it's that time again. as always, you can find all Skool News issues, including the latest, in the Vault. - someone just got to 1Mln MRR. wow or not?! i am curious, how much this motivates you? vote below 👇🏻 - Growth Boost is in turbulence mode (SURPRISE-SURPRISE). whatever that means. hence, do not rely on it (PLEASE don't) - reviews are ON for everyone. GOOD! but... be careful, if you have a free or freemium community. cause ... just like mine with 740+ member i only got 2 reviews. it could actually bring your conversion down. because of that, i am changing the rules of the game for this community - see my post. - few more improvements for reviews: better tracking how many months someone is paying + moderation (ppl can report a review) , and they want to do a better sorting of reviews - all very good!!! - videos now have auto-generated captions and transcript in different languages. GOOD! Skoolers Classroom Update - interviews with ppl who got $150k+ MRR. IDK i will comment in the comments once i watch those interview. but... my fear, it is not useful for 99% of us. cause we are miles away... and what we should do is way different from what these ppl do. anywho. for now, i just want to say that i don't think "one number" can be the "only number". cause how many rich & successful ppl are not happy? i can name a few. anyway. good things. bad things. nah things. that's life.

UPDATE: the $1 is up. so, you can vote here or just upgrade. it will be even better answer 😜 ok my dear members. i wanted to keep this community free forever. BUT... Skool has changed the game. we cannot fight the game. we can find the way to play the game. only PAYING members can leave reviews. also, obviously, Skool will not drive traffic to my community if it's free (even freemium is not that attractive). finally, i am tired of bots and fakes and other spammers. so, that would eliminate them. hence, i am considering turning this community into $1 community. FIRST THINGS FIRST: - if you are here for free, you can stay for free forever (as long as i am alive) unless you want to leave a review - for that you will need to change your plan to $1 per month - if you are premium, obviously, this does not impact you any way having said that... will you be willing to pay me $1 (less than a coffee cup in many countries, defo Israel) per month for all the amazing value i provide?

this week, two great events: - tomorrow, 3rd Sept we have a guest workshop: Will Carter - performance coach, hypnotherapist, founder of Unshakeable to talk about What To Do When You Know What to Do and Don't Do It if you have been procrastinating or self-sabotaging or any other form of not taking action, when you know you should, this one is for you. - Friday, 4th Sept, i will share results of recent Community Income Mastermind launch with real numbers, what worked and what did not - full Launch Debrief. IMPORTANT: available to premium and 3rd level ONLY. time to up your game here, beautiful ppl. there are obviously more cool events going on across Skool. and thanks to Skool Events Daily, we know them all (sorry for posting so late this week). 🤩 check out the new design! 🔥 check out the Expert Corner article... who is the expert?! tell me in the comments ⬇️

My new book hit #1 in Chronic Pain, #1 in Pain Management, and #1 in New Age Mental & Spiritual Healing this weekend. Full transparency: these are Amazon's free charts, not the paid ones. I’d rather state that clearly than let anyone assume otherwise. But it still put the book directly in front of hundreds of strangers looking for relief. What actually drove it: - Gave it to my community first. 20 personalized advance copies, addressed to real people by name. They became the first reviewers and the loudest sharers. - Taught instead of pitched. Two live sessions over the launch —10 minutes of teaching, practicing together, then Q&A. People buy after they’ve experienced the work. - Kept the community free. The free school is the distribution. People trust me enough to download a book because nothing was extracted from them first. The uncomfortable truth: None of this happened because of launch week. It happened because of three years of showing up weekly to a room of people(Circle, then switch over to Skool), most of whom will never pay me anything. The launch simply collected on built-up trust. 📖 You can grab the book for free through Tuesday, Sept 1: 👉 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HF2RBHWX (No Kindle device needed—works on any phone, tablet, or laptop via the free Kindle app.) The short story: I spent 38 years chronically ill—living with MS, bipolar, migraines, and psoriatic arthritis, using a cane, a walker, and 13 daily prescriptions. 15 years ago, I stopped handing the job of healing over to my mind. Today, I walk freely without daily meds. It's not just a health book. The section on The Five Depths of Head Trash covers the exact overthinking that keeps you researching instead of shipping—which, for community builders, might be the most useful part. Question for the room: What is something you built slowly that later paid off all at once?

finally, we got something other than GB 😜 💥 BIG NEWS: Skool introduced native reviews! but please don't run deleting your profiles elsewhere, continue reading. ⚠️ UPDATE: i just realized that every community you left a review, has a link in that review, and when ppl click and join that community, i think they will be marked "Skool Network" and Skool will get 30% if GB is turned on 🤔 ℹ️ few things to note about reviews: - you can edit or delete the review that you've left. GOOD! - you can only leave 1 review per community. i can live with that - because you can edit your previous review. - your reviews are gonna be shown on your profile. so, if you are toxic and like to poo-poo on ppl, it will be visible. - owners and admins cannot leave reviews for their community - you can leave a review only after 30 days. make sense. - only paying RECURRING members can leave reviews (not free, not one-off). this sucks if your model is not MRR driven. - you can start leaving reviews and collecting reviews, but they will not be shown to NON-members. Skool wants to collect some reviews, and slowly turn them on (testing first), so that it does not damage your conversion rates. SMART! - if you offer incentives for review (courses, discounts, lollypops - Sam's words, not mine), you will get a BIG RED warning on your about page. this one is a bit shady for me... like, how would Skool know? are they checking DMs? posts inside my community? what about confidentiality? hm🤔 - more updates for this feature is coming. so, i hope they fix some of the things e.g. one-off paying members leaving a review now, the big question - should you focus on Skool reviews only now or not? thanks to Matt (founder of ProveWorth platform) who explained it very well in the video - go and check it out if you are member, if not - join his community, cause it worth it!