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Deb Schell
Welcome to the Community Strategy Podcast, I’m your host, Deb Schell. As a community strategist, community designer, and community leader, I've discovered how challenging and stressful it can be to launch a paid online community with little to no direction, support, or easy-to-implement tasks. Our vision is to help listeners create a community strategy that connects members, drives engagement, and creates collaborations through transformations. We believe that Social Media needs a shift from the current conglomerate technology designed to distract and disrupt - to deeper online social connection within purpose-driven, private paid online communities led by leaders who bring together like-minded members for transformation to better their life, career, relationships, and wellbeing. The Community Strategy Podcast offers interviews to inspire community leaders with success stories and community challenges by providing the tools that have helped find calm in creating a community strategy for a paid online community. We offer lessons learned, challenges we’ve faced, and tips on how to build an online community, have a successful launch, and grow memberships for additional revenue and passive income over time.
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Chris Fitz is the Founder and Artistic Director of River Crossing Playback Theatre in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. With experience in improvisational arts since 2003, Chris and his ensemble use Playback Theatre to build community by dramatically portraying real-life stories.
He is also a trained mediator and former Executive Director of the Center for Community Peacemaking, specializing in Restorative Justice—community-based practices that address harm and promote healing in schools, communities, and the legal system.
Chris sees Playback Theatre as a tool for personal and social healing, emphasizing the power of storytelling to foster connection, belonging, and understanding. Through performances like "Healing York," his troupe has addressed issues like racial harm, showing how storytelling can help heal communities.
Chris believes in the importance of repeated dialogue and rituals to foster belonging, whether in-person or online, and offers advice to community builders on engaging participants without relying too heavily on presentations.
His focus remains on creating safe spaces for people to connect, share their stories, and address community challenges through both art and conversation.
Contact Chris Fitz and the River Crossing Playback Troupe by visiting the website https://rivercrossingplayback.org/ and connect with Advoz at https://advoz.org/.
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Today, I’m happy to introduce the Reverend Mike Travisano, an ordained Buddhist priest, mindfulness instructor, and integrative group therapy facilitator for an intensive outpatient program for adolescents and young adults.
Mike is also the founder of The Art of Monday Morning. This company provides mindfulness instruction to individuals and organizations.
In this episode, you’ll hear Mike’s story of starting a Monday Buddhist Mindfulness and Meditation community.
Mike spent most of his career working in tech software, but his life took a turn in 2020 when he joined the seminary to become an ordained Buddhist priest. Over two years, he studied and wrote about his thoughts and understanding of Buddhism.
He finishes with a “plunge,” which allows students to choose their path toward how they will implement their training. Working with those seeking help, Mike began providing support through mindfulness counseling.
If you are interested in the virtual gathering, please visit Mike’s website: https://www.theartofmondaymorning.com/. To learn more about Mike, connect with him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-travisano-7b30a733/.
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Send questions or comments to Deb@FindCalmHere.com.
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Welcome to the Community Strategy Podcast.
I'm Deb Schell, the host. I'm excited to introduce today's guest, Eli Walker! She designs events and programs that build play into belonging in the modern world and how to use play to facilitate more engaging meetings.
Equipped with a BFA in Theater from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and as the founder and author of Drunk Yoga® (now The Uplift Experience), Eli pioneered the wellness entertainment movement to bridge the gap between #selfcare and #communitycare through her social yoga events.
Since then, she has used immersive storytelling and mindfulness practices to support tens of thousands of individuals and hundreds of institutions across the globe—including NYU and Columbia University, as well as Barclay's, eBay, Intel, Google, Pinterest, and Mastercard—in building meaningful belonging for themselves and their teams in our modern, remote world by leveraging the art of play in live experience design.
Eli has always loved helping people from different backgrounds get on the same page. Bonus points if she can achieve this while inspiring them to live joyfully, empowering them with new perspectives, and making them laugh simultaneously. When you work with Eli, you can expect to play, move, laugh, and walk away feeling empowered with tools to create a more connected world.
During this interview, Eli shares her entrance into the community industry. She describes community-based theater as an immersive performance art in which the facilitator and storytellers go into existing communities and use live storytelling theater to help participants tell their stories and bridge sociological barriers.
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Welcome back to The Community Strategy Podcast!
Today’s guest is Mathilde Leo. She's the Head of Community and Customer Education at Circle, an all-in-one online community, program, and course platform for entrepreneurs, startups, and nonprofits.
She's been building online customer communities from scratch since 2021. As the first community hire and employee #11, she was instrumental in crafting and implementing Circle's original community-led strategy, which helped onboard, activate, and educate 10,000+ customers, building some of the most innovative community businesses on the planet.
Before Circle, Mathilde co-founded MakingJam, the leading European product professional conference. It was a side project she turned into a thriving community business.
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Get ready to jump into a NEW episode of The Community Strategy Podcast! Hosted by Deb Schel, she interviews Tracy Beavers, a six-figure entrepreneur, and an online community builder.
Get the tips to grow your community organically and launch a group that turns into income!
Tracy hosts a free Facebook group, BE A CONFIDENT ENTREPRENEUR: Get Visible + Grow Your Email List & Income, with over 2.7K members!
When Tracy first launched her Facebook group, her biggest goal was to become more visible. After setting up the group, she invited members from her list to join the free group. In addition, she mentioned the community when networking and posted about it on social media.
Although organically growing the Facebook group was challenging, she persevered and now sees about 100 new members monthly.
Don't miss out on the opportunity to access Tracy's valuable free marketing resources. They could be the key to your community's success.
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In this podcast episode, you’ll hear the second half of a webinar hosted with Community Builders with Purpose and led by Nicole Gray, the founder of Boxed Community, which helps community leaders achieve well-being.
For a comprehensive understanding, it's crucial to listen to the first part of this webinar hosted with Community Builders with Purpose and led by Nicole Gray. If you missed it, please listen to that first. Go here to listen.
Nicole helps leaders grow, improve their well-being, and develop an entrepreneurial spirit through one-on-one and group coaching. As a wanderlust and visual artist, she infuses her programs with diverse experiences, creating engaging and empowering experiences.
In part two, Nicole provides practical advice and tools for implementing immediate stress management treatments for online community builders.
You can go here to complete the show notes.
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Welcome back to the Community Strategy Podcast, your unique resource for navigating the challenges of leading online communities!
Leading an online community can feel overwhelming and daunting, especially in the face of ongoing challenges. From clarifying your community concept to defining your ideal member and launching a new group, it can be challenging to find time for reflection.
Over the past few years, I’ve learned that trying to take on too much leads to burnout and feelings of failure. Every community leader I’ve worked with has struggled with when the right time to pause is.
Boxed Community is committed to helping your well-being to ensure sustainable success later. Our community offerings, including courses, coaching, and membership, are designed to help you connect, grow, and thrive during wellness activities.
Nicole helps leaders grow, improve their well-being, and develop an entrepreneurial spirit through one-on-one and group coaching. As a wanderlust and visual artist, she infuses her programs with diverse experiences, creating engaging and empowering experiences.
In this episode, you’ll hear a recording of an event inside Community Builders with Purpose in April 2024.
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Welcome back to The Community Strategy Podcast! In this episode, you’ll hear the first half of a recording of an event in March of 2024 inside Community Builders with Purpose, an online membership for community builders.
During the session, Brian Helfman, the host of Third Nature, an online and in-person community, helped thousands of people cultivate clarity, creativity, and connection while having more fun. In addition to the community, Brian has consulted with organizations to help them build more connections and cultivate a sense of community.
In the second part of this discussion, Brian talks about how he built a team and continues to redefine terms of what he does.
Still feeling like a solo entrepreneur, Brian’s team is project- and deadline-driven, with a clear start and end date and time to reevaluate the project. When building a membership, Brian selected Circle, an online community platform that is flexible for
For Brian, an online membership isn’t a good fit. In the interview, he shared that the seasonality of timed programs works better for him and his team. It takes the pressure off “having to provide or generate value,” Brian said.
Workshops led by community members lead to connections and growth because the members are relatable. His success is uncertain, and his workshop is a vehicle to learn.
The “free time” is where the magic happens.
“Nudging people in the right direction and creating conditions for authentic connection and fostering a welcoming and inclusive environment to feel fully self-expressed,” Brian said.
The community plans to continue focusing on in-person experiences, however. There are enough people who will always crave in-person experiences. From Brian’s experience, the connection is cultivated more deeply when in person, but the online connection is really important.
Third, Nature values accessibility. Before attendees sign up and commit to the summer camp, many potential participants join conscious conv
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Welcome back to The Community Strategy Podcast! In this episode, you’ll hear the first half of a recording of an event in March of 2024 inside Community Builders with Purpose, an online membership for community builders.
During the session, Brian Helfman, the host of Third Nature, an online and in-person community, helped thousands of people cultivate clarity, creativity, and connection while having more fun. In addition to the community, Brian has consulted with organizations to help them build more connections and cultivate a sense of community.
See full show notes here.
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Welcome back to The Community Strategy! In this podcast episode, you'll hear the second part of an event held in February 2024. Windy Lawson presented to community builders how to thrive with too many ideas. Click here to watch part one.
In her insightful presentation, Windy Lawson provides five practical areas that empower you to differentiate ideas from opportunities. Windy emphasizes that action on opportunities, not just ideas, drives success.
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Visit our Website Find Calm Here to learn more about working with Deb
Welcome back to the Community Strategy Podcast! I'm thrilled you are here and excited to jump into this new episode! Since opening Community Builders with Purpose, I've been reminded that we can learn much from our peers.
I've been looking for ways to support my clients and encourage them to move faster by focusing on a few or, better yet, one option at a time. I was looking for speakers to join the community when Windy Lawson shared her talk about "Thriving with TMI” (Too Many Ideas). Windy joins the Community Builders with Purpose in a pre-recorded presentation to community members.
Since 2017, Windy has been on a journey to help female microbusiness owners in the start-up phase or those who've recently turned a part-time side hustle into a full-time gig. You are in the right place if you are tired of chasing shiny objects that the gurus told you are the holy grail of success.
"Where do you seem to get your best ideas?" Windy asks at the beginning of this session. She works with women who are creating a business independently. In that space, she said that getting ideas or deciding on an idea "gets a bad rap."
We say things like we are "chasing squirrels" or "shiny object syndrome," which is why the idea seems to get the brunt of the criticism—Windy points out that ideas are powerful and are what push us forward.
Learn More about Windy.
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Welcome back to The Community Strategy Podcast: Season Three! I'm thrilled you have joined us; I can't wait to meet you inside Community Builders with Purpose! If you still need to listen to Part One, click here now! In Part 2, Celebrating International Women's Day, you'll hear Serena Snoad, Jenny Kay Pollock, Maria James-Thiaw, Melissa Schoettle, Theresa Anderson, and Cha'Von Clarke-Joell **continue the conversation about women's empowerment, inspirational women, and resources for learning more about how to show up as yourself.
In this part, Theresa Anderson shared a quote from a blogger she follows: "You don't owe it to your mother, you don't owe it to your children, you don't owe it to civilization in general; prettiness is a rent you pay for occupying a space marked female."*Erica McKeen. Melissa Schoettle highlighted women's challenges when being diagnosed with Neurodiversity in their 20s or 30s. We give one label and take other labels away, Serena said. "Being a woman online might mean that you'll get direct messages that are inapprop*
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Welcome back to The Community Strategy Podcast: Season Three! I'm thrilled you have joined us; I can't wait to meet you inside Community Builders with Purpose!
This season, you'll hear recordings of our live events inside this new community. For the first episode of the season, I wanted to share a recording of a live event I hosted with women to celebrate International Women's Day! It is a global celebration observed annually on March 8 to recognize and honor the achievements and contributions of women throughout history.
We forge a better world by inspiring others to understand and value women's inclusion. When women are inspired to be included, they feel a sense of belonging, relevance, and empowerment. So, collectively, let's forge a more inclusive world for women.
Many individuals participate in events and initiatives to mark the day, including conferences, panel discussions, workshops, and awareness campaigns. International Women's Day is a time for celebration and an opportunity to reflect on the progress made and the work that still needs to be done to achieve gender equality worldwide.
Click here to join Community Builders with Purpose!
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Welcome back to the Community Strategy Podcast: The nexus where online community strategy meets intentionality. In this episode, Deb Schell and special guest Alex Sanfilippo discuss how he continues to grow an online community connecting podcast hosts with guests.
Alex Sanfilippo is an entrepreneur who is the CEO and founder of PodPros, a software company focused specifically on the podcasting industry. He is also a podcast host of the top-rated podcast called Podcasting Made Simple and a lead podcast educator.
In this episode, we dive into:
- The growth Alex has experienced with this quarterly community event.
- Mighty Networks transition to spaces and the benefits of the new architecture.
- Setting up quarterly events and how Alex repurposes the content.
- Benefits of hosting a community on Mighty Networks.
