The BizFlixTalk™ Business Movie Panel · Featured Event
From FYRE to FUEL
Ignite Your Business Growth in 2027
Spark the Vision. Build the Business. Deliver the Promise.
Big dreams for 2027? Let’s build the business to match. Join an interactive 90-minute panel inspired by the FYRE Festival story.
Marketing · Financial clarity · Operations · Leadership · Customer trust
✓ Leave with five AI prompts, the FYRE-to-FUEL AI Action Kit and one action to take within seven days.
Date
Thursday,
December 10, 2026
Start time
4:00pm ET
3:00pm CT · 2:00pm MT
1:00pm PT · 11:00am HT
Length
About 90 minutes
Founding attendee
$19.95
⚠ Founding attendee seats are limited to keep the panel interactive
Come for the story. Stay for the insights. Leave with a priority, a prompt and a practical next step.
Annual Pass: 12 months of access from the date of purchase. Attend every panel and save versus buying each one separately.
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What you’ll experience
What does it take to turn a vision into a business that can deliver?
Every entrepreneur wants something more for their business. More customers. More opportunities. Better profits. Greater freedom. We’ll bring together business experts to explore five areas that can make the difference between chasing growth and being ready for it: marketing, financial clarity, operations, leadership and customer trust.
You’ll experience
✓ Five practical business conversations with experienced professionals.
✓ Five AI prompts to help you examine your own business.
✓ Interactive questions and opportunities to contribute your perspective.
✓ The FYRE-to-FUEL AI Action Kit to continue your learning.
✓ One practical action you can take within seven days.
Five business topics. One FUEL commitment.
Marketing with Confidence
Attract customers with promises your business can consistently fulfill.
Growing with Financial Clarity
Understand how revenue, profitability and cash flow influence growth.
Preparing Operations for Success
Explore what your people, processes and systems need to handle increased demand.
Leading with Purpose
Make stronger decisions, question assumptions and recognize risks before committing.
Building Customer Trust
Create customer experiences that support repeat business and a stronger reputation.
Your FUEL Commitment
Leave with one practical action you can take within seven days.
Why we’re starting here
Why we chose Fyre first
This is what the marketing promised.
Every great business has lessons hidden inside its successes — and its failures. We chose this story for the first BizFlixTalk Business Movie Panel because it shows how branding, marketing, leadership, operations, customer experience and execution are all connected. Pull one thread and the others move.
The goal isn’t to criticize what went wrong. It’s to help business owners recognize these warning signs before they appear in their own organizations.
Imagine this
Your marketing worked. Now what?
The campaign takes off. People are talking. Customers are buying. Social media is buzzing. Demand starts coming faster than you expected.
Sounds like success.
Until operations can't deliver. Until the team starts scrambling. Until customers start complaining. Until the promises made by your marketing become bigger than the business behind them.
We're not gathering to gossip about what went wrong. We're investigating what business owners can learn from it before it happens to us.
Annual Pass: 12 months of access from the date of purchase. Attend every panel and save versus buying each one separately.
Meet your host
The person asking the questions — and making sure the room leaves with something it can use on Monday.
Host & moderator
Kat Shepherd
Business strategist · Curriculum developer · Educator · Leader
Kat has taken a business from start-up to multi-million dollar enterprise and spent more than twenty-five years teaching other people how to do the same — in college classrooms, in the U.S. Air Force, and with thousands of small business owners.
She founded BizFlixTalk because business education works better when it starts with a story people already care about. Expect a conversation that keeps moving, pulls the panel toward specifics, and ends with something you can actually apply.
“BizFlixTalk makes business education unforgettable and implementation inevitable.”
Meet this month’s panel
Helping entrepreneurs understand marketing through the lens of one of history’s most talked-about business failures.
Leadership & strategic decision-making
Terry Fearn
Entrepreneurship, community & business growth
Joy Clarke-Holmes
Chamber leadership & economic development · Maui Chamber of Commerce
Pamela Tumpap
Brand building, retail growth & execution · Young King Hair Care
Stefan Miller
A word from our panelists
What they’ll be bringing to the conversation
Don't just watch the story
W.A.T.C.H. the business.
Every BizFlixTalk Business Movie Panel uses our signature BizFlixTalk W.A.T.C.H. Method to move the conversation from entertainment to application.
W
Watch the pattern
Identify the business decisions, behaviors, opportunities and warning signs hiding inside the story.
A
Analyze the lesson
Explore what worked, what didn't and why.
T
Translate to real business
Connect what happened on screen to situations entrepreneurs face every day.
C
Create the action step
Turn an interesting observation into something practical you can use.
