Pull Up a Chair: Inside Vested’s New Podcast

Apr 1

A closer look at Same Table and the idea that business doesn’t have to be built in competition.

Same Table started with a simple idea: What would happen if we brought women in the same industry, the kind who are often labeled as competitors, into the same room and let them actually talk?

Not in a panel format. Not in a polished, performative way. Just a real conversation about what it actually looks like to run a business in the same space.

Because the truth is, most industries are smaller than they seem. People know of each other. They follow each other. They’re aware of what everyone else is doing, even if no one is really saying it out loud. Especially in a town like Spokane. And we all know that can create a little quiet tension.

Same Table was built to shift that.

Each episode brings together women who share the same market, the same audience, sometimes even the same clients, and gives them space to talk about what it actually looks like behind the scenes. The decisions, the challenges, the growth, the things that worked and the things that didn’t.

And just like every good Vested event, we learn that when the pressure to position or compete is removed, the conversation opens up. There’s more honesty. More nuance. More willingness to share what’s actually happening, not just what looks good from the outside. It becomes less about comparison and more about perspective.

And that’s really the point. Because business doesn’t have to be built in isolation or in competition with the people around you. There is room for different approaches, different strengths, and different ways of doing things, even within the same industry.

Same Table is just a place to see that in action. A reminder that the way someone else runs their business doesn’t take away from yours. If anything, it expands what’s possible.

Pull up a chair at the table.