business lunch and learn Fort Lauderdale

Six Fridays to strengthen your business, build visibility and create momentum for 2027.

Crown Center Executive Suites invites local business owners, entrepreneurs and professionals to join us for Podcast & Marketing Fridays, a six-session Lunch & Learn series designed to help you strengthen your business, become more visible and turn your expertise into content that supports your growth.

The series begins with one important question: Is your business ready to be marketed?

Jackie Awve will explore the difference between marketing and marketability, what makes a business easier to understand and choose, and how to become more visible to the people you want to reach. Leo Rodriguez will help us take that visibility strategy into action through podcasting and content creation—showing you how one conversation can become an ongoing source of useful marketing content.

Attend one session or join us for the complete series.
Registration: $15 per individual session | $55 for the complete six-session series
Pizza lunch is included with registration.

Can’t make every session? Recordings will be available to registered participants.

Space is limited. Advance registration is encouraged.

EVENT DETAILS

Select Fridays, September 4 – October 30, 2026 | 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
September 4 • September 11 • September 18 • October 2 • October 23 • October 30

  • 11:30 AM — Pizza lunch & networking
  • 12:00 PM — 40-minute program
  • 12:40 PM — Q&A and discussion
  • 1:00 PM — Conference room closes; optional networking may continue in the Community Center

Crown Center Executive Suites
1451 W. Cypress Creek Road, Suite 300
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
Work. Connect. Grow.

Come for Lunch. Leave With Ideas You Can Use.

Each session is designed to be practical, conversational and accessible—whether you’re building a new business, growing an established one or simply trying to become more intentional about how you market yourself.

Marketing vs. Marketability

Presented by Jackie Awve

Is marketing really the problem? Identify what’s actually getting in the way of growth—and where to focus before spending more time or money on marketing.

Becoming
Marketable

Presented by Jackie Awve

Why should someone choose your business? Explore what makes your business easier to understand, trust, choose and recommend.

Becoming
Visible

Presented by Jackie Awve

How do the right people find you? Discover where and how to show up so the right customers can find, recognize and remember your business.

How One Hour Can Create One Month of Marketing

Presented by Leo Rodriguez

What if one conversation could fuel weeks of content? Learn how to turn one recorded conversation into multiple pieces of content that keep your business visible.

Turn Conversations
Into Clients

Presented by Leo Rodriguez

Is your content actually helping grow your business? Learn how to create content that demonstrates expertise, builds trust and moves potential customers toward action.

Recording Like a Pro Without the Headaches

Presented by Leo Rodriguez

What does it really take to create professional content?Go behind the scenes in the Crown Center studio and see how a conversation becomes polished, ready-to-share content.

Meet the Speakers

Practical experience. Real-world strategies.

Meet the professionals leading Podcast & Marketing Fridays and bringing two complementary perspectives to the conversation—from building a more marketable business to creating content that helps people find it.

Jackie Awve
Founder, Awve Marketing

Jackie Awve is a marketing strategist and business advisor with more than 30 years of experience helping organizations clarify their value, strengthen their positioning and communicate what makes them worth choosing.

Her sessions will challenge participants to look beyond simply “doing marketing” and focus first on becoming more marketable—then more visible.

Sessions: Marketing vs. Marketability • Becoming Marketable • Becoming Visible

Leo Rodriguez
Konstrumedia

Leo Rodriguez helps businesses turn their expertise and everyday conversations into strategic content. Through podcasting, video and content development, he helps business owners create a more consistent presence without making content creation another full-time job.

His sessions take the visibility conversation into action, showing participants how to develop, record and repurpose conversations into content that builds authority and supports business growth.

Sessions: One Hour, One Month of Marketing • Turn Conversations Into Clients • Recording Like a Pro Without the Headaches

Make Your Business Easier to Choose
—and Harder to Miss

Six practical sessions designed to help you strengthen your business, build visibility and put your expertise to work.
$15 per session | $55 for all six
Pizza lunch included • Recordings available