Speaker Schedule

Zack is a professional skier and contractor who is also a co-host of Tiny House Nation. He has so much love for tiny homes that he built a mobile tiny ski house for himself, and has lived in it full-time for years. Each winter Zack moves his tiny home to powdery slopes across the country.

Nikitia has been featured on HGTV House Hunters show; she is very dedicated to the tiny house movement. Nikitia is not your typical retired grandmother. "My plans during retirement were to  travel in my tiny house on wheels, visit my grands, and live my life to the fullest!" Then came Covid and this grandmother turned her tiny 317 Sq ft  dream house into a cash house! Listen to Nikitia as she shares with you how she is fullfilling her dreams and living her best life in a big way!

 Pat Dunham, tiny spaces consultant and specialist, outlines ways you can live comfortably in your own small space.  Her ideas work for space-challenged living environments from tiny homes to efficiency apartments to RV’s and boats.  
Long before the tiny house began, Pat lived a life in tiny living quarters for several years aboard a boat with her husband and six children and now lives with her husband Frank and 35-lb dog Annie in their own 236 sq.ft. tiny house.  She speaks on the many benefits of living small, while offering practical advice for downsizing and useful tips for creating storage solutions.

Karen recently retired from the U.S. Air Force and has been living on and off in an RV/tiny home since 2011. She met Tom and Denise from Hummingbird Tiny Housing in 2018 through a friend of hers who is a home inspector in Savannah. She learned quickly only your imagination is your limitation! With the help of Tom and Denise, Karen designed, and they built, a tiny house with all the amenities of a larger home which includes two slide-outs. Karen loves living in a smaller space and talking about her experiences of building a beautiful and very comfortable tiny home.

Brenda Mason Parmelee is the Founder/CEO of SmallerLivingHugeLife and Downsizing31. A Master of tiny living, downsizing, and decluttering, she has taught thousands how to successfully move past the overwhelm to accomplish the hard work of decluttering/downsizing. Brenda is a Public Speaker, Best Selling Author, Downsizing Consultant, Smaller Living Advocate and has credited Philippians 4:13 many times during her journey.

Downsizing once and for all, 7+ years ago going from a very large home to a smaller living space in a short amount of time,  Brenda knows regardless of the size of your home "You too can Create Your Clutter-Free Home Oasis!"  She has been there, done it, talks it, teaches and lives it. In 2020 she turned 60, married her God-given husband Mark Parmelee, a Watercolor Fine Artist, and his senior black lab Baylee. They are now blending 'their' stuff, decluttering, downsizing, and still living the bus life. Her proprietary method truly does work!

Firefly Tiny Homes

Paul and Amelia from Wind River Tiny Homes, a tiny home builder based in Chattanooga, TN, will be talking about customer success stories and how to find the right builder. Having a tiny home custom built for you is more than a transaction—It's a relationship. Paul and Amelia will give you pointers to get off on the right start. Q&A to follow.  

Wind River Tiny Homes

Seeking Discovery

 The Executive Director of the MicroLife Institute and a thought leader and innovator in the micro living world. Over the past six years, his organization has enabled policy change and brought acceptance of micro structures in the Southeast through events, projects and advocacy. His philosophy is allowing people to think outside the box by putting them in one.

Inspired by a DIY Builder’s panel at a Tiny House Festival in 2018, Shorty Robbins has been collecting stories of women in the tiny house movement who have built their own houses. Though every story is unique and different, each shares a passion about their tiny house journey. Building Passion, the Tiny House Edition shares the stories of 50 women who have changed their lives and others by going tiny. Excerpts available at shortystinyhouse.com.

"The Box Truck Film: Building a Reuseful Home" is the latest project from filmmaker and reuse expert Alex Eaves and former HGTV host and designer Derek "Deek" Diedricksen.