CB3 Connections

After over 25 years of helping organizations build, scale, and elevate, I founded CB3 Connections to empower female founders ready to transform growth challenges into breakthrough opportunities.

Female founders often face unique roadblocks on their business journey - from strategic uncertainty and implementation overwhelm to confidence barriers that limit their impact and income. 

The A3: Abundantly Above All Coaching Program provides the clarity, strategy, and implementation support needed to navigate these challenges with confidence and purpose.

What We Deliver:
Clear pathways for women feeling stuck not knowing where to start, how to progress or at revenue plateaus and overwhelmed by growth decisions. The program transforms confusion into confidence through proven business principles and timeless wisdom that ensure businesses build on foundations strong enough to support sustainable growth.

Client Transformations Include:
- Breaking free from revenue ceilings without sacrificing personal wellbeing
- Turning market confusion into clear, compelling positioning that attracts ideal clients
- Replacing overwhelm with efficient systems that support scaling
- Building businesses that create both profit and purpose-driven impact

The mission at CB3 Connections is simple: equipping women with strategic insight, practical tools, and the confidence needed to steward their talents effectively and create businesses that bear fruit in every season.

👉 Ready to overcome growth roadblocks and scale effectively and efficiently? Let's connect!

Founder & CEO (Chief Elevation Officer)

Helping Female Founders Build Businesses That Work for Them (Not the Other Way Around) In a private space just for you, no competing voices or distractions, where you can be as candid, vulnerable, and realize transformation at its height.

You’ve poured your heart into building your business—working tirelessly, juggling endless tasks, and doing everything you can to make it successful. And it shows.  But even the most driven entrepreneurs hit moments where they feel stuck. Maybe you’ve hit a revenue ceiling. Maybe your days are consumed by fires and never-ending tasks. Or maybe you’re just tired.  

Through the A3: Abundantly Above All Coaching Program, I work with you to move beyond hustle mode and start making bold moves that lead to real results.  This isn’t group coaching where you’re one of many. This is private coaching tailored to YOUR business challenges, YOUR goals, and YOUR next breakthrough—a place where you can be as vulnerable as needed without wondering if you’re sharing too much. This means faster breakthroughs, deeper clarity, and strategies designed specifically for YOUR success.

Here’s What You Can Accomplish in A3  
1. Clarify Your Vision:  renewed focus and confidence in where your business is headed.  
2. Craft Winning Strategies: a clear plan to grow revenue without adding chaos to your life.  
3. Build Systems That Work: freedom from being the bottleneck so your business can thrive without exhausting you.  
4. Elevate Your Leadership: stepping out of the grind and into leadership with clarity and authority.

This isn’t about working harder—it’s about working smarter and building a business that works for YOU.

Why Work With Me? For over 15 years, I’ve helped organizations uplevel their operations and achieve extraordinary growth as an advisor, consultant, and coach. I know what it takes to turn overwhelm into opportunity—and I’m here to help you do the same.

Here’s what happens when we work together:  
Revenue grows (on average by 30-50% in months), Chaos turns into clarity with systems that free up hours of your time weekly. You finally get off the hamster wheel and start leading your business instead of letting it run you.

YOU get to see measurable revenue growth, more time for what matters most, and a business that supports your life, not consumes it.

Ready for Your Breakthrough?  Apply to work with me! https://forms.gle/jps3pryNHysRZogj9

Cerissa "Cece"💰 B.

Saefkow Training Center

Instructor for high-quality CPR/AED, pediatric and adult first aid, BLS, ACLS and babysitter safety courses. Provide talks concerning community safety issues at local schools and businesses. Offer AEDs (automated external defibrillators), AED inspection and maintenance. Also a small, woman-owned, Chardon local business owner. Skills include website manager, sales, marketing, and creative solutions for local community safety issues.

Business Owner

Lake County Pain and Diagnostics

Plan and implement experienced nursing care for perioperative pain management patients in a busy surgical center. Other nursing and management tasks as directed by the DON including supply inventory, delegating tasks, patient callbacks, and assisting with quarterly QI projects. Some tasks include sterile procedure setup, monitoring patient vital signs, assisting patients with ambulating post procedure, IV insertion and maintenance, and IV sedation.

Assistant Director of Nursing

Lake Health

Plan and implement advanced nursing care in a busy community ICU setting. Skills include open heart nursing care, CCRT, STEMI care, postoperative patient care, ventilator care, implementing ACLS protocols, assisting other floors as RRT, floating to various units, caring for multiple critical patients, sheath removal care, IH care, patient hygiene, medication delivery and management, collaborating with patient support team (patient family and friends, PT, MD, pharmacy, PCNA, OT, RT, RN, nutrition, PA, NP, housekeeping, maintenance, chaplain, IT), advanced knowledge of IV medications and drips, APACHE scoring, charting in Soarian, emotional and physical support for patient.

Critical Care Registered Nurse

Plan and implement basic nursing care for clients in a busy 24 bed ICU unit including tasks such as bed baths, vital signs, toileting, blood glucose checks, intake and output recordings, documentation, hourly rounding, other tasks as assigned by the RN. Specialized tasks include EKGs, assisting with initiation of intentional hypothermia, chest compressions, code situations, transporting critically ill patients, patient care for open heart client (CABG) pre/post surgery, chest tube recording, continuous telemetry monitoring, hourly glucose checks and outputs. 

Support assistant activities include entering doctor’s orders into the electronic medical record, answering phones in a professional and courteous manner, interacting with various departments and physicians, various secretarial duties.

Patient Care Associate/ Support Assistant

Cleveland Clinic

Plan and implement basic emergency care for clients in a 10 bed pediatric ER, including vital signs, POC testing (pregnancy, glucose, urine dipstick, fecal occult blood, rapid strep A), EKGs, and assisting the nurses and pediatricians with various procedures.

Emergency Room Technician

Ashtabula County Medical Center

Implemented basic nursing care in a rural emergency department as well as performed other specialized tasks such as wound irrigation and dressings, fiberglass splints, patient transportation, EKGs, stocking special supplies, and interacting with various departments and personnel within the hospital system.

Orthopaedic Rehab Specialists, PC

Cared for outpatient clients with varying degrees of physical needs from knee surgeries to multiple sclerosis. Performed specialized tasks such as simple massage, traction, TENS units, and teaching simple exercises as directed.

Physical Therapist Technician

I am currently working in a direct patient care and administration capacity at a pain management center. I previously worked as an RN BSN in a community hospital ICU for over 3 years. I have been a licensed EMT since 2008 and previously held EMT-B licenses in 3 states. I was previously certified as an STNA and I have a current healthcare provider BLS and ACLS certification as well as current CPI certification. I have worked in various care settings and I have 10+ years of experience with professional, client-centered medical care.

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