The
Proximity
MarketPlace
The World’s First
Business Carnival
November 12th, 2026 in Austin TX
The stage is cancelled.
For one day.
You’ve sat for the keynotes. You’ve scribbled notes during panels. You’ve scarfed down chicken and salad to make the most of ‘networking hour.’ And you’ve bathed in enough information, trying to pick out the nuggets that inspire something within you.
Your problem isn’t a shortage of ideas, strategy, or motivation.
Your problems sounds like:
My high-ticket offer is attracting perfect-fit clients, but I could take 5 more. I need to find a low ticket lead-in or some sort of conversion event to draw more of these people to me.
Is this hire I’m thinking about actually worth $5K a month? Can I even afford that with my current revenue? If so, do I need to hire someone before them?
I have an audience of 50,000 followers between Instagram, Threads, and my email list, but I’m ready to build a community. How do I go from one-way communication to creating something where they’re connecting with each other?
I’m shifting my title and I’m really nervous. Everyone knows me for this thing and now I want to expand my personal brand. How do I do that without hurting the brand reputation I’ve spent 4 years building?
Something is missing in my brand. I’m straddling this weird spot between ‘cool girl on the Internet’ and ‘auntie with aggressive amounts of expertise.’ Sometimes it feels inconsistent, but I don’t want to lose parts of myself by committing to one side.
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Instead of a stage with speakers, we curated carnival booths to work with you 1:1 to solve specific problems in your business.
And an implementation lounge, so when you get the solution— you go do it in real-time on the carnival floor.
This is not a pitch fest.
Every booth is there to work with you to solve a problem that could be worth $100K in your business.
Meet Them
If your problem is :
‘I feel invisible on Instagram with how fast organic content marketing is changing on Instagram.’
Tini’s Shut Up My Show Is On
to create a viral IG series with her ahead of the Meta Episodes roll out, so you can give both cold traffic and your warm followers a reason to keep checking back.
If your problem is :
‘I’m about to make a big financial decision or made a big decision and now I’m not sure if I’m doing or did the right thing.’
Meaghan’s Forgive Me CFO For I Have Spent
to confess that money thing you haven’t told a soul about and get her take on where to proceed based on your revenue and expenses.
If your problem is :
‘I’m stepping into a much bigger personal brand, but I’m not sure how to fully leverage it.’
Hayley’s booth
to get some big deal content assets and a plan for how to use who you are to speak on stages, get the podcast invite, and build a reputation that reaches far beyond Instagram.
If your problem is :
‘I don’t think my relationships are supporting this stage of business I’m growing into.’
Lizzy’s booth
and tell her about the recurring fight with your partner, the tension with your cofounder, or the loneliness you feel as you get more successful and shift how you approach this interpersonal issue.
If your problem is :
‘I feel behind with AI but I’m overwhelmed and need to build a workflow for this thing that’s sucking up way too many hours.’
Julianna’s Set It and Sip
to have her strategize and build out a workflow for you while she whips up a cotton candy mocktail for you to sip on while your worst admin nightmare gets fixed.
If your problem is :
‘I feel out of control with my finances and don’t have a handle on things.’
Melissa’s Are My Books Cooked?
and have her review how you’re doing things to help you feel in control of your finances instead of like a horror story is starting every time you have to look at your numbers.
If your problem is :
‘I’m growing, but it feels slow and I hate slow.’
Catryce’s booth
to green light your growth by finding the gap that’s slowing everything down and figuring out how to fill it in a lean way so you can finally start growing at the rate that matches your ‘I want this now’ personality.
If your problem is :
‘I’m scaling, but I’m not sure I can do and hold everything that’s required of me at this new level.’
Kayla’s The Capacity Lab
to map out your current capacity and then figure out some of the things you can do to increase it, so you’re able to meet your highest-leverage edge and become who your vision is asking you to become.
If your problem is :
‘I know the power of relationship building, but I don’t have the time to build all of the relationships I want to build.’
Mom Brain Media’s
booth
and figure out your best assets to build relationships at scale, so you can keep leveraging the power of a network without sending 100 voice notes a day and needing to build the most robust CRM ever.
If your problem is :
‘I want to feel really confident in my body, especially when I step into big rooms and on stages.’
Madison’s booth
to get a 1:1 plan for how you can eat well, move your body, and feel better even when your week looks like 3 flights, a keynote, a VIP Day with a client, and your bestie’s birthday in Vegas.
If your problem is :
‘I know my personal brands and stories are such a good conversion tool for my warm audience, but I don’t know how to leverage them.’
Hannah’s Haunted House
where she’s creating a specific story framework for you that’s so good you can post and ghost, knowing your stories will do the heavy lifting for you while you’re away for the day.
If your problem is :
‘I’m drowning in tasks and I can’t get organized for the life of me.’
(sponsor) April’s booth
with Get Tasked to compete for most chaotic at the carnival. Then get a custom plan to tame the mental load with the most ADHD friendly system to turn your inner monologue into task management.
