Meetup Live

 
 
 

It’s Pride Month! Let’s honor this occasion by celebrating love, acceptance, and living authentically. During this Meetup Live event, we’re gathering Meetup organizers to discuss how they create a safe space for their members.

Join us for a panel discussion with LGBTQ+ group organizers, Doni Burton, Wil Fisher, and Carly Novoselsky, as they share their best practices for crafting a community where members feel welcomed to come as they are. Hear about how they structure their groups to foster acceptance, from finding great venues to fostering discussions where everyone feels included. Stick around for the Q&A at the end.

Agenda:

• Introductions (5 mins)
• Panel Discussion (40 mins)
• Q&A session (15 mins)

About Panelists:
Doni Burton has a Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science from Ball State University. She currently works as a Provider Contract/Cost of Care Senior Consultant at Elevance Health where she leads analytics and modeling support for Value Based contracting activities and delivers critical analysis to drive strategic decision making. She focuses her efforts on improving healthcare outcomes through improving quality of care and increasing member and provider network satisfaction. Doni lives in Washington, DC and enjoys international travel, playing volleyball, and seeing Broadway musicals in her free time.

Wil Fisher is a spiritual coach, retreat leader, podcaster, teacher, speaker and performer who lives in San Diego, CA. Wil spent 15 years in NYC where, among other things, he consulted for nonprofits, completed a masters in applied theater, founded an org called Man Question which worked to dismantle toxic masculinity, and wrote and performed a solo play about his relationship with drag and gender. He left NYC to go run an LGBTQ retreat center in upstate New York where he began learning many diverse modalities for healing, personal growth and spiritual development. During that time he also became a trained and certified life coach. Now, he focuses on building his spiritual coaching company Willfully Living, his podcast Queerly Beloved, and the local GBTQ men's community through initiatives with his Meetup group.

Carly Novoselsky, LPC, CADC (she/her) is a dynamic sober, queer femme who is fiercely passionate about the intersection of mental health, substance abuse and the queer community. She has her Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Adler University and is currently an Addiction Counselor living in Chicago. With a background in the hospitality industry, Carly now runs Queer Sober Social (QSS), a sex-positive, open-minded group for anyone in the LGBTQIA+ community who is seeking authentic queer connections sans alcohol or drugs. QSS holds monthly virtual and in-person social gatherings for its members and also has an active online community full of support. Carly is also a co-host on the Queer Sober Social Podcast where she lifts queer voices and tells the stories she so desperately needed to hear when first getting sober. In her free time, you can find Carly checking out all the local restaurants Chicago has to offer as she’s a true foodie at heart.

Check out the Community Matters blog for the recording, the latest updates, and stories from the Meetup community.https://www.meetup.com/blog/

This event is online. You may need to install Zoom: https://zoom.us/download

Space is limited so reserve your seat. The dial in link will become available after you RSVP to the event. Also, don’t worry about a password, it’s embedded in the link. You'll be able to sign in if you're logged on to the same email address that you rsvp'd with.

Have a question for our Community Support team? You can contact them from our Help Center: https://www.meetup.com/lp/community-support

Members participating in Meetup Live events must be respectful in interactions with people and in content posted on the platform. Meetup monitors and restricts behaviors that are inappropriate or disruptive, undermine the integrity of the platform, violate personal boundaries, or serve to intentionally upset people. Meetup reserves the right to remove members' content from the site that violates our Terms of Service, including our Usage and content policies. https://meetup.com/terms/
https://meetu.ps/3kzYxt

 
 
 

Are you familiar with a sales funnel? One of the most useful tools in marketing, a sales funnel helps you visualize the process of finding and motivating new clients for your business. In this Meetup Live event, we are taking a deep dive into sales funnels so you can maximize your customer base. Learn how to use Meetup’s powerful event and marketing features to create a funnel that turns your members into customers.

Join Ari Hunniford, organizer of the Meetup Pro community Awkwardly Zen, for a discussion on how to leverage event marketing tools to reach your business goals. Ari will showcase the key Meetup Pro features she uses to drive awareness to her group, build trust with her members, and engage prospective clients. You will leave with clarity on what a sales funnel is, and learn about the steps your community members need to take to move from potential to loyal customers. Be sure to stick around for Q&A at the end!

Agenda:

• Introductions (5 mins)
• Presentation (40 mins)
• Q&A session (15 mins)

About Ari Hunniford:
Ari Hunniford was born and raised in Colorado. After receiving her B.A. from the University of Northern Colorado she quickly became a serial entrepreneur and has owned and operated multiple businesses in Colorado before settling into a successful career in nonprofit development and consulting. Like many others during the COVID Pandemic, she found herself analyzing what was important to her and has recently moved full-time into running the online spiritual community, Awkwardly Zen, and promoting her own metaphysical coaching business, Awkwardly Psychic.

Ari lives in Denver Colorado with her husband, Keifer, and fills her time with all things metaphysical and cheering on her college-age stepdaughter, Ashleigh, as she breaks into the Denver music scene with her band, Tireshoe.

Check out the Community Matters blog for the recording, the latest updates, and stories from the Meetup community.https://www.meetup.com/blog/

This event is online. You may need to install Zoom: https://zoom.us/download

Space is limited so reserve your seat. The dial in link will become available after you RSVP to the event. Also, don’t worry about a password, it’s embedded in the link. You'll be able to sign in if you're logged on to the same email address that you rsvp'd with.

Have a question for our Community Support team? You can contact them from our Help Center: https://www.meetup.com/lp/community-support

Members participating in Meetup Live events must be respectful in interactions with people and in content posted on the platform. Meetup monitors and restricts behaviors that are inappropriate or disruptive, undermine the integrity of the platform, violate personal boundaries, or serve to intentionally upset people. Meetup reserves the right to remove members' content from the site that violates our Terms of Service, including our Usage and content policies. https://meetup.com/terms/
https://meetu.ps/3kzYxt