What drops

A preview of what drops, and who’s bringing it.

Here are just some of the people you’ll meet in this room. Come knowing whose work you want to be in front of.

Date
Wednesday, September 23
Time
10am to 12pm PT
Where
Live on Zoom
Co-hosted with
Allison Maslan
Benefiting
Samueli Academy

How this works

Everything drops live, in the room.

Nothing here can be bought in advance. Each expert takes a few minutes to show what they’ve got, and then it drops. The exact package each one brings is announced on the day, which is half the fun of being there.

So this page is not a price list. It’s who is in the room and the kind of work they do, so you arrive already knowing which drops you don’t want to miss.

A portion of the proceeds goes straight to Samueli Academy, a public charter school in Santa Ana with on-site foster care living for students who need it.

The lineup

World-class experts, here for the cause.

Story & Authority

Michelle Cameron Coulter

Michelle Cameron Coulter

Olympic gold medalist · TEDx speaker

She won Olympic gold in synchronized swimming, and she will tell you herself that she hated the water. That is what she speaks about now: what becomes possible once you put the fear down. Her podcast, Inspiring Possibilities, is ranked in the global top three for inspiring shows, and an hour of it can be yours, solo rather than a shared panel. She cuts and posts the clips afterwards, so you leave with content as well as an appearance.

Kim Sorrelle

Kim Sorrelle

CEO, Love Is · author and host

She went on a year-long journey to work out what love actually means, wrote the book about it, and came back convinced it is the missing piece. She now teaches heart-led leadership, and builds companies on it. A guest spot on her show, then a full hour on how to get booked, how to guest well, and how to actually close from the mic. Most people leave a podcast with a nice conversation. She teaches you to leave with clients.

George Makrinos

George Makrinos

Screenwriter and producer · creator of Deep Storywork

A screenwriter and producer currently writing a major motion picture for Universal, who has worked with Academy Award winners Stephen Schwartz, Spike Lee and Guillermo del Toro, as well as Winnie Holzman and producer Marc Platt. He built the career from the ground up with no contacts in the business, and before that worked in real estate development and finance. Deep Storywork is his own system for turning a company’s mission into a Hollywood-level film. Your company’s story, told by someone who tells them for a living.

Marketing & Visibility

Cory Warfield

Cory Warfield

LinkedIn Top Voice · founder coach

A technologist since the early nineties who learned the LinkedIn algorithm building his own SaaS company, and turned it into over a billion impressions, a Top Voice badge and 615,000 followers. He also runs Tech For Good, one of the platform’s biggest newsletters, at 250,000 subscribers. The founders and executives he coaches have brought in more than $6B in revenue, investment and acquisitions between them. He teaches the whole system, then rebuilds your profile with you while you watch. See what he does with a feed →

Jennie Edwards

Jennie Edwards

Brand visionary storyteller · Guided By Imagination

A TEDx speaker and best-selling author of Empowered You, she gets people who hate being on camera onto camera. Either months inside her video mastermind with calls every fortnight, or one four-hour day where you make three videos, edit them and publish them before you log off. Your VA can come too.

James Hickey

James Hickey

Founder, SD Networking Events

He runs 36 events a year through SD Networking Events, which he founded in 2021 and grew into one of San Diego’s biggest business communities, on the back of eighteen years in digital marketing. The whole method comes as a course you keep, plus a live call every single week where the room works on filling yours.

Brittany Jenkins

Brittany Jenkins

Founder and CEO, The Buzz Marketing Co.

She takes your marketing off your plate for a month, but not from a template. Her senior team digs into your brand, audience and goals to work out which channels genuinely make sense, executes on them, then shows your people how it was done so the momentum does not disappear when the month ends. A guest spot on her podcast, What’s the Buzz?, comes with it.

AI & Systems

Laura Carney

Laura Carney

Author, My Father’s List

She spent twenty years copy-editing Good Housekeeping, People, Vanity Fair, GQ, Vogue and Architectural Digest, then finished her late father’s bucket list and wrote the book about it. My Father’s List made Real Simple’s Best Books of 2023, has been on CBS Sunday Morning, NPR and NBC Nightly News, and is now being adapted for the screen. She and Stacey run the Bucket List Challenge together, and she opens that magazine rolodex to you.

Money & Mindset

Mare Brighton

Mare Brighton

Founder and CEO, Connection Project 360

She calls her work Dream Lifting: playing with your own dreams, and then going and carrying somebody else’s. Seven days, five minutes a day is the whole ask of her Dream Nudge Challenge, built for exactly the person who says they have no time for this sort of thing. A month inside Dream Lifting comes after it, and a session with her once you have started.

Be in the room

You can't buy any of this anywhere else.

Free to attend, two hours, live on Zoom. Come with one thing you want to move forward and see who in this room can help you do it.

Registration opens soon Wednesday, September 23 · 10am to 12pm PT · co-hosted with Allison Maslan.