Also, please RSVP for calls you plan to attend by commenting below. (voting doesn’t really work because it’s only allows one vote) This is so facilitators can know who to expect and can be better prepared for you. 📣 More connection opportunities for our members! Our Monday networking calls are usually free and open to everyone. There are now premium member only Networking Calls every other week! Click on the blue link to a call for more details and also to add it to your calendar. 🗓️ Mon, July 6 ↳ 🌐 Aligned Networking Call — 9am EST / 2pm UK 🗓️ Tues, July 7 ↳ 🏛️ Monthly Town Square Gathering A — 9am EST / 2pm UK ↳ 🏛️ Magical Bookkeeping w/ @Chris Brandwein — 11am EST / 4pm UK 🗓️ Wed, July 8 ↳ 🏛️ Monthly Town Square Gathering B — 7am EST / 12pm UK 🗓️ Thurs, July 9 ↳ 🏛️ Co-Writing Hour w/ @Rachel Harmsworth — 1pm EST / 6pm UK ↳ 🆓 Future Entrepreneur Movement w/ @Justin Yip — 9pm EST / 2am UK (July 10) 🗓️ Mon, July 13 ↳ 🏛️ Co-Working Session w/ @Jennifer Elaine — 1pm EST / 6pm UK ↳ 🏛️ Networking Call - Town Square — 10am EST / 3pm UK ↳ 🏛️ Ready? Set...Goal! w/ @Katinka van Kan — 11am EST / 4pm UK 🗓️ Tues, July 14 ↳ 🏛️ Women's Circle w/ @Ashley Jasper Styles — 11am EST / 4pm UK 🗓️ Mon, July 20 ↳ 🌐 Aligned Networking Call — 9pm EST / 2am UK (July 21)

Join us on Zoom here! This is 🏛 Gathering A — 10am EST / 3pm UK In 10 hours later will be 🏛 Gathering B — 8pm EST / 10am AEST (July 8) Flowgenda: 1. Welcoming 2. Breakout rooms for connecting 3. Short story about community 4. What's going on 5. What's coming 6. Suggestions 7. Open forum 8. Closing Potential Talking Points: - Facilitating Sessions - How do we continue connecting? - Scheduled sessions at the same week/day each month for routine & ease of attendance? - What kinds of events do members actually want to show up to regularly? - Networking calls, should we do these? - What are we gathering around? - Support to become better versions of ourselves, how? P.S. And then magic bookeeping w/ @Chris Brandwein 2 hours after! Click here for details and to add it to your calendar!

We continue to connect through sharing and simply having conversations. You are encouraged to record a short video to respond, but you can also comment and write. P.S. Don't forget that we're here to connect, you can also take a look at what other members share and comment. ➡️ Original Post - 15 Days of Showing Up - Dare Directions

(👀 🎧 read or listen) The mission is the same. Entrepreneurs supporting entrepreneurs through connections and conversations. Here's how we are continuing to connect this month. ➡️ Check out this post to see all our community calls for the month to know which you would like to attend. Monthly Town Square Gathering on Tuesday, July 7 ↳🏛 Gathering A — 10am EST / 3pm UK ↳🏛 Gathering B — 8pm EST / 10am AEST (July 8) If you can make one, add it to your calendar. Flowgenda for our Gathering: 1. Welcoming 2. Breakout rooms for connecting 3. What's going on 4. What's coming 5. Suggestions 6. Open forum 7. Closing And we're starting our 15 Days of Showing Up with Dare #1! ➡️ Go to this post here: What is something you have done recently that you are proud of? Looking forward to more connections and conversations this month!

What are you looking for? What would make a community culture that is "actually about community" a space that you want to be a part of? I appreciate you being here. I appreciate your patience. Connections are being made. Community and culture are forming. Slowly, but surely. Feel free to comment below. Thoughts. Insights. I'm also looking to understand what to "steward" next. @Lexi Cruz wrote this beautiful post in her Beautiful Contradictions community. It's so good and so resonant, that I'm sharing it here... Her vision and dream for her community is the same that I have for "our community". And together, we have the same vision and dream for our "collective community." (🎧 Listen below) Culture Is Built Between People One of the things I think about a lot is community culture. The more I do, the more I realize a community isn't built because everyone knows the founder. It's built because the members know each other. When every conversation, every connection, and every opportunity has to go through one person, it isn't really a community. It's an audience. The communities that last operate differently. People get to know each other. They start recognizing each other's strengths. They know who to ask when they're stuck. They know who they can help. They build relationships that exist whether the founder is around or not. To me, that's when a community starts developing its own culture. The question then becomes: How do you create more of that? Beautiful Contradictions has a no self-promotion rule. Not because I don't want people sharing what they do. Actually, I love learning what people are building. What I've noticed is that when people experience each other first, what they do naturally comes up in conversation. You don't need a pitch. You become the person someone remembers because of the relationship you built, not because you were the loudest person in the room. That's why I encourage collaborations. Because when two people collaborate, something beautiful happens.