- The challenges and opportunities Alex has experienced.
If you are a podcaster or want to be a guest on a podcast, check out PodMatch.
Alex has shared a special gift for podcasters who are working on growing and improving their podcast or improving their influence as a guest.
Click here to learn five quick things you can start doing today that will grow and improve your podcast or your influence as a podcast guest!
Click here to get your copy of Creator to Community Builder.
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In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, you’ll hear an excerpt from Deb Schell’s new book, Creator to Community Builder. This episode is an expert from chapter twelve – Maintain Your Community.
Creator to Community Builder offers time-saving tips for struggling entrepreneurs to establish and scale online communities, enhancing business growth and client connections. Community Strategist Deb Schell shares insights from aiding 60+ business owners, offering stories, strategies, and practical tools to launch thriving communities, ultimately saving money and time.
A note to readers that there is no audiobook version, which is why this particular season offers audio experts of the book. To get a PDF digital copy for free, click here. (Link expires 1.1.24)
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In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, you’ll hear an excerpt from Deb Schell’s new book, Creator to Community Builder. This episode is an expert from chapter eleven – Grow your membership.
Creator to Community Builder offers time-saving tips for struggling entrepreneurs to establish and scale online communities, enhancing business growth and client connections. Community Strategist Deb Schell shares insights from aiding 60+ business owners, offering stories, strategies, and practical tools to launch thriving communities, ultimately saving money and time.
A note to readers that there is no audiobook version, which is why this particular season offers audio experts of the book. To get a PDF digital copy for free, click here. (Link expires 1.1.24)
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- Free Guide: 5 Ways to Awaken Your Online Community
- Giveaway: Enter now!
- Free Guide: Explore You!
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In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, host and author Deb Schell read excerpts from the newly released book Creator to Community Builder: Find Calm While Building Your Online Community.
Creator to Community Builder offers time-saving tips for struggling entrepreneurs to establish and scale online communities, enhancing business growth and client connections. Community Strategist Deb Schell shares insights from aiding 60+ business owners, offering stories, strategies, and practical tools to launch thriving communities, ultimately saving money and time.
A note to readers that there is no audiobook version, which is why this particular season offers audio experts of the book. To get a PDF digital copy for free, click here. (Link expires 1.1.24)
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Resources:
- Join the Community Builders with Purpose
- Free Guide: 5 Ways to Awaken Your Online Community
- Giveaway: Enter now!
- Free Guide: Explore You!
- Learn more about YouMap®.
- Book an Expert Session with Deb
- Buy the Creator to Community Builder (Paperback, Amazon)
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In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, you’ll hear an excerpt from chapter nine of Creator to Community Builder: Find Calm While Building Your Online Community. Deb Schell is a Community Strategist and Author who’s aided over sixty business owners in building an online community, course, or membership.
Creator to Community Builder offers time-saving tips for struggling entrepreneurs to establish and scale online communities, enhancing business growth and client connections. Community Strategist Deb Schell shares insights from aiding 60+ business owners, offering stories, strategies, and practical tools to launch thriving communities, ultimately saving money and time.
A note to readers that there is no audiobook version, which is why this particular season offers audio experts of the book. To get a PDF digital copy for free, click here. (Link expires 1.1.24)
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Resources:
- Join the Community Builders with Purpose
- Free Guide: 5 Ways to Awaken Your Online Community
- Giveaway: Enter now!
- Free Guide: Explore You!
- Learn more about YouMap®.
- Book an Expert Session with Deb
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In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, Deb Schell reads excerpts from her new book, Creator to Community Builder: Find Calm While Building an Online Community. In Chapter 8, Deb shares tips on launching an online community.
Creator to Community Builder offers time-saving tips for struggling entrepreneurs to establish and scale online communities, enhancing business growth and client connections. Community Strategist Deb Schell shares insights from aiding 60+ business owners, offering stories, strategies, and practical tools to launch thriving communities, ultimately saving money and time.
A note to readers that there is no audiobook version, which is why this particular season offers audio experts of the book. To get a PDF digital copy for free, click here. (Link expires 1.1.24)
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Resources:
- Join the Community Builders with Purpose
- Free Guide: 5 Ways to Awaken Your Online Community
- Giveaway: Enter now!
- Free Guide: Explore You!
- Learn more about YouMap®.
- Book an Expert Session with Deb
- Buy the Creator to Community Builder (Paperback, Amazon)
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The Community Strategy Podcast (CSP) offers interviews with online community leaders who share their community-building journey. Our podcast covers community concepts, community building, community strategy, community structure, community membership, and community management. We deep dive into the best ways to launch with platform reviews, give our thoughts on cultivating engagement, and the keys to identifying ideal members who will keep coming back and becoming super supporters.
Visit our Website Find Calm Here to learn more about working with Deb
In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, Deb Schell, Author of Creator to Community Builder, will read an excerpt from chapter seven of the book.
Creator to Community Builder offers time-saving tips for struggling entrepreneurs to establish and scale online communities, enhancing business growth and client connections. Community Strategist Deb Schell shares insights from aiding 60+ business owners, offering stories, strategies, and practical tools to launch thriving communities, ultimately saving money and time.
A note to readers that there is no audiobook version, which is why this particular season offers audio experts of the book. To get a PDF digital copy for free, click here. (Link expires 1.1.24)
Social Media
Resources:
- Join the Community Builders with Purpose
- Free Guide: 5 Ways to Awaken Your Online Community
- Giveaway: Enter now!
- Free Guide: Explore You!
- Learn more about YouMap®.
- Book an Expert Session with Deb
- Buy the Creator to Community Builder (Paperback, Amazon)
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In this episode, author Deb Schell reads chapter six of Creator to Community Builder: Find Calm While Building an Online Community.
Mentioned in this episode are the following tools, resources, and support.
- YouMap® Coaching 4-week program: Explore You
- A Guide to Explore You (free)
- The Creator to Community Builder book
- Community Builders with Purpose
- Mighty Networks Support + Resources
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In this episode, you’ll hear an excerpt from chapter five of Creator to Community Builder: Find Calm While Building Your Online Community. Author Deb Schell will read the expert of this chapter, which discusses how to evaluate and assemble an online community launch strategy.
In the previous episode, I introduced the IDEA™ framework: Identity, Discovery, Evaluation, and Assembly. So far, we’ve discussed Identity and Discovery. This chapter will dive deep into evaluating your discovery findings and preparing to assemble your community based on the validation your members have provided.
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In this episode, you’ll hear an excerpt from chapter four of Creator to Community Builder: Find Calm While Building Your Online Community.
Author Deb Schell will read the expert of this chapter and provide examples and a new framework for community builders to help them identify their ideal members. Listen to past episodes from chapters one, two, and three.
Additional Resources:
- The value of discovery with Theresa Anderson (Podcast Interview)
- The IDEA™ framework: Identify, Discover, Evaluate, and Assemble (Blog post)
- Earning your community members’ trust with Paul Bradley (Blog post)
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In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, you'll hear experts of the Creator to Community Builder book. Deb reads a chapter about community design and the architecture of an online community.
A well-thought-out community aligns with the group's host's vision, mission, and purpose. Leading an online community requires deciding how you want to communicate with your members and understanding how they enjoy connecting with each other.
When working with a client to restructure their community, I start by identifying a purpose for each area of the community. A common problem for many community builders is knowing how many destinations to have available for people to meet, connect, and engage.
The structure you establish will influence other design elements like your community’s culture. It will provide the framework for your host, leader, and/or manager to help your people build habits and cultivate rituals.
Think about how you want to communicate; your personal communication style is an important factor to consider. In addition, your community must be easy to access.
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In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, you'll hear an excerpt from the Creator to Community Builder book, coming soon!
Are you a struggling entrepreneur trying to create new revenue streams? Discover proven strategies to help you save thousands of hours of your valuable time building an online community that can help you scale your business while connecting more authentically to your ideal clients.
You’ve heard the buzz about building an online community from social media on your own app, but you don’t know where to start.
In Creator to Community Builder, you’ll learn how Community Strategist Deb Schell has helped over 60 business owners find calm in building, launching, and growing their online communities.
Based on client case studies, community examples, and interviews, this book provides new community builders with stories, strategies, worksheets, templates, and checklists that help you take action, launch sooner, and build your next revenue stream.
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Due to the global pandemic, the world had to adjust to living in a bubble and withdrawing from in-person social connections. I don’t know about you, but the events of those years shifted my perspective on how I spend my time.
Most people I’ve talked with have shared that they’ve enjoyed exploring their hobbies, spending more time with loved ones, and building new relationships with peers with similar values, challenges, and goals.
For some, that means rethinking personal lifestyle goals. Many of us have looked at how the life we’re currently living stacks up to our “ideal life.” Noticing the distance between where we want to be and where we are… makes an impact. We start questioning what is accurate, and each person may answer differently.
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In this new season of the Community Strategy Podcast, you’ll hear excerpts from the Creator to Community Builder Book, soon to be released. Sign up for the Advanced Reader Cohort starting in August!
Hi, I’m Deb Schell, Host of the Community Strategy Podcast. Since 2020, I’ve interviewed over 100 community leaders to learn how they navigate the challenges of online communities, memberships, coaching programs, online courses, and more.
In the new season, I’m excited to share excerpts from my new book, Creator to Community Builder, to be published in the fall of 2023.
Are you a struggling entrepreneur trying to create new revenue streams? Discover proven strategies to help you save thousands of hours of your valuable time building an online community that can help you scale your business while connecting more authentically to your ideal clients.
You’ve heard the buzz about building an online community from social media on your own app, but you don’t know where to start.
In Creator to Community Builder, you’ll learn how Community Strategist Deb Schell has helped over 50 business owners find calm in building, launching, and growing their online communities.
Based on client case studies, community examples, and interviews, this book provides new community builders with stories, strategies, worksheets, templates, and checklists that help you take action, launch sooner, and build your next revenue stream.
Save thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of your valuable time by getting the strategies that have worked for successful community builders, and find calm building your online community today!
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A new season of the Community Strategy Podcast is coming this Sunday, July 30th, and I’m kicking it off with a preview of a recent interview with the Community Leaders Institute. Before I dive into that episode, Let me share some of this backstory with you first.
Back in 2021, a year after I launched a consulting business, I was looking for a community for consultants and couldn’t find one, so I created one. After asking on LinkedIn if anyone else does community consulting, I found a few people who raised their hands. I said they wanted to meet monthly and chat about what they are doing in their businesses.
Consultants usually see each other as competitors, but the group we started, now called The Community Consultants Collective, is a fantastic group of people. Now we are growing to more than 70+ members!
This episode will share excerpts of an interview with Brad Weaber, who leads a discussion about why to hire a community consultant with the CCC board members Todd Nilson, Carolyn Zick, Mathijs Vleeming, John Summers, and Deb Schell.
A few questions you could ask include:
- What is needed for your current challenge?
- Is there a need for a redesign of the community structure?
- Will there be a need for someone who is tech-savvy and has a background in operations, integration, and implementation of systems or programs?
- Do you need to get someone to help you increase activity in your community through hosting or co-hosting events, workshops, courses, or conferences?
Founded in September of 2021, the Community Consultants Collective is a watering hole for community professionals transitioning to freelance and consulting work to get support, training, and the tools to grow their expertise. Join for free, connect with your peers, and elevate your career.
The Community Strategy Podcast Season 2 starts Sunday, July 30th, with new episodes allowing you to learn about the Creator to Community Builder book, soon to be published in the fall of 2023.
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In the final episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, Host Deb Schell invites Find Calm Here Founding Member Carol Chapman and her business partner, Lynnda Pollio, to share their collaborative project, a 7-week series called "WisdomKeeping.”
Carol Chapman is a Heart-Centered Practitioner who was called to leave her corporate career and spend time doing meaningful work. She co-founded several businesses focused on heart-centered, conscious business practices. This led her to launch the Hearts Rise Up Podcast. Carol is a certified coach, author, writer, and speaker. She's traveled extensively, lived abroad, and currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia.
Lynnda Pollio is a Consciousness Doula and author of the award-winning, best-selling visionary novel, Trusting the Currents. Lynnda has always been deeply committed to elevating human consciousness. As a Consciousness Doula, she helps people and businesses understand consciousness and connect to energetic frequencies that expand self-awareness for personal and global transformation. Lynnda recently moved from New York City to Sedona, Arizona.
Lynnda and Carol are currently collaborating on a 7-week series called "WisdomKeeping" -- to help others explore what it means to become "awake," discover their innate "Inner Resonance Signature," and meet the WisdomKeeper they truly are.
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In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, Carrie Melissa Jones shares her community experience from her early days to becoming a full-time consultant. She’s helped create community strategies for presidential campaigns, non-profits, small businesses, and the Fortune Global 50.
She’s the coauthor of Building Brand Communities, the Founding Partner, and COO for CMX Media (CMX Hub), the “community for community builders” that provides training, events, and programs for community builders worldwide.
