Founders, chamber presidents, editors, coaches, restaurateurs — people building real things across Arizona, California, and the virtual room. This is a sample of who shows up week after week.
No "one seat per industry." That's why the mix looks like this — and why people you'd never meet in a locked-out group become clients, collaborators, and friends here.
Leads one of Arizona's most influential business organizations — and still shows up to the room. The kind of connection a franchise seat-lock would have priced out.
A working restaurateur in the same room as chamber leadership and a newspaper editor. The point of an open membership, in one table.
TradeSource hosts the Phoenix Central chapter — a member business that's also a meeting home. Relationships create community, literally.
Runs events for a living — and uses the network's stage time and showcases the way it's meant to be used: as reps.
A working voice in Phoenix business media — the kind of room where that introduction just happens, mid-meeting.
Builds speakers for a living — and found, in this room, more stages per month than most networking groups offer in a year.
Filter by category and location; find a member to hire, refer, or partner with. We're building the live directory now — here's the shape it'll take.
The live member directory launches with member data we're compiling now. Want your business in it? Join — or come visit a meeting first.
The pattern repeats: someone joins for referrals, and a year later they've got a book, a stage habit, and a few clients they'd never have met otherwise.
A member who'd been "meaning to write something for years" took an author slot in the next Art of Connection volume. One short piece, in their voice, published alongside hundreds of others — certificate of authenticity, archived in the Library of Congress, and a credibility line they now put on everything. The room made it not just possible but easy.
A member who dreaded public speaking started with the 30-second commercial every chapter does. Then a member showcase. Then a speaker slot. Then the radio show. Inside a year, the reps added up — and a talk they gave at an iNetworkExpo led to their first paid keynote outside the network. The "I hate being up there" problem fixed itself.
Because chapters aren't industry-exclusive, a member sat next to someone in a field that would've been "taken" elsewhere — and that conversation turned into a client. The mix isn't a bug. It's the reason the referrals are worth more here: they come from people who actually want you to win, not people protecting a seat.
These reflect common member experiences in the network; named, written-up versions are added as members share them.
The directory, the stage time, the book slot, the radio seat — it all starts with one free visit.
◆ First two in-person visits free. After that, $20 a drop-in — straight to the Angel Foundation Fund.