Female Business Networking & Mentorship in Berkshire
You weren’t meant to have every business conversation with yourself.
Where women running established businesses come for better conversations, stronger connections and practical support.
Sometimes that means meeting the right person at a PAYG networking event. Sometimes it means having someone challenge the decision you’ve been circling for three months.
Coming Up
Your next Business Nest event
You don’t need to join anything, apply for anything or promise me the next twelve months of your life.
Pick the event that works for you, book your place and come and see what happens when you get a room full of women running businesses together.
Business Networking in Reading
Thu 22nd Oct | 10am-12pm
Kate Moore - Creative Content Studio
Why You Need to Start a Podcast in 2027
10am - Meet at Trunkwell House, Beech Hill
10:30am - Introductions
11am - Guest Speaker
11:30am - Open Networking
Your ticket price includes:
Hot Drinks
Pastries
Reminder Email
Connections sent after the event
Tickets are non refundable.
Trunkwell House,
Beech Hill Road,
Beech Hill,
Reading, RG7 2AT
(free parking)
Credit to The Brand Photography Company for images from our previous networking events.
Disclaimer: We take photos are videos during our events to use on our website and social media. Your name and social media link will be shared with the attendees (only) after the event. If you are not comfortable with this please let me know when booking.
Online Networking with The Business Nest
Mon 5th Oct 12pm-1:30pm
Same Nest energy. Different format. No commute required.
The new online networking sessions are for business owners who want genuine connections, useful conversations and new opportunities, without losing half a day getting there and back.
Expect a properly hosted session with introductions, smaller breakout chats and plenty of chances to talk about your business without it turning into one long sales pitch.
Join from your desk, sofa or wherever you’re working that day, bring a cuppa and come ready to meet some brilliant people.
Disclaimer: We take photos are videos during our events to use on our website and social media. Your name and social media link will be shared with the attendees (only) after the event. If you are not comfortable with this please let me know when booking.
PAYG. No networking membership required.
In-person across Berkshire + online.
The Networking Bit
Networking shouldn’t rely on you being brilliant at networking.
If you’ve ever walked into a networking event, spotted the one person you already know and then remained suspiciously close to them for the next two hours, I get it.
A lot of networking puts the responsibility on you to somehow turn a room full of strangers into useful relationships.
I don’t.
Business Nest events have structure. I make introductions. Everyone gets the chance to talk about their business. There are prompts and conversations that get you past “So… what do you do?”, and I pay attention to who is in the room so I can connect people who should probably know each other.
It still feels relaxed. You can still have a laugh. There is normally very good coffee involved and ALWAYS something tasty.
You are not paying to stand in a room and hope something useful happens. Let’s action it.
This isn’t networking for people who’ve just decided they fancy “starting something”.
Most of the women who find their way into The Business Nest already have established businesses.
They know what they do. They have customers. They have experience. They’ve probably already survived at least three Instagram algorithm panics and one offer they absolutely thought was going to sell better than it did.
What they often don’t have is enough people around them who understand what running a small business actually feels like.
People to recommend them. Challenge an idea. Introduce them to somebody. Tell them they are overcomplicating it. Ask the question they haven’t asked themselves yet.
That is the room I’m trying to create.
The kind of energy I’ll make sure our calls have!
When a good conversation isn’t enough.
Sometimes you don’t need another idea. You need someone to get underneath the one you’re already avoiding.
My mentoring clients are rarely short of ideas.
Quite often they have far too many of them.
The harder bit is working out which one deserves their attention, why the important thing keeps getting pushed to next month, whether the problem they’re trying to solve is actually the problem, and what is commercially worth doing next.
That is the work I love.
I will absolutely help you make a plan, but I am far more interested in whether it is the right plan than whether we can make it look impressively organised on a spreadsheet.
Sometimes I’ll help you spot an opportunity.
Sometimes I’ll tell you I think you’re solving the wrong problem.
And sometimes I’ll ask why the thing you said was important three months ago is still sitting untouched on your list.
Because having someone in your corner is useful.
Having someone who will challenge you when necessary is considerably more useful.
And This Is Me
I didn’t learn about running a business by teaching other people how to run theirs.
Before The Business Nest became my primary business, there was a coffee trailer, cafés, staff, premises, customers, cash flow, stock, VAT, growth, spectacular ideas, questionable ideas and a lot of decisions that couldn’t be fixed by posting another Reel.
I started my first business in 2016 and spent years building businesses in hospitality before moving fully into networking and mentoring.
That matters to me.
Because when you bring me a business problem, I’m not only looking at your content strategy or telling you what the latest online business wisdom says you “should” be doing.
I’m thinking about customers, money, capacity, the offer, the decision you’ve been avoiding, what you actually want this business to give you and whether the thing taking up all your attention deserves quite so much of it.
I’ve built businesses.
I’ve changed my mind.
I’ve shut things down.
I’ve sold the business I spent nearly a decade growing.
And I’ve learnt an enormous amount from all of it.
AI is part of the toolkit too.
After selling the cafe, I spent 4 months working towards certification in AI for Business and work with businesses on using it properly, rather than asking ChatGPT to “make this sound more professional” and wondering why everything suddenly sounds like LinkedIn wrote it.
Clients working with me get access to that knowledge too.
We might use AI to analyse something, build a system, interrogate an offer, speed up work that should not be taking you three hours or simply help you get far more useful answers from the tools you’re already paying for.
The important bit is knowing when AI should do some of the work and when you still need to use your own brain.
I’m less interested in whether you enjoyed it than what happened because you came.
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Sadie, Feathers & Fur Falconry Centre
If anyone is think about joining Robyn just stop thinking! In 1 coffee meeting I bought the computer that I had been thinking about for a year, she was the sounding board on changing my brand and I just launched our educational days as a result of the belief she dug out of my imposter soul!! She is amazing and it will be the best investment you ever make!
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Jo Richards, Grey Card Creative
I have been attending networking sessions with Robyn for several years now, and it’s made the biggest difference to me and my business. She has created a nurturing, value-packed community that has not only brought me amazing clients, but also a network of trusted friends and colleagues and confidence as a business owner. Her training and accountability programmes are well thought out and full of real value and her business mentoring is worth every penny.
If you’re a small business owner, look into The Business Nest. There’s so much on offer. -
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Alicia Cornell, The Admin Den
Robyn has created such a wonderful community with her networking sessions. Every meeting is so welcoming and friendly, they are full of laughter, support and conversation flows easily.
I have gained so many clients from this community and so much support for my own business too.
They are definitely my favourite networking events to go to!
Looking for social media & marketing workshops?
That lives over at The Pink Nest.
Laura Summers and I created The Pink Nest for practical, hands-on marketing training where small business owners actually make the thing, try the thing and leave knowing how to use the thing.
That’s where you’ll find our workshops on Instagram, Reels, email marketing and content.
