The feast, as mentioned in my last blog, went above and beyond my expectations, and here's why: Being in the beginning stages of a start up social business like Something Good is terrifying, especially when trying to go it alone. I have no idea what I am doing. I hit the ground running about a year ago only to scrape my knees, brush myself off and discover that the finish line is an undefined concept that I can't Google or Wiki or otherwise lazily discover. Not only that, but i can't even see the finish line. This journey is hard work, and the people I met and heard at The Feast knew this. At the feast, I was in my element, a little fish, with a bunch of other fish, in a great, big, apple of a pond.
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- Professional Poker Player, Annie Duke a co-founder of Ante Up For Africa.
- Josh Viertel, President of Slow Food USA
- Jay Parkinson, a doctor and founder of Hello Health
- Uffe Elbaek, founder and former principal of The KaosPilot
- Elizabeth Scharpf, founder and CIO of SHE
- Brian Bordainick, a teacher and founder of the 9th Ward Field Of Dreams
- And more.....
These are just the speakers folks. This list is only the tip of a huge, world changing, all good, really exciting iceberg!
I met countless other entrepreneurs, established organizations' employees and directors and supporters of all things good and important and world changing.
I was then, and am now, very inspired, very excited and very, very hopeful.
I have a whole stack of business cards to sort and emails to respond to before I can even begin to do the magnitude of this event justice. It was important.
What I took away from The Feast is this: I am NOT alone and all is not lost, not by a long shot!
I am so full on good... and as always, so hungry for more.
