A different conversation about business: how we make money without exploitation, build lives that are well resourced, and use those resources to build a more just and equitable world.
Make Money Make Change
A FREE ONLINE SUMMIT · THURSDAY 22 OCTOBER 2026
Joining details are sent by email when you register.
Hosted by Marisa Guthrie, author of The Reluctant Capitalist.
Thursday 22 October · 6–9 pm UK · 1–4 pm ET · 10 am–1 pm PT · Online · Free
This is not a traditional business summit.
No keynotes. No slides. No polished pitches.
Make Money Make Change is a live conversation about the relationship between money, business, power, values, and social change, held alongside the launch of Marisa Guthrie’s new book, The Reluctant Capitalist: Build Your Business Without Selling Your Soul.
The book and summit ask a central question: if we want business to contribute to a different kind of economy and society, what might that look like in practice?
You’ll leave with new perspectives, practical ideas and a wider sense of what’s possible. We will explore what happens when we refuse to comply with systems that harm and dare to imagine what we can build in its place.
How can we make money and contribute to social and economic change at the same time?
THE QUESTION AT THE CENTRE
The businesses we build today are part of the economy we create tomorrow.
Each guest will come at this question from a different perspective. Among the questions we’ll explore:
What role does money play in creating change?
Can business be a force for good?
How do we balance profit, financial sustainability, ethics and impact?
What does responsible entrepreneurship look like today?
How can purpose-led business owners become better resourced for the change they want to make?
What new economic and business models are emerging?
What might a more human way of doing business look like?
Conversations, not presentations.
HOW IT WORKS
Instead of giving talks, each guest joins Marisa for a curated conversation: informal and unscripted. After each one, the floor opens to your questions and comments.
Four conversations.
Each guest is in conversation with Marisa.
Your questions.
Audience Q&A follows every conversation.
A breakout discussion.
Time to talk it through with fellow attendees.
THURSDAY 22 OCTOBER · THREE HOURS
How the summit unfolds
TIMELINE
Welcome and embodiment arrival - a few minutes to land and check in before we begin.
Opening reflections from Marisa
Conversation one + audience Q&A
Conversation two + audience Q&A
Breakout discussion
Conversation three + audience Q&A
Conversation four + audience Q&A
Closing reflections and next steps
The guests
People doing interesting work in different places, asking similar questions.
IN CONVERSATION WITH MARISA
YOUR HOST
Marisa Guthrie
Marisa Guthrie is a coach, writer and the author of The Reluctant Capitalist: Build Your Business Without Selling Your Soul (Practical Inspiration, October 2026). Through her Ethical Entrepreneurship Ecosystem, she works with purpose-led business owners to build businesses that are financially sustainable without compromising what they stand for.
SPEAKER
Natalie Brite
Natalie Brite (they/them) is a non-binary designer, systems thinker, and creative mentor whose work sits at the intersection of a design practice informed by ecological thinking, decolonial frameworks, and a deep commitment to collective care.
As the founder of DoGoodBiz Studio, Natalie works with small and micro businesses, sole proprietors, and movement builders who want to do business differently and who need a creative partner who actually understands what that means. Their studio specializes in marketing ecosystem development, branding, web design, brand management, and community building.
Their background in fine art, philosophy, and sustainable development shapes an approach to creative work that is strategic, values-rooted, and built around the long arc of what folks are sharing with the world.
Stacey Sheppard
SPEAKER
Stacey Sheppard is a writer, content creator, marketing strategist and business ecosystem builder with more than 20 years’ experience in media, publishing and digital content.
She is the founder of The Tribe, a coworking space and community for women in business in South Devon, and co-founder and editor of Athena, a digital magazine championing women in business across Devon. She is also the co-founder of Bold School, an online business school for creative rebels, neurodivergent thinkers and half-expressed humans.
Her work explores the structural barriers women face in entrepreneurship, the infrastructure needed to help them succeed, and what the future of work could look like if we designed businesses around our lives rather than forcing our lives around our businesses. She is passionate about creating the conditions for women to be seen, heard and supported, while helping them build businesses that feel like home and give them room to be fully themselves.
Maegan Megginson
SPEAKER
Maegan Megginson is a spiritual strategist and sabbatical coach for small business owners who want to recover from burnout, reconnect with their intuition, and design sustainable ways of working.
Her approach blends practical business wisdom, therapeutic insight, and grounded spiritual guidance, offering entrepreneurs a new way of doing business. You can learn more about her work at deeplyrested.com.
Bobbi-Jo O'Gilvie
SPEAKER
Bobbi is the Founder of Ready to Blog, a studio that specialises in branding, web design, and strategy for the passionate entrepreneur, and Circe, a micro-coaching platform for women in business.
She is also a Vision Coach who helps her leaders grow and scale through a compassion-based approach.
This conversation is for you if…
You run a business, solo, small or somewhere in between, and want it to reflect your values
You’re a coach, consultant or founder building purpose-led a purpose-led enterprise
You’re working for change and wondering how to be better resourced to do it
You’re curious about new approaches to business and economics
You’ve started questioning conventional ideas about money, growth and success
You’re reading The Reluctant Capitalist, or planning to
BEYOND THE SUMMIT
The conversation continues.
After the summit, we’ll create an opt-in directory for attendees and speakers who’d like to stay connected to network, explore collaborations, or simply carry on a conversation that started on the day. It’s entirely optional, and you decide what you share.
THE BOOK BEHIND THE SUMMIT
Build Your Business Without Selling Your Soul
The Reluctant Capitalist
Make Money Make Change takes the questions at the heart of Marisa’s book into a live, shared conversation. If they stay with you, the book goes further.
Common Questions
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Yes. The summit is free so these conversations can reach as many people as possible.
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Come for as much as you can. The conversations build on each other, but you’re welcome to join for part of the afternoon — or evening, depending on where you are joining from.
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Yes. We'll record the summit and share details about the recording with registered attendees after the event. The recording will be available to anyone who registers for 14 days.
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Just an internet connection. Joining details will arrive by email when you register.
Not only how we make money, but also what change we can make possible with it.
Join the conversation on Thursday 22 October.
DATE: Thursday 22 October 2026
TIME: 6:00–9:00 pm UK · 1:00–4:00 pm ET · 10:00 am–1:00 pm PT
WHERE: Online — joining details sent by email
LENGTH: Three hours
COST: Free