About this Event
HOT MIC
A Live Podcast Experience
Business conferences could use a little less conference.
You know the drill for typical women in busienss events...
The big room A lanyard. A speaker clicking through 72 slides while you low-key wonder when lunch is.
Respectfully?
We’re doing something different.
On January 15, we’re taking over the Centralia Square Grand Ballroom for HOT MIC: A Live Podcast Experience.
Part live podcast.
Part business event.
Part “wait, are we allowed to say that onstage?”
Very much an experience.
TOPIC: MARKETING BEYOND SOCIAL MEDIA
Everyone is telling you what to post in 2027.
We’re talking about everything else.
Because your next client, opportunity, collaboration, or big break probably isn’t hiding inside another Reel.
HOT MIC is a live conversation about the ways businesses actually get seen, remembered, talked about, and chosen beyond the algorithm.
We’re talking:
PR.
Search.
Podcasting.
Community.
Partnerships.
Relationships.
Referrals.
The things that keep working even when Instagram changes the rules again.
WHAT'S HAPPENING ON STAGE
This isn't a lineup of hour-long presentations.
HOT MIC is built around real conversation.
🎙️ Live podcast conversations with women building visible, connected businesses in very different ways.
🔥 “If Instagram Disappeared Tomorrow…” A live panel about what we'd actually do if social media stopped being the center of our marketing strategy.
🌶️ Hot Takes + Rapid Fire The advice we're over. What actually brings clients. What we'd stop doing tomorrow.
🪑 The HOT SEAT One business owner. One real challenge. A room full of brains.
🙋♀️ Audience Q+A Because some of the best questions shouldn't have to wait until after the event.
No 72-slide decks allowed...
No pretending we all came because we desperately wanted another networking exercise....
Just smart conversations, interesting women, and ideas you'll actually want to steal.
THE DETAILS
JANUARY 15, 2027
2–5 PM | Centralia Square Grand Ballroom
Centralia, Washington
GENERAL ADMISSION
Presale: $77
Regular Admission: $97
Your ticket includes the full HOT MIC live experience, all stage conversations and panels, audience interaction, and access to the HOT MIC experience inside the Ballroom.
WANT TO STAY AFTER THE MIC TURNS OFF?
VIP HOT MIC: AFTER HOURS (only 25 tickets available)
The recording ends.
The conversation doesn't.
VIP ticket holders are invited to stay for an intimate post-show experience with our HOT MIC speakers.
Think less “VIP upgrade” and more the conversation you wish you could have with the speakers after the event ends.
We'll close the doors, shrink the room, grab a drink and keep talking.
Your VIP ticket includes:
• Everything included with General Admission
• Reserved VIP seating during HOT MIC
• Access to the 60–90 minute HOT MIC: After Hours experience
• More time and proximity with our speakers after the show
VIP Presale: $127
VIP Regular Admission: $147
HOT MIC isn't another conference to sit through.
It's the business conversation we actually want to be having.
Come for the tea. Leave with a business people actually know about.
🎙️ HOT MIC is on.
Agenda
🕑: 01:30 PM
DOORS OPEN
Info: Doors open, grab your seat, hit the concessions, meet some people, and settle in. Then we’re kicking things off.
LIVE ON THE MIC
Info: Live podcast conversations with women who’ve built visibility, authority, and opportunities beyond simply posting more on social media.
IF INSTAGRAM DISAPPEARED TOMORROW…
Info: Our live panel gets the question every business owner secretly needs to answer: If Instagram disappeared tomorrow, how would people find you?
HOT TAKES
Info: Rapid-fire opinions on marketing advice, what’s overrated, what actually brings in business, and what we’re leaving behind in 2027.
AUDIENCE Q+A
Info: Your chance to get in on the conversation and ask the questions you actually came with.
🕑: 05:00 PM
THAT’S A WRAP… FOR MOST OF US
Info: The official HOT MIC recording ends.
🕑: 05:30 PM - 07:30 PM
HOT MIC: AFTER HOURS — VIP ONLY
Info: The recording ends. The conversation doesn’t. VIP guests stay behind for drinks, bites, and a smaller, more intimate conversation with our HOT MIC speakers.
Event venue & nearby stays
The Peak at Centralia Square Hotel and Grand Ballroom, 202 Centralia College Boulevard, Centralia, United States