She started her professional career in community management in roles with Socratic (AI-based education app), Scribd (online library), and Chegg (online book rentals).
Carrie’s first exposure to online communities was as a supermoderator of a music forum 15 years ago. In 2016, she was named by Salesforce as one of 3 experts to follow in community management. She’s a graduate of UCLA, a current M.A. student at UW-Milwaukee, and regularly volunteers for organizations such as Young Women Empowered and Indivisible Washington.
If you are considering a community consultant, Carrie’s specialties include Community strategy, community outreach, community development, social psychology, community leadership, online communities, virtual communities, and coaching community leaders.
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In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, David Siegel is the CEO of Meetup, the largest platform for finding and building a local community. He has over 20 years of experience as a technology and digital media executive, leading organizations through innovative product development, rapid revenue growth, and digital traffic acceleration.
Before joining Meetup, David was CEO of Investopedia and, before that, President of Seeking Alpha. David holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics & Economics and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania. He is an adjunct professor at Columbia University, teaching strategic planning and entrepreneurship.
He hosts the podcast Keep Connected, which is dedicated to the power of community. David’s book, Decide & Conquer (HarperCollins), lays out the framework for decision-making that leaders can use to ensure organizational and personal success.
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In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, Benji Vaughan, Founder of Disciple Media, shares his experience transitioning from a music producer to founding a community platform.
Benji shares, “As a musician, I had my own community of fans and followers. What I didn’t have was my own space to grow and manage that community in the way that worked for me. So, I set out to create that space. Along the way, I found a lot of other community managers with the same problem.”
Disciple supports a wide range of influencers, creators, wellness coaches, YouTubers, politicians, and celebrity chefs who were all looking for a platform that, unlike Facebook or a website, empowers community hosts.
Disciple fills a need they have and provides a way to build, manage and control their own private social apps.
The platform is trusted by over 700 customers in over 20 different industries and across the globe and supports influencers from Bollywood to Croatia. He’s worked with the biggest musicians in the world, including The Rolling Stones and Luke Bryan.
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In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, Adrian Speyer, an experienced digital marketer and community builder shares the story behind his new book, The Accidental Community Manager.
With over 10 years of community industry experience, Adrian has delivered numerous talks about community building at major international conferences and is the author of The Accidental Community Manager. He has worked with top brands which has enabled him to teach community builders best practices, effective frameworks, and ways to be successful in community building that have a meaningful impact on organizational goals.
Adrian currently resides in Montreal and is the Head of Community and Evangelism at Higher Logic Vanilla, a SaaS community platform, hosting the best-loved brands in the world.
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In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast the Community Consultants Collective, a cohort of new and veteran community industry leaders, share their experiences discussing the state of the community industry and what trends they would like to see in 2023.
The Community Consultants Collective, founded by Deb Schell, is a virtual group that meets once a month via Zoom to discuss how to be a consultant in the community industry. It started in August of 2021 when Deb reached out to fellow professionals on LinkedIn to ask if anyone is also doing consulting.
During our interactive sessions, the collective discusses topics including pricing, services, client onboarding, and professional development. The group meets monthly and has now established a board of advisors, including Todd Nilson, John Summers, Ilker Akansel, Mathijs Vleeming, and Carolyn Zick.
The CCC is planning to become more formal in 2023 with speaker-led sessions, a website, and a consultant directory. If you are a consultant or considering shifting to doing freelance work and are interested in learning more about the group, send an email to deb@findcalmhere.com to schedule a conversation.
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Episode 94: Onboarding Automations for Course Creators that scale your community with Drew Dillion
In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast Drew Dillon, CEO of Burb shares insights about onboarding members into a cohort or course using their software as a service (SaaS).
An early employee at Yammer, building communities inside companies, where Drew developed skills and insights that helped him understand how people gather. Burb’s software makes it easy for creators and course builders to develop an automated onboarding process to keep members from Circle, Slack, or Discord engaged as they progress through a course or program.
For those interested, Drew is offering listeners of this podcast an opportunity to speak directly with an expert on the community operations team during a 1-hour free consultation call to understand if the software is a good fit for your online community.
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In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, you’ll hear a conversation with CSP Host, Deb Schell, and Richard Millington, the founder of FeverBee, who talk about the insights he’s discovered on his journey as an international community consultant, and the author of Buzzing Communities, Indispensable Community, and Build your Community, Richard’s clients have included Google, Facebook, Oracle, Wikipedia, EMC, Greenpeace, and many more. Prior to FeverBee, Richard interned with Seth Godin in New York.
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In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast Taylor Harrington, Head of Community at Groove, a FREE app for solo workers to instantly connect and conquer their to-dos alongside each other, shares her mission to solve the loneliness epidemic.
Taylor shares how she’s designed online learning experiences with best-selling author, Seth Godin and that her community professional experience emerged from a job she had a at local craft studio during college.
“Amy Frank, the creator of The Makery, did such an incredible job building a beautiful container for community members to thrive with just enough structure and freedom for them to contribute their magic and make their experiences feel unique in that space. I learned so much watching Amy lead by example and later facilitating crafting workshops on my own.”
Taylor’s passion for building the opposite of loneliness is now something she practices every day in the Groove app, with members, and in her daily life. She also hosts in-person meetups in New York City, which you can learn about at https://www.taylor-harrington.com/register.
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In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, Lois Koffi shares her journey over the past two years of navigating the challenges of being an entrepreneur and how it changes as she learned more about how to get to the “heart” of selling, leadership, and how to feel better about life, relationships, and wellbeing.
Lois is a transformational sales coach, best-selling author, and speaker who’s coached thousands of people in business and healthy lifestyles for over 20 years. As a former Ironman Triathlete, Lois' superpower is creating more in less time in a balanced way.
With now over 23 years of experience in sales and coaching (as well as success AND failures), her passion is to help YOU create your BEST life - best health, best wealth, and best Wisdom along the sales path.
She helps co-create that with you, walking alongside you, in magnetizing what it is you TRULY want to manifest for your highest good. Click here to join Lois’s free community for 30 days
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In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, Laurence McCahill, Co-Founder of The Happy Startup School will share his journey to inspire, empower and connect entrepreneurs and leaders that want to create lives and businesses rich with purpose.
After running a digital agency for 10 years, Laurence and his co-founder have devoted themselves to realizing their vision for The Happy Startup School creating experiences, programs, and an accidental community of like-minded people.
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In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast Pablo Gonzalez, the inventor of the Relationship Flywheel, and Host of the B2B Community Builders Show shares his experiences.
Pablo is obsessed with human connection and has used his expertise to grow his business, and Co-Founded Be The Stage, a marketing agency whose concept is to start with identifying ideal clients, asking them about their challenges, and then using the content they uncover to build digital marketing campaigns for clients to boost their sales and revenue.
Pablo has closed over $60M+ construction projects, rescued fledgling start-ups, set record-breaking quarters for $150M+ companies, and has been named a Latino Leader of the Future and a Top 20 Under 40 in various publications.
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In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, you’ll hear an interview with Pamela Slim, an author, business coach, and co-founder of the Main Street Learning Lab in Mesa, Arizona.
Since 2005, Pam has advised thousands of entrepreneurs as well as companies serving small businesses. Pam has written three books: Escape from Cubicle Nation (named Best Small Business and Entrepreneur book of 2009 from 800 CEO Read), Body of Work (2014 with Penguin Portfolio), and her latest The Widest Net (2021 with McGraw Hill).
In 2016, Pam launched the Main Street Learning Lab in Mesa, Arizona, a grassroots, community-based think tank for small business economic acceleration.
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In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, host Deb Schell shares her notes and thoughts from the recent CMX Summit which she attended virtually on September 14th and 15th and attended several sessions in addition to networking with the world’s largest group of community builders.
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The world has experienced a mental health crisis in the past few years. One resource that offers a place for everyone to come and find a bit of calm is the Mindful Living Collective, led by Elisha Goldstein.
During this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, Elisha Goldstein shares why he decided to open up the collective, how his experience has been as a leader of a global community with over 7,000 members, and much more!
Elisha's energy is contagious and he has the ability to turn complicated information into easy-to-understand concepts. He shares practical applications of mindfulness and psychotherapy that event attendees can put into effect immediately.
The Mindful Living Collective (MLC) is a safe space where everyone can learn from an expert and collective knowledge, share their personal challenges, and access support in the collective effort to live more mindfully.
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On this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, Allegra Stein joins the Find Calm Here Community Members for a conversation about aligning strengths with a community strategy.
Allegra is a YouMap® Certified Coach who leads Misfits to Maverick, an online mentorship community for coaches who want to start taking simple, creative, and transformative steps forward in their coaching practice.
During this episode, you’ll learn about Allegra’s journey being a coach and leading a coaching program. Thoughts on the challenges community leaders face, and if our passion needs to lead to profits.
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In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, Carolyn Zick shares her community journey and offers marketing tips for new community builders.
She’s the host of The Bad Axe Biz Club and AMIDST Creatives of the Midwest, both on the Mighty Networks platform.
During the recording of this live interview, you’ll hear some strategies to avoid burnout and Carolyn gives practical steps to grow your online business, scale your community, and inspire others.
Carolyn is a multi-passionate business owner and marketing nerd. She believes that you can be intentional and impactful online while respecting your mental health.
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In this episode of The Community Strategy Podcast, John Morley shares how he built an online community on LinkedIn by offering awareness, bringing delight to the members, and offering value in authentic conversations.
John is a self-proclaimed Serial Entrepreneur, International Professional Keynote Speaker, Podcast Host, Radio Personality on Drive-Time Radio, and Global Marketing Specialist
He’s the CEO and Founder of The JMOR Connection, Inc as a Technology leader, Innovator, Thought Leader, Engineer & Marketer, his company helps customize the right solution for their business.
The values of his organization are security, trust, integrity, and professionalism. Based in New Jersey, he serves small to mid-sized organizations in the area as well as offers remote solutions for organizations shifting to a fully-remote team.
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As an online community leader, it has been challenging to juggle personal and professional tasks over the past two years.
Many leaders feel overwhelmed with building, launching, and growing. I’m one of them.
In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, you’ll hear the second part of a recording of the Community Leaders Mini-wellness Retreat, held in June with fellow Find Calm Here Community members who share tips, success stories, challenges, and how to avoid burnout and overwhelm as community professionals.
Nivi Achanta, CEO and founder of Soapbox Project, teaches a self-care system to sustain your work, time, and energy. Soapbox Project makes it easy for busy people like you to create a positive social impact. Our lightweight climate justice funnel starts with bite-sized climate action plans, scales up through monthly action hours, and engages people further through a membership community focused on local action.
Ani Papazyan of Last Stop 4 Pain discusses the sources of our pain in the neck. She’ll give recommendations and a self-help technique or two for neck pain relief. Through self-help techniques, suggestions, and recommendations I empower my clients to take control of their health, take charge of their habits, and make informed lifestyle choices. My primary focus is to help them see that living with pain does not have to be their new norm. By taking consistent small steps they can live a happy, healthy, and pain-free life.
Carol leads everyone through a guided meditation to help us tap into our hearts.
After a successful corporate career, Carol felt a calling toward something more impactful, meaningful, and spiritual. She is the Co-Host of the Hearts Rise UP Podcast and shares her guided meditation with the community.
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As an online community leader, it has been challenging to juggle personal and professional tasks over the past two years.
Many leaders feel overwhelmed with building, launching, and growing. I’m one of them.
In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, you’ll hear the recording of the 2-hour wellness mini-retreat that I hosted with community leaders and fellow Find Calm Here Community members. You’ll hear tips, success stories, challenges, and how to avoid burnout and overwhelm as community professionals during this event.
Carolyn Zick of Bad Axe Enterprises will help you find calm in marketing your online community. She’ll give tips and strategies to avoid burnout and teach you to grow your online business, scale your community, and inspire others.
Carolyn is a multi-passionate business owner and marketing nerd. She believes that you can be intentional and impactful online while respecting your mental health. Find her in her online communities: Bad Axe Biz Club and AMIDST Creatives of the Midwest.
DoTERRA Wellness Advocate, Leah Light, shares specific oils to assist remote work.
Leah is a Natural Solutions Enthusiast who loves sharing the benefits of a natural lifestyle with others. Leah experienced health obstacles from a young age and always felt there had to be a way to address the root of the problem rather than only treating the symptoms.
There are many approaches to and facets of healing. Essential oils are one of the tools you can add to your wellness toolbox!
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In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, Marco Torres shares tips on how he helps thousands of business owners worldwide boost sales and scale their businesses through the use of incentive-based marketing.
By identifying the best methods to encourage customers to create video testimonials, the travel incentive program was created and has helped Marco’s hospitality customers increase their business, fill empty hotel rooms, and cultivate an exciting customer experience.
Marco’s community, The Marketing Boost: Value-Add-Incentive-Based-Marketing Facebook Group is home to more than 28K active business owners who are raking in sales with his advice and amazingly affordable subscription program.
