Sorry to hear about your experience. Disheartening to see how you got treated. My idea of good business is maintaining and growing relationships. You are a speaker, you're the show, you should be treated with respect. Every entrepreneur knows you don't get very far by mistreating people.

Not judging Berwick, he knows these things, I'm sure he's not happy with how things turned out either. He likely felt threatened and defended his enterprise.

Still, sucks. Sounds like you've got the right attitude. Just try to learn from it and keep going.