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Let me tell you something that took me longer than I’d like to admit to fully understand. The skills that got me to a certain level in events were not the same ones that were going to take me further. That was a weird place to be because I realized that the event delivery skills […]
Laura Yarbrough-Lloyd
May 13, 2026
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I recently leaned into talking about the realities of being mid-career in events, and I’m not talking mid-career in terms of seniority. I mean someone who’s been in long enough that the early excitement has settled, you’re not close to retirement, and you’re in that long middle period regularly looking at what you’ve built and […]
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Freelancing in events is always a hot topic. As time goes on, more freelancers seem to be defending their working model all over social media, and in a way, they are combating assumptions people have about them and what freelancing actually entails as companies expect more and more of them. I’ve seen a lot of […]
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In events, we talk about breaking in — the scramble, the hustle, the proving yourself early on. We also talk about the burnout and the mythical “making it.” There’s language for those phases, common lingo that people use, often in LinkedIn posts and industry panels and even WhatsApp chats between industry friends. But there’s a […]
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Event professionals are increasingly honest about what they actually want from their careers. We want more balance, control, and choice, and we want work that is interesting, challenging, and meaningful without burning us out for the sake of being busy. After a few years in the same roles, many of us start thinking about “better […]
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