrepreneurship and Getting your Message to the World

Blog Features:

― Granola Girl is Good for the Hood by Jorssen Media
― Great Granola Showdown by Fraiche Nutrition

Signature Talks:

Honest Entrepreneurship: The 3 Commandments for business startups
Reign Like an Empress: Life balance for female Entrepreneurs
Overcoming Overwhelm. The CHAOS Cycle Explained

Speaking Topics:

Helping Hands: how to save time, energy, and money in your business
Personal Branding and Authenticity
Community Building and Value Alignment
Authentic Networking
Marketing and Branding: Creating a CPG that gets attention
Business Development: The Adventures of Granola Girl
How to overcome obstacles in the world of Entrepreneurship
Collaboration over Competition - Serendipity Collective
Careers Day presentations for Grades 7-12: Introduction to Entrepreneurship

Interactive Workshops:

Discover your passion and establishing a sustainable career.
The Feel on Purpose Formula
The CHAOS Cycle: From Chaos to Clarity
Introduction to Discover Your Sacred Gifts
Mastermind Facilitation / Group Coaching
ABC’s of a Launching a Soulful Business
Alignment and Feeling on Purpose

Organisations and Presentations:

Futurpreneur mentorship program
Young Women in Business, presenter and mentorship
UBC: Sauder School of Business, Masters of Food and Resource Economics presenter
Volition Advisors: Guest speaker at Tamwood and Langara College - Personal Branding and Authentic Networking
Project You, presenter and mentorship
Hervana Coworking presenter
Pavilion Coworking, featured speaker (online)
WNorth webinars (online)
Feeding Growth, Guest speaker
Small Business BC, presenter
Vancouver Startup Week, presenter and networking facilitator