CONNECT AT THE COMFORT OF YOUR OWN HOME..

CONNECT is a 3-day business networking event that was designed to bring entrepreneurs from around the country together to help them network, gain personal development skills and build the motivation needed to design a legacy beyond their business.

Whether you're a startup or a well-established company, CONNECT has something to offer you. With our unique format and world-class lineup of speakers, you'll be inspired to take your business to the next level. So come join us at CONNECT 2023 – where connections are made!

APRIL 27th - 29tH

2023

400+ NETWORKerS

All in one place!

virtual meeting

Zoom Meeting

APRIL 27th - 29tH

2023

400+ NETWORKerS

All in one place!

virtual meeting

Zoom Meeting

GET YOUR 2023 VIRTUAL tickets TODAY!

until virtual ticket sales end

What You Will Gain At Connect...

#1: Learn From Impactful Keynote & Breakout Speakers:
Over the course of the 3-day event, you will learn from countless educational speakers who bring years of business knowledge to the table.
#2: Build New Relationships:
Meet and spend time networking with like-minded entrepreneurs from across the country to create reliable professional relationships and gain exposure for your business.
#3: Be Equipped With New Tools:
Gain access to exclusive business tools that are proven to add massive value to your business and increase revenue.

What Will You Experience at CONNECT?

Designed with the entrepreneur in mind, you are guaranteed to leave the event with the tools, knowledge and confidence to take your business to the next level in a way you’ve never been able to before!

CONNECT 2022 AGENDA

Here's an idea of what you can expect... (schedule is subject to change - this is just an estimate)

We recommend you fly in on Wednesday, April 20th and fly out Sunday, April 24th to ensure you don't miss anything during CONNECT 2022!

Early check-in will being Wednesday afternoon with exciting networking opportunities that evening

THURSDAY

9:00 AM - CONNECT Kickoff

9:30 AM to LUNCH - Keynote Speakers (break for lunch)

1:00 PM to 4:00 PM - Breakouts

4:00 PM - O.U.R. Update

MOVIE NIGHT

FRIDAY

9:00 AM - CONNECT Kickoff

9:30 AM to LUNCH - Keynote Speakers (break for lunch)

1:00 PM to 3:00 PM - Breakouts

3:00 PM to 5:00 PM - Keynote Speakers

SATURDAY

9:00 AM - CONNECT Kickoff

9:30 AM to LUNCH - Keynote Speakers (break for lunch)

1:30 PM to 2:30 PM - Breakouts

2:30 PM to 5:00 PM - Keynote Speakers

MASTERY CELEBRATION

THE COUNTDOWN TO CONNECT IS ON!

Meet The CONNECT

2022 SpeakerS

Click on the photos to learn more about each speaker!

CHAS WILSON

Mccall JoneS

MATT Osborne

Krista Mashore

RYAN LEe

URSULA mENTJES

Maggie Carey

Bobby Jones

Renee Pride

CRAIG DUSWALt

TIna Campbell

Jason Wilson

Christine West

Chris Angell

Brandy Wilson Edwards

Rob Genovesi

Jennifer Perez

Scott Simson

Erin Tarr

CHrIS NATZSKE

CHRISTOPHER VOS

Mccall JoneS

McCall constantly exposes the giant hole in video marketing that she used to “skip the line” in business, that you can use too. She used the secrets she gives her clients to create a business, train thousands of entrepreneurs, speak on the Funnel Hacking Live Stage, and share the stage with Tony Robbins and Russell Brunson all in 16 months.

It’s called Charisma Hacking - it’s the secret to becoming instantly likable, not looking stupid on camera, and creating high-converting webinars, video ads, sales videos, live streams and social media videos. She also promises to save you from the most toxic, self-sabotaging, time-wasting advice that has caused 95% of marketers to create podcasts, social media content and webinars that no one cares about.

The secret to how Charisma Hacking has helped different entrepreneurs increase their YouTube watch time by 242%, 12x their Facebook ad CTR, and triple their revenue, is that the Charisma Hacking system adapts to the entrepreneur’s personality. We’ve cracked the code on how any entrepreneur can amplify the best parts of themselves to build a rabid fan base, regardless of whether they are as intense as Gary Vee, nurturing as Brene Brown, or energetic as Russell Brunson.

