On the first Friday of every month, this amazing event happens. If you are reading this from some other part of the world outside of Vancouver I promise there is a chapter there. Google it, and let me know what you find.

Tina Roth Eisenberg moved to New York from Switzerland and wanted to connect with people, she is a designer from a family of entrepreneurs and wanted to build community in her new neighbourhood. She quickly figured out that if you invite people to an evening event in New York you will be passed over for something else so she decided to create a breakfast gathering. That was over 15 years ago and it is now a global movement for creative people to meet, connect and inspire one another.

This is my version of the story, you can find out more about Tina here.

I have been involved with the Vancouver chapter on and off over the past 7 years I have lived in Vancouver as a volunteer and as an audience member. I highly recommend checking out your local chapter, you will meet like-minded people and get out of the house too.

So much thought and planning go into each year’s topics and to find people in local creative communities illiterate about the topic is another insurmountable act of planning.

Today I got to enjoy Lance Odegard a wonderful talk connecting spirituality with creativity. Lance is a poet who began his talk by paying homage to his Dad’s esoteric way of always being himself no matter the circumstance. He showered us with stories and photos about the person who helped bring him to this planet and then through poetry and prose he drew connections between spirituality and creativity that saw me shedding a tear or two during his talk.

Each month a postcard is created for the speaker and today the past year’s worth of speakers’ postcards were given to the audience. When was the last time you wrote someone a postcard? Want to start with me?