On October 22nd 2026, more than 200 female entrepreneurs across North America will come together for a specially designed conference in Hamilton, Ontario. This conference is known as High Vibe Women, where female entrepreneurs experience a day designated to promoting female advocation, resilience, and growth amidst their entrepreneurial journeys.
Co-founders Kristina Bartold-Sorgota and Maria Tassi launched High Vibe Women after noticing a trend they could no longer ignore – the lack of support, mentorship, and community that was available for ambitious Canadian women in the business world. With this came their decision to cultivate a space for female entrepreneurs to foster community, seek mentorship, and experience true unconditional support from other women alike.
“From the start, we wanted High Vibe Women to be the opposite of transactional networking,” Tassi says. “Instead of walking in to collect business cards, our community comes in asking what they can give the room. We built the entire experience around genuine connection … making sure every woman leaves with relationships that actually matter, not just a stack of contacts.”
This event is different from usual business conferences – it aims to encourage growth within one’s company as well as growth in community. “You can expect to be welcomed the moment you walk in – usually with a warm hug and a room full of women genuinely excited to meet you,” Bartold-Sorgota states, noting how “the energy is unmatched … and the connection sticks … You’ll leave having made fast friends.” She also makes note of their incredibly high return rate with women who’ve attended every single event alongside new faces, to which can be expected of the upcoming event in October with over 100 tickets already sold.
With their March 7th 2026 event in Burlington sold out with 185 women in attendance, High Vibe Women continues to both recognize and promote the noticeable rise in women-led businesses and brands in Canada over the last few years.
When asked the distinct differences that come with women-led businesses, Tassi asserts that “Women do business differently, and us being able to show up in our creativity is a powerful societal move.” With creator driven brands only increasing as women continue empowering one another, Tassi and Bartold-Sorgota recognize and assert the importance of showing up as one’s most authentic self in order to solve problems and find solutions that all communities need.
As High Vibe Women endorses seeking and maintaining community amidst entrepreneurship, they take it a step further by declaring that women must have the right community around them. Tassi and Bartold-Sorgota discuss how in their experience, it was evident that “community was the secret sauce to scaling a business,” and so they “built [their] business entirely on referrals for the first few years by attending events.” With most of these events being located in the US, their idea and thus the launch of High Vibe Women was initiated as a means to offer an opportunity to the “many powerful and incredible Canadian women there are here at home.”
With the fast-growing success of High Vibe Women, Tassi and Bartold-Sorgota noted their “biggest challenge [is] momentum,” to which they explain “is a good one to have.”
Tassi goes on to explain the high level of inquiry they receive with “women wanting to speak, communities inviting [them] to host events across the country – and learning to say no has been one of the hardest parts of growing.” Both Tassi and Bartold-Sorgota recognize and thus emphasize the importance of “protecting the quality behind every experience, so [they] can only say yes to so much.”
With running High Vibe Women alongside their marketing agency, The Social Snippet, they make an effort to be deliberately protective of their time and energy, ensuring that everything they put out stays true to why they started.
Bartold-Sorgota and Tassi founded and launched The Social Snippet amidst the pandemic in 2020, which is a marketing agency focused on fostering connection, purpose, and growth within client relationships and businesses. The Social Snippet helps business owners to augment and amplify their presence within the business world, helping them grow their impact through value and community-based podcasting and social media strategies.
With years of experience, Bartold-Sorgota and Tassi continued to recognize the importance of both strategy and community. “Strategy on its own isn’t enough,” states Bartold-Sorgota, noting how “building a business can be isolating and the problems that come with it feel enormous.”
They noticed that, oftentimes, women go searching for “expensive solutions when what they really need is one good introduction … by pairing business strategy with a strong community, we give women both the tools and the people to grow.”
High Vibe Women sets out to be “a space built on women genuinely wanting to see other women win … whether you have a thriving business or just the seed of an idea, there’s a seat for you,” Tassi says.
When asked what impact they wish for High Vibe Women to have on Canada’s future entrepreneurial landscape, the answer was simple – community without competition. “People sometimes ask if other women’s communities are our competition, and our answer is always the same: There’s no competition in helping women grow,” Bartold-Sorgota says.
What the event promotes is for “women to find their people and build alongside them,” and that if it “can play a part in more Canadian women stepping into entrepreneurship, dreaming bigger, and backing themselves, that’s the impact they both are after.
The Scotiabank Women Initiative and Adobe Acrobat will both be on board as sponsors for the event – two organizations that recognize what’s happening in the world of female entrepreneurship and strive to empower women within their entrepreneurial experiences.
High Vibe Women is founded in the belief that there is a timely national story to share and thus questions to consider: Why are women-led businesses thriving when they have the right community around them, and what does it mean to be building that infrastructure right here in Canada? “We’d love to work with you to tell it,” says Tassi and Bartold-Sorgota.
Event Details & Links:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DVoRTr6DZz-
Ticket Purchase:
https://www.highvibewomen.ca/october-2026-event
The Social Snippet:
https://www.thesocialsnippet.com
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