He has transitioned a great number of these members into his paid online program to increase additional revenue streams for his business.
The members of the community share how they are using travel incentives to boost their brand, increase sales, and improve conversion rates to paid programs and products.
Through affiliate marketing, he has created great excitement inside the community and continues to build and scale this membership.
Action-takers in the community benefit from programs that inspire members to promote, market, and sell online and offer incentives to new customers.
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In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, you’ll hear a recording of an interview with Sarah Hines, the Host of Leading while Healing Network, who shares her community-building journey.
She also just launched The Lodge Project, which you can learn more about or if you are interested, email her at sarah@inlodgewetrust.com. As Deb’s client, Sarah, and Deb collaborated on the community strategy, structure, and design of the network.
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In this interview on the Community Strategy Podcast, Kathy Mela shares how she helps leaders crush their goals by aiming for excellence instead of perfection.
Kathy is a coach, speaker, and author who is on a mission to bring awareness to the power of our thoughts, words, and actions by helping clients ignite their internal fire, break through their bogus stories and build momentum to create a more purposeful, powerful, brilliant life experience.
After 45 years of actually breathing life into babies, Kathy now breathes life into women leaders; showing them how to resuscitate their dreams, regain their sense of purpose, be more fulfilled in their careers, & find balance in life…ALL without sacrificing their well-being!
For the CSP listeners, she’s offering a gift of the proprietary 4-step system to help you gain clarity so you can live a life aligned with your Core Values.
This playbook is designed to help make your life choices and decisions easier so that you learn to give TO yourself as much as you give off yourself.
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If you have a desire to share your message on podcasts, become a speaker, or build an audience on social media, this episode is for you!
Stop Putting Yourself Out There. Start Leading Dialogue.
During a LIVE Interview, recorded on May 18th, FCH Community Member Suzi Hunn, Founder of Teach Your Thing, joined Deb Schell, Host of the Community Strategy podcast to share her new workshop titled: Create Your Signature Talk.
Suzi’s mission is to help small businesses change lives by teaching what they know. Courses, workshops, and curricular materials are her jam.
She loved her 15 years as an educator at the Minnesota Historical Society. Since then, she’s developed engaging learning experiences for founders, authors, and corporate franchisees.
As a purpose-driven founder, how many times have you heard, “Put yourself out there!” The phrase implies a transaction, no relationship is required.
But cultivating more meaning, impact, and profit means adopting the habit of leading dialogue.
Suzi Hunn’s actionable talk will inspire you to take action on seeing marketing as a conversation:
- Stop waiting till it’s all figured out and create consistently--blogs, social media, or newsletters.
- Focus on the warm connections who know you and want to solve a problem you care about.
- Attract higher-quality leads by turning your knowledge into a short webinar.
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Deb speaks with Melanie Aronson about creating an ethical community platform in this episode. Melanie Aronson is the founder and CEO of Panion, a community management platform that helps people build more empathy and meaningful connection in online communities.
Melanie has a bachelor’s in anthropology from Columbia University and an MFA in documentary filmmaking from the School of Visual Arts in NYC. She has spent more than 10 years as a freelance filmmaker, photographer, and designer and about three years in sales for Apple. She has been running Panion since 2018.
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During this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, Deb interviews Kathy, the Host of LS Warriors, a community supporting people working through the emotional and mental effects of Lichen Sclerosus.
Kathy shares the lessons she’s learned and how she’s planning to use a book club to bring her community members together.
Her community will dissect Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connections by Brené Brown. Using the book as a guide for a year's worth of content. The community will use it as a guide into emotions and how to work through them.
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In this episode, Deb Schell interviews DeeJae DuRante, a mayhem making bilingual livestreamer and strategist. A proud Air Force veteran, DeeJae uses her decades of experience in social services to advocate for diversity, accessibility, and inclusion.
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Theresa Anderson, Head of Agency Business, brings over two decades of diverse marketing experience to her role at Agorapulse.
Over the course of her career, she has worked with Fortune 100 enterprises, served as Program Director for the Center for Entrepreneurship at Rollins College, and managed all aspects of communications and marketing for one of the top ten marketing agencies in Central Florida.
At Agorapulse, her responsibilities include working directly with agencies to understand their unique challenges and championing solutions that work in the real world. Theresa develops and deploys peer-to-peer networking and learning opportunities, negotiates partnerships with key vendors, and works to ensure that the needs of agencies are represented at every level of the organization.
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You have everything you need to master your money, you just need to see it!
During this interview, Emily Shull, a Certified Money Coach, shares her insights to shine a light on those hidden patterns that keep you stuck.
Community Strategy Podcast Host, Deb Schell interviews Emily about how she started out as a money coach and how she helps entrepreneurs break limiting beliefs around money.
Emily has a master’s degree in Family Financial Planning, and experience as a Certified Money Coach (CMC)®. She can help you integrate the practical and emotional worlds of money to help you achieve financial and personal satisfaction.
At the heart of her services is an appreciation for the strength and wisdom that resides in each of us. Emily enjoys working with people to help them discover their own wisdom.
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In this episode, Deb Schell interviews Kayla MacArther, a Transformational Life Coach, Digital Nomad, and Crazy Cat Mama to an adorable tuxedo stray.
For the past seven years, she has supported her clients in creating their most potent and powerful lives by embodying their most potent and powerful selves. She is currently living abroad in a small Mexican beach town with her partner, Ryan, and her cat, Creature. You can follow her on Instagram here**.
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In this episode, Deb Schell, Creator of Find Calm Here and the Hosf of the Community Strategy Podcast shares her community-building journey for an interview with Mark Savant's podcast
Mark Savant began podcasting over 5 years ago. People started paying him to help grow their podcasts and Mark Savant Media was born. He offers podcast consulting, launch kits, and production. He also supports podcasters through a private mastermind community.
The Podcast Savant Community and Mastermind programs offer clarity to podcasters via monthly training, support, promotion, networking, and more. If you’ve ever felt lost or lonely on your podcast journey, this network solves that problem
He’s a passionate father, husband, and community leader. He believes the more you give the more you receive.
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As a coach or consultant, you might be looking for more ways to diversify your income but you aren’t sure of the direction.
Leading an accountability group can be a great way to help your audience members, customers, students, or clients accomplish their goals while also providing additional revenue to your business.
In this episode, Mary Elizabeth Murphy, Host of S.T.A.R.Resources shares her community strategy using accountability groups, which she calls “Sprints” to “tackle” to-dos, during an interview with Deb Schell, for an episode of The Community Strategy Podcast.
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In this episode of The Community Strategy Podcast, Alex Sanfilippo shares his journey to launching a podcast community on Mighty Networks.
Alex is the host of the top-rated entrepreneurship podcast, Creating a Brand, and the founder of two podcasting software, PodMatch.com, a service that matches podcast guests and hosts together for interviews, and Podcast SOP, a project management software that is specifically for podcasters to help them keep episode releases on track!
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In this episode of The Community Strategy Podcast, Dani Traci shares her journey to founding DTS Marketing Agency, a personalized digital marketing business specializing in SEO for medical spa owners.
CLICK HERE for the FULL SHOW NOTESAfter starting several female-driven film production companies that crumbled during COVID along with walking out on her retail service job at the same time (where sexual harassment was considered ‘normal’ behavior) Dani knew this was the time to throw everything in the online business building pot.
She overcame judgments from friends and family while struggling to build her marketing agency.
Dani’s determination to help women step into their power with confidence and passion has led her to bring women together inside an online community to help them discover their full potential, become successful online digital entrepreneurs, and offer a space to be surrounded by fellow female leaders.
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In partnership with the Community Leaders Insitute, Deb Schell, Creator of Find Calm Here LLC and Community Strategist, is thrilled to announce an exclusive special discount on their upcoming CLI Expo (CLIX) which will take place in Memphis, on April 4-5 2022 at the Renasant Convention Center in Memphis, TN.
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In this episode of The Community Strategy Podcast, Coach Bakar Bey aka “coach Bey” shares his journey creating, Habit 2 Greatness, an Accountability+ Coaching program.
He’s a passionate, accountable, and benevolent leader who’s committed to helping entrepreneurs and service professionals develop foundational life skills.
His coaching program guides them out of personal and professional negligence and into more fulfilling lives, in less time, while also empowering them to make every moment count.
Coach Bey says he helps clients to elevate into the highest expressions of themselves.
He is also a published author, keynote speaker, spoken word poet, engineer, educator, financial advocate, and enterprising entrepreneur. Learn more Book a Call with Coach Bey here.
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In partnership with the Community Leaders Insitute, Deb Schell, Creator of Find Calm Here LLC and Community Strategist, is thrilled to announce an exclusive special discount on their upcoming CLI Expo (CLIX) which will take place in Memphis, on April 4-5 2022 at the Renasant Convention Center in Memphis, TN.
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Jephtah Abu is a community manager based in Lagos, Nigeria with over 5 years of experience in building inclusive & diverse online communities. During this episode, Jephtah Abu shares his experiences and gives community leaders tips on how to cultivate inclusive communities for all.
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Over the past two years, I have been very vocal about using Mighty Networks, an all-in-one community platform in my business, and have helped over 80 leaders build, launch, and grow their course, cohort, or membership on this platform.
In this episode, I’m thrilled to share an interview with two people I’ve gotten to know over the last year while being an active member of the Mighty Networks Mighty Host community.
Jessica Shambora, Director of Product Management at Mighty Networks, and Jane Stecyk, the Senior Vice President of Marketing for Mighty Networks.
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In this episode, Anne Cocquyt shares her experience in building, launching, and growing a Mighty Network to over 1,300 members, creating cohorts, and designing connections between her members inside this online community for female entrepreneurs.
Inside the GUILD Academy, she offers members templates, practical tips, and proven methods to accelerate first-time entrepreneurs on their journey to launch. Together, we figure out the best fundraising strategy.
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In this episode, Jackie Cote, a Leadership and Mindset Coach shares her experience working with Deb Schell, Community Strategist, to transition her 6-month program to Mighty Networks.
Our collaboration and partnership began at the beginning of December 2021 with a 4-week plan to help her build and launch her program within her Mighty Networks.
Jackie helps her clients awaken, empower and own the leader within that is dying to come out and allows them to bring this “dream” to reality. Her program, Awaken the Leader Within, opened to new members in January of 2022.
Our partnership included weekly strategy sessions, collaboration on creating a group program within her Mighty Network, and putting together marketing materials, to onboard and guide members.
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In this episode, Suzi Hunn shares her community-building journey.
She's the founder of Teach Your Thing, since 2017 Suzi has been helping small businesses amplify their impact.
Her specialty is working with clients to distill their knowledge into engaging courses, workshops, and webinars. Now she’s working on building an online community on the Mighty Networks and we are going to chat all about that today!
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In this episode, Todd Nilson, President of Clocktower Advisers. He’s been working in online communities and digital workspaces for most of his professional career with his earliest experience facilitating discussion in forums for multi-player games.
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In today's episode, I’m excited to introduce today’s guest, Ray Green. With over 20 years in the sales industry, 15 years of leadership, and experience managing over $175M in revenue, Ray’s an industry leader.
He’s the Founder of RJG Consulting, providing sales and marketing audits for B2B businesses and leaders. He’s the host of Repeatable Revenue, an online community, and podcast that helps entrepreneurs create repeatable sales, marketing systems, and processes.
Inside his Mighty Network, he uses the same frameworks that have built, audited, and fixed more than 100 businesses. In addition, he leads Inner Circle Masterminds and an Accelerated Growth Coaching program.
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In this episode, Jackie Cote, a Leadership and Mindset Coach shares how she helps clients discover time, money, and adventure by freeing themselves and creating a life they desire. She helps her clients awaken, empower and own the leader within that is dying to come out. After 30 years as a leader in the restaurant industry, Jackie has learned firsthand that struggle does not have to be real.
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In this episode, I talk with Carol Aranos. She’s the founder of Essential Joy Wellness, a holistic coaching program to help people create the best health of their lives. She teaches people to shake off their sugar addiction, regain balance, and learn to love themselves again through natural solutions and a proven process of education, support, and accountability.
She holds a Health Coaching Certification from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN), an Essential Oil Expert Certification from doTERRA International, and a Masters of Business Administration from Eastern University.
In addition to personal coaching, she teaches classes on Breaking Sugar Addiction, Women’s Wellness, and Deconstructing Cravings. Go to her website HERE to sign up!
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Welcome to the Find Calm Here Podcast, today’s guest is Paul Bradley. He has over 10 years of experience in the community industry and has led community teams for the last 5 years. Paul is currently the Head of Global Community for Agorapulse a social media management tool to help organizations save time and easily manage posts, reporting, monitoring, and team collaboration.
A community-leading expert and consultant with a background in the tech industry working for companies such as Higher Logic and ADP, in his current role he is creating a comprehensive education, recognition, and collaboration destination—and management team—for professionals with social media responsibilities.
