After Hours Club: #WeMend Summit Powered by Shopify

Join After Hours Club for a full day to move, create and mend. Centered around honest conversation, wellness and community built intentionally for founders, operators, and wellness-forward humans navigating the real weight of building something while taking care of our own mental wellbeing.

#WeMend Summit is the culminating event of May We Mend, After Hours Club's Mental Health Awareness Month campaign. A wellness sanctuary and an entire day designed around what actually helps: moving your body, expressing yourself, connecting with people who get it, and having the kind of conversations that don't usually happen in traditional professional spaces.

The day opens with a community run, movement and recovery at 7:30AM and carries that energy through movement, wellness activations, a curated viewing marketplace and closes with an evening keynote panel on mental health, burnout, and what it really means to be well while building something.

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The day unfolds in two parts:

11AM – 4PM: Wellness Experiences and Activations.
6PM – 8:30PM: An evening keynote panel and networking mixer.

Schedule and more details can be found below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Your Experience:

From the moment you arrive, the space is yours. Move through it at your own pace. The viewing marketplace, wellness activations, and 1:1 services are open throughout the day, layered alongside programming so you can drop in, reset, and return as many times as you need.

Explore wellness activations and brand experiences including:

• Wellness Marketplace — A curated vendor market featuring brands, practitioners, and products aligned with mental health and intentional living. Sample and experience.
• Active Recovery stations: Red light therapy, compression, stretching and by ice cold club and Bespoke Physical Therapy
• Mini Facials from HeyDey 
• Matcha Bar by Sorate Matcha
• Lunch provided by Popup Bagels
• Movement by Reforming Pilates
• Pre panel sound meditation from Sage + Sound
• Afternoon Movement Sessions by Reforming Pilates— 3 movement moments woven into the afternoon to reset your energy and bring you back into your body.
• Nervous System Tools Breakout — Somatic practices, breathwork, and journaling to regulate and transition into the evening followed by a panel from leading female founders.
• Music by- FVDGE NASTE

What to Expect:

• 11:00 AM — Doors open, Marketplace + Wellness Activations Open
  • Brand viewing market, brand activations, 1:1 services, and wellness experiences across Shopify SoHo
• 12:00 PM — Movement session 1 (sign up required via link)
  • First partner-led movement moment to kick off the afternoon
• 1:30 PM — Sponsored lunch from Popup bagels, recovery, intentional networking, and partner moments throughout the space
• 2:00 PM — Afternoon Movement Session 2 (sign up required via link)
  • A second partner-led movement moment
• 3:00 PM — Afternoon Movement Session 3 (sign up required via link)
  • A third partner-led movement moment to reset the room
• BREAK
• 6:00 PM — Doors Reopen Evening Programming for Women Who Lead
  • Evening marketplace activation, final brand moments, and community connection
• 6:30 PM — Breakout: Nervous System Tools
  • Somatic practices, breathwork, and journaling to transition into the evening- Led by Sage + Sound
• 6:45 PM — Keynote Panel: Mental Health and Burnout
  • A moderated conversation with leading founders on what it actually means to rest, heal, and choose yourself while building something. Followed by audience Q&A. Moderated by Riki Zahn, Founder of After Hours Club.
• 8:30 PM — Doors Close

Evening Panel: Mental Health, Burnout + Building

An honest, unfiltered conversation with founders who have navigated burnout, mental health, and the real cost of building and come out with something to say about it.

Panelists will share candidly about what it actually costs to build something, what sustainable wellness looks like in practice, and how they continue to lead authentically while protecting their own wellbeing.

What You'll Learn:

• Mental Health + Leadership — How to recognize burnout before it becomes breakdown, and the tools that actually help
• Resilience + Authenticity — How vulnerability and self-awareness make you a stronger founder and a more grounded human
• Community + Connection — Why the people in the room matter as much as the work — and how to build networks that hold you

Meet Our Panelists:

Vanessa Rissetto, MS, RD — Co-Founder, Culina Health: Vanessa Rissetto is a registered dietitian and the CEO and Co-Founder of Culina Health, a clinical nutrition company transforming access to personalized, insurance-covered nutrition care. Since launching in 2020, she has scaled the company to over $20M in venture funding and built it into a leading provider in the food-as-medicine space, with strong patient outcomes and national physician referrals. Culina Health has also been recognized on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies. Previously, she served as Director of Dietetic Internships at NYU and now regularly appears as a nutrition expert on outlets including the Today Show, The New York Times and Vogue, while advocating for equitable access to preventive nutrition care and the integration of dietitians into mainstream healthcare.

Alex Fine — Co-Founder + CEO, Dame Products : Alex Fine is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dame Products, a leading sexual wellness brand focused on breaking stigma and creating inclusive, research-backed products for intimacy and wellbeing. Under her leadership, Dame has been recognized on the Inc. 5000 list, and Alex was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 for her impact in wellness and entrepreneurship. As a founder, Alex has spoken openly about the realities of mental health, burnout, and building a mission-driven company, helping push forward more honest conversations around wellbeing and modern leadership.

Francesca Albo — Founder, Puppy Sphere: Francesca Albo is the Co-Founder and CEO of Puppy Sphere, the puppy therapy wellness brand redefining how people connect with mental health and emotional wellbeing. After struggling with her own mental health, Francesca was inspired by the emotional impact animals can have and built Puppy Sphere around puppies, community and human connection. What began as a single puppy yoga class has grown into an eight-figure brand with 14 studios across North America, over 450,000 guests served and more than $14M in revenue since launch, all fully bootstrapped. Puppy Sphere has also donated over $60,000 to mental health and animal rescue initiatives. The brand has been featured by NBC, ABC, Entrepreneur, Newsweek and The New York Times, and Francesca has been recognized on the Inc. Female Founders 500 list and by EY Winning Women North America.

Moderated by Riki Zahn, Founder of After Hours Club

We Mend is part of May We Mend — After Hours Club's month-long Mental Health Awareness Month campaign.

This May #We Mend

​​After Hours Club is a mental health focused art & wellness company and community redefining the way we experience creativity and mindfulness as a tool for healing. We create inclusive, low-pressure safe spaces where people can use art as a tool for healing, connection and self-discovery. Through weekly art and meditation workshops, curated pop-ups and seasonal series, we provide a supportive environment to slow down, express yourself and reconnect with the present moment.

Women Who Lead is our ongoing series created to support female founders, entrepreneurs and leaders by giving them space to pause, reflect and recharge. Each gathering is thoughtfully curated to prioritize mental health, wellbeing and authentic connection while featuring a marketplace highlighting women-owned businesses and brands. It’s an event designed for women, by women, where founders can step away from the demands of leadership, focus on themselves, and connect with a community that celebrates creativity, empowerment  and collaboration.

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