BetterStory Studio™
Raleigh · December 9 · 6–9 p.m. · Terrace Raleigh
THE EVE EDITION
Bring the story, offer, pitch, or ask you need people to understand.
Work live with Kristi Straw and guest expert Eve Keil. Expect sharp feedback, useful connections, and a new point of view.
5 VIP Take the Mic seats · 30 audience seats · 35 total
Bring something you want to move forward.
An introduction. An offer. A speaking idea. A pitch. An ask.
Everyone works on their own message and can ask Kristi and Eve questions. Hear five messages coached live. Apply the feedback to your own.
Each Studio brings a new guest expert and a different lens. This is The Eve Edition.
Guest expert · Eve Keil
Why Eve? Her work lives at the intersection of self-worth and self-leadership. She helps accomplished women recognize where they’ve stopped choosing themselves, reclaim their voice, and lead, love, and build without disappearing inside someone else’s expectations.
Her question for this Studio: “Where in my life have I stopped choosing myself?”
Choose your seat: the red button buys an $80 audience ticket. VIP Spotlight is a separate $175 ticket, with five seats available.
Four Studios. Someone hired from every one.
At each of our first four BetterStory Studios, someone was hired directly from the room.
Paid work, speaking opportunities, collaborations, and introductions grew when people heard what someone could do and what they needed next.
Bring your expertise. Give people a chance to understand it.
Your message. Your questions. Your ask.
Your $80 audience seat puts you in the work. Bring what you want to explain, sell, propose, or ask for.
Hear five messages coached live. Ask Kristi and Eve questions. Apply the feedback to your own words, then make a Big-Ass Ask™ in the room.
Want your message worked on live? Five VIP Spotlight seats are available at $175.
Meet your guest expert
Eve Keil
Self-worth meets self-leadership
Eve helps accomplished women see where they’ve stopped choosing themselves and find their way back to a voice they can use in leadership, relationships, and the work they’re building.
On December 9, she brings that point of view into the Studio. Kristi hosts and coaches the live messages.
What you’ll do
Work on your own message
Choose the introduction, offer, pitch, story, or ask you want to sharpen. Learn from five live coaching moments and ask Kristi and Eve questions.
Braggy Boardwalk™
Share the words you remembered and the ideas that made you lean in. Use those reactions to strengthen your own message.
Big-Ass Ask™
Ask for a client introduction, speaking opportunity, collaborator, connection, or resource.
Eat, connect, and enjoy yourself
Meet people building things of their own.
Professional photography included
Tatiana will photograph the evening; professional event photography is included with your seat.
December 9 · Raleigh, NC
Your seat includes the full evening
Who this is for
You’re building a business, growing your expertise, pursuing a speaking opportunity, leading something, or getting ready to make a bigger ask.
Bring what you want to work on. Spend three hours making it clearer, asking useful questions, and getting to know people who are working toward something, too.
You book speakers, panels, workshops, or podcast guests. Come hear different perspectives, meet the people behind them, and discover expertise that could fit a future program. BetterStory is a live working lab, so you’ll see ideas being developed, not a lineup of finished keynote auditions.
Choose your seat
Audience · $80: Work on your own message through five live examples, expert Q&A, Braggy Boardwalk™, Big-Ass Ask™, and useful conversations. 30 seats available.
VIP Spotlight · $175: A guaranteed live Take the Mic coaching moment with Kristi and Eve. 5 seats available.
No stage required. Watch the work happen, apply the feedback to your own message, meet interesting humans, and leave sharper.
Bring the message you want to work on and the questions you want answered. You’ll leave with language you can use and people who now understand what you do.
You don't need to hold the microphone to have a breakthrough.
Watching a message change in real time changes the way you hear your own.
Event details
Wednesday, December 9 · 6–9 p.m.
Terrace Raleigh · Raleigh, NC
35 total seats · 5 VIP · 30 audience
Come as you are, or as your next chapter.
We create Rare Rooms™
Rare Rooms™
For the moments when you need to be unmistakably human.
Opportunities hinge on how clearly you can speak about what you know, what you want, and why it matters.
BetterStory Studio™ gives you practice, human response, and language you can put to work.
Useful conversations
The room is designed for useful connection, honest response, and language you can put to work tomorrow.
The Studio effect
Watch one message change in real time, and you start hearing your own differently.
The Eve Edition. December 9.
December 9
5 VIP seats · 30 audience seats
Work on your message. Ask your questions. Meet people building things of their own.
December 9
Work from the room, or Take the Mic
Bring your message, your questions, and the ask you’re ready to make.
Your Raleigh host
Molly Lukes helps lead BetterStory Studio™ in Raleigh-Durham as our Charter Expansion Partner.
She brings expertise in people strategy, culture, organizational alignment, and the relationship capital of the Triangle—helping ensure this Studio feels locally informed, intentional, and useful from the first minute.
Created by Kristi Straw
Founder and CEO, Lighthouse Leadership Consultants™
Creator of BetterStory Studio™ and The Pinnacle Dinner™
Kristi is a market maker for expertise. She helps founders, executives, speakers, creatives, and operators communicate what they know, what they offer, and what they want to do next.
Inside the Studio, Kristi helps people hear their own message more clearly and strengthen how they explain their expertise.
Come back for a new point of view.
Every BetterStory Studio brings a different guest expert, different messages, and different people into the live work. Kristi remains your host.
December 9 is The Eve Edition. Bring what you need to move.