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Charlotte Ladies - You're Invited!! Our very own founder of LLN, Kacey Johnson is taking the stage after hosting & featuring local ladies for SEVEN years in the Queen City!! NO PERMISSION NEEDED - Giving Yourself Permission to Want What You Want
Sponsored by Kristi Straw of Lighthouse Leadership Consultants
What if the thing standing between you and the life you really want isn’t your circumstances, your qualifications, your timing, or even your confidence?
What if you’re simply waiting for permission that is never coming?
Join us for a very special Ladies Lifestyle Network Social featuring LLN Founder Kacey Johnson for an honest, empowering conversation about giving yourself permission to want what you want and having the courage to actually go after it!
As women, we become really good at considering everyone else. We think about what our families need, what makes sense financially, what other people will think, what we should be grateful for, and whether wanting something different somehow means we aren’t appreciative of what we already have.
Somewhere along the way, it becomes incredibly easy to lose touch with the question: But what do I want?
Through stories of entrepreneurship, motherhood, reinvention, failure, growth, and building Ladies Lifestyle Network from an idea into a multi-city community, Kacey will share what she has learned about trusting yourself, taking messy action, and refusing to wait until you feel completely ready.
This isn't a conversation about blowing up your life or constantly chasing “more.” It's about getting honest enough with yourself to recognize what you want in this season and believing you're allowed to pursue it.
Come ready for meaningful conversation, intentional networking, incredible local women and businesses, and a night that just might leave you looking at your own life a little differently.
You don't need another sign. You don't need everyone to understand. And you definitely don't need permission.
ABOUT YOUR SPEAKER | KACEY JOHNSON
Kacey Johnson is the Founder and CEO of Ladies Lifestyle Network, a women's empowerment and intentional networking community that has grown from a local gathering into a multi-city network reaching thousands of women across the country.
As a community builder, speaker, entrepreneur, wife, and mother of three, Kacey knows firsthand that growth rarely happens in a straight line. Her own journey has included reinvention, motherhood, entrepreneurship, starting over, taking risks before she felt ready, and learning to trust herself through seasons when the next step wasn't always obvious.
Kacey has spoken on stages and panels all over, including serving as a two-time keynote speaker at the Empowered Podcasting Summit, a featured panelist at Elon University's Entrepreneurial Summit, a speaker at the Elevate Summit for Publicity For Good, a speaker at the Reignite Summit for Humanity Driven Leadership and a featured speaker for NAWBO on heart-led sales. Kacey was recognized as KNOW Women's 50 Women to KNOW in NC in 2025 and she has been featured multiple times in local media and regularly leads rooms of women through LLN events.
But the message behind No Permission Needed isn't coming from a highlight reel. It's coming from the lessons learned in between, the risks that worked, the ones that didn't, the pivots, the self-doubt, and the decision to keep choosing a life that feels authentic rather than simply one that looks successful.
Her belief is simple: You are allowed to want what you want, and you don't need anyone else's permission to begin.
THREE KEY TAKEAWAYS
1. Get honest about what YOU actually want.
- Learn how to separate your authentic desires from the expectations, “shoulds,” guilt, comparison, and outside voices that can quietly shape your decisions. Attendees will be challenged to ask themselves a deceptively simple question: If I stopped worrying about what everyone else thought, what would I choose?
2. Stop waiting to feel ready and take messy action.
- Confidence doesn't always come before the leap. Often, it comes because you took it. Attendees will learn how to move an idea or desire out of the “someday” category by identifying one small, imperfect action they can take now, before they have every answer figured out.
3. Build a life that feels good, not just one that looks good.
- Success can check every box and still feel misaligned. Attendees will leave with a new framework for evaluating opportunities, goals, and decisions based on alignment with the woman they're becoming, not simply achievement, approval, or what they've always done.
The goal isn't for every woman to leave wanting more. It's for every woman to leave knowing she's allowed to be honest about what she wants next.
Featured Non-Profit: Lucia's Little Light - benefitting the Rett Syndrome Research Trust - a portion of all ticket sales will go directly to the organization.
As always, we're featuring local businesses as sponsors, vendors, swag bag promos, event program AD space & more! Email [email protected] for info and get our networks eyes on your brand!
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Sugar Creek Brewing, 215 Southside Dr, Charlotte, NC 28217-1727, United States
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