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SECOLive 2025
The Burnout Proof Business
SECOLive 2025
The Burnout Proof Business
A weekend of brave shenanigans curated to bring focus to how you prioritize your life and business so that your imagination can create your best 2026 and beyond.
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Last day for hotel registration at group rate is Sept 21st
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The Burnout Proof Business:
Crafting a Life-First Approach to Time, Money, and Habits
is our 2025 Theme.
We know 2023-24 were weird, and we need renewed purpose, mindful rest, and increased financial security.
And we know you have the bravery to tackle the uncomfortable things.
Because you do hard things.
The Schedule
The Subject to Change 2025 Schedule (Hey! It’s a year out; we may get a brilliant idea and want to change things up for the better!)
Check in and We Are Happy You are Here Hour
We will provide beverages and light hors d’oeuvres. Come ready to snack!
Opening Remarks
What to Expect this Weekend
Mingling and Connecting
Head to Lodging
Rest up and come ready
Session #1
(Something like) Well, Well, Well, if it isn’t my Wellness:
Four Quadrants of Life Wellness that Leads to Business Owner Growth (Temporal, Mental, Financial, and Spacial)
Masterminding for Implementation
Workbook time
Out and About Lunch
Go explore Mt. Pleasant!
Session #2
(Something like) Exit, Stage Left Even:
Exit Strategy as the Key to Life-First Business Planning
Masterminding for Implementation
Dinner and Evening Out!
Go forth and enjoy Charleston, your friends, and grab some yummy food! See you tomorrow!
Session #3
(Something like) Money and Burnout and stuff Earning to Live over Living to Earn
Masterminding for Implementation
Working Hard or Hardly Working Lunch
SECO will provide lunch at FAME
Session #4
Less Pain Planning and Implementing
(Something like) Planning Tips and Tricks for People Like Michelle, Who Resist Planning
Masterminding for Implementation
Dinner and Downtime Break
Save room for dessert!
Keyboard Karaoke, hosted by Eden Casteel
SECO will provide a catered dessert
Head to Lodging
Photo Shoot and Group Coaching
Come ready to ask questions, get coached, and get PHOTOGRAPHED! NOTE THE TIME! We meet 30 minutes earlier than the other days!
Out and About Lunch
Session #5:
(Something like) So Easy You Can’t Say No
Building Business Owner Habits That Actually Stick
Masterminding for Implementation
Workbook time!
Dinner and Downtime Break
We suggest an early dinner as SECO will be providing catered charcuterie and beverages at our evening event
Chitty Chitty Chat Chat Mocktail/Cocktail Event, catered charcuterie
After-hours Session #6 Panel Discussion
(Something like) Pivot! I said Pivot!
Transitioning from Teaching as a Main Revenue Stream to Address Burnout
(Something like) Ask Us Anything
Here’s your chance to go there! Seriously, no topic is off-limits. Ever wonder just HOW the donuts are made? Here’s your chance to learn!
Head to Lodging
Full Group - Guided 2025 Review and 2026 Planning Session with Michelle
NOTE THE TIME! We meet 30 minutes earlier than the other days!
Closing Ceremony and Raffle
Release!
SECO Team and VIPers Late Lunch Event
for Current and Alum VIPers at a private home in Charleston (details will be provided to VIP members attending at a later time.)
Come ready to kick off Wednesday afternoon with questions and plans galore, and expect to leave on Sunday with action items and clarity on the Next Right Thing(s) for your life and business.
Limited Slots available – Click here to Secure Your Slot
The Details – Where to Stay, Where to Fly to, How to Get Around.
(The event begins Wednesday, October 22, 2025 at 4:00PM and concludes Sunday, October 26, 2025 at 1:00PM.)
Airport:
CHS (Charleston International Airport)
Last day for hotel registration at group rate is Sept 21, 2025.
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Lodging:
Holiday Inn Express 1104 Stockade Lane , Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.
Jen Blanton has secured us a fantastic rate for October 21 through October 27, 2025. You will be able to start booking November 1, 2024.
In order to receive the discounted rate, you must have booked by September 21, 2025!!!!
Please note: If you would like to share a room, you are responsible for finding your own roommates.
There are also a number of VRBOs (Vacation Rental By Owner – a USA website) and AirBnBs in the area—if you would like to go that route, you’ll want to book ASAP, as they go fast! Additionally, be sure to review cancellation policies for these types of lodging.
Workshop Location:
FAME Performing Arts, Inc. 757 Long Point Rd Suite D Mt Pleasant SC 29464
Phone:
1+ 843-619-SING (7464)
Transportation:
Lyft, car rental (available at the airport), or FAME Van from the hotel.
We hope to provide daily VAN service again from the hotel to FAME, and around town at break times!
- This will be an additional cost of $200 (an excellent value!) that will be paid directly to FAME.
- The van will only be provided if six or more people sign up for van service during registration.
- Van service is first come, first served, based on date of registration of SECOLive 2025.
- If you choose the FAME VAN option, you will be responsible for getting yourself from the airport to the hotel on Wednesday, October 22.
Remember, we’re kicking off at 4:00PM on Wednesday, October 22, 2025! Come in through the front entrance at FAME (we’ll have signs!)
