A private ivory dossier titled OVERRULED with a marble and gold gavel resting atop it on a long marble boardroom table, deep crimson peonies and gold chairs in the background.
A Courtroom-Meets-Boardroom Experience

OVERRULED

Your business has grown.
Has the way you price, lead,
and show up grown with it?

Watch the replay from the Top 100 Most Powerful Black Women Summit and examine what may be shaping your business decisions, and what those decisions may already be costing you in visibility, authority, clients, contracts, growth, and money.

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$30 · 30-Day Access · All 5 Days
Behind the Scenes

Before court came to order.

5
Days of the Summit
100
Speakers
$30
For 30 days of access

That’s 30 cents a speaker.
OVERRULED is included.

On demand on Zondra TV November 23 through February 23.

The Case

You may think you’re making strategic business decisions.
I’m going to show you what may actually be making them.

Beliefs you inherited. Expectations you learned to obey. Ways of thinking that once protected you but may now be shaping how much you charge, how visible you become, how boldly you lead, and what your brand communicates before you ever say a word.

You’ve been summoned.

Now on demand.
Watch anytime for 30 days.

Watch me preside over OVERRULED, a courtroom-meets-boardroom experience at the Top 100 Most Powerful Black Women Summit.

I’m calling you into the room because I see you.

You may be making smart moves on the surface. But if old beliefs are still shaping how you price, show up, lead, ask, and position your work, your business may be paying for it.

In money. In clients. In contracts. In growth. In authority.

OVERRULED is where we find out what’s driving those decisions⁠—and what it’s costing you.

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Virtual·Global
Streaming on Zondra TV November 23 through February 23.

You may already know something isn’t matching.

Your expertise has grown.
Your pricing hasn’t.
Your business is visible.
But the strongest parts of your work are still too easy to miss.
You are waiting to feel ready.
But while you wait, someone else may be pitching, asking, and taking the opportunity.

If any of this feels familiar, that is exactly why I’m calling you into the room.

The Evidence Is Already In
2.02M
Black women-owned businesses in the U.S. in 2024.
48.8% of all Black-owned businesses.
96.4%
of Black women-owned businesses are nonemployer businesses.
Operating without paid employees.
3.6%
of Black women-owned businesses are employer firms.
Approximately 72,027 businesses.
$74.1B
generated by Black women-owned employer businesses.
62.4% of all Black women-owned business revenue.

We are starting businesses. The question is: are we building them to grow?

OVERRULED examines the decisions within our control—how we price, position, lead, show up, ask for more, and communicate the authority of what we’ve built.

Source: The 2025 Wells Fargo Impact of Women-Owned Businesses, Black/African American Women Entrepreneurs. Data reflects 2024 estimates.
The Matter Before the Room

You keep trying to fix the strategy.
But what if the real problem is the decisions underneath it?

You know what to do.

But somewhere between knowing and doing, you lower the price. Delay the pitch. Hide the strongest work. Soften the ask. Wait for another sign that you’re ready.

And those decisions can have a real business cost.

OVERRULED examines what is driving those decisions—and what those decisions may already be costing your business.

Money ◆ Clients ◆ Contracts ◆ Visibility ◆ Growth ◆ Authority

And the cost isn’t only financial. It can drain your confidence, your energy, and your momentum—and leave you frustrated that your business still isn’t reflecting the level you know you’re capable of.

Some of your business decisions may be coming from a woman you have already outgrown.

Docket OVR-102426 · Recorded Live · Top 100 Most Powerful Black Women Summit

✦The Charges✦

Not character flaws.
Business decisions with a cost.

Does your brand carry the weight of your work?

You may have the experience, the results, and the body of work. But if your brand doesn’t communicate that level of authority before you ever enter the room, people may underestimate the value, overlook the opportunity, or never think to call you in the first place.

Charge 01
You lowered it before anyone asked you to.
Read the charge
Charge 01 · Filed
Undercharging
You decided it was too much before the buyer ever had the chance to object. This charge examines what makes you lower the price before anyone asks—and the revenue, profit, and negotiating power you may be leaving on the table.
Charge 02
You have been covering what the world is waiting to see.
Read the charge
Charge 02 · Filed
Visibility
People cannot hire, refer, recommend, or partner with work they do not fully understand exists. This charge examines why your visibility has not caught up with your ability—and what that may be costing you in clients and opportunities.
Charge 03
You saved a seat for when it was finally your turn.
Read the charge
Charge 03 · Filed
The Wait
Waiting has a business cost. While you wait to feel ready, someone else may be pitching, asking, and closing the contracts and opportunities in front of you. This charge asks what the wait is actually costing your growth.
When You Leave the Room

You won’t leave with another pep talk.
You’ll leave knowing what changes next.

01

What has really been driving your decisions.

See the beliefs, expectations and habits underneath the choices you have been calling strategy.

02

Where you may be leaving money on the table.

See where your pricing, visibility and positioning may not yet match the level of work you are actually delivering.

03

Where hesitation may be delaying opportunity.

See where waiting for the right moment may be costing you the contracts, pitches and opportunities that do not wait.

04

Which decision to change next.

Leave with one clear move—and the authority to make it, backed by practical assessments to help you continue the work.

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Who Presides

I’m Maria Lören.

I’ve spent my career looking at what people build, what the world sees—and the gap that sometimes exists between the two.

That gap has a commercial consequence. If people cannot see the value clearly, they cannot respond to it clearly.

OVERRULED brings that same eye to the woman behind the business.

Because sometimes the problem isn’t that you need another strategy. Sometimes you need to see what has been quietly influencing the strategies you already have.

With 20+ years of experience across consumer, retail, beauty, media, nonprofit, and luxury sectors, I build the brand—and the woman behind it.