KEN WALLS

For a long time in my life, I would win for a bit, then lose again. It was an exhausting, frustrating roller coaster. My personal life, my business was not what I wanted or where I wanted it to be. I had lots of goals, I just couldn't quite get there. Speakers and business leaders I followed (and still greatly respect) seemed to have all the answers, but I still struggled. I needed something more, but I didn't know what.

In business, I was successful, often, in spite of myself. Looking back, my journey as an entrepreneur started in elementary school. I bought gum and candy at the store and sold it to kids for double what I paid so I could buy the things I wanted. My business ventures as a child led me to a successful sales career that had me making more money right out of high school than my former teachers, some of them told me I would amount to nothing.

My childhood had been filled with a lot of pain and volatility. Those experiences caused me a lot of problems as an adult. Addiction, bad habits and unhealthy relationships, both business and personal numbed the pain of the past. I was blind to it for a long time. Then, my personal breakthrough came. Everything changed for me because I surrendered. I put in the work to become a better human and then set out on a mission to help others do the same!

MAGGIE CAREY

Maggie Carey is the founder and CEO of Master It Media. Maggie is a social media strategist with over 35 years experience in Information Technology. She blends her theatrical background with her corporate experience to educate businesses on developing an engaging social media presence to build an audience of raving fans. She is the creator of the weekly social media coaching newsletter, Tell-a-Prompter. Maggie was awarded BroadwayWorld's Regional Performer of the Decade and the Lyn & Buzz Burr Excellence in Communication Award. She is honored to be the Regional Technology Advisor and an Area Director for the NY/CT Master Networks Region.

ROB GENOVESI

Rob Genovesi is a brand builder. His company, Unleash My Beast Brand, helps raise the value of your business so you can charge more now and sell it for more later. With over 30 years as a designer, having worked in advertising, marketing and publishing, Rob launched his own company in 2015 as a website and design business. After coming to the realization that logos and websites don't actually help businesses succeed, that it's the strategy that makes them effective, he evolved his enterprise into a brand strategy company. That's when his clients really started seeing incredible results.

JENNIFER PEREZ

Jennifer is a wife and mother of three children, and she loves to travel. She has the heart of a teacher and a passion for educating entrepreneurs how to reach their financial goals in business to support the lifestyle they deserve. As a certified Profit First Professional, Jennifer provides the tools to help small business owners implement a cash management system so that they can maximize profit. Profit First is attractive to her as it dovetails nicely with her experience and expertise as a bookkeeper. That knowledge is a great foundation for coaching her clients to accelerate them to realizing profitability and to not only maintain, but steadily and consistently increase their ROI to become virtually permanently profitable.

scott simson

As a YouTube content creator with almost 400,000 followers and CEO of Video Marketing World, Scott is recognized as an expert at video marketing and creating online communities with video. His creative and viral style videos have racked up over 120 million views personally, and he is responsible for helping generate hundreds of millions of views and millions of dollars in revenue for his clients. Scott has worked with big brands, such as, Amazon, HEB, Mattel, VTech and many others, and he has been featured in CBS Money Watch, San Francisco Chronicle, the New York Daily News and the Boston Globe.

CHRIS NATZKE

Chris Natzke is an 8th Degree Black Belt/Master Instructor and former national Taekwondo champion. He is not only a champion himself, but he has been training others to find their own Inner Champion for over four decades. He now works transforming lives and businesses as a life-leadership coach, keynote speaker and is author of his new book, Amazon #1 best-seller, BREAKING THROUGH: 3 Winning Strategies to Create Breakthrough Results in Your Life, Business and Relationships. To learn more about his leadership programs go to www.ChrisNatzke.com.

JASON WILSON

Jason Wilson is an ambitious marketer with a proven record across the advertising landscape. He has personally managed over $800MM in marketing spend and has driven nearly $4 billion in revenue. An entrepreneur at heart, Jason has a soft spot for start-ups and small businesses - especially those that have a technology focus. Over the past few years he has worked as an advisor to businesses around the country, helping them take advantage of new technology and strategies that allow them to compete against the “goliaths,” and stand out in a crowded marketplace.

Jason’s prior roles include Marketing Manager at Amazon, where he managed multi-million-dollar efforts to promote award-winning Amazon Original series, such as: “Transparent,” “Mozart in the Jungle,” and the critically-acclaimed series, “The Man in the High Castle.”

