ABOUT THIS EPISODE
from the outside, club ichi looks effortless: sold-out events, a party at tiger mansion, hundreds of people following liz and nicole across vegas. but like they told us at imex the morning after, they’re the duck on the water: calm on top, paddling like hell underneath. the most requested guests in chinwag history finally pulled up a chair, and the conversation went straight to the part nobody sees. gabby shares how she found them in the first place (she literally asked chatgpt who in events she should know), and they get honest about being a ten-year overnight success: the twelve-hour telethon that aimed for 525 members and landed eighteen, the moment they realized everyone around them was landing big business while they were charging $350, and why even a great party doesn’t always get enough sponsors to cover the cost. we get into their one rule (you can’t both be down at the same time), the reverse mullet — party in the front, business in the back — and the small design choices that make a room feel safe, from first-name-only badges to being an event wing woman for the person floating on their own. plus: the 2018 think tank where gdpr came up before any conference had it on the agenda, how they keep a hundred great ideas from pulling them off course (buckets, a backlog, and “yes, and… in 2029”), and the question worth asking before every pivot: who’s they? who’s the “they” you’ve been letting change your plans? soft skills, hard truths. new episodes weekly at chinwag.live.
