The co-star of a nationally televised residence transforming program would be the keynote speaker at a daylong workshop in Hopkinsville for entrepreneurs.
Brooke Gilliam, who’s initially from Webster County, is one in all a number of audio system lined up for the Feb. 21 SEED Summit sponsored by Planters Financial institution on the James E. Bruce Conference Middle.
Gilliam and her husband, Brice, are featured on this system “Making Trendy with Brooke and Brice” that airs on the Magnolia Community and Discovery+. It’s filmed in Nashville, the place they reside.
SEED stands for Startup Financial & Entrepreneur Growth, and the workshop is designed for anybody trying to begin or increase their enterprise. The audio system will cowl a variety of matters, together with finance, enterprise operations, advertising and marketing and workforce constructing.
Small companies and entrepreneurs are “the heartbeat of our communities,” Planters Financial institution CEO Elizabeth McCoy stated in a press launch. “We’re a group financial institution and our objective is to at all times help the entrepreneurial spirited. In truth, it’s how we received our personal begin 25 years in the past. Planters Financial institution’s new program goals to attach, help and educate those who want to begin their very own enterprise, develop inside their present small enterprise, or simply want to educate themselves on methods to do enterprise.”
The workshop will run from 8 a.m. to five p.m. There isn’t a value to attend, however registration is required by Feb. 17.
Gilliam will discuss making a TV program will sustaining full-time careers — Brice as an orthodontist and Brooke as a pharmaceutical gross sales consultant.
There’s a novel twist to “Making Trendy with Brooke and Brice.” Brooke focuses on constructing whereas Brice leads the inventive facet of their initiatives. Their partnership is a reversal of the roles usually assigned to women and men in residence enchancment applications.
“I’ve at all times beloved taking issues aside and remaking them, including my very own aptitude,” Brooke advised her hometown newspaper, The Journal-Enterprise in Windfall. “On the time, I didn’t know the time period ‘semi-custom’ however I now notice that was a ardour from a younger age! I spent quite a lot of time throughout summer time breaks within the stitching room with my Granny and in my Grandaddy’s workshop out again. Watching how he crafted wooden to turn into no matter he wished to create was fascinating and thoughts boggling. I knew at some point I wished to do the identical!”
Brooke is a 2006 graduate of Webster County Excessive College. She earned a bachelor’s diploma in advertising and marketing at Murray State College.
The Hopkinsville workshop will even function a small enterprise panel with native entrepreneurs discussing their successes and failures in enterprise. The schedule and slate of audio system is accessible right here.
Planters Financial institution shall be introducing a SEED grant to “somebody with an revolutionary enterprise thought or an growth plan for his or her present enterprise,” and particulars shall be introduced on the workshop.
