Off The Record #3
OFF THE RECORD
Hosted by Marlene Leiss and Adishree Bansal
Join us for a Sunday morning at Corgi Café and make your very own junk journal. 📝
Why you should make a junk journal:
Making a junk journal can be a beautiful way to create a personalised book that accompanies you along a new chapter of your life.
You might want to reflect, scribble or journal daily as you work on something new like a career change, novel project, personal brand - really anything!
We'll spend 3h together on Sunday morning, bring 15 women together to share our recent goals, ideas, dreams and ambitions as we design fun covers of a journal.
Who this is for:
How many events have you been to where you left feeling like nothing actually happened? You made some small talk, you swapped a LinkedIn, you went home.
Off The Record is the opposite of that. Every seat at the table is intentional and every person in the room has been chosen because of what they are or want to be working on.
If you are feeling a little stuck, then this evening is for you!
What you need to prep:
Simple. Think: What do I want (right now) that can help me get ahead?
How the event works:
The brag round: you share a win. Big or small. We are normalising women celebrating themselves in public, starting here.
The pitch round: you say "I want..." and finish the sentence. A co-founder. A book deal. A brand partnership. A raise. A new job.
The plot round: We chat as we make our journals. Who knows someone? Who's done this? Who wants in? This is where things actually move.
The move round: everyone commits to one concrete action inside your group and writes it into their brand-new journal.
About us:
Marlene is the Co-founder & COO at Calibr, part of the Apprentify Group, named the UK's 30th fastest-growing company. She exited her first startup, The Graduate Guide, a community of 30k+ people looking to break into startup careers, in December 2025. Marlene has hosted several events (big and small) with partners like Google Cloud, LinkedIn and NatWest. Her biggest dream is to have a VC fund for (only) women-led companies one day.
Adishree is an engineer and founder. She runs NexusKCG, an innovation consultancy with clients ranging from preMVP-stage startups to FTSE 100 companies, and built RITON, an HR SaaS platform for employee intelligence, as its first product. She also founded Pleasantri, a female health social enterprise, which recently closed Women@Adobe and World Vision as strategic partners. Her biggest dream is closing the gap between the 130 million girls currently out of school and the rooms they should be sitting in.
🏃♀️❌ Spots are capped at 13 people.
☕️ 🥐 One drink and breakfast item is included in the price.
📚✂️ We are providing journals, magazines + everything else.