Simple definition of the personal Wealth Gap to business Value Gap problem and first-step ways to start moving value from the business column to the personal/retirement wealth column. Wealth extraction simplified. What people think will happen. What normally happens. What is even possible? What are MY options?

Build confidence in QuickBooks Online by understanding the financial basics behind the software and set yourself up for success. This class takes a practical look at invoices, deposits, expenses, bills, profit and loss statements, and balance sheets. You’ll learn how everyday transactions flow through QBO and what the numbers reveal about your business.

Build confidence in QuickBooks Online by understanding the financial basics behind the software and set yourself up for success. This class takes a practical look at invoices, deposits, expenses, bills, profit and loss statements, and balance sheets. You’ll learn how everyday transactions flow through QBO and what the numbers reveal about your business.

The Ethos Power Lunch is back—bringing Southern Illinois leaders together for an inspiring hour of community networking and practical leadership development.
Whether you lead a business, nonprofit, church, organization, team—or want to grow your influence—the Ethos Power Lunch is designed to help you become a better leader while building meaningful connections with others who care about making our region stronger.

Where entrepreneurs and future founders gather to learn, encourage one another, and build stronger businesses. Each month, hear the story of a successful founder from Southern Illinois, gain practical insights from their entrepreneurial journey, ask questions, and connect with others who understand the opportunities and challenges of building a business.

Every Friday in August, from 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM, we're opening our Fourth Floor Community Workspace & Coffee Bar to anyone looking for a productive, professional place to work or study. Normally, a Flex Pass is $20, but every Friday in August it's FREE.

Ethos Founders Coffee exists to provide entrepreneurs with a supportive community. In this welcoming space, aspiring entrepreneurs with an idea, founders building businesses, and experienced mentors show up for one another and for what’s next. Together, we connect people, encourage collaboration, and provide practical education that helps entrepreneurs build faster, lead stronger, and grow with confidence.

This free session is designed for aspiring entrepreneurs, startups, and current small business owners seeking guidance on funding options specific to Williamson County.

A 90-minute, high-impact session for business owners. Delivered by the Illinois Center for Employee Ownership (ILCEO), the program introduces the powerful principles of The Great Game of Business, Inc. — a proven framework to help employees think and act like owners.

Join veteran media producer Tom Mann as he shares practical insights gained from decades of experience in broadcast television, radio, podcasting, and digital media production. Tom will demonstrate how quality audio can elevate your brand and increase audience engagement across social media, websites, podcasts, and video platforms.

Here’s how to stop being constantly on the edge, survive downturns and build something you can actually survive long enough to enjoy. A plain-spoken session on why smart people with good businesses still end up in distress or quietly die: Perhaps, best practices for different sizes, type/ species of business. 

Brendan Morgan, CPA of Pathfinder Accounting & Tax will walk through the essentials in a clear, practical way so you can confidently handle day-to-day bookkeeping, avoid common mistakes, and better understand your financials without needing an accounting background.

Search behavior is rapidly shifting from traditional Google searches to AI-driven tools like ChatGPT, voice assistants, and AI-generated summaries.  This workshop introduces Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) - a practical approach to structuring content so businesses can be found and featured as direct answers in these tools.

Brand Voice Builder is an intermediate-to-advanced, hands-on session designed to help small business owners, marketers, and content creators train ChatGPT to reflect their unique voice, tone, and personality. Instead of generic AI copy, you’ll learn how to create content that truly sounds like your business.

Brand Voice Builder is an intermediate-to-advanced, hands-on session designed to help small business owners, marketers, and content creators train ChatGPT to reflect their unique voice, tone, and personality. Instead of generic AI copy, you’ll learn how to create content that truly sounds like your business.

This workshop is a shortcut to understanding commercial space and is being led by Alysa Bunting, Owner/Managing Broker of Indigo Realty, LLC.

In this workshop, you will learn the essentials of creating effective video content from an industry professional with decades of real-world experience.

This workshop is designed for small business owners who want to get noticed without hiring a large PR firm or chasing trends. You’ll learn how to position your expertise so journalists, customers, and AI tools like ChatGPT understand who you are and why you matter.

This is for everyone who missed the first class!  We want you prepared for 2026! 
What are your goals for 2026? Join us for an inspirational and creative class as Sarah Garcia guides us in creating a vision board for our 2026 goals and dreams!

Join us for an inspirational and creative class as Sarah Garcia guides us in creating a vision board for our 2026 goals and dreams!

Let's set your priorities for the new year!  We are carving out a time and place for you to actually sit down and flip through magazines to find images and quotes that embody the future that you want for yourself and your business.

Join Tom Harness of Harness Digital Marketing as he leads this hands-on workshop, Ethical AI Marketing with ChatGPT!

Join Brendan Morgan, CPA of Pathfinder Accounting & Tax, for this hands on workshop that introduces small solopreneur and service-based businesses to no-code automation tools, allowing them to build workflows that help save time and streamline business operations, all without writing a line of code. 

Are you an entrepreneur starting or running your own business? Join us for a free workshop where Martin Parsons will discuss the ten most common legal mistakes entrepreneurs make when establishing and operating their businesses. This session is designed to help you identify potential legal issues and provide practical solutions to avoid them, ensuring your business is on a solid legal foundation.

Join us October 16th at The Little Nashville Cafe for an inspiring hour of community networking & leadership development featuring guest speaker, Kerry Martin.

Join Tom Harness of Harness Digital Marketing as he leads this hands-on workshop, AI-Driven Influencer Marketing with ChatGPT!

Join us September 18th at The Little Nashville Cafe for an inspiring hour of community networking & leadership development featuring guest speaker, Darla Harms, Associate Director of The Salvation Army of Southern Illinois and Facilitator of CollabHERate and LeadHERship Initiative. She’ll be leading a session on “The Leadership Leap: Stepping Beyond Management.”