Welcome to the Self-Made Entrepreneur Conference! Here we are all about the hustle and making dreams come true. Attendees can expect to be inspired, motivated and be given the tools needed to take the next steps in their idea, side hustle, or small business. They will learn from a diverse blend of leaders, influencers, innovators and hear real-life success stories from local entrepreneurs just like you! This full day of education and connection is sure to get creative juices flowing as attendees return home with expert tips and tricks to catapult their own businesses forward.
IDEA Track
Conquer Your Fears With Hypnotic Confidence
A self-made entrepreneur can face many situations where he or she may face taking calculated risks and uncertainty. Mastering one's mindset and learning to leverage mental toughness, resiliency, and fearlessness is crucial on the path of the entrepreneur. In this session, we will explore new ways of overcoming fears and lack of confidence using principles of NLP and Self Hypnosis. Participants will learn mindset strategies to overcome limiting beliefs and negative thought patterns that they can immediately implement, and that will allow their entrepreneurial journey to blossom and flourish.
How to Create a Hell Yes! Offer that Sells Itself
The strength of your offer determines the success of your business. If you’re someone who wants to make plenty of money serving clients that you love and have whitespace for downtime – you need a strong offer. During this session we’re going to break down our proven system to help you create your HELL YES! offer and show you how to make it more appealing so it calls in your ideal clients, streamlines the delivery, and sells itself so you can easily scale and optimize your business.
Power of Storytelling to Connect with Your Customer
As an entrepreneur, it's vital to connect with your customer beyond your product or service offering. Most customers would choose a product or service if they feel connected with the vision of the company or the values of the founders. Until you create a consumer brand, your story will connect your customers to your product or service. This session will have a live exercise with participants to write their stories and improve their story telling aspect of it.
Powerful Decisions + Long Game Results
As an entrepreneur, you are being called to constantly move through discomfort, in order to grow your entrepreneurial self-concept and your business. You are also called to overcome indecision, doubt, judgment, fear, and the spiral that your human brain loves to remain stuck in. You don't have time to keep rolling around in the muck. You are going to get clear, feel confident, and show up convicted when you are plugged back into the power of inspired, empowered decision-making. When you access the tangible and intangible business coaching tools, you will be propelled into actions that yield prosperous outcomes; emotional and financial wealth, freedom, and joy.
Public Speaking: The Business Game-Changer
What does it take to become a thought leader? To be seen as the expert or the authority in your field? What will it take to get your business to the next level? Often, nothing more than the willingness to speak up and share your thoughts and experiences in public. In this session we will teach you:
- Why public speaking is so important, how to brand yourself for speaking and how to find and secure gigs. You'll also learn why comfort with public speaking is so important (and how to get comfortable, even if you usually get nervous.)
- Understand why women are at a disadvantage when it comes to securing speaking opportunities and how to work around those obstacles.
- Discover how to brand yourself for public speaking
- Find out how to identify speaking opportunities and secure the gig
- Learn how to leverage your speaking for career and business benefits
Set Your Surroundings Up for Success
Come learn about the ways your environment influences you and your financial potential. You’ll get a new empowering perspective of the space you’re in and how it influences your success and financial potential. You’ll leave inspired to be more intentional about your home and work spaces, and making sure they are set up to help you succeed and prosper in life and business.
Building a Brand That Will Last: Embracing DEI from the Start
DEI has been a hot topic over the last couple of years and many businesses have made the change to be more inclusive. What happened if brands didn’t wait until it was the “right thing to do” to promote diversity and inclusion? What if it was intentional from the beginning?
The goal of this session is to introduce new ways of weaving DEI initiatives into the core strategy of the business long before entrepreneurs launch their brands. Kristie Raymond, owner of HumanKind Casting, will teach attendees ways their brand can show up to the world more authentically and make everyone feel welcome and connected along the way.
side hustle Track
Grow Your Business Faster with a BullsEye Brand
When you stop speaking to everyone and start narrowing your focus and specialization, you're able to become KNOWN and accelerate the growth of your brand. Learn what a niche is, why it matters, and how it can help your business. Learn how to apply my signature BullsEye Branding Formula and you will build a memorable, magnetic and money-making brand in no time.
