I watched @Lisa Vanderveen return to YouTube video about Business PTSD last night. She shared a lot. The hard parts of building businesses. The things that didn’t work. The things that did. The times she had to start over. The lessons she’s carrying forward. But honestly, the thing that stayed with me most wasn’t any particular business lesson. It was Lisa. She is just so unapologetically HER. ❤️ There’s no sense that she’s trying to sound like somebody else, fit herself into somebody else’s formula, or polish away the parts of herself that might be a little different. I think that may be one of her greatest strengths as she builds this next chapter. We talk so much in business about finding our differentiator. Our unique value. Our “purple cow.” The thing that makes people stop and pay attention. Sometimes I wonder if we make that harder than it needs to be. Maybe sometimes the thing that makes us different is the part of ourselves we finally stop trying to tone down. Watching Lisa made me think about that. And Lisa, I’m really excited to have a front-row seat as you grow, multiply and amplify everything that is so wonderfully YOU. ❤️ I’m curious about the rest of us, too. What part of YOU might actually be an advantage in your business if you stopped trying to make it fit?

What do you think of this description (see photo)? I just updated my YouTube banner this morning with something similar (without the marketing note) and I really like it but would love your opinions especially if you hate it and it would not grab you to click if you didn’t know me… Will be having @Hendra look at the copy soon, but messy action needs to be taken!!

1) If you POST before you are Level 4, your post will be deleted. If you POST again, you will be booted from the community and banned… unless I believe you made a mistake and give you grace. If I reach out to ask you if you made a mistake, please reply the first time so I should be merciful and give you a grace period to try again.. 2) We are a PUBLIC COMMUNITY. That means EVERYTHING you write is indexed and searchable - which is both AWESOME and possibly problematic…. Think carefully about what you post here AND take advantage of this opportunity!!! We are at the very beginning of our journey and I am about to bring a whole SCHWACKLOAD of traffic to our doors!! 3) Assume that EVERY SINGLE LINK could be an affiliate link. There will be opportunities to post your own offers and communities but we are flipping the switch h on personal and affiliate marketing because Skool has given us an AWESOME affiliate marketing opportunity here and I don’t believe it’s being utilized enough. SO. Instead of having to police links, just assume that every single link could be sharing something that will bring monetary gain to the person sharing it either because it’s their personal offer or they are an affiliate for the offer. This is a GOOOOD THING!!! We are in business to make money. And if we are just starting out as a business owner, affiliate income can be the easiest way to bootstrap the business that we are creating and in the trenches building! Don’t look down on affiliate marketers here - regardless of what type of company they are an affiliate for including MLM… My thoughts on network marketing in a nutshell: Women are probably the most common marketers for MLM companies - I have not done research on that and I absolutely know they are not the sole marketers but it would absolutely shock me if I was wrong on this detail. Low investment. Exciting products. Low entry point to actually start making money. YES I know that MLM companies have TONS of issues!!!

But for today, it’s part of the PARTAY!!! @Heather Boers just reached level 2 in less than 30 minutes and honestly once we start having out here, that level is reached in no time flat! We have lots of Skoolers here but also a few new faces from FB, so I’m gonna be sharing a little bit of Skool basics for our complete newbies!! Levelling up will be unlocking doors very soon - we’re just in messy builder mode right now and I want to make sure the level up rewards are what we as a community decide are awesome rewards!! So for now, make sure you’re commenting and posting your intros and giving everybody little thumbs up for encouragement - every one of those things contributes to the points we earn. Thanks for jumping in with both feet Heather!!

I’m Joyce, born in Guatemala to missionary parents. I was raised an MK, then married a man who also has the call of God on his life for missions work. We are career missionaries (40+ yrs) and even though we are retirement age we are not ready to quit. So we live and do missions work part of the year in Guatemala & Central America, as well as France & Spain. We have 4 children (all raised as MK’s too) and now they’re grown, married, with kids of their own — our beautiful 9 grands, the delight of my life. So part of the year we live at our cabin in the North Georgia mountains and spend our days traveling to visit our family as well as deputation missions fundraising, speaking at churches, etc. I don’t have a community or business… yet. I am still praying, studying, learning and hoping for connections and suggestions. Looking forward to getting to know you all better in the community.