The Rebellious Business Network
Business is a team sport. Most of us have been playing it alone.
The home for purposeful online networking. Built for the outliers, the rebels and the weirdos who'd rather eat their own laptop than sit through another round-robin.
£5 a month. That works out under £1.25 a week.
👉 Join the Rebellious Business NetworkThe Problem
Most networking is broken. Here's why.
You know the drill. You turn up. Someone does a round-robin. You hear fourteen elevator pitches. You sit through a PowerPoint about someone's "unique methodology." You swap business cards with people you'll never contact. You drive home thinking "well, that was an hour of my life."
Connection doesn't work like that. Connection is built on the same thing as any relationship: familiarity and trust. Familiarity comes from showing up. Trust comes from being remembered. And being remembered comes from making memories together.
You don't make memories through elevator pitches and death by PowerPoint. You make them by laughing together, playing games together, and having a genuinely good time.
Most networking knows this. Most networking fails at it by being boring as hell.
We just chose not to be boring.
What We Do Differently
No elevator pitches. No round-robins. No PowerPoints. Ever.
This is how every room in the network runs. The games are there to be played, the rules are there to be broken, and the point never changes: you leave having actually connected with someone.
The Games
Our breakout rooms are built around games and conversation, not sales scripts. Last week someone nominated their mother-in-law as a reptile during a scavenger hunt.
The Conversations
We hand people conversation starters that are actually worth answering. Not "so what do you do," but "what's the most expensive mistake you've made in business."
The Energy
Forty people on a Zoom call and nobody pitched. By the end, several had booked follow-up calls and two were planning a collaboration.
Nobody writes "I help businesses grow" as their conversation starter. Because when you're given permission to be interesting instead of professional, it turns out people are really, really interesting.
And when people are interesting, they're memorable. When they're memorable, they get clients. That's the whole thing. That's what networking is supposed to do. We just actually do it, in every room we open.
More Than One Room
One home. More and more ways to connect.
Networking is the heartbeat, but it was never going to be the whole thing. Each room in here is built around its own purpose, a specific way to grow your business with other people instead of on your own. Same rebellious format every time. A different reason to turn up.
Rebellious Business Networking
The backbone of the whole thing, and it's built around collaboration. Games in the breakout rooms, conversation starters worth answering, and a format designed to pair you up with people you could actually work with. Most Rebels find their people here first.
Skill Swap
Everyone in here is brilliant at something. So you trade what you're great at for what you need, and the thing gets done without the invoice.
Pitch Practice
A room to practise the way you talk about what you do, in front of people who'll tell you how it actually landed. Sharpen it somewhere safe, before it counts.
More landing this year
We're not done. Investment opportunities and speed dating are next, with more rooms on the way through the year. Every one built around its own purpose.
Business is a team sport. Small businesses get ahead by mobilising, sticking together, and pulling each other up. That is what every room here is for.
What's Inside
One membership. The whole network.
All of it lives in one place. Your portal, open whenever you want it, not just on Thursdays.
— The Reach Out to Me Board
A page inside the network, refreshed every week after Thursday's session. Every Rebel who turned up gets a spot: their business, their links, and a conversation starter they wrote themselves. So you can scroll a list of warm, self-introduced people and message them without guessing what to open with. Whoever won that week's scavenger game (we call it Scavingo) sits at the top, which is where most eyes land first.
— A community that's open all week
The portal is on all the time. Chat rooms to carry the conversation between events. No algorithm deciding whether anyone gets to see you. No ads. Just your people, where you can actually find them.
— The whole calendar, one login
Every room we run, in one place. As we add more events this year, they land on the same calendar, and your membership already covers them. Join once, get the lot.
— A room full of people who've put skin in the game
Everyone in here chose to be here, and put a fiver down to do it. That changes the energy completely. Better connections, deeper conversations, results that are actually real.
Richard and Marco met at our network last week. Richard does branding. Marco does digital marketing. They worked out they both use music analogies to explain what they do. By Friday they were planning a collaboration.
Nobody introduced them. They found each other in a breakout room. Good people in a good format find each other. Every single week.
What The Rebels Say
Don't take our word for it
"There is no other group that I would invite every member over for a cup of tea in the back garden. The RBN is different! Why struggle through your journey alone when you can strive alongside others who are travelling along the same path as you."
David
Productivity Coach
"It is a fantastic opportunity to build truly valuable connections. The atmosphere is just buzzing. You can build your business much faster if you surround yourself with the right people and I believe this is just the right place to meet them!"
Gin
Web Developer
"Finally a group I look forward to going to, rather than dread! (Besides the fact I could attend in my PJ bottoms and no one would know) it is fun, relaxed and HIGHLY informative. This is the only place you need to be!"
Katie
Brand Photographer
"I would 100% recommend anyone to join. Cordelia and her team produce real results that help your business grow, with the constant support and enthusiasm you start to feel like part of a community, then you realise that you are part of a family."
Sean
Podcast Host
Straight From The Chat
This is what happens on Thursdays.
Real messages. Real reactions. Unedited. This is what people type in the chat during and after our networking.
About Me
Oh, and there's me. Hi.
I'm Caroline. I own Rebellious, and I host the Thursday 1pm session, our flagship, every single week. My real job, the one I actually care about, is making sure you leave having met someone worth knowing.
Here's what I believe. Real connection gets built by turning up, doing something together, and turning up again. The binned business card never stood a chance. My favourite thing in the world is watching two Rebels spark a collaboration that neither of them saw coming.
The Thursday networking proved it, so I'm building more rooms around the same idea: a skill swap, a pitch-practice room, more on the way, each one with a real purpose and all of them gloriously rebellious. More ways to connect that actually go somewhere. That is how I help your business grow, by getting you in a room with the right people, DOING things together.
So that's the plan. I'm in the room every Thursday, picking the conversation starters and occasionally getting caught dancing in the breakouts. Come and say hello. I'd love to meet you.
Pricing
Why pay per event when you can have the whole network?
A single ticket on Eventbrite is £5. That gets you one Thursday. Once.
Or you join the Rebellious Business Network for the same £5 and get all of it. Every Thursday. Every new room we open this year. The Reach Out to Me Board. The community and the chat. The whole portal, one login. Same fiver. One gets you through the door once. The other gives you the run of the place.
Got Questions?
FAQ
What's the difference between a single ticket and the membership?
A single ticket on Eventbrite is £5 and gets you into one Thursday networking session. The membership is £5 a month and gets you every session, every other room we run, the Reach Out to Me Board, the community and chat, and access to everything new we add this year. Same price, a great deal more stuff.
What else is there besides Thursday networking?
Networking is the heartbeat, built around collaboration. Alongside it you've got a skill swap and a room to practise your pitch, with investment opportunities and speed dating on the way and more landing through the year. It all sits on one calendar inside your membership.
I'm already a Nab-A-Client member. Do I need to pay?
No. The network is included in your NAC membership. We'll sort you out.
Can I try a single event before committing?
Yes. Grab a single ticket for £5 on Eventbrite and come to a Thursday session. If you love it (you will), come back and join the monthly membership.
What if I can't make Thursdays?
The portal is open all the time, so there's always somewhere to land, and more rooms are landing on the calendar through the year. Thursday networking is the heartbeat, and most members find a way to make it work because it ends up being the highlight of their week.
Is this just online?
For now, yes. We have plans to take the network local with in-person meetups down the line. Watch this space.
Business is a team sport. Come and pick your team. £5.
Same price as a single ticket. You just get the whole network.
👉 Join the Rebellious Business NetworkCancel any time. No contracts. No awkward conversations. Though we don't think you'll want to.