Ready to grow your career and business from the comfort of home?
Get a jumpstart on the final stretch of the year at our first-ever virtual members retreat, happening on Google Meet.
We’ll have expert-led workshops and panels where you can hone your skills, from dealing with workplace aggressors to learning how to turn content into conversions.
First new member to sign up gets lunch on us!
Use the code RETREATBIZ for Entrepreneur memberships, and RETREATYP for Young Professional memberships.
Retreat Schedule
Day 1
10:00am
Opening Meditation
Mackenzie DeClue, Yoga Instructor
10:15am
Workshop: How to be Unde(bt)feated, Controlling Your Debt as Best You Can
Briana Franklin, The Prosp(a)rity Project, Founder
Learn how your personal financial habits can effect your career and how to take control, starting with your biggest bill—your debt.
11:15am
Panel: The Commodification of Community
Liz Peña, Producer, Mystic District Market
Tsahai McQuilkin-Layne, Founder, Free to Be Collective
Xandy Poole. Founder, The Blackout Company
Community has become a hot button word, and now it comes at a price. Atlanta event organizers discuss how they are creating community spaces that remain inclusive, what it costs, and how we can bring back accessibility.
12:00pm
LUNCH
1:00pm
Workshop: Content That Converts II
Christy Renee, Brand Storytelling & Business Coach
Learn from award winning public speaker and writer, Christy Renee, about how you can amplify your brand by facing your fears and getting on camera to tell people who you are.
2:00pm
Panel: Health & Wellness
Dr. Carlos Wise, M.D
Dr. Jude Emokpare, M.D.; Owner; Karera Health
Christine Hang, Founder & CEO, MedTech Flow
Pamela Guinn, Public Health Specialist
Learn how to cut the noise and create balance for a healthy lifestyle in spite of high demand workloads, healthcare crises, and TikTok trends.
Day 2
10:00am
Opening Meditation
Mackenzie DeClue, Yoga Instructor
10:15am
Workshop: Shut Up Debra, How to Handle Workplace Karens
Jessica Wise, Audacity Magazine & Events, Founder
Learn how to keep the workplace (and entrepreneurial) Karens at bay with communication tactics, GOOD receipt keeping, and just not giving a flying f---.
11:15am
Panel: Content, Consumption, & It’s Impact on Small Businesses
Cruzer Urameshi, Music Producer & Content Creator
Prachi Patel, Owner, Prachi Henna Art
Our creative panel discusses how content is both king and the devil with it undeniable influence on consumer behavior. Who decides who gets seen? How do you defeat the algorithm? How does this impact small business and even seekers? And WHY on earth is LinkedIn turning into a barely buttoned up Facebook?
12:00pm
LUNCH
1:00pm
Webinar: Black Media from a Worldwide Lens
Nyles Pollonais, Writer & Educator
As he prepares to return to the US after a lengthy stint in Torrevieja, Spain, Nyles shares how Black media is negotiated worldwide. How are we portrayed? How are we seen? And whose job is it to stop the stereotyping?
2:00pm
Panel: The Audacity Book Club vs. Books Bans & the Attack on Libraries
Celeste Daniels, Author, Audacity Book Club Curator
Mea Warren, Associate Librarian
Jessica Wise, Founder, Audacity Magazine & Events
Reading banned books is more important than ever. In the panel, we'll talk about the Audacity's Book Club's role in the fight against book banning and how we can continue to support and collaborate with our local libraries to preserve reading and freedom of the press.