Kris Meyer started making movies in 2000 as an Associate Producer on the Farrelly Brothers’ Jim Carey hit “Me Myself & Irene”. Today, his IMDB page lists 22 producing credits in total, including many famous films as well as one that’s not so well known called “On Broadway,” which was written and directed by Dave McLaughlin. Kris continues to make movies, producing an indie film roughly every year, while also running Muddhouse Media, a podcast studio he founded, which several produces original story shows as well as corporate podcasts. If every company today has to be a media company, and business storytelling is core to business strategy, then Kris is a guy whose perspective we want to get.

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Anyone who has ever played a sport knows there’s a difference between practice days and game days. Well we have game days in our careers too. Some days, there’s just more at stake. To say that another way, opportunities are not distributed equally across our work weeks. Job interviews. Promotion opportunities. A big client pitch. An investor presentation. These are moments we need to win. In this talk, Dave will lead a conversation around this view of major moments, how to recognize and be ready for them — and how to make more of them happen, because these are the moments we need if we’re looking to achieve big things.

Disclosure: this conversation will lean toward focusing on men’s experience of “game days” in work life, because of a new business that I’m exploring. But of course everyone is welcome to attend this event and participate in the discussion!

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Growing your business tiktok following is hard to do — but that job fell to Lia Zneimer in her role as Head of Brand & Content Marketing at Teal, a startup that helps individuals navigate the details that are necessary to build fulfilling careers. Lia will join us to share what she tried and what she learned as a relative newcomer to turning Tiktok into a business weapon. The platform is fascinating in its reach and in the range of creativity displayed by its users — and there’s a good chances that your customers are there. So learning how to level up your follower count is going to be valuable for every business there is. Come with questions!

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Before founding Morrissey Market, Brad McNamara founded FreightFarms, which transformed shipping containers into hydroponic growing stations for fresh produce. In that business, Brad learned all about the complex logistics of perishable food products. Which has become one of the keys to making Morrissey Market a success and finally bringing people an online grocery experience that is more awesome than the shlep to the local store.

Brad is incredibly bold and creative, and he has an amazing head for designing and optimizing operational details that make magic for customers. This will be a fascinating conversation.

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Mergers. Layoffs. Management shifts. They’re unavoidable in today’s working world. But major change doesn’t have to derail your career, let alone your life. In fact, if you know how to handle these inevitable bumps in the road, you can find incredible opportunities for growth hiding behind the uncertainty. This is the focus of Osnat Benari’s new book Starting From Scratch.

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Osnat is a product leader, strategist, and builder and an active advisor and coach for startups and young professionals. She led product & innovation groups for AOL and product partnerships for BBG Ventures. She was part of the founding team at WeWork Labs. More recently she cofounded Dragons Can Fly, a Web3 product strategy and design agency, and served as SVP of Product Management at Diligent. Os is an advocate for resilience and mental health in the workplace and a founding member of Chief, a network focused on connecting and supporting women executive leaders. She serves on the advisory board for Audioburst and for Computer Science at Hunter College, and is an alumni committee member at the American Friends of Tel Aviv University. Starting from Scratch is her first book.

Stella Downie builds IRL, consumer facing businesses that don’t appear to have much in common with each other. First she built Boston’s best toy store, then eventually sold it. Then she launched the first indoor trampoline park business on the East Coast, growing to five sites across New England. And now she’s re-launching a retro Berkshires motor lodge on the beautiful Mohawk Trail in Western Massachusetts. Visionary but very very humble, smart and hard-working in the extreme, Stella understands how to operationalize a vision and how to make customers happy. And that’s what we’re going to talk about. Request an invitation to this conversation.

Larry Lisser has always lived on the leading edge of change and innovation in business, helping companies across industries shape and deliver narratives to introduce new products. Today Larry is CEO of HelloMD — a leading digital care platform for people with chronic pain, sleep and anxiety disorders, specializing in medical cannabis. HelloMD offers trusted content, tele-consults with licensed practitioners and a caring approach to customer service. We’re going to talk about Larry’s lens on launching new businesses and products, and we’ll explore the complexities of the medical cannabis world as well.

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ArtLifting gives artists with homelessness or disabilities a channel to sell their work and secure their own income through the sale of original paintings, prints, and products. As head of ArtLifting’s corporate sales, licensing agreements, channel partnerships, and overall sales strategies, Christina Bailey is on a mission to get participant artists’ work sold and placed on the walls and products of companies across the country. And she’s succeeding — current clients include companies like Microsoft, Bain and Staples. Request an invitation to this conversation.

An entrepreneur and designer, Jeff is CEO of 9Tailors. In my conversations with Jeff over the years I’ve known him, I’ve always felt that he has an incredible sense of self — what his gifts are, what his work is about, and what’s important to him. I’m excited to talk with him about his journey in the world and in business, and about his vision for the Boston-based custom clothing company. This conversation is full.

Do you want to be in the C-suite leading a company? If you’ve never done it, there’s a good chance you have a mistaken understanding of what it will require. This conversation with Mike Troiano — executive, entrepreneur, operator, investor and storyteller — will help you trade misunderstanding for clarity so you can better envision the path you aspire to walk. This conversation is full.