CHRIS ANGELL

With over 20 years in business, Chris Angell has seen the dysfunctional and damaged relationship conscious coaches and leaders have with trying to grow and scale business. 98% of people are cynical of what they see online. As business owners we can feel this and so we don’t show up like we should in fear that people will be cynical of us and our Important Work. As heart-centered entrepreneurs, now is the time to build our programs for transformation and share our message so that our true audience can find us. This is why Chris has built powerful programs designed to clarify your message and design your own scalable programs for transformation. Learn more at www.groundswellmethod.com.

Christine West

Dr. Christine West is a business psychologist and the founder of The Business MD. Her secret weapon expertise is in psychology, leadership, behavior modification and patterns, and emotional intelligence to address the positives and negatives in groups and individuals. With her expertise, Christine advocates healing and strategic advancement. This results in establishing business health, impactful leaders, entrepreneurs and professionals while improving emotional effectiveness, psychological health and safety in traditional and remote workplaces. Christine is very personable, extremely intuitive, open-minded, and spiritual. She loves to play outside, travel, and her German Shepherd Zenzi. Along with surrounding herself with forward thinkers, action takers, vibrancy, and authentic rebels, misfits and innovators who have an out of box cause.

Brandy Wilson Edwards

Attorney, Motivational Speaker, Author, and Founder of The Self-Love Challenge™, Brandy Wilson Edwards empowers you to be a zealous advocate for yourself while challenging you to pursue your potential and make courageous choices. Brandy is a well-being advocate and works with innovative companies and organizations to help bridge the gap between personal and professional development. Certified to teach yoga and mindfulness, she also hosts wellness workshops and retreats. Brandy is multi-passionate, a self proclaimed structured free-spirit, and embraces both

self-love and sobriety as a lifestyle.

Erin Tarr

Erin Tarr is a Confidence Coach for teen and tween girls with over 20 years of experience. She educates and coaches young girls while simultaneously helping their families navigate this important life stage.

A Central Illinois Business Magazine 40 Under 40 recipient and an in-demand facilitator and keynote speaker for schools, organizations and businesses including FedEx Ground and FemCity Global - Erin’s effusive energy and passion for empowering girls & women is contagious. She is a frequent podcast guest -- including on Imperfectly Empowered, Scale Your Small Business, and Amplify Your Impact -- for her advice on personal development for teens and living your FIERCEST Life. Her programs and messages have impacted thousands of women and girls in Illinois and around the world giving them the ability to overcome insecurity, overwhelm and anxious thoughts so they can move through the world with confidence.

Erin is experienced speaking on topics including success habits, mental health, social media usage, and healthy relationships. Erin lives in the middle of the cornfields in Illinois with her husband, Adam, and their own three FIERCE girls.

Craig Duswalt

Craig Duswalt is a Keynote Speaker, Author, Podcaster, and the creator of the brands RockStar Marketing and Rock Your Life. Craig has written ten books and is a #1 Amazon Best-Selling Author.

Craig’s background includes touring with Guns N’ Roses, as Axl Rose’s personal assistant, and Air Supply, as the band’s personal assistant.

Craig was also an award-winning copywriter, working as a Creative Director for a Los Angeles-based ad agency until opening up his own ad agency, Green Room Design & Advertising, which was named the 2002 Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year.

Craig combined his backgrounds in both music and marketing, and is now a professional speaker and author, promoting his RockStar Events all over the country, teaching Corporate America, entrepreneurs, small businesses, home-based business and the self-employed how to promote themselves and their business by thinking outside the box at his 3-Day RockStar Marketing Boot-Camps every March and September in Los Angeles.

Craig delivers a very high-energy presentation, filled with useable content, interesting videos, ex-citing music, and extremely unique (never heard before) stories from his days touring with Guns N’ Roses, and Air Supply, and his days working with corporate giants including Baskin Robbins, Los Angeles Dodgers, ESPN, and the Academy Awards just to name a few.

Craig speaks to corporations, and at numerous conferences, associations and networking groups, teaching what it takes to become known as an expert and an influencer amongst clients and potential customers. Craig also speaks to colleges about drug awareness.

Bobby Jones

Bobby Jones is known as Mr. Bright Side, but life was less than happy and cheerful along his journey to where he is now. Growing up in a broken home of drug abuse and bouncing in and out of foster care, Bobby and his siblings were on a rough track. After spending multiple stints in prison, he was released at the age of 21 through a stroke of pure luck that you won’t even believe. Bobby is now a successful entrepreneur, investor and speaker that focuses on contributing back to the world he once took from.

