It's time to celebrate each other! In the COMMENTS BELOW, please share a Skool community you think is doing really great things. It can be one you've participated in yourself or one that you've heard from others is amazing. Please do the following: 1. Tell us the name of the community and link to it (affiliates allowed). 2. Tag the person who owns the community. If they are not in the CLASSIFIEDS, then please send them a DM and let them know that you mentioned them here. I promise you will make their day! 3. Describe why the group is so wonderful and how it has helped you. Please DO NOT just copy and paste the About page! 4. Comment on each others comments and scroll through the referrals to see if there's an amazing group you are missing out on! Thanks so much for supporting each other and this community! Please note that any #FriendFriday mentions that are created as new posts will be deleted. Thanks! Please DO NOT promote yourself. 🤨. The entire community is for promoting yourself. This post is for celebrating someone else. 😊

After building a Skool community past 900 members, here's what I've learned stops most community owners from getting there. Myth one: Posting once a week is enough because members are drowning in notifications. The logic sounds reasonable - nobody wants to overwhelm people. But one post a week means one chance to be seen, one chance to add value, one chance to remind someone why they joined. Skool isn't email. Not everyone sees every post. You're not spamming people by showing up three times a week. You're just showing up. Myth two: Growing your member count is the main job. It isn't. A community of 50 engaged members who trust you is worth more than 500 passive names on a list. Growth is a vanity metric until your existing members are getting value and progressing. Fix the room before you fill it. Myth three: The welcome message is enough follow-up. It isn't even close. If a colleague joined your team, said hello on day one, and then heard nothing from you for three months, would you be surprised if they went quiet? Your members are the same. They joined for a reason. Check in. Ask what they're working on. Whether you have 50 members or 500, treat them like gold. Myth four: If you've added something to your classroom, people will find it and buy it. They won't. Your classroom isn't a shop window on a busy street. It's a room in a building most members haven't explored yet. If you're selling something, say so. Tell people what it is, what it does, and where to find it. Repeatedly. Myth five: lurkers are a problem to solve. They're not. Before you remove someone for not posting, consider what you don't know. Some members are going through a difficult period. Some are absorbing everything and aren't ready to contribute yet. Some will show up six months from now and become your most engaged members. Silence isn't rejection. Don't treat it like it is. If you're running a Skool community and want to turn it into consistent monthly revenue without burning out your members or yourself, that's exactly what we work on inside the Skool Monetisation Lab

One of the most common things people say to me when we start talking about their shoulder pain is: “But my setup is good. I’ve had an ergonomic assessment.” And I understand why that feels reassuring. But human bodies aren’t designed to stay fixed in one position for hours at a time, no matter how supportive the chair is. They adapt to the environment they spend most of their time in. That’s why so many women who already do yoga, Pilates, strength work, or exercise are starting to feel the old equation stop working. The hour spent working on the body no longer fully buffers the effects of the other 95% of the day. That’s the conversation behind my upcoming workshop: SIT ACTIVE: Make the 95% Work for Your Body Thursday 21 May 12.00 BST We’ll look at how desk life shapes the body, why shoulder pain keeps returning, and how to bring more movement, awareness, and variation into the workday itself. And if this is a conversation you’re interested in, you’re very welcome inside my free community, Bodywork Lab See you there Carrie

I've been on enough calls with community owners over the last few months to see the same pattern repeating. "Downloadable" PDF below 📝👇 Most of them come to the call thinking they have a growth problem. By the end of it, we've usually worked out they have a retention problem that's been disguised as a growth problem. Here's the simplest way I can explain what's happening. Imagine you're filling a bucket with water. You're pouring steadily, the water level is rising, and it looks like progress. But there are holes in the bottom of the bucket. Small ones, but they're there. The water you're pouring in is replacing the water leaking out, so the level never really rises the way it should. That's what a Skool community looks like when acquisition is outpacing retention. You're not building. You're replacing. The holes in a Skool community are almost always the same. A member joins, has no idea what to do first, gets no early win, and quietly disappears before they've ever had a reason to trust you. They didn't leave because your content was bad. They left because nothing pulled them forward. No moment where they thought, that was worth it. And once someone leaves that early, they're gone. They never get to the point where they'd consider paying you for anything. What fixes the holes isn't complicated, but it does require intention. The first thing a new member needs is a quick win they didn't have to work hard for. Something that makes joining feel like a good decision within the first few days. That single experience is what determines whether they stay long enough to become a paying customer or disappear into the churn statistics. Everything else, the content, the calls, the community culture, sits on top of that foundation. Without it, none of the rest of it sticks. The owners I've seen crack this aren't doing anything exotic. They're showing up personally with their first hundred members, treating every one of them like they matter, and making sure nobody gets to their first week without a win. The retention follows from that. The revenue follows from the retention. More members into a leaky bucket just means more water on the floor.

For years, I worked inside our local hospital’s Women’s Health Center running a thriving private practice. And over and over again, someone would ask about my education. I’d start sharing my certifications in hypnotherapy, somatic work, nervous system regulation… and then almost inevitably they’d interrupt. “No, I meant your higher education.” I still remember the feeling of those moments. The subtle shift in the room. The way the energy changed almost instantly. Like I had somehow become smaller in the conversation. Like I had accidentally stepped into a room I hadn’t fully earned the right to be in. Even though I was helping people. Even though the work was working. Even though I knew what I was doing. So in my 50s, I went back to school. I earned a bachelor’s degree in complementary and integrative health, then another in health marketing and communications, and eventually a master’s degree in communications. And honestly, part of me absolutely loved it. I love learning. I probably would have kept going forever. But if I’m being truthful, another part of me was trying to solve something much deeper. I was trying to become unquestionable. Trying to finally feel safe in rooms where I had spent years feeling like I needed to prove I belonged there. And here’s what I understand now that I couldn’t fully see then: The nervous system will often try to solve belonging through achievement. More credentials. More proof. More becoming. As if safety exists somewhere on the other side of finally being enough for everyone. But real belonging doesn’t come from convincing people who already decided not to see you clearly. It comes from returning to yourself even when the room doesn’t hand you permission. The degrees were beautiful. I’m grateful for every one of them. But they didn’t heal the part of me that believed I had to earn my right to exist in the room. That healing came differently. Honestly, I think a lot of women are still trying to achievement their way into feeling safe. Worthy. Respected. Chosen. Enough.