happy Saturday! today i'm going a little hard on you. ⚠️ fair warning: this might feel triggering. but please know — my only goal is to help you grow. let's start with some hard questions: - do you want to charge money for your community? yes or no - are you a member of any paid communities? if yes — how many? how much are you paying? - if no — why do you think people will pay you, when you're not ready to pay anyone else? - when you post in your community or in others, how many comments do you expect? 3? 5? 10? more? now flip it. - how many comments do you leave every day on other people's posts in other communities? and finally — do you show up? - like, when you joined this hackathon, did you actually go through all 30 lessons? doing the work. leaving the comments. supporting your accountability buddy. did you show up on any of the calls? yes? no? partly? - now ask yourself — do you expect your community members to go through your lessons, comment their answers, show up on your calls? i am not here to blame you. i am here to help you progress!!! if you want to be a leader — a community owner — you must lead by example. not just inside your own community. everywhere. - you must show up, if you want others to show up. - you must stay consistent, if you want others to be consistent. - you must pay, if you want others to pay. it's not just about gaining trust, visibility, and results (though you will). it's also about learning what it actually takes to be on the other side. because things that feel easy to you in one area? they might be incredibly hard for someone else in that same area. and you won't truly understand that until you get in their shoes. so today, let's get real honest here, and ask ourselves: am i doing the things i'm asking my people to do? ⬇️

This is gonna sound weird. But it's real. I have a podcast... Coach-to-Coach Central - raw and honest conversations about starting a business. How cool is that?! It is cool. I know. Here is what I am good at: - finding cool guests - contacting cool guests (and making them say YES) - recording cool interviews Here is what I am crap at: - editing those episodes fast - publishing them fast - promoting these episodes So I feel like shit. No, I feel like double shit. Cause i have dozen + episodes with some really, really cool ppl ReCOrded. Sitting on my drive. I am awful. Terrible person. And I do not have a solution. PS Why am I telling you that? Cause I know, I will find the answer. And I also know you have same dirty secret, you don't want to tell. Here I am , telling you mine. So, tell me yours and let's find a solution ⬇️

Checkpoint 10 of 10 — YOU MADE IT. You just completed the Weekend Female Community Crawl. - 9 communities. - 10 checkpoints. - One weekend. That's no small thing — you showed up, engaged, and explored. That's exactly the spirit this crawl was built for. If you hit all 10 stops — drop a 🎉 in the comments below to claim your access to the swag bag draw. The swag bag includes freebies, resources, and gifts from the community hosts you just visited. And if you discovered a community this weekend that made you think "I need to be here", tell us which one and why 👇 That's the whole point of the crawl. Women supporting women. Communities worth knowing about.

🔔 Quick reminder: I watch Skool news for you, put it in the Vault (if you want to watch it later and need one place to find it) and let you know what's important. How cool is that??? Deserves a like!!! Skool News #57 is out and in the Vault. Here's what important: - now Discovery page shows not just TOP (big and big) but also TRENDING. Trending - are communities that are new and hot, so there is something going on there (I assume lots of group activity, to be confirmed). - Trending /Top is showing in the overall rating on Skool and in each Category - Trending will be updated every 24hrs. It is good and bad. Good - you have a chance to get into Trending every 24hrs. Bad - you get there once, and can be gone forever, unless you give the algo the reason to put you into trending. So, it's a treadmill. - They said that ppl doing "sketchy stuff" will be downgraded. I wish we learn more, what "sketchy staff" is??? Welcome to ask that in Skoolers, if you are not afraid to get banned - There is a better filter menu on Discovery - hopefully, it will help our potential members to find us... not sure, honestly - Skool is working on Languages and Currencies. So, let's keep watching - GOSSIP/Secret project: Skool is trying hard to send traffic to our communities from search, and even running ads. I HAVE TO ADMIT: it is super cool!!! What's your take on the above? PS and it's a big PS. Don't get upset about your current ranking in the category: - Categories are going to change at the end of this quarter (once Skool games are done). So, hopefully, there will be less competition in some categories - With the keywords and search improvement, you should not worry about TOP or TRENDING so much so, but rather - if you search for your key keywords, what's your place? See mine in the comments PSS We all got our ranking messed up during the first 24 hours after the update. My ranking went from 500 to 1450 (((( But next morning, it went back to 500. So, please breath and calm down. The guys are cool, they will figure it out.

in April I posted that I would get to 100 members in 30 days... well, I just got there today. Obviously I didn't make it in 30 days. 😂 Not the timeline I had aimed for but still a win I'm proud of. Thanks to this community for the accountability, the advice on churn, the crawl that gave me 11 members in one night, and @Lidia Axe for all the great advice 🤩