Breakfast Clubbing #4
Week of May 6th, 2024: Big week for breakfast, all. Brighton returns, East Hampton pops off, Brooklyn gets a second weekly, and Austin, Philly and London get next installment dates.
Everyone is invited - especially you. Feel free to share the invite, bring friends, colleagues, family, anyone.
No Agenda, no required buy-in, no need to RSVP. And no pitches.
Everyone pays their own way.
Breakfast Club Events this Week:
Wednesday: Brooklyn (Williamsburg)
May 8 - 8:30a
Le Crocodile at The Wythe Hotel - Williamsburg
Wednesday: East Hampton
May 8 - 8:30a - Co-hosted by Mike Kilcoyne
Tutto Cafe
Friday: Brooklyn (Downtown)
May 10 - 8:30a - Co-hosted by Kat Popiel, Jeff Weiner, and Marina Garcia-Vasquez
Friday: Brighton (England)
May 10 - 8:30a - Co-hosted by Amy Daroukakis and Gem Barton
Venue TBC, contact Amy for updates.
Breakfast Club Events Upcoming:
Fri, May 17th: Austin
Weds, May 22: Philadelphia
Fri, May 22: London
New News:
Wednesday: Mike Kilcoyne is convening the first Hamptons edition. From Mike: “May 8th to start — 830 am — Tutto Cafe in East Hampton. ‘Pop-up Event’ to kick it off. Ian wants to make sure it’s the right vibe and they can accommodate it. Then likely beginning consistently starting 22nd >>> Summer”
And my former colleague and longtime BC’er, the culture strategist and brand consultant dedicated to innovative and purposeful storytelling, Marina Garcia-Vasquez, is co-hosting DT BK on Friday.
Also - Lillian, Rob and Helen started a LinkedIn group for BC ATX.
We immediately copied them with a group for BC BK. You can/should join. I added in a few stalwarts to start and will build as people attend.
Speaking of: the update from Breakfast Club 5.1.24:
At my table we talked College Decision Day, Original Grain watches, "made in Vermont," touring Australia with DJs, making viral videos, dream creative retreat guest lists, ice cream USPs, adult confectionery, Molly Ringwald, MLMs, Boston vs Charleston, AI conferences, the Crossed festival, Morgan Wallen vs Willie Nelson, regenerative farming, midwestern midmarket, American Manufacturing, business widgets, backing into CPMs, sunglasses indoors, NASCAR Glamping, Dark Shaman Motorsports, Portugal vs Japan, alternative WOOP band placements, breathe right strips, stem cell therapy, being a wizard, Caddis catalogues, teachable moments, workplace dynamics, defining #Skibidi, the pied piper of Dimes Square, Matt Dillon in everything, naming 16 Handles, toppings tastemakers, teens on linkedin and lots more.
It was Thomas Cissel, Nick Bodor, Steve Caputo, Zaira Stefani Vallejo, Luke Taylor, Toby Treyer-Evans, David Gill, Dan Barman, Lauren Wallett, Joel Linkewer,. Paula Herrera, Leonardo Olafsson, Leann Abad, Jose Castillo, Zachary Mallard, Ryan Beltran, Matt Flickman 🎥 Hickman, Radhika Malhan, Bridget Russo, Heidi Hartwig, Shelby Meade, Kalil Greenberg and me.
And, from Kat, the update from Breakfast Club 5.3.24:
Breakfast Club was full of new faces & covered fiery topics including the student protests, growth marketing, Brooklyn Museum's programming, the difference between design & creative ops, vegan breakfasts, this era of layoffs (will they ever stop?!), LLC vs S Corps and more.
Thanks to everyone for deepening the pulse of our Downtown Brooklyn edition: Karen Yung Kathryn (Katie) Stone Daniel Stedman Esther Achara Michael Fasciano Steve Caputo Ayana Barber Michelle Cedeno Brittany Wengel Jen Nordhem Jasmine Takanikos Todd Sines ari levine and a massive shout out to Jill Meisner for co-hosting today.
We're back again next week (yes we'll be moving to weekly) - catch us at As You Are inside The Ace Hotel Downtown Brooklyn at 8:30am on Fridays - [UPDATED] with co-host Marina Garcia-Vasquez.
And elswehere:
Austin is back on May 17th - 8a at Better Half
Julie Gerstein’s post announcing the next installment of BC PHL on Weds May 22nd at the Wayward (invite here):
And the next London edition will be on Friday the 24th May, headed up by the inimitable Amy Daroukakis - so let her know if you can join or if you have friends, family, colleagues or friendly strangers that might want to check it out. Place and time forthcoming shortly.
Ben