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In this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast, I speak with Ayelet Baron!
She’s passionate about helping others become aware of and unleash their ability to create a fulfilling life by learning to trust in their hearts and tap into their imagination. Ayelet is a multi-award-winning author of the Fck the Bucket List trilogy, and Our Journey to Corporate Sanity. Her dream is that the Fck the Bucket List triplets, as she calls them, help unleash millions and millions of heart-centered people who are ready to do their own inner work and ultimately join us in the HeartPickings community as we work together as architects of humanity.
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In this episode, Jeff Turner, founder of Fit2Play, shares how he helps his coaching clients improve the way they move, look, and feel. He helps his clients continually improve health, performance, and longevity to live a stronger, longer life. He’s just launched his new community on Circle!
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On this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast, I chat with Dale Wilkinson! Dale's mission is to help people do work that matters. He's the founder of Goodgigs, a platform for purpose-driven professionals to access career opportunities, courses on social issues and ethical business practices, and a community of change-makers. Goodgigs is building an ethical and empathetic workforce to help companies lead with purpose and create social impact. Dale also hosts the GoodMakers podcast, where he interviews Social Entrepreneurs and thought leaders to help listeners live a more purposeful life. Learn more about GoodGigs here.
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In today’s episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast, I speak with Maria Tan, an amazing speaker, and entrepreneur who I met recently in a Clubhouse room alongside fellow community builders!
She’s is a thought leader, international author, motivational speaker, and business coach who mentors “misfits” and “misunderstood geniuses.”
Maria empowers entrepreneurs across the globe to leverage their individuality, create success tailored to their lifestyle, and build an ecosystem around their values, vision, and voice.
Before coaching online, she was a cross-cultural business and communications consultant who worked with over 1000 professionals from all over the world.
Maria’s 1000+ clients range from side-hustlers to new entrepreneurs to American Ivy-league graduates to diplomats. Whether you’re just starting to consider becoming your own boss or looking to scale an established business, it’s important to focus (and re-focus) on the crucial components that set you up for success.
To find out how to ensure a solid foundation, get the free e-book Your Business Magic Checklist here!
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In this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast, I speak with Kelly Pratt. She’s the founder of Athena Village, an online community bringing together heart and soul-centered women through authentic stories, thoughtful questions, and soulful conversations. Kelly mentors and coaches creative entrepreneurs to find their best flow – their “creative rhythm.”
She works with them as they turn their ideas and passions into products, artistic creations, books, or fabulous new business ventures. Her mission is to amplify women’s voices for impact in the world. Kelly dives deep with her clients & members as they turn their passions and ideas into action, tangible products, artistic creations, books, or fabulous new business ventures. Learn more about Athena Village HERE.
Show Notes:
5:40: Kelly’s online community started in 2016 when she had an idea for group coaching but didn’t want the distractions of social media. She explains finding Mighty Networks and building the first iteration of her community.
18:21: Kelly talks about being a visionary with big ideas when it comes to starting projects, and how powerful that can be when paired with a person that is good at the execution aspect. She also discusses how valuable early adopters and beta testers are during a launch to jump in and give feedback.
28:50: Mentioning that she finds personal twists appealing, Kelly mentions how powerful it is telling stories and having authentic conversations in your community. She wants to make sure to create safe and private spaces where honest conversations can happen.
33:42: Deb and Kelly discuss the value of community, especially in her salon and village shop offerings, where members can help each other through their various zones of genius. Asking for help and feedback is noted as especially valuable in running a community.
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In this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast, Jenny Weigle shares how she’s creating, executing, and reviewing strategies for online communities for more than 10 years. She's worked with more than 100 brands on various aspects of their community strategy and implementations, including launch, migration, programming, and planning. Jenny has consulted for Airbnb, Google, HP, Quickbooks, Pinterest, REI, Samsung, Sephora, Splunk, Visa, and many more.
When she's not geeking out on community strategy, Jenny spends time in Los Angeles with her partner, John, and stepdaughter. In her personal life, she is a proud member of a number of communities: Southern California Gator Club, Spiritual Sisters of Los Angeles (which she founded), Oak Park LA (CrossFit), Sofar Sounds, D23: The Official Disney Fan Club, and others.
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2:40: Jenny starts by explaining what interested her in building a community. The beginning of her career focused on the social media community, which was the one-to-many type of interactions, but then switched focus to enterprise brand communities with more one-to-one interactions.
9:19: Jenny explains first impressions are key in retaining and growing your community, recommending an immediate personal welcome message. Set clear expectations for what the experience is going to be like for founding members.
17:15: When opening her workshops, Jenny shares she likes to lead by having everyone think about communities they are a part of and what value they get from it, helping individuals envision the community they want to create.
22:49: Jenny touches on features she would enjoy seeing in the industry; for example, the marriage of audio form platforms with enterprise communities and to start seeing more senior positions with appropriate titles. She mentions platforms she prefers, with the recommendations being dependent on each individual clients’ needs.
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In this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast, Hudson Phillips, the host of ScriptBlast, shares insights on how he discovered community, why he launched his community on the Mighty Networks, and how he’s learned so much in just a year of hosting this online community.
His community ScriptBlast brings together screenwriters who struggle with navigating the ups and downs of the journey to help them write with ease and joy.
As an award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker, Hudson has produced the feature film This World Alone, released in May of this year.
With this experience and as the Creative Director for Uplink Marketing, he brings over 25 years of design, branding, copywriting, and marketing experience to the communities he leads.
With his community-building experience, he also supports Village Canopy Life, an online community working to transform the lives of children and communities in rural Kenya.
In this episode we discuss:
2:37: Phillips begins by explaining what got him interested in community building: 16 years of struggling with breaking into the screenwriting world and not feeling like he had a safe space to talk about struggles. ScriptBlast started as a social media account, but already being part of a Mighty Network, he made the switch.
11:35: Deb and Phillip compare the passive nature of social media to an active community. Phillip touches on how by listening to his community, he was able to alleviate the pressure of creating content when what the community wanted was engaging events.
15:20: Phillip talks about ScriptBlast, his screenwriting community, and CanopyLife, a non-profit client community that runs an entrepreneurial school in Kenya. He also touches on re-assessing goals as to why the group exists when managing engagement expectations.
22:09: There are many factors that go into community engagement, as Phillip discusses people who prefer being silent observers and also the seasonality of summer months being quiet while people are busy and traveling.
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In this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast, I chat with Piper Wilson. With 15 years of experience in the community industry, Piper is a passionate connector who’s excited about bringing people together and helping them feel like they belong.
Following her experience in a writing community, she has worked as a community manager for several companies and is now a community professional with Grazitti Interactive, a global provider of SaaS (Software as a Service) and Community Management as a Service leveraging cloud, mobile, and social media technologies to reinvent the way you do business.
Since 2008, Grazitti has been helping companies power their businesses with marketing automation and cloud innovation services, and its enterprise search platform.
As a global consultancy, they have strategic partnerships with technology pioneers like Marketo, Salesforce, Google, Alteryx, Microsoft, Adobe, Lithium, Optimizely, Acquia, Shopify, and Jive. They combine these platforms with our innovative approaches to provide effective, result-oriented solutions to their clients.
In this episode we discuss:
8:39 We discuss the differences between managing communities that are focused on business to consumer (B2C) versus business to business (B2B) including in the anonymity people can have in a customer-facing environment and how that conversation varies with community members and can range from light conversations to toxic and potentially harmful conversations with members.
12:15 Piper shares her experience in learning how important it is to ask as many questions as possible when starting out as a community manager. She shares
17:25 We discuss community platforms including Khoros and Vanilla forums, features and navigation of platforms.
21:37 Leadership guides a community manager
23:01 It is common for community managers to feel like introverts and how a community can feed our soul as fellow community-lovers.
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In today’s episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast Sheri Bennefeld shares how entrepreneurs can create powerful interactive virtual experiences to build an engaged community.
Since 2012, as the founder of Way Beyond Ordinary, she teaches business owners, educators, and entrepreneurs the proven action steps for designing an effective virtual course, delivering highly engaging programs, and producing memorable virtual experiences with ease. Sheri has a passion for developing programs that impact lives in a lasting way.
She believes the only way to make this impact is to engage the whole person- mind, body and spirit. She teaches leaders how to install instructional design best practices, brain science methodologies, and most of all fun when creating experiences that change the way audiences think, act and live their lives.
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8:44 Sheri shares how she bonded in a learning community which really inspired her to participate in and engage more with online communities.
12:26 Spending time to create a great event, being creative with names for accountability meetups, and hosting games with community and/or course content.
20:03 Sheri shares the importance of providing virtual event instructions for creating experiences and interaction with attendees. Setting expectations upfront on the registration page gives the host and the participant a better understanding of what they will experience.
28:30 How we met in Athena Village during a Biz talk session, which is a monthly community open forum for members who want to chat about ideas, get feedback, and talk about their business.
35:40 Speaking the language of someone who has no idea about the event when creating the registration and promotional copy for landing pages and event invitations.
41:02 Using objects to have fun playing “show-and-tell” by getting to know others during an event and how that can lead to a better understanding of people in the community.
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In this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast, you’ll hear a recording of a workshop that took place inside the Find Calm Here Community. The focus of the workshop was highlighting an Overview of the Calm Guide to create your Onboarding, Contribution, and Growth Plan for Success which was held with the Mighty Mastermind, a cohort of Mighty Network Hosts who are building an online community on the Mighty Networks platform.
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23:43 Discussion of what a community onboarding is and what it looks like for hosts so they can feel confident in their plan. Sandra shares some resources around the importance of onboarding.
25:55 Descriptions of various onboarding methods. Validation of members for what’s working and what is most comfortable for the host. Methods based on member learning profiles.
39:49 We discuss the importance of discovery interviews and asking members what they like and how they learn so that a host can learn what works best before building resources.
45:18 The checklist for creating an onboarding process and plan and putting it into action. The Welcome and Our Purpose post to greet new members into the community and a template for a welcome event and checklist, and the FAQ template.
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In this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast, Tigrilla Gardenia, host of the Naturally Conscious Community, a Mighty Network shares her experience in building, launching, and growing a community that empowers creatives, healers, and entrepreneurs who love nature to take action with confidence to become the conscious leaders of their lives. She is an influential speaker and teacher, running courses on reconnection with the plant kingdom to consciously discover the elements of Life that nourish you to flourish.
Always eager to learn, she studied with some of the greatest minds in bio-inspired sciences, gaining a master's degree in Futuro Vegetale (Vegetal Future): plants, social innovation, design under Stefano Mancuso, University of Florence. She has also studied Biomimicry for Social Innovation and Product Development. Tigrilla is an executive board member of the BAM Foundation, founder of the BAM Institute for Civic BioDesign.
During this episode we discuss:3:49: Tigrilla explains her background and work history, noting a common theme around communicating and creating a safe space to promote not just the community and ecosystem, but the ecotones.
7:48: Tigrilla discusses the process of launching her community in December 2020, feeling the push to move her course offering off of Facebook.
15:00: Getting into the specifics of the onboarding process, Tigrilla explains distinguishing between onboarding for the course, onboarding for the main network, and defaulting to the course feed.
30:33: Tigrilla shares the top tips she’s learned since opening her community, including creating events, thinking about branding, and taking time to strategize how you attract people to your network.
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In this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast, I speak with Karen East about how to create a safe space with the community and gives some suggestions on tips for creators who are building, launching, and growing a paid online membership.
'Whether I’m standing at the front of the room or I’m a participant in the back, we all have something to learn from each other. Everyone’s experience and knowledge is valuable.”
She's a holistic life coach and personal trainer, who helps clients live a balanced life by seeking possibilities, discovering what works, and re-evaluating each step of the way to dig a little deeper and shift the focus to finding happiness, joy, and total acceptance of flaws by building trust in the physical body.
As a Reiki Master and Trauma-informed yoga teacher, Karen has the ability to connect to a community and offers a safe space online and in-person in her studio. She was a founding member of the Find Calm Here Community, helping me lead the very first Find Calm Here Event in November of 2019, and has been supportive in the twists and turns of my personal and professional life.
In addition to leading a variety of classes, workshops, retreats, and other events through her business, Balanced Life Trainer, LLC, she also manages the House of Yoga in York, PA.
During this episode we discuss:7:03: Karen talks about Journey to Joy, an eight-week program that brings together a community by allowing people to connect through focusing awareness.
13:16: Recognizing we have all faced COVID together, Karen touches on the value of creating and sharing a safe space for everyone’s unique experience.
22:53: Karen emphasizes practicing what you preach, authenticity, and vulnerability to be able to better serve and care for a community. She explains people can really thrive in an honest environment where a teacher is still open to learning experiences.
