Kim England and Lisha Crytzer have been business partners for a long time, and after an event changed their business, they decided they wanted to offer the same experience for others. They launched the Fast Inc. Network, and decided to do their first event big, by featuring Shark Tanker, Daymond John. We had an open and honest conversation about th…

Vanessa McGovern is the CEO and Co-Owner of Gifted Travel Network, and the EVP of Business Development and Strategic Partnerships at the Global Institute for Travel Entrepreneurs. In a nutshell, her companies are the ones to know if you're in the travel industry! Vanessa has used the Book More Travel Workshop over the years to first, build rapport …

Philip Taylor is well known in the financial industry, and he is the founder of the largest conference for financial industry influencers, FinCon. Philip started a blog about his journey with money in 2007, and quickly grew his following. After seeing a need for a conference catering to his industry, he decided to take the reins and put it together…

Podcast Movement is an event, that you guessed it, is strictly for podcasters. After being in the podcast community, Dan joined with three other people to fulfill the need of a large event. Without knowing if their concept was going to work, they turned to the community to see if the concept was one they should roll with. After not just proving the…

Erin Joy has a long history of entrepreneurship and is the owner of Black Dress Partners. After doing smaller events, she knew she wanted to uplevel her brand and gain more awareness. However, she never dreamed the impact an event would have on her business. Now entering her 4th year, Erin shares the experience of putting on an event, why it's wort…

I'll be honest, I stressed over so many details that didn't matter when I should have been stressing more about this one detail. In this solo show, I cover the absolute most important thing that you must know and must be clear-cut about when putting together your first event. This one thing will determine EVERYTHING (and I really mean everything) w…

Chris Krimitsos is the founder and co-owner of Podfest Multimedia Expo and has years of experience running events. He has experience everything from local meetups to large international conferences, and we had an incredible discussion on what it takes to succeed with live events. In this episode you'll learn: - Where the idea for Podfest came from,…

Samantha Kelly has an incredible story. She started as a struggling single mother and business owner, but kept networking and building her community. After seeing events that she wished she could attend in Ireland and seeing a need, she decided to put together her first event in Ireland, which lead to Social Media Dublin (which she now has sold). S…

Natalie Eckdahl has hosted the BixChix podcast since 2014, and has built an incredible community of women CEO's through, almost 300 episodes. After running her own masterminds and 1:1 coaching, she was moved while speaking at an event attended only by women. It was after feeling that magic in the room when she decided to put together her own live e…

Katie Krtimitsos is the owner and founder of Biz Women Rock. Her business is all about helping women business owners succeed and grow via a podcast, an academy, coaching, and as of last year, a Mastermind Retreat. In this episode, Katie gets real about her mastermind retreat, now going into its second year. - Why she waited a few years t - The stra…

In today's episode, I'm switching things up and offering a quick tip of the lessons I wish I would have known when sating a business. Today's tip is about building your audience, and do you need an established audience to build an event or can you use the event to build your audience? The answer is yes to both, and I describe what you'll need to un…

Chris Marr has a vast background in events. He started out in a venue that hosted events, so he learned the ins and outs of events of all kinds. Events organization has been drilled into him for a long time. His first business started off as an agency and he always did events. His first event was a marketing workshop that started for - How he's gro…

After seeing a need for a social media marketing conference in Dallas, Lissa Duty took it upon herself to take the lead and create one! We talked about why she started the event, and how she been able to grow it from a local conference to attracting international speakers and guests. In this episode we discuss: - The strategies Lissa uses to promot…

Paul Chapman is a Marketing Strategist and Co-Creator of Marketing Jump Leads. He's also the author of the book The Game Changers (which you can find on Amazon here --> http://amzn.to/2iSBrZ6). After publishing his book, and wanting to create an event that ties with it, also helping business owners, he decided to put together the Game Changers Live…

Ursula Mentjes is the founder of Sales Coach Now and is a seasoned expert in running live events. She has produced all kinds of events ranging in small rooms to over 600 people and everything in-between. In this episode, we talked a lot about her signature event, Sales Camp. This is an event she runs several times a year, that is integrated with he…

After not having any luck finding a conference where Emily could network with fellow Freelancers, she did what any true entrepreneur does and did it herself. She lived in Austin, and knew she was on a time crunch because she would be backing up to SXSW, so she put together her entire first conference in 100 days and FREECON was officially born. Now…

Tim Elliot and his business partner decided they didn't have enough quality marketing events in their area. So they did what any great entrepreneur would do, and they created one. Tim shares his journey of how and why they decided to do one, along with the things he learned along the way, plus so much more. In this episode we discuss; How they went…

Tena Pettis is the owner and founder of Tenacious, among several other entrepreneurial ventures. After seeing a need in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area for an event, she decided to take on the challenge by putting together The Before. Conference. Now getting to launch this venture into its 3rd year, Tena shared with us some of her biggest lessons lea…

Events almost broke me, in more ways than one. But even through the stress of taking on such a large initiative, it paid off in ways I could never have imagined. In this very first episode, I get super honest with the good and the bad of live events, and why I wanted to create this podcast. If you're ready to start planning your first event, or if …