Toggle here for a SAMPLE FAME Van Schedule (this will change when we get the schedule solidified):
Friday
3:30pm bus pick up from hotel traveling to studio
8:30pm bus service from studio to hotel
Thursday
9:00am bus pick up from hotel traveling to studio
4:00pm bus service from studio to Mt. Pleasant town center or all agreed upon location
6pm bus service from Mt P Town Center to studio
9pm bus service from studio to hotel
Friday
9:00am bus pick up from hotel traveling to studio
4:00pm bus service from studio to Mt. Pleasant town center or all agreed upon location
6pm bus service from Mt P Town Center to studio
9pm bus service from studio to hotel
Saturday
9:00am bus pick up from hotel traveling to studio
12noon bus pick up from studio to hotel or agreed upon location
1:30pm bus pick up from hotel or agreed upon location to studio
4:30pm bus service from studio to downtown Charleston, Market Street
6:30pm bus service from downtown to studio
9pm bus service from studio to hotel
Sunday
8:30am bus pick up from hotel traveling to studio
12:30pm bus service from studio to airport
Investment and Terms & Conditions
We are pleased to announce that we are able to keep the investment for this event at $1200, even though we added an extra day!
With the help of our wonderful Jen Blanton, and many local vendors, we could offer this fee for an event of this size and scope.
What’s more, we are thrilled to be a place where we can offer payment options so people in any cash flow situation have an option.
After you fill out the registration form, you’ll be invited to choose from:
- One payment of $1200
- Three payments of $400
- Six payments of $200
- TWELVE PAYMENTS of $100
(As you can see, two of the payment plans cost less than one 1:1 session per month with a team member. Score!)
I’m ready to register!
Terms and Conditions can be found here.
Click below to expand and read the terms.
Please make sure you read ‘em before registering!
Terms & Conditions
Here is the plain English version of the juicy bits:
~When you visit this site, by any URL associated with it, you are saying “Yes! TOTALLY!” to all the terms and conditions – the ones on the site (opens in a new tab).
~When you pay for stuff you’re paying through a third party payment gateway. We never see your financials. We don’t keep your financial information in any of our systems.
~Don’t be an asshat: My stuff is mine. The team’s stuff is theirs. Your stuff is yours. If you use our stuff to do illegal or even unethical shenanigans, FaithCultureKiss reserves the right to send you away forever and tell our lawyer about you. You can’t charge people for stuff FaithCultureKiss, LLC has created.
~Payments/Refunds: For the SECOLive LIVE EVENTS there are no refunds. Please invest wisely and clear your calendar. If you can’t show up, we will miss you dearly. Please remember that we used your fee to make the thing happen… so your moola is already doled out amongst the team, the vendors, and the location. We budget tight so that we can keep costs as low as possible – and therefore will not offer refunds. However, if you cannot make it, you will be provided with a care package and professionally edited videos from the event at a later date. Your name will be listed as a sponsor of the event in our program. No, we do not offer “video-only registration.” Thank you for understanding.
~If you cancel your membership in The SpeakEasy Cooperative® before SECOLive but have already paid for SECOLive, you will not be refunded. Please still come to SECOLive, though!
~Extreme emergencies will be handled on a case-by-case basis. (At this point, getting Covid is not an extreme emergency, it’s just shitty.)
~We are not lawyers. We are not CPAs. We are not therapists. Business coaching isn’t a substitute for any of these things. Neither is life coaching. Or wine.
~We are also not fortune tellers. We can’t guarantee you’ll make gazillions of dollars from what we discuss. But you knew that. Talk is the easy part, yeah?
~LIVE EVENTS (like voice lessons, workshops, conferences, etc.): You come at your own risk. If you fall, or find yourself exploring underwater basketweaving, or are unable to find your way back to the venue, that is on you. You agree to watch out for your own food and/or beverage allergies. You agree to release all liability from FaithCultureKiss, LLC and the peeps involved with it and the location in which it’s held. You agree not to sue us. You agree to take care of your own self.
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The primary goals of the weekend are…
- provide SECO members the opportunity to spend in-person time together and plaaaaaay
- afford attendees dedicated, focused time and space to clarify and apply their core values
- facilitate a space for participants to untangle the cognitive dissonances caused by needing to get things done while also needing to rest
- include plenty of time for implementation and action-taking on delicious and exciting ideas.
(The karaoke night, mini photo-shoot, and delicious Charleston food are some pretty sweet bonuses though!)
Testimonials
The Speakeasy presentations were about our #voicebusinesses. Needed, appreciated, and thoughtfully presented by the SECO team. 🤗
The mission/vision work was important and expansive. 🔭 It helped me focus in on what really matters to me about my work; the stuff that gets me out of bed in the morning. It will be nice to have that anchor when I find myself swimming circles in the details.
The work on key messages 🗝 was huge for me! Christin Coffee Rondeau used her brilliant Word Brain to help me narrow done the ideas I believe are most important to share. That helps me speak to the clients I hope to work with, and benefits people I may never meet. 💜 So powerful!
Planning is still scary to me. 😨 I inched ahead with the planning work, though, so I’m giving myself a gold star for that. 🌟 Planning feels like committing to something I may not live up to. (…don’t know why I keep telling myself THAT story!)
Michelle Markwart Deveaux shared so much gold, ⭐️ Two things I really needed to hear re: planning that helped me work through some resistance.
1. Planning is a living thing. It changes and shifts as you move forward.
2. Pencils have erasers. #news 🙄
This week has raced by. In every spare moment I’ve been sketching out Neuro-Vocal Teacher Training 2.0. ✏️ My brain is BUSY with ideas about all the ways I can make this the BEST, most empowering course for voice pros (who also happen to be excitable nerds like me)!
Huge thanks and hugs 🥰 to the team at The Speakeasy Cooperative: Michelle Markwart Deveaux, Christin Coffee Rondeau, Sara Campbell, and Karen Merstik-Michaels. (Also, where have you been all my life?)
– Meredith Colby
This is what #secolive2022 is like — a wonderful blur of activity in the moment, but stuff is getting DONE here. I’ve been part of this group for four great years! SECO is a mass of vibrant voice business leaders moving the industry forward, supporting and challenging each other, arriving confidently into new markets, with COLORFUL ideas and initiatives that empower our clients. #whyiseco @thespeakeasycooperative
– Eden Casteel