H
Harness the growth
Use what you've learned to make stronger decisions about your own business.
Why this event matters
Most people watched it as entertainment. We watch it differently.
BizFlixTalk turns films and documentaries into practical business education through expert analysis, interactive discussion and real-world application.
You will leave with insights you can apply to your own business — not another movie review.
Here's how the business investigation unfolds
Approximately 90 minutes
01
Lights
Welcome, plus meet the panel and what we'll be investigating.
02
Scene
We use the story to surface the business decisions and warning signs inside it.
03
Analyze
Different perspectives on marketing, leadership, operations and execution.
04
Your turn
Bring your own perspective into the conversation.
05
Connect
Brief, light networking in breakout rooms with other business owners who came ready to think and learn.
06
Action
Take the lesson back to the decisions you're making right now.
Don't just leave with notes.
Leave with something you can use.
✓ A way to spot demand-vs-capacity risk
See when marketing may be promising more than your operations can deliver.
✓ A sharper read on your marketing promises
Check whether the experience behind your promise can consistently deliver.
✓ Questions for your next planning meeting
Ask better questions about capacity, timing, resources and customer expectations.
✓ A framework for spotting warning signs earlier
Notice the small signals that become expensive problems when you grow fast.
✓ A better way to pressure-test an opportunity
Know what has to be true operationally before you say yes.
✓ A clearer line between marketing and operations
See why creating demand is only part of growth.
✓ One action to take within seven days
Turn what you learn into a specific next step.
✓ The FYRE-to-FUEL AI Action Kit
Five AI prompts and an Action Kit to keep learning.
90 minutes. One business story. New questions for your own business.
See the pattern
Hear expert perspectives
Apply the lesson to your business
The goal isn't to become an expert on FYRE.
It's to get better at recognizing the warning signs in your own business.
Walk away thinking differently about marketing, operations, leadership, customer experience, capacity, brand promises and growth.
December 10 · 4:00pm ET · Live online · $19.95 · Founding attendee seats
Annual Pass: 12 months of access from the date of purchase. Attend every panel and save versus buying each one separately.
Who should attend
- Entrepreneurs and business owners
- Marketing professionals
- Managers and team leaders
- Startup founders
- Business mentors and advisors
- Students
- Chamber and economic development staff
- Anyone who enjoys films with real business lessons
Coming attractions
This is only the first case study
December 2026 · Now showing
Fyre
Marketing, branding and business failure.
January 2027
The Founder
Persistence, partnership and the cost of scaling fast.
February 2027
Air
Brand strategy, negotiation and vision.
Then a new film or documentary every month — uncovering timeless lessons in business, leadership, marketing, finance, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Questions before you register
Do I need to watch the documentary first?
No. The documentary isn’t screened during the session, and watching it beforehand is optional. We’ll walk through the key moments together, so you can arrive knowing nothing about it. If you have seen it, you’ll get more out of the discussion.
Is this a movie review?
No. We use the story as a business case study. The conversation focuses on decisions, patterns, leadership, marketing and operations — not whether the movie was good.
Will there be networking?
Yes, in a light way. We set aside a brief window for online networking in breakout rooms, so you can connect with other attendees. The audience Q&A is a real conversation, and seats are limited so that works.
Will a replay be available?
Yes. A replay of the session will be available to registered attendees, so you can revisit the conversation and the ideas you want to apply.
How long is the session?
About 90 minutes, including the panel discussion, audience Q&A and a brief networking window in breakout rooms.
What does it cost, and could it be free for me?
$19.95 for founding attendees. Where a chamber, bank or economic development partner sponsors the event, attendance may be free for their members — check with your organization before you register.
Is this only for experienced business owners?
No. It is built for business owners, marketers, managers and students alike. You need curiosity, not an MBA.
Can’t make December 10?
Join the waitlist for future panels
The Founder in January, Air in February, and a new story every month after that. We’ll let you know what’s coming before seats open.
Limited founding attendee seats
The festival already happened.
The business lessons are still happening.
On December 10, we're putting FYRE back under the microscope — not to relive the disaster, but to investigate what entrepreneurs can learn from it.
Come examine the marketing. Question the decisions. Look behind the brand. Listen to different perspectives. And then turn the lens toward your own business.
What could you recognize now that might save you money, customers, reputation — or a much bigger problem later?
December 10, 2026 · 4:00pm ET · Live online · $19.95 · About 90 minutes
Seats are limited to keep the discussion and networking meaningful.
Annual Pass: 12 months of access from the date of purchase. Attend every panel and save versus buying each one separately.