Get known by the right people.
That is where the work comes from. Eleven rooms a month, one login, £5.
Join the Rebellious Business NetworkMost networking gets you a list of people you sort of know.
You end up on the edge of six different groups and properly inside none of them.
You turn up. Someone does a round robin. You hear fourteen elevator pitches. You sit through a PowerPoint about somebody's unique methodology. You swap details with people you will never contact.
Then you drive home thinking that was an hour of your life.
And the worst part is what you are left with. One conversation each, with people who are not connected to each other. You end up on the edge of six different groups and properly inside none of them.
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 do not 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.
Real bonds come from repeat exposure, across different contexts.
Not one conversation. Not one room. The same people, more than once, doing different things.
That is when you stop being someone they met and start being someone they know. And that is when you get an actual matrix of connections, where your relationships are group wide instead of isolated, and everyone in it knows everyone else.
Which is how you end up with the referrals, the collaborations and the actual paying clients.
The connections are the point. The business that comes out of them is the byproduct, and it is a fairly reliable one.
So the network is built for repetition. More rooms, more often, on different days, at different times, with the same people in them.
One membership. Every room.
Every room is live on the calendar, and every one of them is already covered by your membership.
The backbone of the whole thing, and it is 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.
Nobody pitches. Nobody presents. You leave having actually met someone.
Get everything out of your head and onto the page, then build your week around a success day, so you start Monday knowing exactly what you are doing rather than staring at a list.
The one room that pays off on its own. You come out with your week planned whether you speak to anyone or not.
Everyone in here is brilliant at something. So you trade what you are great at for what you need, and the thing gets done without the invoice.
An evening room, deliberately. Because a 1pm Thursday does not work for everyone, and the people who cannot make daytimes are people the rest of the network never gets to meet.
Property, investment and the people building portfolios alongside businesses. Run with Jacqui and Neil, same rebellious format, different conversation.
Property people run businesses and business owners invest. The overlap is the point.
Every one built around its own purpose. Every one already covered by your membership.
A single ticket on Eventbrite is £5. That gets you one room. Once.
Membership is also £5. That gets you all eleven, every month, plus everything else on this page.
One gets you through the door once. The other gives you the run of the place.
Join for £5 a monthThe portal is open all week, not just on Thursdays.
Eleven rooms a month is the loud bit. This is the part that keeps working on the days nothing is live.
The Reach Out to Me Board
Refreshed every week after each 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, Scavingo, sits at the top, which is where most eyes land first.
The member directory
Searchable by what people do. Need a bookkeeper, a copywriter, a VA, search it and the Rebels who do it come back with bios and links. It works the other way too. You are in there, so the people who need what you do can find you whether or not you logged in this week.
Direct messaging
Message anyone from the directory or the board without leaving the platform. No hunting for an email address. No appearing in someone’s DMs as a stranger.
The whole calendar, one login
Every room we run, in one place, syncable to your own calendar. As we add more rooms this year they land on the same calendar, and your membership already covers them.
A community that is on all the time
Chat rooms that carry the conversation between events. One open thread where you can ask for what you need, join in on someone else's, and share what you do without it being an ad. No algorithm deciding whether anyone gets to see you. Just your people, where you can actually find them.
The resources that make it work harder
Templates for dropping into a chat without feeling like a nuisance, wording for reaching out to someone you have just met, and short trainings on turning a conversation into a client. So you are not working out what to say from scratch every time.
This is what happens when people keep turning up.
Richard and Marco met at the Thursday network. 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.
Straight from the chat
Real messages, unedited, from during and after our sessions.
Oh, and there's me. Hi.
I am Caroline. I own Rebellious, and I host the Thursday 1pm session every single week. My real job, the one I actually care about, is making sure you leave having met someone worth knowing.
Here is 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.
Thursday proved the theory, so I am building more rooms around the same idea. A planning session, a skill exchange, a property room, more on the way, each one with a real purpose and all of them gloriously rebellious.
I am in the room every Thursday, picking the conversation starters and occasionally getting caught dancing in the breakouts. Come and say hello.
Eleven events a month. The board. The directory. The community. The lot.
Cancel any time. No contracts. No awkward conversations.
Join the Rebellious Business NetworkFrequently asked questions
What is the difference between a single ticket and the membership?
A single ticket on Eventbrite is £5 and gets you into one session. The membership is £5 a month and gets you all eleven events, the Reach Out to Me Board, the member directory, direct messaging, the community, and everything new we add this year. Same price, a great deal more stuff.
What if I cannot make Thursdays?
Then come on a Monday, a Tuesday evening, or the last Friday of the month. That is exactly why the rooms run at different times. The portal is open all week regardless.
Are the sessions recorded?
No. What persists is the Reach Out to Me Board, which goes up after every session with everyone’s links and conversation starters on it.
I am already a Nab-A-Client member. Do I need to pay?
No. The network is included in your NAC membership. We will sort you out.
Do I have to come to everything?
No. Eleven a month is what is available, not what is expected. Most Rebels pick two or three that fit their week. The people who get the most out of it are the ones who come back to the same rooms, which is easier when there are more of them to choose from.
Is this just online?
For now, yes. We have plans to take the network local with in person meetups down the line.
Business is a team sport. Come and pick your team.
£5 a month. Same price as a single ticket. You just get the whole network.
Join the Rebellious Business NetworkCancel any time. No contracts. No awkward conversations.