Make a Real Living With Your Business: A Day for Women Founders, Lexington
About this Event
Running a business can be lonely, especially when the people around you haven’t built one themselves. (Or maybe they built theirs in a way that, frankly, you don’t want to.) This day is designed to change that.
If you’re a woman business owner in Lexington, Cincinnati, Louisville, or the surrounding area, this event is for you. Join a room full of other women founders at the Melroy, and leave with something real:
- Practical action items around business and marketing strategy you can put to work right away.
- New connections with women founders from Lexington and beyond, all working toward the same thing.
- Inspiration from women who’ve been where you are and are ready to candidly share what got them to where they are today.
The day opens with a directed connection exercise designed to help make in-person networking less intimidating. And, you’ll be able to start getting to know the people you’re spending the day with.
From there, there will be a live, facilitated conversation where you will have the opportunity to ask questions. You’ll hear directly from women who built their businesses from the ground up and have broken past the 6-figure ceiling.
After lunch, the day turns hands-on. You’ll participate in a marketing workshop led by one of Lexington’s own, Stephanie Melvin of Sol Fitness. Then, you’ll learn all about the Do Better Business™ framework, a sustainable business roadmap designed by business strategist (and your host), Renia Carsillo. Renia and her team have used this framework again and again to help founders break through this ceiling in a way that feels sustainable and honors why they got into business in the first place.
This event was inspired by Renia’s research into women-led businesses in the U.S. She discovered some stark statistics:
- 90% of women-owned businesses never have an employee and never break past $100k a year.
- Only 6% of women-owned businesses sustain $250k a year or more.
Many of us spend our lives building our businesses, when our businesses should be building the lives we want.
Renia has seen time and again that the $250k ceiling is closer than it looks—when women founders are given the tools and support they need to get there. Why reinvent the wheel when we can learn from a community of founders who have been there or are on the same path?
That’s why this event also marks the Lexington launch of two related efforts:
- The Lexington chapter of The $250k Club, a mentorship community for women founders ready to break that ceiling.
- The 6% Project, a research study working to grow that number from 6% to 10% by 2040.
If you’re interested, you can learn more about these two initiatives from Renia during the closing session. For now, come with your questions, your ambition, and an open mind. Reserve your seat today.
ABOUT YOUR HOST, RENIA CARSILLO
Renia Carsillo is the Founder and Chief Strategist of values-driven business strategy firm, Realign Consulting. She calls her superpower pattern recognition, and for almost 20 years, she's pointed it at businesses of every size, first as a banker, then as a business strategist, coach, and speaker.
Renia crossed the $250K threshold in her own business over a decade ago, then spent the years since helping hundreds of other founders do the same. That pattern recognition is what's behind both initiatives launching in Lexington: The $250K Club helps more women founders access and apply her Do Better Business™ framework, and The 6% Project moves beyond anecdotes to find the data-backed patterns behind that success. Both come from the same belief driving Renia's work: when women-led businesses thrive, their communities do, too.
Agenda
🕑: 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Welcome table opens
🕑: 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Welcome & Opening Remarks
🕑: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Warm Up & Connection Exercise: Out of Seats, Into Conversation
🕑: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Panel Discussion: Conversations With the 6%
Info: Featuring Lisa Council (Mrs. Grout), Stephanie Melvin (Sol Fitness), and Stephanie Veraghen (Show Up Awesome).
🕑: 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Lunch
🕑: 01:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Workshop 1: Local Community Marketing & Brand
Host: with Stephanie Melvin, Sol Fitness Lexington
🕑: 03:00 PM - 03:15 PM
Break
🕑: 03:15 PM - 04:30 PM
Workshop 2: The Do Better Business™ Model for Sustainable Growth
Host: with Renia Carsillo, Realign Consulting
🕑: 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Closing Remarks & Final Invitation
🕑: 05:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Happy Hour & Open Networking
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 104.94 to USD 157.94