Board Member & Strategic Partner · Top 100 Most Powerful Black Women
Founder · House of Lören
Creative Director · Maria Lören Designs
Co-Founder · Melanin & Muscles
Maria Lören
Maria Lören Presiding · OVERRULED
The Hearing

How the case unfolds.

Inside OVERRULED, we take the decisions you’ve been making and look at what has actually been driving them.

An open ivory five-panel dossier resting on warm marble in soft natural light.
Arched open doorway

THE OPENING
STATEMENT

Name the belief or pattern
quietly shaping how you
price, lead and show up.

Magnifying glass

THE EVIDENCE

Examine the stories, habits,
and expectations behind
the choices you have
been making.

Balanced scales

THE CROSS-
EXAMINATION

Question what is true,
what was inherited, and
what no longer belongs
in the room.

Gavel and sound block

THE RULING

Decide what is dismissed,
what is reclaimed,
and what changes now.

Ornate key

THE NEXT MOVE

Leave with one clear decision—
and three assessments to
help you put it into practice.

Name the belief or pattern quietly shaping how you price, lead and show up.

Examine the stories, habits, and expectations behind the choices you have been making.

Question what is true, what was inherited, and what no longer belongs in the room.

Decide what is dismissed, what is reclaimed, and what changes now.

Leave with one clear decision—and three assessments to help you put it into practice.

The Summit

The Top 100 Most Powerful Black Women Summit, by the numbers.

5,500Summit attendees across two editions
24,890Social views & impressions in October
1,000+Watching live on YouTube

Reported attendance and platform activity, March to October 2026.

Women seated and standing around a sofa, laughing together during OVERRULED.
A judge raising a gavel while a woman wearing a price tag listens, with others seated on the sofa.

Inside the courtroom, live.

I want to say to the judge, thank you for seeing me, because you’re right. I tried to protect everyone around me.”

Natalia Nicholson · Founder, Top 100 Most Powerful Black Women

“This took the mask off. We always play a role when we leave the house, and this helped take the mask off, the role.”

From the courtroom

“That was phenomenal. It was fun, and as fun as it was, there was a lot of depth to it.”

From the courtroom

“After being in this courtroom, it has definitely put me in a reflective space.”

From the courtroom

“I will update one thing about how I will show up in public this week!”

From the courtroom

“She was the judge, jury and encourager.”

Savannah Frierson · Board Member · Live chat
An ivory marble gavel in sharp focus on a marble table, deep burgundy ranunculus in the foreground, and a woman in white walking through the grand room behind.
The Ruling

The court finds
in favor of the woman
you are becoming.

What got you here does not have to decide what happens next.

The former ruling no longer stands.
The Ruling

The court finds in favor of the woman you are becoming.

What got you here does not have to decide what happens next.

The former ruling no longer stands.
Evidence to Take With You

The work doesn’t end
when the room closes.

Each charge comes with a private tool designed to help you take what you saw in OVERRULED and put it into practice.

Exhibit
Charge It! — The Boardroom Edition
Charge It!
The Boardroom Edition
A Pricing Clarity Tool

See where you may be lowering your price before the buyer has even responded—and how much of that may be money left on the table.

Exhibit
Who Leads Your Brand? — The Boardroom Edition
Who Leads Your Brand?
The Boardroom Edition
A Brand Archetype Assessment

See which part of you is driving your brand decisions—and how that may be shaping your visibility, positioning and the way the market perceives your authority.

Exhibit
The Name Weight Assessment — The Boardroom Edition
The Name Weight Assessment
The Boardroom Edition
An Authority and Positioning Assessment

See whether your name, positioning and brand presence carry enough authority for the level of work behind them.

All three are free and live in the Private Docket. A brief email check-in reveals your personalized results.

Three Private Assessments · Personalized Results · Complimentary

If You Were in the Room

“Can’t we do this in House of Lören? I want to go to court again.”

From the courtroom

Ready to do this work
in the room with me?

House of Lören is where we build the brand, and the woman behind it, over 90 days. The next residency begins in December and is limited to seven women.

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Before You Enter

A few things
you might be wondering.

A courtroom-meets-boardroom experience, delivered live at the Top 100 Most Powerful Black Women Summit, designed to help women examine the beliefs, habits and expectations influencing how they price, position, lead and show up in business.

Not anymore. OVERRULED was delivered live, virtually, as part of the Top 100 Most Powerful Black Women Summit. The replay is available on demand through Zondra TV from November 23 through February 23.

$30 gives you 30 days of access to the full Summit replay: all five days and 100 speakers, including OVERRULED. It is the only way to watch, and it streams on Zondra TV from November 23 through February 23.

Clarity on what has really been driving your decisions, where value may be left on the table, what no longer gets to lead, and one clear next move—plus three practical assessments to help you continue the work: Charge It!, Who Leads Your Brand?, and The Name Weight Assessment.

Charge It! (a pricing clarity tool), Who Leads Your Brand? (a brand archetype assessment), and The Name Weight Assessment (an authority and positioning assessment)—each opens in the Private Docket, free with a brief email check-in.

A woman’s hand in gold statement jewelry resting on a marble table beside an ivory marble gavel, an ivory dossier, a gold pen, crystal glasses, burgundy silk, and deep red ranunculus.
Your Summons

You have been
called to the room.

You built the business. Now let’s make sure
the woman you’ve become is the one leading it.

Court Is in Session · On Demand
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Top 100 Most Powerful Black Women Summit
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Your Summons

You have been
called to the room.

You built the business. Now let’s make sure the woman you’ve become is the one leading it.

Court Is in Session · On Demand
30 Days · $30 · All 5 Days · 100 Speakers
Top 100 Most Powerful Black Women Summit
Answer the Summons →
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