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Connect, Create & Collaborate through Play!
For founders, creatives and unconventional business owners bored of beige networking...
Business Misfit Networking is for founders, creatives, business owners and unconventional leaders who are bored of beige networking, awkward elevator pitches and rooms where everyone is pretending business has to be stiff, polished and painfully professional.
This is Business Misfit Live — a play-led business activation room where we connect, create and collaborate through games, creativity, embodied exercises and proper human conversation.
Because people open up faster when they are playing.
They remember each other better when they are creating.
And collaboration becomes a hell of a lot easier when nobody is trapped in another round of “tell us what you do in 60 seconds while everyone quietly dies inside”.
This is networking with pulse.
Each event includes a playful business activation designed to help you get out of your head, into connection and into movement. You might build something, throw something, perform something, create something, solve something or laugh your way into a business breakthrough you did not see coming.
But this is not play for the sake of play.
Every activity is designed to reveal something useful about how you lead, sell, create, collaborate, communicate, show up, take risks, express yourself or build your business.
You will leave with:
More meaningful connections
A clearer sense of your next move
Fresh creative energy
Business conversations that actually go somewhere
New people who understand the size of what you are building
And the reminder that business gets to feel alive
Business Misfit Networking: connect, create and collaborate through play.
EVENTS
This room is for you if you are:
A founder, creative or business owner
Bored of traditional networking
Building something with edge, purpose or personality
Looking for better conversations and braver rooms
Ready to be more visible, memorable and connected
Interested in collaboration, creativity and community
Done pretending business has to be beige to be taken seriously
This is not the room for passive business card collecting.
This is the room for people who want to be seen, sparked, connected and activated.
Come ready to play.
Come ready to connect.
Come ready to remember what the fuck you came here to build.
NORTH, BRISTOL
Monthly meeting | 2nd Thurs of every month
10am - 12pm
Join us at Serendipity Labs, Aztec West Bristol for a morning filled with networking, value, and fun.
BANKSIDE, LONDON
Monthly meeting | Third Thurs of every month
10Am - 12pm
Join us at Flex @Tide, Bankside to connect, create and collaborate with like-minded misfits through fun!
Hosted by Emma Eirene,
Founder & CEO of Joyous Misfit & The Business Misfit Network.
"I wanted to create a business family that was built on strong values of integrity, trust and respect... with a slice of play, fun and creativity! Where we gather and create a beautiful community, supporting one another in growing our businesses. Helping each other to become more visible, more aligned with our purpose and mission, and creating a business family that leads to new clients, new collaborations and purposeful, meaningful relationships that are supportive and nurturing in this world of business that often leaves us feeling alone!
It's time to do it differently...
It's time to: Connect. Create. Collaborate!"
Are you ready to PLAY?
What To Expect:
At each Business Misfit Networking event, you can expect:
A warm, high-energy welcome
A short theme or business activation
A playful creative activity or game
Meaningful connection prompts
Space to share who you are and what you do
Collaboration opportunities
A “who needs what?” moment
Time for open networking
A room that feels human, useful and alive
No beige business bullshit.
No awkward pitching circles.
No pretending to be more polished than you are.
Just connection, creativity, play and commercial momentum.
CONNECT | CREATE | COLLABORATE
PLAY!
What makes us different?
01
CONNECT
The Business Misfit Live events are play-led business activation rooms where every meeting has a clear theme, a creative game or activity, and a real business outcome.
Because play is not the fluffy bit.
Play helps us get out of our heads, connect faster, spark ideas, build trust and create the kind of unexpected opportunities that don’t happen when everyone is stood around pretending to enjoy a 60-second pitch.
Each month, we use games, creativity and embodied exercises to explore things like visibility, confidence, collaboration, messaging, offers, leadership and self-expression — so you don’t just leave with a few new contacts.
You leave with connection, clarity, creative energy and a next move.
02
CREATE
We would not be the business misfits without a creating a little magic each time we meet! With each meeting adding a slice of play, value, inspiration and fun, we aim to get your creative juices flowing so that you leave feeling revitalised, ready to go and make magic within your own business! Because it's your magic that makes you unique... which of course leads to more sales! Because you are awesome, so the more you shine, the more people want to buy!
03
COLLABORATE
One of the best business outcomes, alongside the income generating opportunities and rejuvenation that you feel from letting your hair down and playing, is the potential collaborations and partnerships that can be formed! And when you get to know people in a real and authentic way, why would you not want to work alongside them to create some business magic together! That way, you build your business family and make money! Win win!
Elisabeth Carley-Leonard
"Absolutely bloody loved today, cannot wait for the next one!!!"
Vaseem Gill
"Thanks for organising a brilliant meeting and getting everyone connected Emma! Looking forward to the next one!!"
Elena Belinski
"Thanks for organising such a fun and playful evening! And gathering such a great bunch of people!"
Business Misfit Inner Circle
For founders who do not just want to attend the room, they want to become known in it.
The Business Misfit Inner Circle is the deeper layer of the Business Misfit Network.
It is for founders, creatives and business owners who want more than occasional networking. This is for the people who want to be actively seen, connected, showcased and supported inside the Misfit ecosystem.
The live events are the front door.
The Inner Circle is where you become part of the room.
This is not about collecting another passive membership you forget you are paying for.
This is about becoming known.
Known for your work.
Known for your voice.
Known for your brilliance.
Known by the people who can connect, recommend, collaborate and cheerlead the hell out of you.
Why Join?
Because PAYG, you enter the room.
The Inner Circle, you become known in it.
If you are looking for a place where business feels more playful, more human, more creative and more alive — but still commercially useful — this is your next step.
This is for the founder who wants connection with pulse, visibility with personality and collaboration that goes beyond swapping Instagram handles and hoping for the best.
The Inner Circle is for the ones who want to be part of what we are building next, a misfit movement that changes the game!
Monthly Membership
£35 per month
£350 per Annum
Monthly Misfit Meetings
Bristol: Second Thursday 10am-12pm
London: Third Thursday 10am-12pm & First Wednesday 4-6pm
Online International Networking: Forth Wednesday 10.00am - 11.00am
Online co-working: Fortnightly Tuesday 10.00am - 11.30am
Vistors
Business Misfit Live: £25*
Online: £10-15*
*Excluding transaction fees
Online Community
Rather than trying to make this a busy 24/7 chat (because none of us need another WhatsApp group demanding our soul), this space is the Misfit Channel - a lighter space for updates, prompts and opportunities.
Join the community HERE for all updates on our events.
Keep me in the loop!
If you want to keep in touch so that you hear about the up and coming Business Misfit events, or if you have any questions about the network, then send us a message below!