Brianna KamienskiWildX Imaginarium: Where Leaders Step Into Visibility
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Entrepreneurs are no strangers to hard work. The story of success has long been written in long nights, relentless focus, and the belief that enough hustle will eventually deliver the breakthrough. But in 2025, many leaders are discovering the limits of that model. Progress feels slower than promised. The next level remains elusive.
The truth is, more effort alone doesn’t guarantee bigger results. What does is visibility, and the courage to put bold ideas on a stage where they can actually inspire change. That’s the premise behind Imaginarium, a one-day event debuting October 18th, 2025, at the historic Saban Theater in Beverly Hills, sponsored by USA Today.
A Different Kind of Stage
Most conferences follow a predictable script: keynote speakers, panel discussions, and long agendas that blur together by the end of the day. Imaginarium breaks that mold entirely.
Designed as an “American Idol for Speakers,” it puts entrepreneurs on stage for ten high-stakes minutes to share the ideas they believe can change the world. Their talks are delivered before an audience of peers and a powerhouse panel of celebrity judges: Michael Beckwith, founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center; Hazel Ortega, philanthropist and founder of the High Tide Global Foundation; Richard Greene, American media personality and author; and Donnie Knips, marketing executive with USA Today.
It’s a high-energy format, but the goal isn’t competition for its own sake. It’s to create a platform where ideas with the power to change lives and businesses can be heard, celebrated, and amplified. Speaking here isn’t about applause. It’s about joining a larger conversation on imagination, leadership, and accelerated growth.
Why Rhonda Swan and Jules Schroeder Built It
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WILDx Imaginarium is the vision of Jules Schroeder and Rhonda Swan, co-founders of Wild Global Inc. Both women know firsthand that visibility can change the trajectory of a career.
Swan has spent decades mastering the art of branding and storytelling. As the founder of the bestselling Women Gone Wild book series, she has created a platform that elevates women’s voices across industries and continents. Her expertise has helped entrepreneurs and executives alike distill their life stories into powerful messages that resonate worldwide. For countless entrepreneurs, her guidance has been the difference between staying invisible and stepping into cultural authority.
Schroeder, a two-time TEDx speaker and Forbes-ranked entrepreneur, has been recognized as one of the top female entrepreneurs shaping the world today. Her global platform, Unconventional Life, has reached millions of listeners in more than 75 countries, sparking creatives and entrepreneurs to pursue their biggest visions. Known for her ability to design transformational experiences, Schroeder has guided thousands of leaders into their next chapter, often collapsing years of growth into a single catalytic leap.
Together, they’ve built Imaginarium as a launchpad not just for talks, but for careers.
A Catalyst for Breakthroughs
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What makes Imaginarium different from a standard conference is that it’s designed not just to inspire but to transform. Every talk delivered on its stage has the potential to become a spark that shifts how someone in the audience sees themselves, their business, or the possibilities in front of them. These are not speeches meant to be politely applauded and forgotten. They are invitations to reframe challenges, unlock new ways of thinking, and collapse years of trial and error into a single breakthrough moment.
Entrepreneurs know that the biggest leaps rarely come from following a formula. They come from a flash of clarity, a perspective that changes everything. At Imaginarium, those flashes are built into the design. When a founder shares how a bold pivot saved their company, or when a creator reveals the mindset shift that unlocked new revenue, the impact is immediate. People in the audience start connecting the dots to their own ventures. They don’t just listen; they begin envisioning how to apply those insights to accelerate their own growth.
For speakers, this is the power of the platform. You are not only telling your story. You are handing someone else the key to their own next level. That’s why Schroeder and Swan built Imaginarium as more than a speaking opportunity. It’s a stage where bold ideas are given the chance to ignite quantum leaps in others.
Where Ideas Become Movements
Swan & Schroeder at WILDx
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The audience is a carefully curated community of entrepreneurs scaling with intention, innovators hungry for collaboration, and investors looking for the next big idea. They don’t come to take notes and leave unchanged. They come to act.
That makes the event fertile ground for opportunities that continue long after the lights go down. A ten-minute talk can ripple outward into a joint venture formed over dinner, a media feature sparked by an introduction, or a partnership seeded in a hallway conversation or being selected for a TEDx Talk.
For many speakers, this is where careers shift. The professional footage, the red-carpet photography, and the media amplification all matter, but the network effect matters just as much. When your idea resonates with the right people in the right room, it gains powerful momentum.
For speakers, Imaginarium is an invitation to step onto a stage that doesn’t just showcase voices but amplifies them into movements. Because the truth is, the next level won’t be unlocked by doing more of what’s always been done. It will be unlocked by the courage to share ideas that move people, and in October, the stage built for those ideas will be Imaginarium.
On October 18th, only 100 tickets will open the doors to the Saban Theater. The question is, will you be in the room?
Reserve your ticket here.