Reck
BEAT 1 OF 3
The wreck
The screw-up. What actually happened, without polish. Candid, never confessional for spectacle.
NOV
24Next Reck · VancouverTue · 6–8 PM · R&B Brewing · $10
Real mistakes.
24Next Reck · VancouverTue · 6–8 PM · R&B Brewing · $10
A Business Network Media experience
Real mistakes.
Bigger tomorrows.
Reck ’N Rise is a night where business owners take the mic and tell the truth about a screw-up: what happened, what they learned, and how they rose. Then the room networks.
A global movement, one city at a time.
It starts in Vancouver. The format, the five-minute rule and the weekly Board Meeting stay the same everywhere, so any city can run Reck ’N Rise [City] under licence. Start a city →
Monthly · $10Reck NightOpen mic. 5–6 speakers, five minutes each, strictly timed.
Weekly · FreeBoard MeetingOpen networking over a pint or a coffee. Feeds every Reck.
Any city · LicensedReck ’N Rise [City]One playbook, local venues, local speakers, local sponsors.
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REAL
We learn more from other people’s mistakes than from our own successes.
What this is
Reck ’N Rise is a networking night built on real business failure stories. Same architecture as Fuckup Nights, without the cussing in the name.
Speakers get five minutes to tell the screw-up, what they learned, and how they rose, if they have. Then the room does what rooms do: people meet, swap notes, and leave with names worth calling.
The story arc
Every talk has
three beats.
Reckoning
BEAT 2 OF 3
What they learned
The part the room takes home. The lesson that would have saved them a year, or a business.
Rise
BEAT 3 OF 3
If applicable
How they got out of it, dealt with it, grew past it. Some stories don’t have this part yet. They still belong on stage.
4 → 8
How the night runs
Board feeds Reck.
Reck feeds the network.
4:00 PMWeekly · Free
Board Meeting
Open networking over a pint or a coffee. Grows the list and brings in referrals, sponsors, speakers and attendees.
6:00 PMMonthly · $10
Reck ’N Rise
Peel into the main event at the same venue. Open mic, 5–6 speakers, 5 minutes each. Full house is 40–60 people.
8:00 PM
WEEK 1Board
WEEK 2Board
WEEK 3Board
RECK WEEKBoard 4–6Reck 6–8
No Reck that week? Board still meets. Vancouver only: in a month with a Fuckup Nights event, Reck sits out and returns the next month.
NOV 24
Next event
First night
under the
new flag.
Two test runs are done. November 24 is the first Reck ’N Rise with the logo and the full rollout.
RECK ’N RISE · VANCOUVER
Tue
Nov 24
Nov 24
- Time
- 6:00–8:00 PM
- Venue
- R&B Brewing | Ale & Pizza House
- Where
- 54 E 4th Ave #1, Vancouver
- Entry
- $10, entry only
$10ADMIT ONE
Who it’s for
People who build
things and break them.
FOR
Business owners
You’ve signed the lease, made payroll, and made at least one call you’d take back.
FOR
Operators
You run the thing day to day and know where the bodies are buried.
FOR
Freelancers
Every mistake lands on one desk. Yours.
FOR
Service providers
Agencies, consultants, trades. You’ve learned from clients the hard way.
FOR
Investors
You’ve backed winners and the other kind. You know which taught you more.
Explore
Go deeper.
EVENTS
Events
Find your
room.
Board meets weekly and it’s free. Reck runs monthly at $10. Your city comes first.
Prototype: city is picked from this menu. Production detects the visitor’s city from their IP address, then sorts nearby cities by distance.
Board Weekly · Free · open networking
Reck Monthly · $10 · open mic stories
Sample Layout test only, not a real city
Tickets for every city are sold through the HQ main site, not on this page.
OPEN MIC
The main event
Reck
Night.
Monthly. Open mic. Real stories about real screw-ups, strictly timed, followed by the kind of networking that starts with something true.
5–6Speakers a night
5Minutes each. Strict.
$10Entry only
40–60A full house
The 5-minute rule
Ramble and
you get clapped
off.
Every speaker gets the same clock. When it hits zero, the room claps you off stage. Try it.
5:00
Time.CLAP THEM OFF
Story rules
Three beats.
Three hard nos.
- ReckThe screw-up. What actually happened.
- ReckoningWhat you learned. The bit the room keeps.
- RiseIf applicable: how you got out of it, dealt with it, grew past it.
- PitchingNo selling from the stage.
- PoliticsNot the room for it.
- LibelTell your story. Don’t trash a named person or company.