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In this episode Jeff Bajorek, the Host of Rethink The Way You Sell®, a Mighty Network shares how he brings together sales professionals to celebrate the wins, share the struggles, and think harder so that they can sell better with the proven strategies Jeff teaches because he believes that the biggest thing missing from sales success is the belief that it is possible to succeed. Jeff’s superpower is helping his community members understand the “why” so they can understand the “how” in success as a sales professional.
7:33: “I think we’re coming out of a place where content is king, and now we’re getting to a place where I believe connection is really king.”
6:16: Jeff discusses why there is value in dedicating time to creating a community, especially in light of the pandemic, making a transition from content-focused to community-focused needs.
11:21: Starting with his Discourse community and mailing list, Jeff talks about growing his community by offering an early adopter discount and further discussing payment tiers.
18:51: Jeff touches on the evolution of his ideas, including using his community feedback to create content. He also mentions the importance of making himself available for his community.
26:39: We discuss features he likes, including how easy the courses are to set up and integrate. On the other hand, there are some small improvements that could make hosting more convenient, such as notifications when a member makes a purchase.
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I’m Deb Schell, creator, and host of the Find Calm Here Community, a Mighty Network. Inside the Find Calm Here Community, I bring together Mighty Network Hosts who feel overwhelmed with launching a community, cultivating contribution, and creating an onboarding plan with the tools, resources, and support they need to find calm so that they can confidently create a community on the platform.
The FCH Community is now exclusively for Mighty Network Hosts so that they can find calm building a Mighty Network. Learn more about the tools & resources that I use with my clients to help you have a successful launch, grow your membership, and tackle any challenge with the support of peers in a safe space that’s affordable and enjoyable!
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In this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast, Dr. Jody Stanislaw, host of The Type 1 Diabetes Crew, a Mighty Network, shares her community-building journey. She’s a Naturopathic doctor and a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist who has lived with type one diabetes since the age of seven. Through sharing her experience, she helps diabetics online through her consulting practice by teaching life-changing skills to manage type one and offers a premium program as well as online courses in her membership community.
During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Jody decided to make inspirational Facebook Live videos every day to share optimism and tips for how people with type 1 diabetes can stay healthy and positive in these challenging times. To date, she has done over 150 live videos since March 2020 which have reached thousands of people allowing them to learn of others who have type one. With the growth of her social media following and the success of her TEDx Talk, Sugar is Not a Treat, which has over 2 million views, she was moved to create a membership community to bring together those who are challenged with type one diabetes into a safe, online space.
In this episode we discuss:
3:33 Jody shares her community-building journey after getting tons of feedback from her Facebook audience that they wanted more content
6:33 After the first 5 months Jody has 50 paid members and is considering discontinuing the free section of her Mighty Network which has 200 members who aren’t as active as she’d like.
13:49 Looking at what is working in the community and asking members why they are showing up to learn what members love about the network and what keeps them coming back.
17:30 We have conversations about how much engagement to expect in the first year of launching a Mighty Network and working to build relationships with the members.
23:35 The benefits of hiring a community manager or recruiting a “super-fan” to help Mighty Network Hosts to improve member contribution.
26:56 Creating a safe space for members to feel that it is okay to share, connect, and ask questions to build the community culture.
About Find Calm Here
I’m Deb Schell, creator, and host of the Find Calm Here Community, a Mighty Network.
Inside the Find Calm Here Community, I bring together Mighty Network Hosts who feel overwhelmed with launching a community, cultivating contribution, and creating an onboarding plan with the tools, resources, and support they need to find calm so that they can confidently create a community on the platform.
The FCH Community is now exclusively for Mighty Network Hosts so that they can find calm building a Mighty Network. Learn the tools & resources that I use with my clients to help you have a successful launch, grow your membership, and tackle any challenge with the support of peers in a safe space that’s affordable and enjoyable!
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In this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast, I speak with Lynne Nieman, the community manager for the Location Indie Community, a Mighty Network for those seeking to leave the 9-5 life and become location independent. This is the third part of a series of interviews spotlighting the Location Indie Mighty Network.
She shares her experiences in being a member of the community and connecting with a tribe of like-minded people who’ve supported her in launching her travel planning business, Wander Your Way, which focuses on resources for European travel. With the support of the Location Indie community, she’s been successfully blogging about travel and just launched a podcast that shares her experiences exploring the expansive regions of Europe.
During this episode we discuss:
9:04 Lynne shares her member experience when joining Location Indie
15:57 Hiring from within, recruiting a community manager from a Mighty Network
20:37 Attributes for being a great Mighty Networks community manager
23:07 Training a community manager on the Mighty Networks platform
29:16 The value of paying for a community manager
37:01 Foundations of creating a community for success with a safe space and encouragement
About Find Calm Here
I’m Deb Schell, creator, and host of the Find Calm Here Community, a Mighty Network.
Inside the Find Calm Here Community, I bring together Mighty Network Hosts who feel overwhelmed with launching a community, cultivating contribution, and creating an onboarding plan with the tools, resources, and support they need to find calm so that they can confidently create a community on the platform.
The FCH Community is now exclusively for Mighty Network Hosts so that they can find calm building a Mighty Network. Learn more about the tools & resources that I use with my clients to help you have a successful launch, grow your membership, and tackle any challenge with the support of peers in a safe space that’s affordable and enjoyable!
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In this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast, Callie Mickle, a member of Location Indie, a Mighty Network shares her experience in being a community member in our second part of this three-part series spotlighting the Location Indie Community.
She recently quit her job and is now location independent thanks to the support of the Lifestyle Launch Academy program inside the Location Indie Community.
Callie discovered her love for travel after a panic attack as a middle-school student which developed into agoraphobia, keeping her inside her home for two years. Later in her life, she found the strength to face her fears and wanted to make up for the loss of time and opportunities. She joined Location Indie in December of 2020 and has since been able to learn through the community groups how to build, launch, and grow her virtual assistant business and is now working full time as a location independent virtual assistant
During this episode we discuss:
13:01 The community was a game-changer for Callie when she discovered there are other people out there doing what she wanted to do - living an unconventional life and having the community was the biggest reason she made changes in her life.
18:31 Callie shares her onboarding experience as a new member of the community and that she felt welcomed into space right from the beginning. Creating a safe space for members to feel comfortable is key to encouraging members to connect and share their experiences.
22:30 We chat about the importance of connecting with smaller groups within a Mighty Network and how that small cohort can support members above the membership benefits.
29:53 Callie shares the importance of events, what features she likes, and a feature she missed, as well as content, because she wasn’t following a topic. She mentioned that she loves fresh, new events to mix things up for members.
About Find Calm Here
I’m Deb Schell, creator, and host of the Find Calm Here Community, a Mighty Network.
Inside the Find Calm Here Community, I bring together Mighty Network Hosts who feel overwhelmed with launching a community, cultivating contribution, and creating an onboarding plan with the tools, resources, and support they need to find calm so that they can confidently create a community on the platform.
The FCH Community is now exclusively for Mighty Network Hosts so that they can find calm building a Mighty Network. Learn more about the tools & resources that I use with my clients to help you have a successful launch, grow your membership, and tackle any challenge with the support of peers in a safe space that’s affordable and enjoyable!
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In this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast, I chat with Jason Moore, the co-founder of Location Indie, a Mighty Network for those seeking to leave the 9-5 life and become location independent. This interview is the first in a three-part series providing an in-depth look at the Location Indie community through interviews with the host, a community member, and the community manager.
Jason and his co-founder created Location Indie which launched with just a few members and currently has over 300 members in their Mighty Network. He’s also the host of the Zero to Travel Podcast, in which he interviews travelers who experience the world differently and live life on their own terms.
I’ve had the benefit of being a member of the Location Indie community and have met Jason in person, so we discuss our experiences building a community and he provides helpful tips for Mighty Network Hosts who want to launch a community on the platform with energy, focus, and authenticity. You can learn more about Location Indie Here.
In this episode we discuss:
9:45 Community is about connecting members and making decisions as a Mighty Network host is about what you can create that will bring people together and help the members learn and grow together.
15:50 Launching the Location Indie Community as a paid Mighty Network the reasons for it being a paid space, and the value of bringing people together and offering them a higher level of content all in one place that is going to help them transform.
20:42 Jason shares his take on how to build a community when starting from zero without an email or client list offers honest experiences that have helped him along the way, and how he built partnerships with people to build and grow his networks for expanding his audience.
25:05 Creating a business model for a Mighty Network by finding other successful networks that are doing it well and then finding ways to customize it for members.
37:59 The value, as a host, to hire help to support a community that is continuing to grow, providing additional support for members.
About Find Calm Here
I’m Deb Schell, creator, and host of the Find Calm Here Community, a Mighty Network.
Inside the Find Calm Here Community, I bring together Mighty Network Hosts who feel overwhelmed with launching a community, cultivating contribution, and creating an onboarding plan with the tools, resources, and support they need to find calm so that they can confidently create a community on the platform.
The FCH Community is now exclusively for Mighty Network Hosts so that they can find calm building a Mighty Network. Learn more about the tools & resources that I use with my clients to help you have a successful launch, grow your membership, and tackle any challenge with the support of peers in a safe space.
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In this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast, Nitika Chopra, creator of Chronicon, a media and events company, dedicated to elevating the lives of those living with a chronic illness, shares her experience in launching and growing a Mighty Network.
Since the start of her entrepreneurial journey, Nitika has hosted her own TV talk show, over 40 in-person events, with hundreds of guests in attendance - and has created dynamic partnerships with over 150 brands in the wellness space.
After 10 years in event creation, Nitika launched Chronicon in the fall of 2019, focused on those living with a chronic illness. The event sold out, and she had over 2,000 Livestream viewers, high-level brand sponsors, and has been growing ever since.
That brought her to building a Mighty Network to bring together her community in an online safe haven designed to create real support for members. The Chronicon Community connects chronically ill folks for inspiration, advocacy, and empowerment from across the globe to support each other so that they can connect to a tribe that knows how they feel.
In this episode we discuss:
5:03 The visual elements of the Mighty Networks and why Nitika selected the platform that would work with her business model and could also be customized for her brand.
10:54 Nitika discusses the challenges of having a 50k social media following and converting them to new paid members.
13:42 Navigating the health space to identify as either a non-profit or private practice, and the differences in creating a safe haven online space for chronic illness that is valuable and that members will be willing to pay for and creating an identity for the community and importance in investing.
17:20 Managing a community as a solo entrepreneur, identifying when it’s time to hire help for a Mighty Network by deciding on what feels right for the network, based on current growth and time commitment.
18:19 Creating a collective leadership program with an application for the partnership to support Nitika in building and growing her membership. Being passionate about community and dedicated to the craft, it’s a job.
25:20 Tools for planning content and setting up a Mighty Network, Asana offers a calendar interface, ability to add notes and organize tasks and content.
35:27 What Nitika wishes the Mighty Network offered and how she uses the current features
About Find Calm Here
I’m Deb Schell, creator, and host of the Find Calm Here Community, a Mighty Network.
Inside the Find Calm Here Community, I bring together Mighty Network Hosts who feel overwhelmed with launching a community, cultivating contribution, and creating an onboarding plan with the tools, resources, and support they need to find calm so that they can confidently create a community on the platform.
The FCH Community is now exclusively for Mighty Network Hosts so that they can find calm building a Mighty Network. Learn more about the tools & resources that I use with my clients to help you have a successful launch, grow your membership, and tackle any challenge with the support of peers in a safe space that’s affordable and enjoyable!
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On this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast, David Taylor-Klaus shares his experience as a speaker, author, and leadership coach on a mission to unearth and unleash the personal mastery of entrepreneurs and senior executives. Since 2008, he has empowered his tribe to take an active, intentional, and dynamic role in their development to create the kind of life rhythm that enables them to build profitable businesses, raise thriving families, and live wildly fulfilling lives.
His best-selling new book “Mindset Mondays with DTK: 52 Ways to REWIRE Your Thinking and Transform Your Life" is available on Amazon worldwide. This guidebook includes interactive sections and the books’ structured yet playful approach integrates and reinforces new ways of thinking, being, and doing, all in an effort to increase cognitive flexibility and create meaningful, lasting change, and allow the reader to connect to the message that it is possible to change your mindset and that will change your life.
In this episode we discuss:
6:03 The difference between being a Mighty Network Hosts or Mighty Network Manager, and how these roles are actionable and visionary. It is great to have a vision about the community and how to bring people in to participate, but when people start interacting - it is a decision about what the community is becoming and it’s more about building it together or noticing when a community is starting to build and expand on its own.
16:21 The importance of self-care as an entrepreneur, making it easier for finding calm. The pandemic brought to light the really deep importance of self-care. Challenges as an entrepreneur and how to improve your business by improving your life with a focus on improving sleep, nutrition, and exercise.
20:52 REWIRE Framework - Reflect, Experiment, Write, Investigate, Revise, Expand with six steps to implement the framework that is immediately actionable and customizable.