RYAN LEE

Ryan found himself taking the traditional path. His financial journey was completely normal and by the book. He followed all of the traditional advice: he got a steady job, worked 80 hours a week, did everything he could in order to get the next promotion and climb the corporate ladder. Also he maxed out his 401k contributions and followed every piece of traditional financials advice possible. K All in the hope that one day, he’ll save enough money to get out of the game.

But with every promotion that he got, he felt like he was giving up a part of himself in return. Each new level required more of his time, attention, and dedication while the stress kept piling on. Taking him away from his family and what he truly wanted.

In efforts to escape the corporate rat race, Ryan began educating himself on investmenting – reading books, listening to podcasts, and attending masterminds. Ryan also learned a lot of hard lessons during the crash of “08. Although he was constantly working and sacrificing for in order to build wealth and playing by all the rules, his retirement accounts were cut in half during the financial crisis. Ryan felt “stuck” and although he learned his lessons in a different place than Brad he also felt and had first had losses that traditional financial planning was broken.

URSULA MENTJES

Ursula Mentjes is an award-winning entrepreneur, sales expert, motivational speaker and author of five bestselling books. Her sixth book, UpLevel NOW, will be released in early April.

Ursula was promoted from account executive to President of an international technical training company in just five years at the age of 27 when the revenue was in the tens of millions.

Harnessing her business experience, Ursula founded Ursula, Inc., a coaching and training company committed to helping growth minded CEO’s 2x or 10x their monthly revenue while also releasing 10 hours or more hours off their work week. She is on a mission to help millions of business owners break through the 7-figure mark so they can give back to the organizations they care about AND live an amazing life. Listen in to her weekly podcast, Quantum Revenue Expansion, to hear her client’s success stories.

Ursula holds a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology and is a Certified NLP Coach through the NLP Institute of California. You can often find her traveling somewhere warm with her husband, Tim, and their son, Lucca.

TINA CAMPBELL

Tina is a very focused and project oriented manager and entrepreneur. She believes in the power of relationships, in fact, it comes to her naturally. Building bridges to make connections is her passion. As Regional Partner of Master Networks NY/CT region for 7 years, Tina loves to help people use their connections to increase their business. Tina believes in Building Top of Mind Awareness & Communicating Your Unique Value Proposition is the key to a successful local business. Tina has also held the position in Master Networks as Advisor, Culture and Retention since last year.

CONNECT in action

WHAT HAVE OTHERS THOUGHT OF ATTENDING CONNECT?

Dear Master Networker,

Personal development is one of my passions, and for good reason. When you have the chance to get around like-minded people, a certain sort of magic happens. I created CONNECT to capture that magic, to help every entrepreneur and business leader I know have the opportunity to take time to work on their personal growth.

It's not always easy to give ourselves permission to step back, to take a moment to evaluate where we are and what goals we want to pursue, or even if our current goals are working for us. CONNECT is a chance to do that.

But CONNECT is more than that!

CONNECT is about connecting. Some of my favorite pictures of past CONNECTs show the attendees greeting each other with smiles and hugs. But even cooler than all the connections made... is what happens with those connections! On average, our attendees increase their businesses by 28% within the 3 months after attending CONNECT. But the bigger question here is...WHY? Why do attendees earn 28% MORE (on average) after going to CONNECT?

It's not by luck or coincidence. It's not because we walk you through cutting-edge strategies and tactics… (though we'll give you plenty at this event!) And it's not because we bring in experts on mindset and personal development … (though we'll have LOTS of that, too) It's because at CONNECT, you'll learn the steps to get from where you are right now to the NEXT level.

No matter where you're at in your business... There is a PATH to get you TO THE NEXT LEVEL.

- Chas Wilson

VENUE

Sheraton Dallas Hotel

400 North Olive Street, Dallas, TX 75201

The Sheraton Dallas Hotel is nestled in the city's downtown district, near American Airlines Center, Fair Park and the diverse Deep Ellum neighborhood. Make yourself comfortable in well-appointed rooms and suites with everything you need to relax and work smart - from spacious desks and high-speed Wi-Fi to our Sheraton Signature Sleep Experience. You can also enjoy breakfast, lunch or dinner at Open Palette or an on-the-go snack from Open Market. Meetings and events become elevated experiences in our versatile venue spaces, which have been totally transformed and include four magnificent ballrooms. If you want to explore, our hotel places the energy of downtown Dallas right at your fingertips.