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What Are People Looking For?
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.
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."
(๐ง 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.
You aren't promoting yourself.
You're helping someone else.
And in the process, they're helping you too.
Everyone wins without it feeling transactional.
Instead of asking,
"How do I promote myself?"
the question becomes,
"How can we create something that's valuable for both of us?"
I've already started seeing this happen inside Beautiful Contradictions.
Members are reaching out to each other, collaborating, and creating opportunities without waiting for me to connect everyone first.
And that's the wonderful part.
One collaboration doesn't just create an opportunity.
It creates a pattern.
People start connecting without waiting for permission.
They introduce each other.
They support each other.
They build things together.
Little by little, that becomes the culture.
A community that's centered around the people in it.
One that's built through the relationships all of us create together.
That's the dream for Beautiful Contradictions.
Not to build a community that depends on me.
To build one that continues ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐.
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