MeetUp Monthly


Always informative. Always coffee. Always 8am.

​Once a month we gather to learn from each other. The format alternates between a mixer style meet-and-greet and having a guest speaker delve into a topic based on their expertise. Previous guest speakers have discussed  start-ups in the Upper Valley, media reach, crowdfunding, NFTs, nonprofit engagement, and other topics.

Join us each month for coffee and conversation. Events are subject to change so PLEASE be sure to subscribe to email updates to stay up to date.

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Elizabeth Wilcox is an author, writer, producer and founder of AuthorPods.com, a platform and service that seeds remarkable conversations between authors and readers. She has worked as a journalist in England, Hong Kong, and the US. Her latest book is The Long Tail of Trauma.
Marion Abrams is a content creation coach & consultant with deep experience in podcasting and video creation. For 30 years she has helped businesses, organizations and individuals clearly convey their message. Marion also hosts the Grounded Content podcast.

AmeUp Co-Founders

Upcoming Events in 2022

Join us each month for coffee and conversation. Events are subject to change so PLEASE be sure to subscribe to email updates to stay up to date.  (click HERE to see a few photos)

Previous Events

---> Coffee with Matt Dunne September 27th at 8am

Matt Dunne, Executive Director of the renowned Center on Rural Innovation, will be talking to AmeUp members at the new CATV / JAM studios in White River Junction.

Matt is a true thought leader when it comes to rural innovation. In addition to an early career in politics during which he served seven years in the Vermont House of Representatives on progressive economic efforts and youth empowerment, Matt was employed by the Clinton Administration as Director of the AmeriCorps*VISTA program overseeing 6000 full-time people in the fight against poverty. Following his later work as a strategy consultant to nonprofit and for-profit companies, Google hired Matt to create their community affairs program. More recently, his passion for empowering rural communities was turned into action with an appointment at the MIT Media Lab and when he founded the Center on Rural Innovation, an action tank dedicated to closing the opportunity gap in small towns and where he now serves as Executive Director.

Don't miss hearing what Matt has to say about what Vermont and U.S. rural businesses need to know to thrive.
Tuesday, September 27th
8 to 9 am
CATV's JAM Studio (next to Tucker Box)
White River Junction, VT 

---> 7/20 Entrepreneurial Resources for Creatives: 8am The Space on Main Bradford, VT 

Grab a coffee from Vittles drive thru or Vittles coffee shop before joining The Space on Main Founder, Monique Priestley as she opens up her coworking space to talk about entrepreneurial resources for creatives in the Upper Valley. We will be reaching out to other VT Arts and Creative experts in the Upper Valley to participate as well. https://thespaceonmain.org/

---> 6/22 Cocktail Mingle: 5:45pm Wolftree, White River Junction

Based on a number of requests to put together an after work get together, we are going to meet outside at Wolftree in White River Junction. It's a neat bar founded by Elizabeth's neighbor, Max Overstrom-Coleman. Read more about him here: https://www.vnews.com/New-White-River-Junction-bar-serves-classic-craft-cocktails-with-local-ingredients-32203923

5/25/22 Innovation Field Trip: On May 25th from 8:00am - 9:00am,

 We will visit the Black River Innovation Campus in Springfield, Vermont. We will tour this innovative space and then meet members of the Springfield Digital Collective (a local coalition of digitally-enabled and tech-enabled businesses) for coffee and a discussion of how to more effectively engage digitally to grow your business. RSVP required. 

5/11/ 22 Informal Working Coffee: On May 11th, 8 am, at Mon Vert in Woodstock 

Join other community members and discuss successes and challenges of our creative and entrepreneurial ventures. We will have no speaker but we ask AmeUp members to come prepared to provide feedback and/or a one-line description of one of their business successes and its ensuing challenge. RSVP requested.

4/13/22 Guest Speaker Nini Meyer​
Founder & CEO, Positive Tracks  
​LOCATION: Positive Tracks, 35 South Main St Hanover, NH

 03/23/22  Coffee Conversation MeetUp : Creative Entrepreneurs & Entrepreneurial Creatives

With Trevor Barlow, Executive Director, Black River Innovation Campus (BRIC)
​LOCATION: Mon Vert Cafe Woodstock, VT

02/09/22 Guest Speaker  Rob Gurwit

Journalist & Founder, Daybreak Newsletter
LOCATION: Tuckerbox, White River Junction, VT

12/08/21 Guest Speaker Ryan Munn

Bitcoin investor, NFT expert, & host of interchain.live
​LOCATION: CATV Studio, White River Junction, VT
11/10/21 Coffee Conversation MeetUp: Talking about Crowdfunding
With AmeUp Members
​LOCATION: Artistree Community Arts Center, South Pomfret, VT
10/03/21 Coffee Conversation MeetUp: Voices from the Land
Gallery conversation amidst Voices from the Land, A Photography Exhibition by Jim Westphalen
​LOCATION: Billings Farm, Woodstock, VT

Thank you to the generous venues that have shared space with us so far:


  • Artistree Community Arts Center
  • Billings Farm
  • CATV
  • Tuckerbox
  • ​Mon Vert Cafe
  • ​Positive Tracks
Are you a venue in the Upper Valley / Woodstock area interested in hosting us? Let us know. 

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