CREW
Who runs the night
The crew.
Vancouver: Martin PresseMC
Handles the room. High energy, good vibes, strong crowd control. Gracious and friendly, stern enough to ward off the rough ones.
1 personOps
Venue, run of show, sound check, and volunteers for registration, timing and clapping people off.
1 personMarketer
Event setup, ticket sales, social, local emails and posters. All organic: grassroots first, then structured referrals.
5 peopleInviters
Professionals with large-ish networks who fill the room.
1 personJV person
Curates speakers, from applications and from the floor.
The venueHost
A bar or restaurant on a slow night. 50+ capacity, AV and mic preferred, central with parking preferred.
For venues
Your slow night,
full.
Free marketing and foot traffic you wouldn’t have had otherwise. We ask for drink or meal specials and a small donation to a local charity.
Tickets stay at $10. Licensees may adjust price if food or drink is included. Discount codes are possible.
AGENDA
Weekly · Free
Board
Meeting.
It sounds important. It is. It’s also business owners shaking hands over a pint or a coffee.
MINUTES
Motion carried
Minutes of the BoardWeekly · 4–6 PM (preferred)
- Show up
Free, separate from the Reck ticket. Owners, operators and employees all welcome to grow their connections.
- Round-table intros
If you’re on time, the organizer may run a quick round of introductions.
- Shake hands
That’s the business. Open networking, nothing more formal.
- Stay for Reck
On Reck nights, peel into Reck at 6 PM at the same venue. Board members who stay for both get a discounted Reck ticket (best practice).
- Any other business
No Reck this week? Board still meets.
Chaired by: the Ops lead, or a Board ChairSize: as big as the venue allows
Why the Board
matters.
It’s the feeder. The Board grows the list and brings in referrals, sponsors, speakers and the people who fill Reck.
A good Board meeting is as full as a Reck, with people walking out saying they met a lot of great people. Every licensed city must run one.
5:00
Apply to speak
Five minutes.
Your screw-up.
Half the slots come from applications. Half are picked from the room on the night. Our JV person curates both.
Beat 1
The screw-up
What happened. Specific beats vague.
Beat 2
The reckoning
What you learned that someone else can use.
Beat 3, if applicable
The rise
How you got out of it, or how you’re still working on it.
No pitching, no politics, no libel. Five minutes, strictly timed. Speaker perks: to be confirmed.
Application
Pitch your
failure.
YOUR CITY
Licensing
Reck ’N Rise
[Your City]
Bring the format home. You get the playbook to run and monetize the events, plus use of the logo, the site and the system.
$500CAD for Canadians
USD for Americans
Annual · per city
USD for Americans
Annual · per city
To start
Have at least half your team on board, with a plan to fill the rest. You must run a weekly Board Meeting; it’s the engine the licence is built on.
Locked vs.
local.
Same everywhere
- The format
- The 5-minute timing rule
- The name: Reck ’N Rise + your city
- A weekly Board Meeting
Set locally
- Venue
- Price (around the $10 standard)
- Speakers
- Sponsors, priced at what your market bears. HQ takes no cut of sponsor money.
Licensees need their own way to receive sponsor funds, or HQ can process them as merchant. Applying doesn’t guarantee approval or territory exclusivity.
Apply
Start a city.
ORIGIN
About
From wreck
to rise.
Every business has a wreck in it. Most people hide theirs. We built a room where you tell it, work out what it taught you, and walk out with people who’ll help with what comes next.
The family
Where Reck
comes from.
Business Network MediaParent company
Spin-off
Reck ’N Rise
Monthly open-mic failure stories plus the weekly Board Meeting. Licensed city by city.
Sister
Fuckup Nights Vancouver
Speakers telling real failure stories on stage, emceed by Martin Presse. Reck carries that community forward.
Pillar
Truth creates trust
Real mistakes lower the mask.
Pillar
Reflection creates value
Every story yields a usable lesson.
Pillar
Connection creates momentum
The room turns insight into relationships.
Pillar
Rising is repeatable
The format and city playbook make it scale.
THE LIST
Newsletter
Join
the list.
One global newsletter for the whole network, plus a local one for your city.
You get
Event invites
Board and Reck dates for your city.
You get
Stories & lessons
What people learned the hard way.
You get
Referrals
Connections from across the network.
Two layers
Global + local
Company-wide news and your city’s own list.
HELLO
Contact
Talk
to us.
Send it to head office, or to a local office if your city has one.
Local offices appear in “Send to” only once a city’s licence is taken. With no local office chosen, messages go to head office.