Learn With Us · Free and open to the community
Pull Up a Chair
A gathering for small business owners, and for the people thinking about becoming one. One topic each session, talked through in plain language, with room for your questions. No cost. No pitch. No gatekeeping.
Next gathering
August 2026. Date and details land in your inbox when you join the list below.
How the porch works
Ground rules
Come as you are.
No question is too basic. The basics are the point, and the person next to you is probably wondering the same thing.
Talk about your own business.
Share your own numbers and your own story if you choose to. Nobody else’s books get discussed in this room.
What’s shared here stays here.
People speak honestly about money when the room can be trusted. Be the reason it can.
Plain language wins.
If a term shows up, we define it before we move on. That is a promise, not a preference.
Nobody is selling anything.
Including us. This hour exists to share knowledge, not to pitch services.
Why this is free
Because the knowledge was never supposed to cost anything. How money works in a small business is not a secret. It was just kept in rooms our communities weren’t invited into, and dressed in language built to keep it that way.
Porch & Main is a working advisory practice. Clients pay us to keep their books and sit with their decisions. This room is different. This room is the front porch, where the knowledge gets handed around freely, the way it always was in the kitchens and circles our communities built for themselves.
Your host is Alvin Findlay, Porch & Main’s founder and lead advisor, with more than twenty years spent inside financial systems most people only see from the outside. You can read more about him and the bench on the advisors page.
The signup sheet
Save your seat
Joining the list is free and it is not a commitment. It just means the date, the topic, and the meeting link reach you first. Telling us a little about your business, or about what you want to learn, helps us shape the sessions around the room we actually have.