What a Day at the Carnival Looks Like
At Fair Market in East Austin
Here’s who The Proximity Marketplace is for and not for
Kiss or Dunk
KISS
💋
Established or scaling service-based business owners who’ve hit their first $100K, feel comfortable in their brand, and/or lead a community of over 100 people
Founder-forward product brands or tech startups who are actively raising, have hit product-market fit, or are innovating in a stale space
Personal brands or individuals who have been recognized for an exceptional talent or doing work that’s making the world a better place
Founders who can get a solution and take action quickly, valuing implementation and experimentation over dwelling, thinking, or waiting.
Founders who are in a phase where it’s less about what they can do and more about how can they access, hire, or collaborate with to make the do much faster and more effective
Playful, social, and curious people who wanna f*ck around and find out what happens when they become the main character instead of sitting in a chair all day
DUNK
💦
(I love you and I know you won’t be happy at my event)
Founders and business owners who genuinely love chilling out, hearing inspirational storytelling keynotes, or hardcore note-taking on a hot market trends or strategies.
Newer business owners who need the 101 of big business umbrellas like finance, mindset, marketing, or growth
Business owners who only like taking advice from people who they’ve personally worked with over a long period of time (you’re monogamous to your coach in a 12-month mastermind)
People who get overwhelmed easily and need a lot of time to process, choosing slow + intentional over ‘sh*t that’s good, let’s try it’ energy.
People who think having fun and playing games is a distraction from success, not fuel for it.
Hi, I’m Lucy
And I know events
I created The Proximity Marketplace after attending 25 events in a year. My credit card points were happpyyy having me run around the country, speaking in Michigan, Florida, Canada, New York, and Alabama (to name a few). I paid to speak. Was paid to speak. Ran workshops. Roasted people’s bios live on stage. Keynoted. Created the viral IG series, ‘can I become a global speaker in 90 days?’ Did 3 multi-day events in one week. And set up activation booths at both SXSW and Create and Cultivate.
I f*cking love events. And I also noticed that a lot of events were eerily similar.
Programming = speakers on stage.
Networking opportunities = you need to have the VIP upgrade.
Build up = the keynote at the end that leads into a pitch
Lunch = panic meet everyone (and EAT bc this is your only chance)
I don’t have anything against speaker events. I am a speaker, so that’d be a weird war to declare. I just started wondering why the event space seems to be married to a framework that doesn’t work for everyone’s brain or stage they’re at in business.
So I threw away the rulebook and built the world’s first business carnival, choosing a group of people I’d want looking at my business, giving me 1:1 solutions, and being my advisory team as I implement them in real time.
This might be my first carnival, but it’s definitely not my first business rodeo
Traveled to 25 Events In On Year
Went from Never Speaking to Speaking Nationally in Under 6 Months
150+ VIP Days to Write Entire Websites Completed Over a 5-Year Copywriting Career
Sold a Content Writing Agency in Under 9 Months
Hosted the Outearn Your Man online summit with 800+ Registrations
Lived in 55 Countries Over 5 Years While Still Scaling Multiple Businesses
Let’s chat logistics
Venue:
Fair Market
Location:
Austin, TX
Date:
November 12th
(November 11th for Booth Holders)
Hours:
11 am - 6 pm
Hotel and Travel Guide:
I got you once you grab your ticket, bc you know I LOVE a post-event vacay or self-planned mastermind din with new besties
GRAB YOUR TICKET
November 12th, 2026 in Austin TX
Bring your biggest problems to Austin and leave with opportunities you didn’t even know existed.
Investment: $250
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FAQs
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I’d way rather fly in for one day where the entire focus is on having access to a 1:1 advisory team and finding other established, spunky business owners to work with than 3 days of ‘getting inspired’ but that’s just me.
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Yep! We’re keeping the ratio intimate 1 booth: 5 attendees to keep lines short and booths accessible. This way, you can visit a booth holder for an initial consult then return to get feedback after you implement in the implementation lounge.
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Nope. This is not a pitchfest and no one is allowed to pitch you. You can lead the pitch. You can ask a booth holder, can we hop on a call, I might want to hire you? You can also sign up for an on-the-floor sales call with a booth if you really hit it off with one of them and want to learn more (the last hour will be for these, and if you don’t wanna have any you can literally just moon bounce with other attendees for this hour). But nobody can pitch you. If they do, you report them and they wear the ‘I pitched’ hat of shame for an hour.
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You’re totally good! The first hour is an attendee fun hour on the lawn so you can play games and meet other people. This way, when the booths open up you can travel with a crew if you’d like to visit the different experts together.
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You should be established enough that you know what to ask. You’ve made a big investment before, so you know how to tap into a CFO’s expertise to weigh the pros and cons of the next one. You’ve played around with different types of content, so you know where your heart is when Tini crafts a series for you. You’ve been through a few seasons of business, so when Kayla helps you with your capacity you’re not just in the ‘I don’t know anything’ newbie chaos.
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November 12th in Austin TX at a cute indoor-outdoor venue called Fair Market on the hip, east side.
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There are no refunds.
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Email me at lucy@mywritehandwoman.com or DM me @mywritehandwoman on Instagram