Breakfast Clubbing #42
W/C 2.10.25. We are ON in: Burlington, Lugano, PDX, Wmsburg, Miami, Hamptons, SF, Washington DC, DTBK, Boston, Manhattan, Cincy, Seattle, Berlin, Amsterdam + SOMa.
So, it kind goes like this, ideally (Per Michael’s Post):
OK I’m launching the DC chapter of Breakfast Club next week! What's Breakfast Club?
-It's a bi-weekly breakfast meeting of the minds.
-We gather people across disciplines to exchange ideas.
-No pitches or agendas - just show up.
-Everyone pays their own way.
-Everyone's invited - especially you!
When & Where is Breakfast Club DC?
Thursday, February 13th, 8:30-10ish AM,
Tryst Coffeehouse: 2459 18th St NW Washington DC 20009
More about the vibe here: https://lnkd.in/eG--ACRE
Which is to say - as Breakfast Club expands… you’re not only invited to join. Feel free to host, too! Friends in Seattle and Boston are getting in on the act, Berlin is back thanks to Amy and Sabine’s pop up, and all the regulars are meeting.
So come hang! And if not this week, another one soon.
Ben
The Breakfast Club Esprit de Corps:
* Everyone’s invited - especially you.
* Feel free to share, bring friends, colleagues, family, anyone.
* No agenda, no required buy-in, no need to RSVP. And no pitches.
* Everyone pays their own way.
* Everyone is welcome to subscribe. Join the Linkedin group here: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14449223/Breakfast Club Editions Around the World (cities added regularly):
Weekly:
Portland, OR [Tuesday]
Mexico City [Wednesday]
Williamsburg Brooklyn [Wednesday]
Miami [Wednesday]
The Hamptons [Wednesday]
San Francisco [Wednesday]
Downtown Brooklyn [Thursdays]
Manhattan [Thursdays]
SOMa, NJ [Fridays] Bi-Weekly:
Washington, DC [Thursdays]
Melbourne [Fridays, alternating between Fitzroy and Victoria]
Amsterdam [Fridays, alternating between locations East and West)
Monthly:
Barcelona[First Wednesdays]
London[First Thursday]
LA (West):[Second Fridays]
Berlin
Ibiza
Vienna
Milan
Lugano
Philadelphia
Boston
Portland, Maine
Burlington, VT
Panama City
SeattleBreakfast Club This Week:
Monday, February 10th
Burlington, VT
Co-hosted by Zach Pollakoff
9a @ Deep City
Tuesday, February 11th
Portland, OR
Co-hosted by Nina Sers
9a @ Proud Mary
Wednesday, February 12th
Lugano
Co-Hosted by Elettra Fiumi and Carla F.
9-11a @ Amalo
Miami
Co-Hosted by Jeff Carvalho and Jesse Kirshbaum
8:30a @ Novella Cafe Social
Brooklyn (Williamsburg)
Hosted by me and a gang of regulars [Note: I’ll be away this week]
8:30a @ Le Crocodile at The Wythe Hotel
The Hamptons
Co-hosted by Mike Kilcoyne
8:30a @ Tutto Cafe
Mexico City
Co-Hosted by Steve Bryant
8am @ Mendl
San Francisco
Co-Hosted by Eve Lewis and Chris M. Gillespie
8:30am @ Terreene in the 1 Hotel
Thursday, Feb 13th
BC DC [Washington, DC]
Co-hosted by Michael Hastings-Black (Every other Thursday)
830a @ Tryst Coffeehouse
Downtown Brooklyn
Co-Hosted by Kat Popiel, Marina Garcia-Vasquez, Lynn Juang and Gavon O. Broomfield
8:30am @ Ace Hotel Brooklyn (Lobby)
Boston
Co-hosted by Kevin Johannesen, Cass Taylor and Lizzie Millstein
9am @ The Tradesman
Manhattan
Co-Hosted by Heidi Hartwig
9am @ Eva’s Kitchen on Grand
Cincinnati
Co-Hosted by Theo Erasmus and Emmit Jones
8:30am @ Mom and Em Coffee
Seattle
Co-Hosted by Mike Burlin, Alex Morris, Randy Irwin and David Rosenberg
8am @ Glo’s
Friday, Feb 14th
Berlin (Pop Up)
Co-hosted by Amy Daroukakis and Sabine Koppe
9-11a @ Lucy’s Torstrasse Berlin
Amsterdam
Co-hosted by Sheila Guo
8:30a @The School of Life (Frederiksplein 54)
New Jersey (SOMa)
Co-Hosted by James Friedman and Evie Bear
9:15a @ Arties
Upcoming Breakfast Club Events
2.18: Portland OR2.19: Milan, Miami, Hamptons, Williamsburg, CDMX, SF 2.20: Vienna, Downtown Brooklyn, Manhattan, Portland ME2.21: Melbourne, London (Pop Up), SOMa (New Jersey), LA (West Side) 3.4: Boulder 3.14: AmsterdamBreakfast Club Event Recaps [Last Week]:
Breakfast Club Hamptons Report 2.5.25
per Mike’s Post: Great crew, stoked to be back for BREAKFAST CLUB HAMPS.
The question - "What's the purpose of money"
- As a tool Michael Kilcoyne
- Scales of Safety Adam Harris
- Facilitate life, not propel it. Jim Porcarelli
- Greasing palms, opening doors, security - Ryan Duff.
- Freedom & Peace Zach Bliss.
