Happy weekend everyone! I want you to have the ability to do market research in this community. Market research is a hugely valuable resource when you are trying to build something. It's useful for - Brand messaging - find out what resonates with others and your ICP - New products - ask before you expend your most valuable resource - New paths - where should you lean into - How to do almost anything - no one has all the answers, but collectively we can find new ways The truth is, many of us here are on this journey as solopreneurs and it can be really useful to get input from others. Many of you here will serve or are serving other founders. There is no tool more powerful than a QUESTION. The rules: - You cannot pitch - this is meant to be a tool, not an advertising technique - You must put 'Market Research' at the top of your post - It can be a poll or open-ended - either works! - Put it in the Market Research category I actually was doing this a lot in a separate Facebook community and it's how I shifted the name of my community (the current name is not the original). What do you need help with? Try out your first post...

🎉 "Design Your $1M+ 2026 Plan” Week 🎉 Next week, we will prepare to head into 2026 with a bang by using all 7 days to get crystal clear on the business you actually want to build and grow. If you participate fully, you'll walk into January with more clarity, direction and momentum than many founders can gain in one full year. AND - I've opened up the Mastermind session on Dec. 19th to everyone in the community and for FOUR full hours. So pop in when you can and we will talk through your goals 1:1 and next steps to make them a reality. Here’s how it works 👇 ➡️Day 1 — Your MAIN Objective for 2026 (Not just revenue - Your $1M+ Destinations) ❓Day 2 — Powerful Questions for Others. Help others get clear in the goals. 🔢 Day 3 — Refine Your Goal + Define the Metrics ⚙️ Day 4 — Your HOW + Quarterly Strategy Breakdown 🗺️ Day 5 — Join Carolyn’s Marketing Map Mastermind & Share One Key Takeaway ✳️ Day 6 — Which of the 4P’s You Need to Focus on 💥 Day 7 — Your Final 2026 Plan (+ Join the Dec. 19th Mastermind) This challenge is about stepping into the CEO version of yourself. The one who gets clear in what you want and makes it happen. Here's to an amazing 2026!

Amanda is leading a virtual somatic session in 2 hrs. The link is on the community calendar. Please make sure your calendar has the correct zoom link on it if you add to your personal or work calendars. Hope to see you there!

If we’re talking growing a business, we have to talk about scaling. And if we talk about scaling, we have to talk about leverage. For months, I was doing the opposite. I was babysitting. I treated AI like an intern with short-term memory loss . Copy prompt. Paste. Copy prompt. Paste. A week later... "Uh... where was that chat that gave me that awesome post? How did I do that again?" I thought I was being productive. Actually, I was just being a really efficient typist. I stopped babysitting. True leverage is doing the heavy lifting once . I use a workflow where turn a 30-minute task into a 30-second tool. Here is the framework so you can steal it for your own SOPs : 1. The Interview: Stop explaining. Force the AI to interview you to get the context . 2. The Gap Analysis: Ask the AI to find its own blind spots before it generates a single word . 3. The Freeze: Turn that perfect conversation into a hard-coded instruction set . 4. The Build: Save it as a permanent asset (Gem or Custom GPT) that never forgets . No more pasting context. No more "delve." Just instant execution. I attached the blueprint below. Hope this helps you guys tighten up your systems. Curious... what’s the one specific task where you feel like you're constantly fighting with the AI right now?

If there’s one thing every founder has to own in the beginning, it’s this: 👉 You are the sales team. 👉 You are the demand engine. 👉 You are the reason clients come in the door. (You're everything...bathroom to boardroom as my husband says) There’s no way around it. Creating demand is the lifeblood of your business... and for a long time, it’s something we all should carry on our own. At least until we can ensure our branding, pain points, ICP, messaging and how to close are all aligned. But today marks a new phase for me. Phase 2 of my own CEO growth. My newest team member officially starts, and for the first time, I’m beginning to hand off parts of my demand infrastructure... not the leadership, the messaging and, the sales conversations…but the backend systems that actually create demand and keep it alive (I told you...this is DIFFERENT than sales & marketing). I cannot tell you how excited I am for this. My Ideal Role within the next year is very clear: 👉 CEO 👉 Content Creator 👉 Primary Service Provider Not the person cleaning tags, rebuilding funnels, tracking IG engagement manually, or managing follow-up systems. To stay in my Ideal Role, I need support. I need infrastructure. I need someone helping me run the backend of the demand engine. Here’s a peek at what she’s inheriting this month: (Image shared below) The two tasks in red are the ones I’m the most energized about: - Demand Infrastructure Setup (Slack + GHL) - IG Engagement Tracking + DM Workflow Implementation This is how you start to protect your client experience and your income. Here's why I’m sharing this with you... Because this is EXACTLY what we’re diving into inside the January Creating Demand Mastermind — and I’m more excited for this MM than any I’ve hosted so far. Inside it, we’re going to: - build your actual demand engine - break down what creates engagement vs. what creates buyers - help you design your follow-up system - map your DM workflows - teach you how to create demand predictably (not randomly) - and help you set up the backend so you can eventually hand off pieces too