Everything Conference
Minneapolis, Minnesota: August 1-4, 2024
Why Do Just One Thing?
Hey, you, the multi-passionate, ever-curious, I-want-to-do-it-all soul.
Sick of trying to fit into that boring ol’ box? Tired of explaining your zig-zag career path and your constantly shifting passions?
We hear you, and we’ve got just the place where you don’t have to be anyone but your wonderful, ever-curious self. Welcome to Everything Conference (ETC), where being a multipotentialite isn’t just accepted – it’s celebrated!
It’s possible you’re already thinking, “Count me in! Where’s my ETC 2024 ticket?”
Need More Deets? Dive In!
What Exactly is Everything Conference?
Everything Conference (ETC) is like no other event out there.
It’s a wild, vibrant, participant-driven gathering where multipotentialites from every corner of the globe unite to revel in their diversity, connect with fellow explorers, and dive headfirst into a kaleidoscope of interests.
Inspired by the thriving online haven known as The Puttyverse, ETC first hit the scene in September 2019, bringing together 100 multipotentialites who found their people.
Why ETC? What Sets Us Apart?
At ETC, we don’t just have attendees – we have participants, contributors, and a boatload of quirks! Everyone is invited to share their unique gifts, no matter how “weird” they might seem to the rest of the world.
You see, we let our participants take the reins. We encourage and actively help them to lead sessions on topics they’re passionate about.
Think outdoor yoga, conversational knitting, entrepreneurship deep dives, or even a spontaneous musical jam session. ETC is where almost anything goes, and there’s something for every curious soul.
Who's Welcome at ETC?
Our people are a melting pot of misfits, creatives, and free spirits.
Whether you’re an engineer who moonlights as a painter, a theater kid turned coding wizard, or a plumber by day and a speculative fiction genius by night, you’ll find your kindred spirits here.
We open our arms wide to all, embracing diversity in thought, age, gender, culture – you name it.
Wondering What We Did at the Last ETC?
Here’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Frameworks for Your Multipotentialite Career, Business, Side Hustle, and Life
Without a clear idea of what you want to do, how are you supposed to stop doing what you think is “right” and start doing what’s right for you? In this workshop, you'll gain clarity about what's important to you and why so that you can make decisions with confidence.
How to Organize Anything
Rather than discuss the latest closet storage solutions or Marie Kondo hack, let's talk about an approach to getting organized that can be applied not just to the pile of stuff in the corner, but to the pile of stuff in your brain as well.
Personal Finances, Your Money Story, and Being Everything
How do personal finances work with being a multipotentialite? How can you integrate discovery and exploration with taking care of your money, both for the present and future? We'll share the internal scripts and beliefs we have about money and talk about the building the knowledge, mindsets, and skills you need to make it all work financially.
Playing With Our Inner Critic & Super Hero
Viola Davis once said "you either claim who you are or you end up chasing your worth for the rest of your life." In other words, we must be willing to confront our inner critic as well as own our weirdness. This workshop will challenge you to explore both through play. The goals are to identify what triggers our inner beast while also rediscovering our unique superpowers.
Bookstore Scavenger Hunt
Attention book nerds! Find a list of clues to help you hunt down new and old favorites, missed hits, and more in this beautiful bookstore. Maybe you'll come out with a new book or two you want to read?
Family Life as a Multipotentialite: Creative Tools for Parenting and Educating
How do we use our multipod skills in our family? How can we best encourage our multi-talented kids? Let's create a resource manual to help us become better parents and educators.
Why Am I So Awkward?!: Mastering the 3 Invisible Dimensions of Any Conversation
Real-life conversations are messy, awkward, inelegant, and … well … human. They can also be fulfilling, empowering, and incredibly cool sources of connection. In this session, you'll learn the secret to mastering the inelegance and creating connection; to move past the awkward moments and help steer your conversational ship more smoothly.
Crafting a Multipotentialite Brand That People Will Actually "Get"
Your multipotentialite brand has awesome potential to stand-out, fascinate, and be unforgettable. It also has potential to totally confuse, underwhelm, or miss the chance to resonate loudly with your right people. The line between these two camps is tip-of-a-needle fine, but you don't have to depend on dumb luck to be where you stand-out and resonate.
Stitch and Bitch: Crafts and Community
When crafters come together, the conversation flows while our hands are busy. Bring your current crochet or other small, crafty project to work on and share as a jumping off point for us to talk about the intersection of creative passions and community.
How to Build the Success Pack Who'll Fuel Your Best Work
Once we figure out that going alone is the hard way, a natural question arises: how do we figure out who needs to be on our team? In this workshop, we'll cover who belongs in your Success Pack, what they do for you, and how to ask them to join.
Mental Health and the Multipotentialite
How can we support our fellow multipotentialites and ourselves? We'll be getting curious and questioning the messages multipotentialites are often given that contribute to depression, anxiety, and other forms of mental health issues.
