I’ve been in business for 30+ years, and launching a community made me feel like a beginner again. This past week, with help from @Brenda Rigney her amazing course, I finally launched my new offer. And I have to say, I’m glad I did. Building a community is very different from running two companies. I’m used to helping my clients figure out what to make and then getting it made for them. Building a community got me thinking about an entirely different question. How do I create a place where people feel comfortable sharing an idea they haven’t fully thought through yet? That’s something I appreciate about being here. There's room to bring a half-formed (half-baked was almost my choice of words!) idea into the conversation. Sometimes a good question from someone else helped me see what I’d been circling around on my own. It also changed how I think about what to offer. Fremium, Premium. VIP, High Ticket, Low Ticket... and so on. I am done with the rabbit hole following Skooler threads of "what works," and following Brenda's path that makes all of this easy. I’m one week into the launch and excited to see where this all goes. But after 30 years in business, it feels good to be the person in the room who gets to say, “I haven’t done this before.”

So yesterday I posted my very first Instagram Trial Reel! I’m setting a goal to come away from Facebook and concentrate on Instagram 🤞 Checked the results this morning… 204 views. Zero likes. Zero comments! 😂🤦‍♀️ I’m choosing to look at it as learning 🙏 204 views on something I’d never even tried before! 🙏 And rather than getting caught up in what didn’t happen, I’m looking at what I can learn from it. 🙏🚀 Today I’m going to change things up a little. I think the music might have made a difference, so I’m going to experiment with that and see what happens. 🙏 For me, the win isn’t just the 204 views. It’s that I’m taking action, trying something new and not letting the results of one post determine what I do next. A little reminder that progress doesn’t always look the way we expect it to and it doesn’t need to be perfect! 💛 P.S Loving the journey of the 10k launch project! 💛🔥

Today I've officially launched my Premium and VIP offers in my Skool community! (after spending FAR too much time with the cursor hovering over 'post'). I started my community back in April, so it's taken me a fair while to get to this point. And if you'd told me this time last year that I'd be running a Skool community, I'd have thought you were completely bonkers! One thing I'd say, which I've certainly heard from Brenda, is for those of you who haven't launched your communities yet, it's best to have a clear vision for your Premium offer before you even start. I think it would have helped me make some decisions much earlier on. I also want to give a big shout-out to Brenda and her 10K Launch Project for VIP members. It's been absolutely invaluable in getting me launch-ready. I know I've put together a much stronger offer because of it, and it's given me the reassurance I needed to actually press the button. Back to that rollercoaster analogy, which can be terrifying but how much better it feels when you're strapped in safe. Dare we even say, fun!? Being frank, I was probably my own biggest obstacle. There's only so much planning and perfecting you can do before you just have to go for it. So here we go! I've no idea how the ride will unfold, but I'm chuffed to have got to this point. 💚

Today I accepted the 100th member into my 5 to 9 Women community! 🎉🎉🎉 Really excited to hit this milestone after just launching the community 4 weeks ago. My next step now is to keep growing it, and serve members at Premium and VIP level for the full transformation they signed up for. I also set a goal to get to 500 members by the end of the year. Veeery ambitious, but let's see how it goes! 😊🙏🏿

From the Quiz: Archetype: The Successful Synergist I am Skool community owner. It was actually kinda hard to write that sentence; I rewrote it 3 times because even though I have 4 communities in various stages I don’t see myself as a community “owner” (mostly part of another problem – recognized roadblock). I have been working on one more this year, although the others are always calling my name. I am 62 and neurospicy so my brain has so much life information…personal and professional. Ideas for programs are never stopping (recognized roadblock). The description of the Successful Synergist was so spot on. The community I want to host are based on friendship and the commitment to supporting one another whether it is for personal growth or professional. I have narrowed down my audience to women of my generation (GenJones). I have been calling myself a “guide or facilitator or BFF” more than taking the role an expert/teacher in any area, although I would be considered an expert in them all. The motto of this archetype is foundational to my life and values. No woman left behind. The values most important to me in building is respect and inclusive. My goal is consistency. Focus on one offer and getting more personal in my invitations vs advertising.