25:48 Community management time commitments, for entrepreneurs to decide if hosting a Mighty Network, is or isn’t for them. Content matters in a community and it is important to create a community that serves and not pitches to members.
34:10 Use the simplest tool in your toolbox, stop complicating things to keep it easy to reach goals faster. Letting go of all of the things you think you need and start doing things.
About Find Calm Here
I’m Deb Schell, creator, and host of the Find Calm Here Community, a Mighty Network.
Inside the Find Calm Here Community, I bring together Mighty Network Hosts who feel overwhelmed with launching a community, cultivating contribution, and creating an onboarding plan with the tools, resources, and support they need to find calm so that they can confidently create a community on the platform.
The FCH Community is now exclusively for Mighty Network Hosts so that they can find calm building a Mighty Network. Learn more about the tools & resources that I use with my clients to help you have a successful launch, grow your membership, and tackle any challenge with the support of peers in a safe space that’s affordable and enjoyable!
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On this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast Carol Dockum, CEO and Founder of Beautiful Faces Going Places - a Women’s Success Network, shares her journey building a Mighty Network with an intention to offer a platform for speakers, trainers, coaches, and professionals to network, inspire, connect, and learn from and empower each other. Subscribe to her newsletter to learn more!
In this episode we discuss:
7:17 Discovering Mighty Networks for community-building that is unique and customized for the “member only” app, ability to create a special place for members to get all the value in one location to build the know, like, and trust factor not just locally but globally
11:11 Global connection during the challenging year and the first year launching a Mighty Network, features best for individual communities that can be customized for sharing content for a variety of sources, a realistic time-frame for building a Mighty Network “soft launch” beta testing with a few members for feedback and to identify questions or problems before
15:35 Creating a unique onboarding process so that the member feels welcomed and to leverage the benefits of the community so that they use the tools available to them and “User-centric” focus for creating an amazing member onboarding experience
17:44 Getting your members to connect with each other by highlighting members and promoting co-collaboration for networking and members ability that they can help each other
19:42 Creating a “free” Mighty Network vs a “paid” Mighty Network and the benefits from charging membership fees to hold members accountable to be a part of the process of building and growing the network
31:35 Members joined networks for different reasons when creating a networking space, creating benefits for a variety of needs to support members wherever they are and whatever they need in their journey to building a business
39:35 Mighty Network features, talking about the importance of events and how that allows members to connect via Zoom, and the desired feature Carol mentions is to offer LIVE video and a work-around for now until this feature is LIVE is Loom to create short videos for the community that can be used as check-in or for sharing tools and tutorials
About Find Calm Here
I’m Deb Schell, creator, and host of the Find Calm Here Community, a Mighty Network. Inside the Find Calm Here Community, I bring together Mighty Network Hosts who feel overwhelmed with launching a community, cultivating contribution, and creating an onboarding plan with the tools, resources, and support they need to find calm so that they can confidently create a community on the platform. The FCH Community is now exclusively for Mighty Network Hosts so that they can find calm building a Mighty Network. Learn more about the tools & resources that I use with my clients to help you have a successful launch, grow your membership, and tackle any challenge with the support of peers in a safe space that’s affordable and enjoyable! Join for FREE - Sign up with a 2-month Free Trial
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On this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast Jayme Ward, a youth empowerment advocate, self-proclaimed "impact seeker" shares her journey building communities.
She’s the Co-Founder & Executive Director of Far Away Friends, a nonprofit that partners with local leaders in rural Uganda to break cycles of poverty through access to quality education.
Jayme is also a dynamic public speaker, social entrepreneur, and amplifier of sustainable, locally-led solutions to transform the world.
In this episode we discuss:
4:18 Learning from others about global challenges and connecting to and helping others through communities in person, on the ground, and connecting that message to resonate
7:05 Starting a business before you are ready, no need to have everything figured out, embracing the messy part of building a business
14:40 Learning lessons from experiences, failing together to continue to make an impact
16:22 Partnering together for lifting the quality of education for all schools by connecting with local leaders to collaborate for supporting each other and providing solutions.
22:22 Advocate programs supported by teachers, platforms for connecting a global community online, and creating a safe space for many of the people who want to support the organization.
25:07 Building a community with your members instead of for them, collaborating and getting clear on what they want by asking the members who will join and participate.
33:03 Launching locally with a story that resonates with others who are identifying with the message and they will want to be a part of something bigger than themselves.
36:05 The CALM Method of Clarity, Awareness, Learning, and Motion, being patient and sticking with the process to build and grow.
“Your business is going to be bigger than your best dream for it, so where you are starting today might not be where you end up in ten years, it might be more magical than you can imagine so start before you are ready.” - Jayme Ward
About Find Calm Here
I’m Deb Schell, creator, and host of the Find Calm Here Community, a Mighty Network.
Inside the Find Calm Here Community, I bring together Mighty Network Hosts who feel overwhelmed with launching a community, cultivating contribution, and creating an onboarding plan with the tools, resources, and support they need to find calm so that they can confidently create a community on the platform.
The FCH Community is now exclusively for Mighty Network Hosts so that they can find calm building a Mighty Network. Learn more about the tools & resources that I use with my clients to help you have a successful launch, grow your membership, and tackle any challenge with the support of peers in a safe space that’s affordable and enjoyable!
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On this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast Mackay Rippey, shares his experience launching Beyond Protocols, a Mighty Network that helps health practitioners find calm by offering them ongoing education with leading industry experts, a connection to a community of peers, and the tools to learn new strategies so that they can make better, more well-informed decisions about how to test for toxicity, integrate genomics, and functional medicine into their methodology to support revenue growth while getting inspiration and encouragement from others.
Notable moments from our conversation:
4:55 Community is important to bring people together to learn best to connect with others who are learning and implementing specific tools at the same time, to learn together! “It’s all about implementation”
6:06 Selecting the Mighty Network for creating a supportive community. “Mighty Networks is a nice, calm place to gather and not have all the distractions.” Mighty Networks is a place to find your “tribe”
8:05 Launching a community on the Mighty Networks in 2021, discussing the challenges of launching and growing the network. The benefits of utilizing collaborations and/or partnerships to work together to find calm in building the community.
9:55 Connecting in a small group mastermind to discover how to best collaborate for launching a partnered Mighty Network and discovering the path to finding calm in building, launching, and growing the network.
25:01 Member experience, dealing with members who cancel their subscription and understand what they need, want, and why it might not be a good time for the member. “Be annoyingly helpful to your members.”
29:31 Expectations on live virtual events, and plan appropriately with what works in your community, it is a constant trial and error to determine what works. Pivoting a weekly call to a monthly challenge to encourage participation when members aren’t attending the live calls.
36:44 Creating content that is relevant for the community based on the host’s interest, sharing what inspires you with the community.
42:54 Features of Mighty Networks that are helpful to the hosts; analytics to discover inactive members and utilizing the search bar for fast-finding materials.
About Find Calm Here
I’m Deb Schell, creator, and host of the Find Calm Here Community, a Mighty Network.
Inside the Find Calm Here Community, I bring together Mighty Network Hosts who feel overwhelmed with launching a community, cultivating contribution, and creating an onboarding plan with the tools, resources, and support they need to find calm so that they can confidently create a community on the platform.
The FCH Community is now exclusively for Mighty Network Hosts so that they can find calm building a Mighty Network. Learn more about the tools & resources that I use with my clients to help you have a successful launch, grow your membership, and tackle any challenge with the support of peers in a safe space that’s affordable and enjoyable!
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Welcome to the Find Calm Here Podcast, I’m your host, Deb Schell.
On this podcast, I share conversations I have with Mighty Network Hosts who have built, launched, and have grown their Mighty Network.
They share what's worked for them, and offer resources that helped them find calm in the process of building a community.
I BELIEVE that it is possible to find calm in building a community on the Mighty Network
The Find Calm Here Community is now exclusively for Mighty Network Hosts!
Find Calm with building your Mighty Network with tools & resources that I use with my clients to help you have a successful launch, grow your membership, and tackle any challenge with the support of peers in a safe space that’s affordable and enjoyable!
On this episode of the podcast Alyssa Sulli, a trail-blazing, optimistic, business-savvy mom with over a decade of experience as a professional speaker, trainer, and teacher.
Her transformational community –“Reinventing You” is a home to individuals aiming to find strength when they feel lost, alone, and are uncertain on how to make the changes they desire in their lives.
During this episode we discuss:
- Sharing life experiences with others for inspiration
- Connecting in a group to help build strength and confidence
- Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: physiological (food and clothing), safety (job security), love and belonging needs (friendship), esteem, and self-actualization.
- Building a community that is messy, it is more important to identify why you are bringing people together and what is necessary
- Deb used Carrd for a free-customized, simple website
- Connecting a vision to business goals, letting go of the “bells and whistles”
- Starting small when launching a community to create an amazing user experience, they will share their experience and invite others to join when they feel they’ve gotten value
- Asking members what time they have to commit to being a part of the community
- Building a safe space authentically by focusing on building a deeper relationship with small groups of people instead of trying to build a massive audience
- Join the “Reinventing You Diaries” Facebook group to connect with Alysa and visit her website to discover additional resources
About Find Calm Here
I’m Deb Schell, creator, and host of the Find Calm Here Community, a Mighty Network.
Inside the Find Calm Here Community, I bring together Mighty Network Hosts who feel overwhelmed with launching a community, cultivating contribution, and creating an onboarding plan with the tools, resources, and support they need to find calm so that they can confidently create a community on the platform.
The FCH Community is now exclusively for Mighty Network Hosts so that they can find calm building a Mighty Network.
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In this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast, Stephanie Powell shares her experience as a and business strategist who helps entrepreNERDS to become bold and brazen in their business and branding to go bigger, get louder, and connect with their unique client.
She coaches savvy business leaders to become their authentic selves so that they create abundance in income and impact in the world. We talk about community building, Facebook groups, business strategy, and building a community that is active for promoting or upselling courses or group coaching.
During this episode we discuss:
4:25 - Transitioning from a career to becoming an entrepreneur by identifying your niche with what experience you’ve already got, learning lessons, finding unique offerings
6:30 - Discovering “zone of genius” and connecting to an ideal business & lifestyle balance, reconnecting to Stepahine’s roots, building a foundation for success
9:01 - Refining the entrepreneurial journey, shift from getting paid for time vs scaling a business, transparency in pivoting when starting a business is part of the process
11:38 - Doing what “lights us up” to create a fulfilling career as an entrepreneur, tips for allowing grace for letting go of self-set expectations, and focusing on what connects passion with experience
18:41 - Community for coaching, masterminds, and one-on-one clients for growth in both business as well as personal increased income, building and learning from others
21:30 - Small cohorts offer a safe space to connect for accountability and support, gaining shared wisdom, building a community for authentic communities, scaling by offering coaching to several people at the same time.
24:12 - Collaboration leads to finding calm with community-building by connecting with others that offer additional support who want to help you and you can help them, sharing the tasks to build
26:44 - Growing a Facebook group, low contribution, and engagement, connecting personally makes the shift and will start to connect more, lurkers are there, you are serving them by saying what connects to them.
27:32- Crafting messaging for members to decide if this is for, or not for them, scaling as a one-person team, letting go of what isn’t important, or hiring for support to do tasks
About Find Calm Here
I’m Deb Schell, creator, and host of the Find Calm Here Community, a Mighty Network.
Inside the Find Calm Here Community, I bring together Mighty Network Hosts who feel overwhelmed with launching a community, cultivating contribution, and creating an onboarding plan with the tools, resources, and support they need to find calm so that they can confidently create a community on the platform.
The Find Calm Community is now exclusively for Mighty Network Hosts so that they can find calm building a Mighty Network. Learn more about the tools & resources that I use with my clients to help you have a successful launch, grow your membership, and tackle any challenge with the support of peers in a safe space that’s affordable and enjoyable!
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On today’s episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast, Patty Bear shares her journey as an aviator, thinker, wild soul, and author of the recently released memoir From Plain to Plane: My Mennonite Childhood, a National Scandal, and an Unconventional Soar to Freedom and House of the Sun: A Visionary Guide to Parenting in a Complex World with Pat Shannon.
In addition to being an author, Patty speaks, coaches, and writes on how the four forces of flight can be a compass for living. Her mission is to liberate, inspire, and delight. You can follow her on Facebook and she can be reached at patty@theflyingclub.com.
Notable Quote: “Trauma can sometimes be a path to liberation.” - Patty Bear
In this episode we discuss:
- Bravery in sharing personal experiences in her new book From Plain to Plane
- How the Four Forces of Flight can be a compass for living
- Advice for authors who wants to write a memoir, a “hidden” truth
- The Hero’s Journey to create a structure for writing a story
- How conflict can drive you to clarity, a purpose for writing a memoir
- The CALM Method of clarity, awareness, learning, and motion
**About - I’m Deb Schell, creator, and host of the Find Calm Here Community, a Mighty Network. I BELIEVE that it is possible to find calm in building a community.
