• Recorded Audio Summit, with content available November 1-25, 2025
• Speaker Application Deadline: 10/7/25
• Content Submission Deadline: 10/25/25
• Promotional requirement: 10 registrations, with incentives at 25
• Theme: Grateful Growth (tying in US Thanksgiving)
• Topics: Mindset, Marketing, AI, Content Creation, Networking, Collaborations, Sales, Offer Creation, Gratitude, Ethical Business, and more

Summit Structure

The Grateful Growth Summit is a recorded audio summit, with content being actively pushed to participants November 1-25, 2025.

Speakers will record a 15 minute audio talk on their topic, which will be available to participants during the entire period and actively pushed on a particular day (after promotional requirements are met)

The event will be gamified, giving participants rewards for engaging with more of the content.

Among the gamification rewards as well as VIP bonuses will be live events with the speakers, and these are a great opporunity for you to connect with participants.

Concept

The audience is busy and overwhelmed. Many of the people we are trying to meet do not have a day to sit through a summit, nor do they have hours to sit and watch videos. Audio is more accessible, and it does not feel as overwhelming.

We believe that this audio format will increase registration conversions, getting you more opt-ins, while the longer format, with less content spread over more days, gives us the opportunity to engage more over time.

The live events will provide opportunity for you, the speakers, to engage directly with the most engaged participants, maximizing your opportunities to grow your business through this event.

Content

The theme of the summit is Grateful Growth, which ties in with the timing right before US Thanksgiving.

The content can be anything that applies to business growth, with an emphasis on doing so in an aligned and values-based way.

We follow the values laid out in the Entrepreneur Village Manifesto.

Your talk should be high value, teaching one to three valuable, actionable tips. A talk which is clearly holding back the good stuff to entice people into your offer will be rejected. No direct offers can be made, but you can spend 30 seconds of your talk discussing your free offer (and VIP offer if you like) to encourage people to take advantage of it.

We provide value first, and in doing so, we create a desire in the listener to engage further with us.

Delivery

The summit will be delivered in audio format, available to participants through the dashboard throughout the summit period.

Every day of the summit period, participants will receive an email spotlighting between 1 and 3 talks with direct links to that content to listen to.

Additionally, your talk will be transcibed (with appropriate editing for print) into a collaborative book, which will be available in ebook form for VIPs, and will be available for sale on Amazon. Your regular and VIP gifts will be listed in the book to give you additional opportunities to receive opt-ins even after the summit is over.

Speaker Meetings:
Thursday, October 9th at 4 PM Eastern
Friday, October 24th at 11 AM Eastern

Participant Meetups:
November 13th, at 3 PM Eastern
November 25th, at 3 PM Eastern

Speaker Acceptance and Requirements

If your application is submitted and compete before October 7th, you can assume that you are accepted, and do not need to wait for confirmation, but that is only the beginning.

That means that you should block off the speaker meetings and participant meetups as soon as you apply. You can also start recording your content.

To be included in the content line up, you must provide a high quality recording on MP3, the message of which delivers value to the audience, not just a pitch. (If your recording is not up to our standards, you will be informed so you may re-record)

To be highlighted in the email reminders, you must promote to bring no less than 10 opt-ins.
If you bring at least 25, you will be promoted multiple times and will be in the front of the book created from summit content
If you bring at least 40, you will be directly promoted to the entire summit list in a solo email.

If you fail to promote, your talk will remain in the general content of the summit, and may still be included in the book, but it will not be directly highlighted.

Questions

Questions can be sent to Michael Whitehouse at michael@guywhoknowsaguy.com

Legal Stuff

By applying this this event, you are agreeing to the following:

1. Speaker hereby grants to Michael Whitehouse and Concardia, LLC the right to use his or her name, voice, appearance, likeness, image, words, participation, and title or professional designation, in whole or in part, in these Recordings and/or compilations and in any correspondence, publicity, advertising, promotional, or other derivative materials based on them. Michael Whitehouse and Concardia, LLC has no obligation to make use of the rights granted herein.

2. Speaker hereby grants Michael Whitehouse and Concardia, LLC the unconditional and irrevocable right to reproduce the Recording in any format, and to distribute, sell, prepare derivative works, advertise, and publicize the Recordings without compensation to Speaker, Michael Whitehouse and Concardia, LLC may edit the Recordings at her discretion. Michael Whitehouse and Concardia, LLC shall own the worldwide rights, title, and interest, including copyright in, and to, the Speaker’s Recording. However, the Speaker shall also retain the right to use his or her own Recording for any purpose.

3. Speaker, upon written request to Michael Whitehouse and Concardia, LLC, shall be provided with a copy of his or her Recording in electronic format.

4. Speaker agrees to promote the event to their audience by email, social media, or any other method to generate a minimum of 10 opt-ins with a goal of over 25.

5. Speaker is permitted to make a FREE offer during his or her talk.

6. Speaker represents that he or she has the full right, power, and authority to grant this release and to perform all of the provisions thereof. Speaker acknowledges that in the event of a breach or alleged breach with respect to the terms and provisions hereof, that Michael Whitehouse and Concardia, LLC shall not take any legal action, but will be very disappointed and will record such breach in the official records.

7. Speaker agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Michael Whitehouse and Concardia, LLC from and against all claims, losses, expenses, and liabilities of every kind including reasonable attorney's fees arising out of the inaccuracy or breach of any provision of this Agreement. Speaker expressly releases Michael Whitehouse and Concardia, LLC from any and all claims arising out of the use of the material.

8. This release shall be governed in accordance with the State of Connecticut law, constitute the entire agreement of the parties, and may be amended only in writing.