Scaling Your Food Business
Trying to figure out how to take your food business to the next level? Save yourself time and learn real-life lessons from, Natalie Rodriguez, as she describes her own journey from selling food residentially to opening the doors to her very own restaurant. Attendees will walk away with tips and tricks to make the process of growing their food business quicker and easier.
Increase Your Visibility and Connect with New Audiences
Have you ever been called “The best-kept secret?” It might seem like a compliment, but it’s not the best growth strategy! If people who need your message, products, and services can’t find you, how can they work with you? You have a gift! People need what you offer and it's time to be seen. Enter visibility. As professionals, and business owners, we hear a lot about the importance of “visibility.” It keeps you top-of-mind and connects you to collaborators and potential clients. In a nutshell, visibility can change your life and business. In this workshop, we will touch on four out-of-the-box ways to increase your visibility and connect with new audiences! We'll bust some of the myths of visibility and help you choose where you feel best showing up and getting visible. This workshop is ideal for brick-and-mortar business owners, entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, coaches, and consultants who are ready to get their message out effectively across multiple platforms.
Personal Branding for Purpose-Driven Pathfinders
Are you tired of burning money on coaches, campaigns, or solutions that make marketing more frustrating than fun? Entrepreneurs with a distinct and disruptive marketing strategy do way better than those without, but where do YOU begin? Dot Connector Consulting inspires entrepreneurial pathfinders to amplify their value, vision, and visibility by transforming a purpose-driven personality into a CEO marketing mentality.
To profit peacefully, you must possess a marketing mentality. The CEO Marketing Mentality is my marketing methodology for a personal branding strategy that aligns with your marketing approach for maximum impact. During this breakout session, social entrepreneurs and service providers will learn how to connect the dots in their business with a distinct and disruptive strategy that transcends traditional marketing tactics, turning them into transformational thought leaders.
A Beginner-Friendly Roadmap to Boosting Your Business with TikTok
Are you looking to increase your brand's reach and engagement on social media? TikTok has exploded in popularity over the past few years and is a great platform for businesses of all sizes to showcase their products and services. In this workshop, we will provide a beginner-friendly roadmap to use this platform to boost your business. Topics we will cover:
- Setting up your business account on TikTok
- Creating engaging content that resonates with your target audience
- Utilizing hashtags and trends to increase visibility
- Collaborating with influencers and other businesses on the platform
- Tips on the types of content to create
- Secrets to creating content in batches to save you time
- Measuring and analyzing the performance of your TikTok marketing efforts
By the end of this workshop, you will have a solid understanding of how to effectively use TikTok to promote your business and reach a wider audience. No prior experience with the platform is necessary.
Breaking Through Fear to Make Big Changes
Doing the work but not getting results? Looking to take your business to the next level but don't know how? Are you finding yourself resisting doing what needs to get done? Even when your mindset is positive and you affirm TF out of your days?! (How frustrating!) Have no fear! (Literally, get rid of it on the spot). My name is Katie, I am an Energy Alignment Specialist and Wordsmith here to assist you in finding the root of the fear that's halting your headway (which is just a feeling btw), locating where it lives in your cellular memory, and recoding the program with a new set of instructions you tell yourself about your ability to succeed. Mindset is important, but BODYSET is where your beliefs really live. Based on the work of Drs. Joe Dispenza, Bruce Lipton, and David R. Hawkins, these tools and techniques you will learn are rooted in science and have been around for thousands of years, and truly are pure f'ing magick. Get through any fear, doubt, worry, overwhelm, confusion, lack of confidence, crappy money or success beliefs, and everything in-between. Quantum shift into a brand new person, in a brand new reality that's aligned with where you're headed and has you finding immediate proof that your upgraded life is right here, right now. Expect miracles and you WILL receive them!
