In the words of my friend @Mimi Ramsey today was totally epic!!! Thank you to everyone who participated in the 7-hour long (!) WATER COOLER drop in today. Based on the comments and feedback I have received, it was a total success with a lot of wonderful conversations and connections made. The most astounding thing - conversations were had for the ENTIRE 7 hours!!! Every single time I logged in to see how it was going (which was often!), there were between 3 and 9 people in the call. My hope is that as more and more people hear about the wonderful opportunity that this is, the larger and larger the conversations will get. My apologies to everyone for the mix up with the links at the beginning of the day. We tried something new, and it did not work as anticipated! And if anyone has feedback or suggestions for improvement, I'm all ears. Thanks so much for being a wonderful part of this amazing community - yes, I am talking to you! 😊 @Traci Poe @Jing Wang @Diana Frank @Sybil Hall @Kevin Gebert @Sondra Verva @Mimi Ramsey Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to contribute and share your skills in such a wonderful way!

Come join CLASSIFIEDS moderator Mimi Ramsey of The Backroom. Say It. Do It! for a casual conversation called Say the Thing...Voice and Visibility. I hope you've had a wonderful day and have been able to join in at some point along the way. I'd love to hear your feedback on everything. 😊

Because the six of us inside are LEGIT... 🤔 And we rack up hundreds of comments on our posts just having a lark, so... 😶 I don't want to ruin the vibe by letting strangers in... 🤔 I'm thinking of opening a 2nd Skool group... 🤔 And people who I have never messaged and communicated with and am not sure about and don't know- Can join that. 🤔 It's like a foyer... 🤔 A foyer for- an opportunity to show me they are trustworthy... 🤔 And they need to reach Level 9 or something- before they could join the very precious group I started almost two weeks ago that is my world now. 🤗💯 Either they join the "foyer" group or they pay the $177 per month for access to our special space, because paying is a statement that says: I VALUE BEING HERE ENOUGH TO MAKE AN EXCHANGE OF MY MONEY FOR ACCESS TO THIS SPACE... (It's an exchange of value... 🤔) So, what do you all think about my idea of creating a second group as a "foyer" group? 🤔 You know I haven't yet been on Skool for a full two weeks, lol. ✌️😆💯 You all have likely been here much longer. Do you see any perpetual hazard in my plan? 🤗 What is it like when you refuse entry into your groups? ✍️👀 Do you have any tips regarding your system for only letting trustworthy people into your safe community? ✍️👀

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I HAVE 109 PEOPLE IN MY COMMUNITY. (THE BACKROOM) And I am going to be really fcking honest about something… I used to think that number was something to apologise for. And before you say… apologising to WHO Mimi… Nobody. That's the point. Nobody asked me to. Nobody was judging the number. Nobody was sat there going ooh only 109… embarrassing… That was just me. In my own head. Doing that thing we do 😂 That voice going… you should be further along by now… ooo look at them… why can't you do that… what's wrong with you… Yeah. That one. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗵 𝗺𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗴… 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚… Scrolling through going… why is my community growing so slow… how have THEY got 500 members in one day… WOW they just hit 5K… And then the really fun (not) bit where your brain goes… maybe I'm just not cut out for this… maybe I'm missing something everyone else knows… maybe I should just do what they're doing… 😬 yeah… been there?… don't pretend you haven't… Watching everyone brag about their numbers whilst quietly feeling a bit crap about mine. Hands up. I have chased the number. I have celebrated the number. I have let the number mean something it absolutely never meant. And I spent WAY too much energy watching that crap out there… Energy that was doing absolutely NAFF ALL for the 109 epic humans already sitting inside my room… Then something shifted. No more. DONE. All that wasted time out there watching other people's dashboards and quietly dying inside… coming back in HERE. 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺. 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲. 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗵.𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗠. 🔥 Because here is what I know now that I did not know then… 𝗔 𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝗳 𝟭𝟬𝟵 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘂𝗽… 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧… 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗼 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗢 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗱… is worth more than a room of 10,000 people who scroll past and do absolutely nothing with it. OBVS. HELLO. DUH. 😂 A community where people DM me and I actually respond. Where someone joins at $1 and six months later they are doing a one on one with me because the trust was built properly… like a human… through support… real convos… and yeah… lots of giggles and fun along the way 😂