I bring together Mighty Network Hosts who feel overwhelmed with launching a community, cultivating contribution, and creating an onboarding plan with the tools, resources, and support they need to find calm so that they can confidently create a community on the platform effectively by implementing the CALM Method of Clarity, Awareness, Learning, and Motion.**
In 2020 I launched my first community and found it to be my passion, and a new career! I started my consulting agency and have worked with more than 20 Mighty Network Hosts over the past year! The Find Calm Here Community will be reopening in June exclusively for Mighty Network Hosts. Subscribe to learn more.
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In this podcast, Lana Jelenjev shares her journey to becoming a community alchemist and learning design specialist with a solid background in training and education. She is the author of Community Builder: Designing Communities for Change and The 90 Day Action Planner, a Kickstarter-backed planner for creative entrepreneurs. Lana provides support in various areas related to ideation, curriculum design, community building, and personal development.
She is also the Director for Learning Design and Community for Dream See Do, an online learning and community-building platform for transformational leaders, NGOs, and community cultivators. Lana is also active in non-profit work, spearheading the educational campaigns for Neurodiversity Foundation, Shift Foundation, and She Dare.
In this episode we discuss:
- Starting with who when building community
- Connecting with leaders to share in building a community together
- Cultivating a community for change in the world, alignment with the vision for the future
- The clarity to find calm for leaders to connect with each other
- Community best practices
- Launching a book with a collaborator
- Connecting to “who am I” before starting a project, career change, or life commitment
- Connecting Handfasting to possible business partnerships or collaborating
- Book Recommendation: The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
About Find Calm Here~
I’m Deb Schell, creator, and host of the Find Calm Here Community, a Mighty Network.
I BELIEVE that it is possible to find calm in building a community. I bring together Mighty Network Hosts who feel overwhelmed with launching a community, cultivating contribution, and creating an onboarding plan with the tools, resources, and support they need to find calm so that they can confidently create a community on the platform effectively by implementing the CALM Method of Clarity, Awareness, Learning, and Motion.
In 2020 I launched my first community and found it to be my passion, and a new career! I started my consulting agency and have worked with more than 20 Mighty Network Hosts over the past year! I lead the Mighty Mastermind, which offers members the ability to connect with other Mighty Networks Hosts to share challenges, successes, what’s working, and tools for success. The Mighty Mastermind is currently in session and will reopen in June 2021 for new members.
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In this podcast episode, Amelia Sherry, founder of NourishHer**, shares her journey to starting a business and how important feedback from a trusted group helped her make decisions on her niche. She shares her experience with the Mighty Mastermind, a group within the Find Calm Here Community.
Amelia works with women by building attitudes about eating that helps all girls thrive****. Her website focused on helping mothers overcome dysfunctional relationships with food in order to take better care of themselves and their families.
She is a professional writer and former magazine editor who pursued a credential as a nutritionist and public health professional to better understand women and children’s relationships with food. Her work has been published in American Health, Family Circle, Fitness, Latina, Reader’s Digest, Redbook, SELF, Today’s Dietitian, and more.
In this episode we discuss:**
- The transition from a writer to a nutritionist
- Coming together following the Mighty Networks Community Design Masterclass
- Amelia shares her experience working with Deb in the Mighty Mastermind
- Self-discovery journey and connecting to self
- CALM Method of Clarity, Awareness, Learning, Motion
- Journals tools: the Clever Fox Planner and the Change Makers Journal
- A 30-day challenge to write goals for a business idea to gain clarity
- Letting go of good/bad with nutrition, body-image acceptance
- Starting with a “goal” when gaining clarity for business ideas
- Eating Skills Workshop on May 15th
- Resources for parents for feeding kids
- Last year’s Find Calm Here workshop
About Find Calm Here~ Deb Schell is the creator of Find Calm Here, an online community offering tools and resources to help you find calm in building a community with energy, joy, and abundance. We offer support, feedback, and encouragement to each other for cultivating communities that thrive. As a Mighty Networks Community Design Consultant, Deb offers resources for cultivating contribution, creating an awesome onboarding process, and connecting your members to spark inspirational conversations that help your members transform. Interested in building a community on the Mighty Networks? It's free!
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In this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast, Paul Casey shares his journey as a professional speaker with over 25 years of experience in leadership and personal growth. He helps people take back their calendars and to restore sanity in their lives with time management. His company, Growing Forward Services, partners with corporations and professionals to transform their vision, habits, and lives with his inspirational messages. He’s an author of four books including The Static Cling Principle (on habits and mindsets), Maximizing Every Minute (on time management), Leading the Team You’ve Always Wanted, and Leading with Super-Vision. He also interviews local leaders in his podcast: the Tri-Cities Influencer.
Notable Quote: “Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”― Bill Gates
In this episode we discuss:
- Building an online business
- DWMY - Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly goals for success
- How coaching supported Paul during the Covid-19 pandemic after losing speaking gigs
- The challenge with virtual events, being zoomed out, zombies
- Building community in 2021 to scale business
- Book recommendation Tribes by Seth Godin
- Reviewing your weekly wins and looking ahead for growth
You can connect with Paul via email at growingforward@paulcasey.org and get the FREE GUIDE to Take Back My Calendar.
I met Paul on PodMatch! If you have a message to share and want to reach out to more people, I highly recommend joining PodMatch, it’s FREE! Want to be a guest on the Find Calm Here Podcast? Let me know!~
About- Deb Schell is the creator of Find Calm Here, an online community offering tools and resources to help you find calm in building a community with energy, joy, and abundance. We offer support, feedback, and encouragement to each other for cultivating communities that thrive. As a Mighty Networks Community Design Consultant, Deb offers resources for cultivating contribution, creating an awesome onboarding process, and connecting your members to spark inspirational conversations that help your members transform. Interested in building a community on the Mighty Networks? It's free!
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In this podcast episode, Jeff Roe shares his passion for community as a Senior Community Manager on the Strategic Services team at Khoros, the leading community engagement platform helping companies connect with their customers authentically. He also serves as host for the Austin chapter of CMX Connect, a volunteer-led arm of CMX that brings community professionals together with over 60 chapters across the world. Jeff built his social media and community skills working for brands like 2U, graze.com, and SiriusXM. Check out the following links to learn more about Jeff's team at Khoros and the Austin chapter of CMX Connect. You can follow Jeff on Twitter @chaffrey.
In this episode we discuss:
- Utilizing life experiences in community building
- How he works with companies to support community
- Tips for community managers to build engagement
- Managing large communities and creating safe spaces for cultivating trust
- Connecting with community professionals with CMX
About
Deb Schell is the creator of Find Calm Here, an online community offering tools and resources to help you find calm in building a community with energy, joy, and abundance. We offer support, feedback, and encouragement to each other for cultivating communities that thrive. As a Mighty Networks Community Design Consultant, Deb offers resources for cultivating contribution, creating an awesome onboarding process, and connecting your members to spark inspirational conversations that help your members transform. Interested in building a community on the Mighty Networks? It's free!
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On today’s episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast Valentina Ruffoni shares her experience launching a community called Eat Out Madrid in 2016 after moving to the Spanish capital in addition to her travels across the globe. After growing this Facebook group to over 7,500 she shares what has worked for her as she continues her community-building career, now with Disciple Media and CMX. She leads the Madrid chapter of CMX Connect. You can connect with Valentina on LinkedIn and follow her on Instagram.
In this episode we discuss:
- Building community in-person and online
- Travel and having a location independent job
- Facebook groups to build community and nurture volunteer moderators
- Networking globally now that events have gone virtual
- Identifying the right fit for a new community manager
- Upcoming events with CMX Connect, Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
**About
Deb Schell is the creator of Find Calm Here*, an* online community offering tools and resources to help you find calm in building a business to live your ideal lifestyle. We bring together entrepreneurs so that they can lead a successful online business with energy, joy, and abundance.**
When you join the Find Calm Here Community you’ll find over 30 workshops we’ve held in 2020 to help you find calm in daily life. Inside our exclusive cohorts, we connect, learn, and share our business ideas, challenges, and successes with each other for support, feedback, and encouragement in our process as we put our ideas out into the world while gaining clarity around ideas and tools to help implement our process using the CALM Method of Clarity, Awareness, Learning, and Motion.
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In this episode of the podcast, Ani Papazyan founder of LastStop4Pain and a former professional athlete turned pain relief specialist shares her journey to launching an online business and interacting with a mastermind.
She’s spent over 25 years helping clients live a pain-free life. With Ani’s guidance clients receive a customized plan utilizing blood chemistry and genetic test analysis to create a roadmap for not just pain relief, but to overcome pain. You can follow her and get pain-relief training on her YouTube Channel.
In this episode we discuss:
- Ani shares her rich life experiences of growing up overseas and moving to America
- Shifting from in-person to virtual sessions
- Ani shares her experience working with Deb in the Mighty Mastermind
- How to be okay with and learn how to pivot when things don’t turn out as expected
- Passion for helping others and how that can drive time, money, and resources
- Connecting with community and the value of networking
- How to live pain-free and not accept that pain is a part of daily life
- A free gift for listeners Ani share’s 5 Tips to a Pain-Free You
About Find Calm Here~ Deb Schell is the creator of Find Calm Here, an online community offering tools and resources to help you find calm in building a business to live your ideal lifestyle. We bring together entrepreneurs so that they can lead a successful online business with energy, joy, and abundance.
When you join the Find Calm Here Community you’ll find over 30 workshops we’ve held in 2020 to help you find calm in daily life. Inside our exclusive cohorts, we connect, learn, and share our business ideas, challenges, and successes with each other for support, feedback, and encouragement in our process as we put our ideas out into the world while gaining clarity around ideas and tools to help implement our process using the CALM Method of Clarity, Awareness, Learning, and Motion.
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In this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast Dr. Lori Baker-Schena, founder of Baker Schena Communications shares her experiences as a leadership coach and professional speaker.
She works with entrepreneurs and small businesses to achieve high levels of excellence, productivity, and profitability by reclaiming passion and expertise in their industries. She’s also the creator of LeadHERship Consortium LLC **giving women the leadership skills they need to succeed in their personal and professional lives. A cancer survivor, Lori inspires women to “pivot to the positive” as they mindfully create a career that matches their passion and strengths.
I met Lori on PodMatch*! If you have a message to share and want to reach out to more people, I highly recommend joining* PodMatch**, it’s FREE!
In this episode we discuss:
- Getting clarity with self-discovery, alignment of passion and purpose
- Letting go and asking “What’s the worst that can happen”
- Surviving cancer and radically changing career to inspire and motivate others
- Building confidence and self-worth in women leaders with LeadHERship Consortium LLC, giving women the leadership skills to succeed
- Celebrating International Women’s Day 2021
- The Solution Shift – mindfully shifting from a problem-centered to solution-focused life
About Find Calm Here~ Deb Schell is the creator of Find Calm Here, an online community offering tools and resources to help you find calm in building a business to live your ideal lifestyle. We bring together entrepreneurs so that they can lead a successful online business with energy, joy, and abundance.
When you join the Find Calm Here Community you’ll find over 30 workshops we’ve held in 2020 to help you find calm in daily life. Inside our exclusive cohorts, we connect, learn, and share our business ideas, challenges, and successes with each other for support, feedback, and encouragement in our process as we put our ideas out into the world while gaining clarity around ideas and tools to help implement our process using the CALM Method of Clarity, Awareness, Learning, and Motion.
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On this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast Tara Brown shares her experience working with Deb in the 90-Day Business Development Mastermind and how she went from concept to clarity using a combination of business tools to build her coaching program.
Tara is a Certified Public Accountant with over 25 years in the industry and has worked with companies big and small. She’s recently launched her coaching business which helps small business owners by offering a safe space to ask about their business practices without judgment, get customized answers to their business challenges, and brings calm by offering a structured program using her unique CLEAR Technique.
In this episode we discuss:
- Jumpstart on launching a business with the support of coaching and community
- Moving past the “fear factor” of starting a side-hustle and benchmarking for success
- She shares the CLEAR Technique she has designed to help small business owners
- Financing strategy tips for small business owners for improved cash-flow
- Sharing her tools for success including a discussion about the importance of therapy/counseling to find calm through the process of building her business
Here's an article Tara recently wrote What Therapy Taught Me
You can follow and connect with Tara on Instagram!
About Find Calm Here~ Deb Schell is the creator of Find Calm Here, an online community offering tools and resources to help you find calm in building a business to live your ideal lifestyle. We bring together entrepreneurs so that they can lead a successful online business with energy, joy, and abundance.
When you join the Find Calm Here Community you’ll find over 30 workshops we’ve held in 2020 to help you find calm in daily life.
Inside our exclusive cohorts, we connect, learn, and share our business ideas, challenges, and successes with each other for support, feedback, and encouragement in our process as we put our ideas out into the world while gaining clarity around ideas and tools to help implement our process using the CALM Method of Clarity, