Summer events with Optionality
It's an analog summer, but we're still doing some digital events!
Note for Premium members: Premium-only events and their access links are shared in the Slack #events channel and the Optionality Premium member Google Calendar. Please message me if you have not set up access for one or both of those yet:
Events open to all:
Bi-Weekly Conversationality live video podcast
* Thursday July 10, 1PM PT/4PM ET: Jory & Elisa talk about Optionality’s analog summer…including the data that support taking one!
* Thursday July 24, 1PM PT/4PM ET: We’re going to talk art, crafts, and the pursuit of beauty in our lives.
* Thursday August 7, 1PM PT/4PM ET, with special guest Shirin Etessam to talk about the value of play and fun.
* Thursday August 21, 1PM PT/4PM ET: What will we take from our analog summer into the Fall?
(Open to all members)
We stream Conversationality to YouTube Live now, so you can watch in real time (and we send the recording via newsletter afterward). On July 10th Jory and I will riff on this month’s theme. Watch live: https://www.youtube.com/@Optionality4Life
August Member Webinar, featuring Dr. Natalie Nixon and her new book, Move. Think. Rest.
Wednesday August 27th, 1PM PT/4PM ET
(Open to all members)
Dr. Natalie Nixon’s new book, Move. Think. Rest., is a longtime expert in achieving creativity and innovation. Her latest book looks more closely at the foundational internal environment we all foster, and how to integrate movement, thought, and importantly, REST, to create the most hospitable one possible. We’ll publish an excerpt from her upcoming book earlier in the week then host Natalie for a conversation about her insights and findings.
We hope to see you at one or more of our member events this summer.
Premium-only events
Weekly Intentional CRM Working Group
Mondays at 12:30PM through Monday September 29th, 2025
(Premium members only)
Every week, a group of Optionality Premium members gathers to set goals around highly targeted and personalized outreach to a small number of contacts as an antidote to the spray and pray marketing of LinkedIn posts and mass emails. This is a sprint, lasting through the rest of Q2 and Q3.
July Office Hours
This Wednesday July 9th, 12PM PT/3PM ET
(Premium members only)
A monthly convening where we check in and connect the dots between what members need and what they can offer and how we can help! This month, in keeping with our theme of an analog summer, we're curious to talk about travel, hobbies, IRL events you're attending. In addition we had a brainstorm today about a way to choose between the two community platforms we are most highly considering a switch to for Premium members (from Slack). Would love to run by anyone who can join and get feedback.
Coming soon: Co-working for Writers Working Group
We’re in the process of scheduling a regular quiet hour for writers. Basically we’d log on, say “hi,” turn off our cameras/audio for an hour, write, then come back on screen to say “bye.” It’s a way to time-block the writing everyone in the group wishes they were more consistent about doing, but with friends :)