That's right... LEVEL 5 DAY and also Red Light Green Light day, so we've got a full house! Busy around here and perfect timing if you're making moves this weekend. Level 5 and up members get access to our Level 5 Spotlight thread so drop what you are working on below, then swing over to the Red Light Green Light thread and get eyes on your one-liner or graphic too. Double the visibility, one weekend! If you're Level 5 or higher (standard, premium or VIP), this is your chance to: ✨ Share your link ✨ Tell us what you do ✨ Let the community discover what you're building Give people the best of both worlds: 🖼️ Add a graphic 📝 Add a 'short' description Some people stop scrolling because they see an image. Some people stop scrolling because they read a great description that starts with a catchy hook. Why choose one when you can have both? 😉 The more clearly people can see and understand what you do, the more likely they are to engage. And if you're not Level 5 yet... 🔥 Keep showing up. 🔥 Keep joining conversations. 🔥 Keep building connections. Every comment, post, and interaction moves you closer. 👇 Level 5 and ⬆️ members, drop your links below and let's see what you've been creating! 🚫 AND... Don't be a drop-and-ditcher. 😜 Take a minute to visit at least 2 other posts. 🤝 Leave some encouragement ❓ Ask a question 👀 Get curious about what they're building The members who get the most visibility are usually the ones giving it, too. This community works best when we show up for each other, not just for ourselves. So jump in, make a few connections, and then share your spotlight below! 🌟

Skool's discovery page sent me members while I wasn't looking. I don't fully understand why, so I'm asking. Quick context: I've run a BookTok account for years and finally decided to monetize it the obvious way — a book club here on Skool. Made content for it. Promoted it properly. Got a handful of curious clicks and basically zero signups. Then, with almost no effort on my part, member requests started coming in directly from Skool. My best guess is that people already on Skool go to discovery the way you'd go to a search bar — they're already looking for a community that solves something for them, so there's no convincing required. Meanwhile everyone I sent from TikTok had to first figure out what Skool even is before deciding whether to join. That's a much bigger ask than I realized when I was making the videos. So for August I'm running an experiment: no outside traffic at all. Just Skool. Spending real time in groups with an audience that overlaps mine (not competitors), and seeing how far Growth Boost can actually take a brand new community on its own. Which is where I need your experience — how has Growth Boost compared to traffic you drive yourself? Curious whether the people who found me through discovery stick around better than the ones I recruit, or whether that's wishful thinking on my part.

"Remember how long you've been putting this off, how many extensions the gods gave you, and you didn't use them." That's Marcus Aurelius, Book 2 of Meditations, writing to himself around 170 AD. It stopped me cold this week. Because I know exactly how many extensions I've been given. I sat on the idea for The Canon Club for months. Told myself I needed a better plan, a bigger audience, a cleaner launch. Then I finally opened the doors — and got 24 visitors and zero members. I nearly closed it in week one. That's the part he's actually calling out. Not laziness. The much sneakier thing: waiting for conditions to be right, then quitting the second they aren't. He wrote this as a private note to himself, by the way. The most powerful man in the world, needing to be reminded not to waste his own life. Two thousand years later it's still the most relevant thing I've read all month. What are you putting off? Not the small stuff — the thing you keep circling and calling "not the right time yet."

Here's the honest version: I had a shelf of books I'd been "meaning to read" for years. Meditations. The Prince. Frankenstein. The Odyssey. The books everyone quotes and nobody opens. The problem was never wanting to read them. It was doing it alone. No deadline, no context, and language older than my house. You get twelve pages in, feel a little dumb, and shelve it. So I started The Canon Club. One classic a month, read together. The community is free (for now). The discussion, the monthly book, the people reading the same pages as you — all of it, no card required. If you just want a group to read alongside, that's a complete experience and it costs nothing. Members who want the guided version can upgrade for $5/month and get the reader's guides, translation picks, and the full archive. Totally optional. We start August 1st with Meditations — a Roman emperor's private journal about staying calm while everything's on fire. Short, readable, and more relatable than it has any right to be. One rule I care about most: zero pretentiousness. "This confused me" is a perfectly good comment. No lit degree required. If you've got that same shelf staring at you — come join us. It's free, and we are just getting started!

Or did you pull the quote off the internet so you'd sound smart in a caption? No judgment. I've done it. I quoted Marcus Aurelius for years before I ever opened Meditations. Same with Sun Tzu. Same with half the "great thinkers" I'd repeat at dinner like I'd earned them. Here's what I finally figured out: I wasn't avoiding those books because they were boring. I was avoiding them because reading them alone is genuinely hard. No deadline. No context. Language older than my house. You get 12 pages in, feel dumb, and quietly shelve it. So I built the fix. The Canon Club — one classic a month, read together. A short guide up front so the old language stops being the barrier. Weekly discussion with people on the same pages as you. And one rule I care about most: zero pretentiousness. "This confused me" is a perfectly good comment. We start August 1st with Meditations — a Roman emperor's private journal about staying calm while everything's on fire. Which, running a business, felt relevant. If you've got a shelf of books you've been "meaning to get to," come get to them with us. 🏛️