How to Turn Your Creative Idea into a Business
Do you have a creative thing that you might want to turn into a business? Art, craft, software, or something else? Let's explore how to test business ideas to see if they're profitable. Plus, how you can scale your occasional side business into something that generates real money.
Special Contributors
Check out these extraordinary multipotentialites who’ll be sharing their brilliance with us:
Joel Zaslofsky
He's the community-animator and quantum biology enthusiast behind a bunch of neat stuff. Joel's the Connections and Operations Guy for the Puttyverse and has one overarching theme in life: bringing people together.
David Delisle
He's the founder of The Awesome Stuff, an Amazon bestselling author, entrepreneur, real estate investor, speaker, and – most importantly – dad. His book, a graphic novel called The Golden Quest, offers us a new way to think about money by noticing the weight of our words, choices, actions, and the world around us.
Annie Sisson
She's a typical multipotentialite – a dynamic force and a true Renaissance woman. As a writer, educator, coach, and consultant, she draws from her diverse talents and experiences to aid others in clarifying and achieving their goals.
Emilie Wapnick
They are an award-winning author, community builder, and the CEO/founder of Puttylike, The Puttyverse, and Wingtip Astrology. They help multipotentialites integrate all of their interests to create dynamic, fulfilling, and fruitful careers and lives.
Justin Baker
He's a teacher, guide, P.h.D. researcher, and life-long restless multipod. Most of his energy goes to helping other restless do-gooders align with their highest purpose and navigate mission-driven work on a complicated planet – mostly via Mindful Power and Still Point Insight.
Christine Lozada
She's a drone pilot, award-winning travel creator, podcast host, and pickleball player going pro. Millions have seen her drone work and she's helped thousands of people learn to fly. In other words, she makes drones fun and simple.
Martie McNabb
She's a legacy artist who creates heirloom visual narratives from her client’s photo, document, memorabilia collections. In other words, she tells stories with other people's stuff. She’s also an interactive story-sharing facilitator who helps people build deeper connections, community, and legacy by curating highly interactive public exhibitions + hosting gatherings about the Things that matter.
Heather Ussery-Knight
Heather’s a multipod, Puttyverse team member, and lives in the San Francisco area with two parrots + her specialist husband. That, and she has a penchant for psychology/coaching (IFS, Art), Integral/AQAL, video gaming and Tabletop RPGs, creativity, crafts, writing, technology, dancing, singing, environmentalism, websites, sci-fi/fantasy, and Systema.
Previous ETC Contributors
What can we say: 2019 was a very good year for us. Here’s just a sampling of some of the amazing Special Contributors who were with us, and might be with us again:
Jeff Harry
Pamela Slim
Charlie Gilkey
Riikka Salonen
Abe Cajudo
Humaira Hamid
Denise Ransome
Stephen Warley
Erika Backberg
Anthony Ongaro
When and Where's All This Happening?
Mark your calendar: August 1-4, 2024, in the wonderfully multi-faceted Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, at the McNamara Alumni Center (MAC).
MAC is just straight up rad with stunning architecture inspired by Minnesota’s landscape of wood, water, and copper. They have ten unique rooms for us to gather, and we’ll pretty much have the full run of the place for three days.
Join the Multipotentialite Revolution
Everything Conference isn’t just an event; it’s your people, your spark of inspiration, and your stage to shine.
It’s time to raise your glass to your multipotentiality, flaunt your quirks, and join the movement that proudly declares, “It’s okay to be you and love all the things.”
Anticipated Questions and Attempted Answers
Your ticket includes full access to the welcome party + three days of ETC goodness: workshops, activities, meetups, swag, special surprises, and snacks.
You’ll also get access to an online space where you can connect with other participants before and after the event. The ticket doesn’t include lodging or meals.
In other words, you’ll get almost unlimited sunshine, rainbows, and lollipops while we’re together (although perhaps not literally).
Do you like bullet points with more context? Good! Here’s what you’ll get:
- All you can handle activities in and around our main event venue: McNamara Alumni Center. That means vision labs (a.k.a. workshops), guided conversations, improv play, structured rest and relaxation, games of all kinds, and everything else we can dream up.
- Simple snacks and various beverages.
- Permission to share your gifts, talents, skills, resources, and assets with your fellow participants in a hybrid unconference style.
- Invitations to any pre- and post-event gatherings we organize (e.g., some fun stuff on Zoom and other places).
- Maybe the best thing of all: conversation, inspiration, and motivation from 174 of the finest multipotentialites in the world.
Only $499 for your early bird ticket.
There are just 32 early bird tickets available. Once they’re sold out, you can’t register until the second wave of tickets are released in the future at $699 each.
All prices are in USD.
We would love to have volunteers and make it easier for more people to participate. However, the more free or discounted tickets we give away, the fewer tickets we can sell, which means we have less of a budget to make ETC amazing (or to run it at all).