What we talked about: shopping at Costco, The purpose of money, Moving, Cool video books, Wolf and sub zero stoves, High protein diets
Attendees: Ryan duff, Michael Kilcoyne, Zach bliss, Jim Porcarelli, Adam Harris, Daryl, Amity Lucas, Juliana.
Breakfast Club Williamsburg Report 2.5.25
Per my post: I missed it (more on that later) but Nick Bodor did me a solid and took attendance at Le Crocodile Restaurant yesterday. The gang was him, Aviva Grinnell, Dan Burt, Matthew Goldman, Randy Paul, Kalil Greenberg, yonatan Medina, Nicole Nejati, Sundi Brewer-Griffin, Ariel Abramov, Lavinia Bonne, Elliot Aronow, Wen-Jay Ying, Julie Stein, Chaz Mee, Eric Korsh, Nick Cogan, Stacey Kawahata, Eason Yang, Dan Barman and Ben Hudson.
We do this every Wednesday at 8:30am - same place, same time. Everybody's invited, especially you. And all the details are available every week at: https://lnkd.in/eyvtRq7Z
Breakfast Club Miami 2.5.25
Per Jeff’s post: We had some interesting upfronts in Miami this week, we had some fantastic new faces come through Breakfast Club. So many conversations around things like: marathons, fitness, cycling, olfactory products and much more.
We were Walshy Fire!!!, Rachelle Elbaz, Sarween Salih, Justin Elliott, Rene Pereda, Marissa Mosseri, Mike Grinberg, Craig Grassi, Jennifer Styles, Caitlin Delaney, JN Silva. If I missed you, please DM me!
Breakfast Club London 7.2.25
Per Victoria’s Post: Today’s breakfast featured 3 x leopard print jeans and a whole lot of AI. The mighty crew was Aisha Al-Abdallah Emily Blad Ramona Daniel Phil Harvey and Damiano Vukotic. Hot topics for this sunny Thursday included: LLM toys, toddlers and ChatGPT, 2001: A Space Odyssey, bad managers, great leaders, RTO policies, upstream strategy, interim consulting and no egos, censored AI, zoom as the corner office, the new rules of SEO, the year 2073.
We’re doing this on the first Thursday of every month at the Foyles Café on Charing Cross Road. Everyone is welcome. Look out for a pop event coming soon with Amy Daroukakis!
BC Cincy Report 2.7.25
Per Theo’s Post Breakfast Club Cincy 02/06
A slower day with many traffic snags in the city on a rainy morning.
Sweeping conversation about media, media literacy, art, Cuba, bleach, muskrats, meat raffles, clubs, community, class war and pears.
Also we took the picture when a couple of people had left.
Emmit Jones, Jason Zwolinski, Ruth Anne Wolfe, Michael Coppage, Michael Altman , Theo Erasmus, Ben Dietz and Rhys Watkins.
BC Camp Cultivate Report 2.6.25
Per my post: For the special edition BC in Mammoth we talked Eye exams, getting new glasses, angelenos getting to wear winter coats for once, getting held up in SF, traveling to Guyana, posing for selfies, hiking in lieu of yoga, inaccurate weather reports, the frequency of Breakfast Clubs internationally, male models, working in film and Tv, being bicoastal, the Godfather 2, Coppolas chronolgoical Corleone film, building a retreat center in Tahoe, moving from architecture to property development, have a 1:1 relationship with clients, creating your own opportunities, being anomaly, fundraising and partnership, creating an open platform, Hawk Tuah, memecoins, the snow coming, the brand Pyrenex, working as an interior designer, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) vs The Museum of Modern Art film collections, East-West psychology, language as technology, identity being invented, platforms that can oxygenate creative and the arts, if Gen X women are having the best sex of their lives, where there’s a time and place for jargon and lots more
It was me, Tobi Adamolekun, Heidi Hartwig, Daniel Gottlieb, Satsuki Mitchell, Paul Hamann, Jon Abrahams, Thalia Mavros, Eve Lewis, Breegan Jane, Caroline Mauro, Jauretsi Saizarbitoria, Ruslan Karablin, Paula C., Dominick Carter, Johanna Moonan, Maryam Shines, Leann Abad, Zaira Stefani Vallejo, Elizabeth Happen, Lysa Cooper, Shelby Meade, Duane Baker,
Steve Bryant, Tracy Georgiou, Ashley Baker and of course Bridget Russo.
This is the first Camp Cultivate, but won't be the last. LMK if you want to join next time. Thanks to Outbound Hotels and Caddis for making this morning even more special, too.
BC Melbourne Report 7.2.25
Per Celeste’s Post: A great way to start February and the Melbourne Breakfast Club hosted by Josh Gardiner and I at The StandardX, Melbourne.
Lots of conversation on the Melbourne heatwaves (when is hot too hot - 40 degrees and counting), french baguettes and the art of baking, french butter (just how delicious is butter and a baguette), culture trends, hotels, removalist businesses and much more
Josh Gardiner, Aleksandra Nedeljkovic, Rachel Elliot-Jones, Clare Acheson CPM, Cedric.
Keep an eye on Steph Clarke's page for the next BC on Feb 21st.
Breakfast Club SOMa Report 2.7.25
per James’s Post: BC SOMa was great this morning
lotta repeat offenders and some new folks too.
At my end of the table we talked about band merch, Ibiza, moving to Berlin at the wrong stage of life, learning about AI, the barter economy, the inevitability of kids watching YouTube, how to earn $1Billion, catfishing, dating apps, where to find the best croissants and lots more…
If you were there, come again next time.
if you haven’t made it yet, remember that everyone is invited. Especially you…
