{"id":392531,"date":"2026-07-09T21:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/392531\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T21:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:17:09","slug":"cocktails-connections-hosts-business-workshop-in-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/392531\/","title":{"rendered":"Cocktails &#038; Connections hosts business workshop in Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1140\" height=\"494\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cocktails-connections-fresno-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"group photo\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"attach_desc\">Workshop leaders (left to right) Ed Yanez, Amanda Nicassio, Carla Perez, Stephanie German, and Roman Rubio, marketing coordinator for Cocktails &amp; Connections. Courtesy of Cocktails &amp; Connections<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tpublished on July 9, 2026 &#8211; 1:42 PM<br \/>Written by <a href=\"https:\/\/thebusinessjournal.com\/byline\/frank-lopez\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Lopez<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"132\" data-end=\"277\">Business and community leaders gathered June 24 at the Wyndham Garden Fresno Airport for a networking workshop hosted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/o\/cocktails-amp-connections-102571572941\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cocktails &amp; Connections.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"279\" data-end=\"477\">The event, titled \u201cGrowth Lab: A Business Workshop,\u201d brought together entrepreneurs, executives and professionals to exchange ideas, discuss business growth strategies and build new connections.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"479\" data-end=\"508\">Workshop presenters included:<\/p>\n<p>Ed Yanez, owner of Only the Best Visuals<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nStephanie German, owner of German Business Consulting<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAmanda Nicassio, account executive with Dumont Printing<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSean Begen, educator at the Pati\u00f1o School of Entrepreneurship<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"732\" data-end=\"1011\">Cocktails &amp; Connections describes itself as a community-focused event platform that brings professionals together through networking, storytelling, business, culture and collaboration. The organization was founded by Carla Perez, founder and CEO of Brightly Consultant in Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>Event highlights<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1035\" data-end=\"1065\">Photos from the event include:<\/p>\n<p>Carla Perez, founder of Cocktails &amp; Connections and CEO of Brightly Consultant.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWorkshop leaders Ed Yanez, Amanda Nicassio, Carla Perez, Stephanie German and Roman Rubio, marketing coordinator for Cocktails &amp; Connections.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100738\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cocktails-connections-fresno-4.jpg\" alt=\"people receiving guests\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"  \/>Cocktails &amp; Connections brought together professionals at the Wyndham Garden Fresno Airport on June 24, 2026. Courtesy of Cocktails &amp; Connections <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100742\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cocktails-connections-fresno-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"woman speaking\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"  \/>Workshop leaders (left to right) Ed Yanez, Amanda Nicassio, Carla Perez, Stephanie German, and Roman Rubio, marketing coordinator for Cocktails &amp; Connections. Courtesy of Cocktails &amp; Connections <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cocktails-connections-fresno-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"woman excited\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"  \/>A raffle winner at the networking event excitingly accepting one of the prizes. Courtesy of Cocktails &amp; Connections<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Workshop leaders (left to right) Ed Yanez, Amanda Nicassio, Carla Perez, Stephanie German, and Roman Rubio, marketing coordinator&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-392531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}