Sadly, we just aren’t able to offer any scholarships or free tickets at our ticket price point and event size.
174 + you.
We want to keep it intimate, introvert-friendly, and highly interactive.
ETC tickets are non-refundable. That said, we know it’s a big leap to buy a ticket now and risk not being able to participate for some reason.
With that in mind, you can transfer a ticket to another participant for a $100 processing fee until June 15, 2024.
ETC is designed for multipotentialites who want to integrate their many passions in a sustainable and fulfilling way. It’ll be a warm, supportive environment for people who love learning and connecting with other creative, open-minded folks.
ETC is also very much an introvert-friendly event. There will be a range of different group sizes and plenty of opportunities for quiet reflection time.
Best of all, you’ll be around other people who get it. At ETC, everyone knows how it feels to share the thing(s) you’re excited about and get sideways looks or questioning glances.
With us, you’re free to be everything you are, even if your many passions are very different from one another or otherwise “don’t make sense.” For three days, you’ll be surrounded by multipotentialites who are in the same boat, happy about it, and excited to make it work (and help you make it work, too).
OK. We’re months away from the event and things are subject to change. But we’re doing this pretty much the same way we did it in 2019:
Thursday, August 1
We’ll kick off the festivities in the evening with registration and a welcome party.
Friday and Saturday, August 2-3
A boatload of interactive workshops, activities, and collaborations of varying sizes. Most of the sessions will focus on how to flourish as a multipotentialite in the modern world and will address some of our biggest opportunities and challenges.
Together, we’ll work on things like creating fulfilling work, telling your story & explaining what you do in a cohesive way, multipod-friendly productivity techniques, dealing with imposter syndrome, and a whole lot more.
Some activities will be about learning specific skills; some will just be a chance to try something brand new! You’ll get to choose which sessions you’d like to join and move freely between them.
Sunday, August 4
Your brain might be exploding a bit at this point from all of the awesome new ideas and people. So we’re scheduling some self-care and/or reflection and/or unstructured social time on Sunday morning.
If you feel like exploring, we got you! You’ll be equipped with a list of multipotentialite-tested places to feed your brain, soul, and belly. This will be your opportunity to solidify connections with new friends or to refresh your introvert self with some alone time.
We’ll reconvene in the early afternoon on Sunday for some final activities and to reflect on everything we’ve built and learned together. You’ll be able to share your exciting next steps, strategize around any challenges that have come up, and cheer on your new multipotentialite friends as you all take ETC home with you.
Nope. We’re proudly sponsor-free and non-commercial!
Your main ETC team is Vanessa Tharp, Cory Huff, and Joel Zaslofsky.
We’re counting on 172 more unofficial co-organizers as ETC is a truly participant-led event, and we can’t do everything ourselves.
The short answer: COVID-19. The longer answer is on Our Story page.
We’re working on a deal for you with Graduate Hotel, right next to our event venue.
Don’t make reservations at Graduate Hotel until we have a link/code for you.
In the next few months, we’ll ask you what kind of experience(s) you’d like to offer your fellow participants. We’re stoked to hear all about your amazing idea(s)!
Personal Renaissance LLC is Joel Zaslofsky’s business entity. All the finances are running through his business right now and he knows his reputation is on the line.
It’s a good thing he’s so reputable! 🙂
Email us at team@everythingconference.com and we’ll get back to you shortly.
A Note from Your Hosts
Hey wonderful multipotentialite!
We’re your ETC event co-organizers: Vanessa Tharp, Cory Huff, and Joel Zaslofsky.
Vanessa and Joel co-organized the first ETC and brought their friend Cory into the mix this time.
We’ve been longing to bring us multipotentialites together since the last ETC in 2019, and it’s finally happening again!
It’s still everything 100 people loved from the first one: a highly interactive and community-focused event where you get to show up as your complete self. ETC 2024 is just a bit bigger at 175 people with intentions to keep it as intimate as the first.
We’re cool with who you are and how you show up – regardless of what that is. Yeah, we’re generally some big energy people and we know how to weave in the needs for some chill or introvert-friendly activities.
Don’t let any shyness or questions stop you from joining us. Send us an email if you have concerns and we’ll do our best to give you the info you need without any pressure or judgment.
Sweet sassy molassy – we can’t wait to be with you in Minneapolis this coming August!
~ Vanessa, Cory, and Joel
But Wait. There's More ...
The ETC Dictionary and Fictionary
Let’s start with the basics. We define a multipotentialite as someone with many interests and creative pursuits.
It stems from the word multipotentiality – a psychological and educational term used to describe people who display aptitudes across multiple disciplines.
Of course, our 2019 event participants, especially Becca Campbell, continue to evolve what we call our fictionary.
Click a word below and explore.
Nervcited
Uber-love-whelmed
Hap-xausted
Simul-feels
OK. For real. We have nothing more to say other than get your ticket.