What if the problem isn’t that you don’t know what you want… but that you’ve spent so damn long putting everyone else first that you’ve forgotten to ask? You’ve been the responsible one. The caregiver. The partner. The mom. The employee. The one who keeps everything moving. And maybe lately you’ve started thinking: Is this it? Not because your life is terrible. You just know something is missing. That’s who I created Courage Collective for. It’s a space for midlife women who are tired of living on autopilot and are ready to start paying attention to themselves again. We talk about the stuff that doesn’t always make it into the pretty Instagram posts: fear, guilt, people-pleasing, old wounds, big life changes, figuring out what you actually want, and what happens when you finally start listening to yourself. There’s journaling. There are practical tools. There’s honest conversation. And there’s a community of women figuring this stuff out right alongside you. No pretending we have it all figured out. And no pressure to become some shiny new version of yourself. Just a place to start asking better questions. If you read this and thought, “Well… shit. That sounds a little too familiar.” You might want to come take a look. Courage Collective is open.

113 people joined my community in 30 days and my active members didn't move I quote the member count a lot. 1,254 in The Content Revenue Lab. It's the number I lead with. Then I opened the dashboard. About 600 members were active, and that number hadn't moved all month. In the same 30 days, 113 people had signed up. That changed how I read the total. Members tell me how well the door is working. Active members tell me whether anything inside is. Those are two different jobs, and I'd been marking one with the other's score. Now I check active before total, and I look at each month's joiners separately. The question I'm asking about those 113 is how many did anything in their first week. Someone who joins and vanishes isn't a win, however good the total looks. I've put the one-page worksheet I use in the PDF attached to this post. Three numbers, five minutes, and a guide to reading what they say. If you're working on turning YouTube viewers into Skool members, that's what I walk through in YouTube For Skool: Des

We were living in suburbia, looking at the state of the environment and wondering what difference one family could possibly make. After having our first baby, I became much more conscious of the products and chemicals we were bringing into our home—but working out where to begin felt overwhelming. Rather than doing nothing, I decided one small change was better than no change at all. I replaced my supermarket shampoo with a naturally made, eco-packaged shampoo bar. From there, things began to snowball. Whenever something ran out, I looked for an option that was a little better for our family and the planet. Not necessarily the “perfect” choice—just something we could find, afford and manage at the time. What I couldn’t have imagined was the direction those small, meaningful choices would eventually take us. Today, we live in a rammed-earth eco-home at Khemeia Valley, where we’re regenerating 850 acres of former farmland back into forest. We homeschool our two children, welcome guests into nature, and create experiences that feel more aligned than anything else we’ve done in our adult lives. A shampoo bar didn’t cause all of that. But it was the first step in learning to pay attention, make a conscious choice—and then make another. If you’re curious to discover where your own small changes might lead, while helping our planet to thrive, come and say hello in Start Small. Live Well. We launch today! Join before the end of the year and your membership will remain free for as long as you stay in the community. 🌱

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Hi there, My wife and I have been helping people heal holistically for the past 30 years. After such a long time you gather a lot of experience and knowledge and sharing it is bliss ☺️. So we decided to turn to the world and share. We have been running a gallstones solution based community for the past 18 months or so. I have to tell you - it is hard. I have local clients in there gaining the benefit, but people from Skool - not so many. I wonder - would you search Skool for a solution to a health problem?