City Walk Chats LA 07: Building Brands & Community
Join founder, Sax and her co-host founder, Brigette, plus a group of cool business-minded people who love supporting cool brands and the founders or operators building them, to walk and talk about business, life, and everything in between while sipping or snacking on a good-for-you treat from our F&B partner.
Here's how it works 👀
1️⃣ We meet at 5:30 PM & start walking at 5:45 PM:
We'll meet at the meeting point in Palisades Park, Santa Monica.
You'll get the exact pin location after you RSVP.
This month's co-host founder + good-for-you snack/beverage is TBD.
You'll pair up with another guest to walk + talk your way around using conversation prompts that cultivate connection and open up a narrative around brand building.
Then we'll swap partners so you get multiple perspectives.
We'll end back where we started to hang out.
2️⃣ You'll leave with:
New connections - friends and collaborators in your city
An inspired outlook on beauty and brand building
New product recommendations and brand discoveries
Meet Your Hosts
Sax is the Founder of Creating Forward Studio, the creator of Sticky Brand DNA TM, a Fractional CMO, Advisor, and Mentor for beauty, wellness, and lifestyle businesses.
Sax, has helped build brands from the ground up to multi-million dollar revenue for the last 20 years as a founder, freelancer, and CMO, with clients ranging from consumer products, to physical health and wellness studios, to doctors, coaches and practitioners building a brand and product offering.
Creating Forward Studio is a platform for innovative founders who are building things that matter and provides CMO-level support in varying capacities to meet brands where they are at:
Fractional CMO Partnership
Private Coaching Container
Brand Growth Incubator
Forward Founder Membership
Leveraging her signature frameworks and highly personalized customer first approach to marketing, she helps you build a brand that clicks, sticks, connects, and converts.
She inspires founders to take imperfect action toward their vision, stepping into what she calls IFGT (I Fu@king Got This) confidence, an essential skill for every successful entrepreneur.
Sax started City Walk Chats in early 2026 to cultivate connection and knowledge sharing between industries and people in the brand-building ecosystem.
Cohosts:
Brigette Ruch is the founder of Voltage Skincare, a skincare brand inspired by her own lifelong experience with acne, made in California, sold online, on Amazon, and in retail stores across California.
After years of struggling with breakouts, Brigette wanted to create simple and effective skincare that people could easily incorporate into their everyday routines. In an industry filled with confusing routines, endless steps, and products that do not always deliver, she founded Voltage to create approachable products that actually work without making skincare feel complicated.
Alongside building Voltage, Brigette works full-time in the skincare manufacturing space at a medical device manufacturing facility in California. Her experience working directly with hydrocolloid materials, product development, and the manufacturing process gives her a unique perspective as both a founder and an industry professional.
Important note:
By attending, you're agreeing to be a part of this experience, which may or may not include pieces of content shared on social media for marketing purposes. You’re participating at your own discretion and agree to move within your comfort level.