{"id":190,"date":"2013-08-27T10:55:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T14:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallybsedgwick.com\/conversation\/?p=190"},"modified":"2013-08-27T10:55:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T14:55:03","slug":"a-tale-of-two-conferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spiritmoxie.com\/conversation\/a-tale-of-two-conferences\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"

My relationship with my mentor Lissa Rankin was just beginning, so every email from her was to be taken seriously. “I was with my first mentoring client of 2013 yesterday . . . and she expressed interest in meeting more awesome visionaries who shared her mission to be of service to the world. I suggested she join me and many of my friends at Chris Guillebeau’s World Domination Summit<\/a>\u00a0[in Portland, Oregon] this summer, just after July 4. . . .how fun if we could all rendezvous together and create our own mentoring meet-up!”<\/p>\n

It was tempting. I love events and conferences. But it sounded pricey, and I’d never heard of “Brene Brown, Susan Cain, Danielle LaPorte, Jonathan Fields, Pamela Slim, Kate Northrup, and others like them.” I didn’t know what I’d be doing or where I’d be living or, well, anything.<\/p>\n

Plus, 2013 was the third year of another event that I had<\/i> heard about, The Wild Goose Festival<\/a>, and while I’d never heard of most of the presenters there either, I’d go almost anywhere to hear Phyllis Tickle<\/a>, who would certainly be one of them.The Wild Goose Festival was to occur only five weeks after the Portland event and was in Hot Springs, North Carolina (fairly near Asheville), which was close enough to drive to while Portland, OR, certainly was not. With luck my long term ace-networking friend Larry Bourgious would be going too.<\/p>\n

As the time drew nearer to Wild Goose, the Spirit Moxie conversation was about to go live with its \u201clittle things that can change the world\u201d tag line that seemed a tad presumptuous as I listened to general \u201cgloom and doom\u201d news headlines on racial and religious tensions, as well as reports of outright violence, on multiple continents. The Kingston Trio sang it more than 50 years ago.”They’re rioting in Africa. There’s strife in Iran…”<\/p>\n