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Upcoming Los Angeles Women in Real Estate® Events
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Los Angeles Virtual Events
Money, Home & Estate Planning: What Happens When the Pieces Don’t Match?
October 24, 2026
Join Women In Real Estate® – Los Angeles for a practical conversation about how money, real estate, financing, insurance, and legal planning intersect.
You can make a perfectly reasonable financial decision and still create a problem somewhere else. A mortgage decision can affect cash flow. An insurance choice can affect the larger financial strategy. The way a property is titled can create legal consequences. An estate plan may say one thing while your accounts, beneficiaries, or real estate say another.
The challenge is that these decisions are often made at different times, with different professionals, and no one is looking at how all the pieces fit together.
EVENT DETAILS
📅 Saturday, October 24, 2026
⏰ 10:00 AM–12:00 PM
📍 Adriana Brava Law | 4401 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 200, Long Beach, CA 90807
🎟️ Free to Attend | Limited to 30 Guests
You’ll hear from:
🎙️Ariel Bowie, BFA®
Wealth Advisor & Behavioral Financial Advisor®
Ariel focuses on a problem many successful people recognize: knowing what to do financially and actually doing it are two different things. She’ll open the conversation by looking at how individually reasonable financial decisions can stop working when no one is coordinating the bigger picture.
🎙️Desiree Vavak
Mortgage & Real Estate Professional
Desiree has worked in mortgage and real estate since 2008 and helps homeowners, landlords, and investors think through financing, equity, leverage, and property decisions within the context of their broader goals. She’ll explore how real estate financing can become part of a larger strategy, including tools that may be appropriate in specific situations.
🎙️Adriana Brava, Esq.
Estate Planning Attorney
With more than 20 years of legal experience, Adriana helps clients understand how trusts, powers of attorney, health care directives, ownership, and other legal decisions support the life and assets they are building.
This is a practical, educational conversation about the places where money, property, financing, insurance, and legal planning overlap.
Come with questions. Leave with a clearer understanding of which pieces of your financial life may need to be talking to each other. 🤝
Los Angeles | Collaboration Over Competition 2.0 Fall Edition - Happy Hour
November 5, 2026
After joining the Women In Real Estate® Virtual Collaboration Over Competition 2.0, continue building the relationships you started online at our Collaboration Over Competition.
🎙️Hosted by Ariel Bowie and Luna Petty, this evening is all about turning virtual introductions into meaningful, in-person connections with women who believe collaboration creates more opportunity than competition.
Whether you're brand new to real estate, growing your business, or simply looking for your community, this is your chance to connect with like-minded women in a relaxed and welcoming environment. 🤝
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
• Meaningful conversations with women across the real estate industry
• Genuine relationship-building in a relaxed setting
• Opportunities for referrals, partnerships, and collaboration
• A supportive community that believes we grow better together 💙
Event Details
📅 Thursday, Nov. 05, 2026
⏰ 5:30 PM
📍 LBX – The Hangar | 4069 N Lakewood Blvd, Long Beach, CA 90808
🎟️ Free Admission | Limited to 30 attendees
Come meet the women you've been connecting with online and continue building relationships that last beyond one event.
✨ Collaboration over competition isn't just a theme—it's how we build.
Virtual | Beyond the Ask: Build a Business People Know How to Refer
November 17 & 18, 2026
They know you. But do they know when to refer you?
Join Women In Real Estate® for Beyond the Ask, a free, two-day interactive virtual workshop designed to help you strengthen referral relationships, communicate your value more clearly, and make it easier for the right people to connect you with new opportunities.
🎙️ Hosted by Ariel Bowie, BFA®, a wealth advisor, real estate professional, and Behavioral Financial Advisor. Drawing on her experience across financial advisory, real estate, and business development, Ariel will share practical ways to help your professional network understand when and how to refer you.
WHAT TO EXPECT:
📅 Day 1 (Tuesday, Nov. 17): They Know You. Do They Know When to Refer You?
