A morning networking series in Chattanooga
Be real.Be seen.Get paid.
Ninety minutes, three short talks, and a room full of people building something. Come as you are. Leave knowing exactly how to show up.
A morning networking series in Chattanooga
Ninety minutes, three short talks, and a room full of people building something. Come as you are. Leave knowing exactly how to show up.
What this is
You know networking matters. But if you have ever stood in a room full of business owners and frozen when someone asked "So, what do you do?", this morning is for you.
Build Your Brand is for new and growing business owners, side hustlers, and anyone tired of blending in. Three people who have each built something real teach the piece they know best, so you walk away with the whole picture instead of one tip. Then the real part: coffee, conversation, and introductions that turn into referrals.
Purpose, clarity, and the nerve to say it out loud. Recognize what only you bring, express your authentic difference, line your outward brand up with who you actually are, and leave people with a feeling they remember. Most people freeze when asked what they do, and it is a clarity problem, not a confidence problem.
Being seen is not reaching everyone. It is becoming unmissable to the right people. How to show up online and in the room so a stranger can find you, trust you, and decide you are the one. Founder-led content, first impressions that stick, and a digital presence that matches the level of work you actually do.
Opportunities travel through people. Enter every conversation asking how you can help, listen for who you can connect, follow up fast, and stop collecting cards you never call. Business grows at the speed of trust, and your value is not only what you know but who you can connect.
The room
Your value is not just what you know. It is often who you can connect.Kelly Harple, June 2026
Who is in front of the room
Each of us owns one word. Together they add up to the payoff: you get paid for being you.
Business strategist and purpose discovery specialist. Thirty-five years of leading turnarounds, and a real apple and a fake apple he will show you why everyone picks the real one.
Photographer, videographer, and founder of a content marketing agency for Chattanooga business owners. Ten years behind the camera, 200 weddings, and now the person who gets founders comfortable on it.
Publisher of Stroll Riverview and the person Chattanooga calls Kelly the Connector. Moved here without a network and built one on curiosity, quick follow-up, and asking "How can I help?"
Join the list
Seats go to the list before anyone else. One email when a date is set, one reminder the week of, and nothing in between.
Book us to speak
Running a networking group, a chamber breakfast, a team retreat, or a conference for business owners? We will bring the talk, all three of us or one, and shape it to your audience.
Typical formats: a ninety-minute morning like ours, a single keynote on Real, Seen, or Connected, or a half-day working session. Chattanooga, Tuscaloosa, and anywhere business owners gather.
Between events
Stroll Riverview is the print and digital magazine that lands on every doorstep in Riverview and the Enclaves, one of Chattanooga's most affluent neighborhoods. Kelly puts a limited number of local businesses in front of those families every month, on purpose, and turns advertisers into neighbors people already know.
SL Creative is a content marketing agency for service businesses that are great at the work and invisible online. Strategy, filming, editing, and posting handled for you, plus brand photography and video under Sarah Larae Photography. If people research you before they call, this is the part that makes them call.