Women in Entrepreneurship Knoxville

11/12/2025

Huge thank you to our speakers at the November Women in Entrepreneurship meeting! What a great conversation about Marketing Strategic Clarity, the Social Media Algorithms, Engaging Video Content, and Authenticity over Aesthetics. Thank you Courtney, Bryana, Jessica, and Joeleen! 👏
🗓️ We’ll see y’all on December 9th for our last WIE of the year!

10/27/2025

Raise your hand if you’re joining us on Tuesday, November 11th for a Marketing & Social Media Content Day! 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️ We have four wonderful guest speakers for you:
⭐️Joeleen Hubbard
⭐️Courtney DeLaura
⭐️Jessica Carr
⭐️Bryanna Ezell
Each guest speaker will cover a specific topic like social media algorithms, creating video content, marketing and messaging strategy, and more! We hope to see you there! RSVP in our bio

10/17/2025

✨ After eight incredible years as a WiE Admin, it’s time for me to officially pass the torch.

I joined this amazing community back in 2018, helping manage the Facebook group, plan events, and eventually launching our Instagram page in 2020. Since then, I’ve had the joy of connecting with so many of you—celebrating your wins, sharing your stories, and watching this community grow into something truly powerful. 💪

Being part of WiE has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my career. Thank you for the conversations, collaborations, and countless moments of inspiration. 🥹 (happy tears)

I’m not leaving Knoxville (or WiE!)—just stepping back from my admin role to make space for new energy and ideas.

Thank you you too my past co-admin’s & for paving the way for this amazing community. Thank you to my current co-admins .lawson and Allyson Virden for all the hard work in progress we’ve made this year in staying organized! Thank you you to the team for your continued support of our WiE community! And thank you to all of YOU for allowing me this role of a lifetime! 🫶🏻✨

Keep showing up as the badass women entrepreneurs you are—and don’t forget to sparkle responsibly. 💖

If you have any questions or are interested in getting involved, please reach out to Delaney Lawson at the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center (KEC).

10/14/2025

A heartfelt thank-you to everyone who gathered with us at The Exchange Table this morning. Under the thoughtful guidance of Bonnie Casamassima, we reflected on what’s thriving in our businesses and where we’re seeking fresh perspective.

The result? Genuine connection, shared wisdom, and a reminder that entrepreneurship doesn’t have to be done alone.

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10/06/2025

🐣🎟️ Early Bird tickets on sale now!

At The Maker City Summit, Halee Sprinkle of Czech Yourself Marketing will help us explore when AI tools can boost your content game, save you time, and spark creativity—and when to skip the bot and show up human.

Czech Yourself Marketing is a creative consultancy that helps makers, small businesses, and nonprofits make sense of marketing—without the overwhelm.

From social media strategy to content planning and customized trainings, we blend big-brand thinking with small biz heart.

Save when you buy your Early Bird ticket to this week!
Check out the full schedule on our website: https://www.themakercitysummit.org

10/01/2025

Join us for a morning of authentic connection, reflection, and exchange at The Exchange Table. Guided by Bonnie Casamassima , we’ll begin with a grounding moment of intention to center ourselves and set the tone for open, meaningful conversation.

Through a blend of solo reflection, group sharing, and a collaborative share board, each participant will have the opportunity to both give and receive insight. You’ll leave not only with fresh ideas and clarity but also with the encouragement that comes from gathering around the table with peers who truly get it.

Register at link in bio! 🔗➡️

“Each intention we set plants a seed for the life we are daring to live.” — Judith Orloff

📆 Tuesday, 10/14, 9-10:30am
📍 Knoxville Entrepreneur Center, Market Square, Downtown Knoxville TN
🤍 Come as you are, we are excited to have you!

09/30/2025

Today’s WiE Lunch = fuel for the soul. 💛

Huge thanks to every woman who showed up, shared wins, asked questions, and made space for new connections. You are what makes this community work.

🔔 Next up: The Exchange Table
Tuesday, Oct 14 • 9:00–10:30 AM
Bring what’s working in your business + where you’d love advice. We’ll set an intention, reflect, and then swap ideas around the table.

👉 Save the date & RSVP (link in bio).

09/28/2025

✨ Let’s connect over lunch and keep building this incredible community! I, Halee Sprinkle, will be there in my bright pink blazer! Sorry to those who missed us last month and all the confusion!

When: Tuesday, September 30 at 12:00 PM
Where: Kerns Food Hall — meet at the high tables just inside the main doors by Disco Chicken.

All stages of business are welcome—founders, freelancers, side-hustlers, and the “entrepreneur-curious.” Grab your lunch from any vendor and join us for casual conversation, new connections, and shared ideas. No program, no RSVP—just show up and say hi!

Bring a friend. 💛

09/04/2025

Join us on Tuesday, September 9th with guest speaker, Denise Gosnell! In this month’s meeting we will have a story-driven keynote that gives emerging and first‐time leaders a repeatable playbook to show up with confidence, drive decisions, and earn trust in executive rooms... without burning out.

RSVP LINK IN BIO! 🔗

08/01/2025

This Tuesday’s WiE Lunch crew! Thankful for this community who keep showing up for one another!
lab +👶🏻

Robyn Antonini

07/22/2025

Join us at our monthly WiE lunch meetup at Noon at Kern’s Food Hall!

We gather at the high tables between the shopping and food vendors (near Disco Chicken). Be on the lookout for one another, admins are not always able to make it!

Just show up, grab lunch, and mingle! There is not planned programming. This is just another opportunity outside of our typical 2nd Tuesday meetings to meet and connect with your fellow WIE!

Note: We will not meet in December for this WiE lunch due to the Holidays.

WHERE: Kern’s Food Hall - 2201 Kerns Rising Way, Knoxville, TN 37920

07/22/2025

Join us on August 12th for “Potentia: The Root Structure You Didn’t Know You Needed (For Yourself and Your Business)” led by ! More details and registration link to follow!
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Just do it, they said. Growth is at the edge of your comfort zone, they said. You can build your own business, they said. So you jumped off the cliff. And then realized that no one handed you a parachute.

Maybe you (and/or your team) feel confused, anxious or frustrated. Maybe you feel plagued by your own (or others’) sabotage, anxiety, or resistance. Maybe you feel all of these things at once.

The path of entrepreneurship invites you to come face to face with your own edges of self-trust, resourcing and belief. The path of leadership challenges you to expand your capacity not only to hold your own vision, but also to resource and support others as they endeavor (and sometimes struggle) to hold the vision with you.

Holding the vision for your business (and the complex change that is an inescapable reality of business ownership) with the right root structure to support you will increase your capacity to realize the vision you have for yourself and your business, without sacrificing your body, mind and soul in the process.

Change is inevitable. But being sucked dry of your life force while trying to keep your vision alive isn’t.

Join us at the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center on August 12th and leave with:

1. A greater understanding of a framework that can support your capacity to hold vision and manage complex change

2. Prompts you can use on a regular basis to re-align your root structures to support where you are growing next

3. Insight into what “resistance” can mean and how getting curious can help you move through it

4. What the seasons can teach us about the process of becoming; as individuals, as leaders, as businesses (TLDR; “growth” isn’t linear)