60 minutes | Referral Strategy
🎯 Identify the difference between being familiar to your network and being someone they confidently refer.
💬 Recognize the conversations and situations that should prompt people to think of your expertise.
🤝 Identify professionals who are most likely to encounter those opportunities.
🔗 Learn how to build mutually valuable partnerships and make introductions feel natural, not transactional.
📝 Work through an interactive Referral Readiness Workbook to identify your referral triggers and map potential professional partners.
💻 Day 2 (Wednesday, Nov. 18): Build the System That Makes Referrals Easy
90 minutes | Hands-On Implementation
🖥️ Turn your Day 1 strategy into a personalized referral partner webpage.
🎨 Choose a professionally designed layout and customize it with your branding and images.
🎯 Clearly communicate who you serve, the problems you help solve, and how someone can introduce you.
🛠️ Use the interactive website builder without needing coding, web development, or AI experience.
🚀 Learn how to save your project, review your page, and prepare it for publication when appropriate.
EVENT DETAILS
📅 November 17 & 18, 2026
⏰ 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PDT
💻 Virtual Event | via Zoom: Click the "Online Event" below the description
🎟️ Free Admission | Limited Tickets Only!
Please plan to attend both sessions. The work you complete on Day 1 will provide the foundation for Day 2. No technical experience is required. If your business requires marketing or compliance approval, you can save your webpage for review before publishing.
Past Los Angeles Women in Real Estate® Events
Women in Real Estate® Los Angeles Chapter Leaders
Ariel Bowie
Ariel Bowie is a passionate advocate for empowering women through real estate and financial literacy. As both a licensed Realtor® and a seasoned financial professional, she blends deep market knowledge with strategic financial insight to help clients build wealth with intention.
Holding Series 6, 63, and 65 licenses, she is authorized to recommend investments, design retirement plans, and provide holistic financial guidance so that clients can grow, protect, and ultimately pass on their wealth.
With years of experience guiding individuals, families, and investors through buying, selling, and investing, Ariel is known for a client-first approach that connects every transaction to long-term goals and generational impact.
As the Los Angeles Chapter Leader of Women in Real Estate®, she curates workshops, networking events, and mentorship programs that help women learn, connect, and thrive. Ariel’s leadership is rooted in transparency, trust, and shared vision, shaping a more inclusive and financially confident future for Women In Real Estate®.
Luna Petty
Luna Petty’s journey in the mortgage industry began in 1998 while attending California State University, Los Angeles, where she pursued a degree in broadcast communications with aspirations of becoming a journalist. Her introduction to real estate started with a telemarketing position, cold-calling leads as she worked her way through college. Her curiosity and sharp analytical skills soon led her into loan processing, where she developed a deep understanding of the mortgage landscape, learning firsthand what lenders look for in a successful loan approval.
With extensive education in Real Estate and Business Law, Real Estate Finance, Business Communications, and Economics, Luna quickly established herself as a knowledgeable and resourceful professional. In 2003, she opened her first mortgage office in Covina, California, closing over $15 million in home loans in its first year. By 2005, she expanded operations to Orange County and Diamond Bar, growing her impact in the real estate finance industry. In 2006, Luna’s company, Unyque Financial, partnered with F & M Business Center, a Pasadena-based tax and business services firm, creating a seamless integration of mortgage lending and taxation services.
Today, Luna is a licensed Mortgage Broker, Property Manager, Notary Public, and Certified Tax Preparer. She takes a strategic, client-focused approach to home loans, prioritizing long-term financial planning and real estate investment strategies. Her commitment to personalized service has been the foundation of her success, ensuring each client receives a loan solution tailored to their unique needs and goals.
Beyond her work in mortgages, Luna is the host of Your Real Talk, a podcast dedicated to breaking down real estate and mortgage topics in an easy-to-understand, engaging format. When she’s not helping clients build wealth through homeownership, she enjoys spending time with family, exploring the outdoors, and making memories with her beloved pug, Q.
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