On the Menu: Things I Should Have Said: The Conversations Entrepreneurs Keep Swallowing

On the Menu is turning up the volume with Dr. Rita Renee — 2x TEDx speaker, executive voice strategist, and best-selling author of 14 books — for a session unlike anything we’ve served before. This isn’t a workshop about your marketing, your pitch, or your funding. It’s about the sentences you never said — and what they’re quietly costing you.

The client you should have fired. The price you should have held. The “partner” you should have questioned. The family member you never told how hard this really is. Every entrepreneur is carrying a list of unsaid things — and the bill comes anyway.

Here’s how it works.

The same boldness it takes to start a business somehow disappears in our most important conversations. Dr. Rita Renee unpacks why — the image trap, the relationship tax, and the scarcity whisper that convinces you the “yes” might never come again — and reveals what all that swallowing is really costing your margins, your boundaries, your health, and your self-trust.

But this is not a sit-and-listen session. Your phone stays out (you’ll need it), the room gets honest fast, and the anonymous live polls will show you something powerful: you are not the only one carrying this. Through her signature OWN Method™ — Own It, Word It, Name the Moment — Dr. Rita Renee walks you from the sentence you’ve been avoiding to the sentence you’re finally ready to say.

Then comes the moment this session is built around: pens up. Every participant writes the one sentence they’ve been swallowing, with their name and a date on it. A brave voice or two will read theirs out loud. The room will never forget it.

You’ll walk back to work lighter than you walked in.

Participants will:

• Name the specific conversation they’ve been avoiding — with a client, a price, a partner, or the people they love
• Uncover the three hidden reasons bold entrepreneurs go silent, and the real cost of staying muted
• Learn the OWN Method™, a three-step framework for saying hard things with clarity and kindness
• Leave with their unsaid sentence written down, dated, and ready to be spoken within 7 days

Due to the interactive nature of this event, it will be hosted exclusively in person. Bring a pen. You’ll be writing one down.

Session Speaker

Dr. Rita Renee

The Ultimate PowerHouse Coach

Dr. Rita Renee is a 2x TEDx speaker, international keynote speaker, executive voice strategist, and best-selling author of 14 books who helps powerhouses come off mute in the conversations that matter most. Fresh off her second TEDx stage with “The Price of Feeling Wanted,” she has spoken on stages from Raleigh to Paris to Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and is the creator of the OWN Method™ and the UNMUTE movement. Bold, warm, and refreshingly honest, Dr. Rita Renee believes a muted powerhouse is still a powerhouse — and she’s on a mission to make sure no business owner builds their dream on swallowed words.