On October 22, more than 220 women filled Liuna Station in Hamilton, Ontario, for the sixth full-day experience High Vibe Women has produced. Like the five before it, it drew a larger crowd than the one before.
Three days after tickets opened for the next one, more than 85 had sold. That event is still five months away.
The Rooms Two Founders Could Not Find
Kristina Bartold and Maria Tassi started The Social Snippet, a marketing and podcast agency, in 2021. As they scaled it, they leaned on other women running businesses, and they kept noticing how few places there were in Canada to find them. By Bartold’s account, the country has far fewer dedicated communities and in-person events for women entrepreneurs than the United States does. High Vibe Women began as the room the two of them wanted and could not book.
“We were going to the US and sitting next to other Canadians who lived half an hour away from us, also searching for a community of business owners to help move their businesses forward,” Bartold says. “The Social Snippet had a ton of momentum, but nothing like the outpouring of support we’ve received from other Canadian women looking to grow their businesses.”
The response has come faster each time out. More than 100 tickets for the October event sold within two weeks of launch, and the day was past half full with six months still to go. The March launch beat even that pace. Bartold has watched the acceleration build across all six events.
What a Full Day Actually Looks Like
The format runs on speakers, a vendor market, and hands-on activations. The October lineup included Raia “Coach” Carey, personal branding strategist Katrina Owens, Gazzy Amin of Sales Beyond Script, and marketing coach Jenna Harding. The full-day gatherings happen twice a year, and previous ones have sold out.
Attendees still put the people ahead of the programming. Some call the day their annual Super Bowl and plan around the date months out. What they describe wanting is the thing the founders went looking for in the first place: a room of other women running businesses, working on the same problems.
The organizers treat repeat attendance as the real signal. A launch can fill a room once. Guests who come back across six events are responding to something sturdier, and the phrase the community uses for it is community over competition.
A North American Room, Hosted in Canada
High Vibe Women is Canadian. The guest list is not. American founders travel north for the day, and each gathering draws women from across the continent.
For Canadian attendees, that widens a network which might otherwise stop at the provincial border. For American attendees, it adds a Canadian market and a Canadian peer group to one built at home. The community’s events run from intimate dinners up to the full-day format, and this November it adds a four-night retreat in the Dominican Republic.
The Brands That Backed the Day
High Vibe Women produced the October event with support from Adobe Acrobat, Dubsado, the Scotiabank Women’s Initiative, BDC, and additional partners. The list reads as a map of what a room of small business owners actually needs: software, back-office systems, and access to capital.
The organizers have been explicit that they want the day to go beyond traditional networking, with the structure built so conversations lead toward collaborations and partnerships rather than ending at the door.
What the March Numbers Suggest
The March 25, 2027 event is moving faster than October did, with five months still to run. That gives the organizers a longer runway than usual to book speakers and size the venue.
The organizers describe demand for women’s business communities in Canada as rising, and they point to six events of steadily larger rooms as the evidence. What began as the gathering two founders wished existed now sells out months ahead of the date.
The Partnership Behind High Vibe Women
Bartold and Tassi’s agency, The Social Snippet, now supports more than 75 entrepreneurs a month. The work across the agency and High Vibe Women is the same thing in different forms: helping entrepreneurs and small businesses grow their communities online through social media, podcasting, and live events.
The partnership began in 2020. Bartold’s coaching business was gaining ground online, and Tassi, who had spent years looking for work that matched her own interest in connection and purpose, was running the social strategy behind it. A friend handed them a set of clients, and the agency followed. Bartold now splits her weeks between the Community podcast, coaching business owners on growth, and hosting the gatherings, which keeps her in conversation with the same women who fill the room twice a year.
Details on the March 2027 event are available on the High Vibe Women website, and daily updates, recaps, and speaker announcements are posted on the High Vibe Women Instagram page.