Sales for People Who Hate Selling
Do you love what you do but hate selling? Perhaps you get to the end of your workday and literally everything else is done other than the sales calls you *promised* yourself you’d get to today. If this sounds like you, I am here to help! The hard facts are that unless people are swarming to buy from you or you have the luxury of outsourcing, in order to succeed in business you need to be able to sell. This session will focus not just on reframing selling in a way where it becomes positive for you, but also brings you practical tips and tricks to help you take consistent action and make those sales calls. As a business coach and former sales and marketing director of the software company I co-founded, I’ve had to help others (and myself!) successfully work through call reluctance issues and I look forward to sharing what I’ve learned to support you!
business owner Track
Metamorphosis in Action: Leaving Behind What No Longer Serves Us
Emotional openness, authenticity and expansion are directly felt in Margie Breault’s eyes. Yet, as an energy healer, coach, mentor and community leader, Margie knows from her lived experience that false belief systems and looping patterns can keep us stuck in imposter syndrome. In this place, we are unable to see our value, trust our inner knowing and manifest the life we desire. Breault teaches the audience how to connect with themselves on a deep level, breaking free from those conditionings and walking them towards an empowered vision of themselves through the teaching of natural law, meditation and sound. Known for dropping fireworks of awareness into the audience, Margie will be leaving you feeling enlivened and full of energy to propel your business forward.
How to Build Wealth as an Entrepreneur: Learn Simple Investing Strategies to Help You Retire Comfortably
The idea of learning to invest on your own can sound daunting and complicated, especially when you are trying to run a business and you're already short on time. The truth is that investing is not complicated - it's just unfamiliar to most of us. Investing is one of the best ways to grow your wealth, even if you are a beginner or in some debt. As an entrepreneur, you actually have a better opportunity than W2 workers to save taxes using retirement accounts. If you've ever wondered... How can and should I be investing as an entrepreneur? Is now really the best time for me to start investing or to contribute more to investments? (short answer, absolutely and I'll tell you why)! By the end of this workshop, you'll have tangible next steps to take control of your finances with a simple starter investing strategy. We'll cover -2 ways to fast-track your wealth building so you can retire comfortably and 3 keys to making money in the stock market even if you are short on time.
The PR Landscape: Laying the Groundwork for Media Success
Many entrepreneurs understand the power of PR, but few think about the groundwork that goes into a successful PR campaign, especially for a new brand. With more than a decade of experience providing PR services to entrepreneurs and startups, Kristen Elworthy will share the current media landscape and what you need to do to prepare your product business for media success. This session will serve as PR 101 for brands, breaking down what companies need to have in place to catch the attention of press, sharing the importance of affiliate programs in product PR, how startups should go about pitching media, and her tips from years of working with emerging brands at Seven Hills Communications. The session will close with an "Ask a Publicist Anything" rapid-fire round where attendees will be able to get their burning PR questions answered.
How to Make $$$ Podcasting
In this day and age, creating various forms of content for your business is imperative. Learn from Jackie Zuk, podcasting expert, on ways you can bring your business to the next level with podcasting. In this session, attendees will learn the best tools to use to get started, effective ways to promote your podcast, tips on getting guests, ways to grow your audience, and much more!
Effective Ways to Fund Your Nonprofit
Is the demand for your services currently outweighing your current budget? Many nonprofits that are making powerful impacts in their communities share the same struggle. In this workshop, Debbi Mallinson, grant writer and nonprofit consultant will teach attendees creative ways to diversify funding sources to ensure long-term success.
Know Your Numbers
In this breakout session, we will activate the community of entrepreneurs to focus on their most pressing business finance issues. We will discuss and align prioritizing and demystifying profit, talk about cash flow and forecasting confidence as well as anticipating and overcoming financial pitfalls that every business owner needs to be aware of. This will be a safe place to share challenges, demystify financial jargon, and gain financial confidence.
Save Time and Get More Done in Your Business with Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is one of the hottest topics in the tech world right now, but it's not just for Silicon Valley! In fact, anyone – from solopreneurs to small business owners – can learn how to use AI tools to help them save time and get more done. Discover ways AI can support your business – from brainstorming social media content ideas, creating ad copy, writing blog posts, and more.