A live panel event week featuring candid conversations with digital product creators about what's actually working — and what's not — in their businesses right now. Five panels. Five days. No filters.
Apply to Be a PanelistCreator's MBA: Closed Door Talks is a live panel event week featuring five candid conversations with digital product creators — the strategies, failures, experiments, and pivots most people won't say in public. Every panel is recorded and released as a private podcast after the event, alongside a gift page featuring free resources from every panelist.
One panel per day, Monday–Friday. Each panel features 4–5 guests on a focused theme — live on Zoom, unscripted, no slide decks.
These are the conversations that happen in a mastermind, not on a stage. Panelists are expected to go somewhere most creators won't in public.
All five panels are recorded and released as a private podcast on Hello Audio. Listeners opt in to access the recordings and the panelist gift page.
Closed Door Talks runs every year. The 2026 event is the inaugural series. Accepted panelists get first right of refusal for 2027.
Each panel runs 60–75 minutes at 12pm EDT. All panels are recorded and released as the private podcast after panel week closes.
Here's exactly what happens when you promote — and what your audience experiences from click to access.
One dedicated email + one P.S. or newsletter insert during the July 20 – August 9 promo window. Swipe copy provided.
They land on the Creator's MBA event opt-in page, enter their email, and get immediate access — no waiting, no friction.
Right after opting in they land on a page with the live panel links, the Hello Audio private podcast, and the full panelist gift page — they pick the gifts they want and subscribe to each panelist's list directly.
Panels run August 10–14. Podcast and gift page stay open through August 31 — giving everyone time to watch, listen, and claim.
The application includes three questions that are the real audition. We're looking for panelists willing to go somewhere most creators won't in public.
Specific strategies, specific numbers, specific timeframes — not "I've heard this works."
A launch that underperformed, a strategy you abandoned, money that didn't return. The live panel format is the permission structure to go there.
A pivot you haven't announced, a take that's too hot, something your audience would be surprised to hear. If your answers here sound like your podcast — this probably isn't the right fit.
Current bets and experiments without clean answers yet. Uncertainty is interesting. Certainty is boring.
Two things required of every panelist. No more than that.
Applications close July 10, 2026. Selected panelists notified within 5 business days of applying.
I'm a digital product strategist, MBA professor, and the founder of Creator's MBA — a brand built around helping digital entrepreneurs build predictable, recurring revenue without chasing algorithms or grinding through launches.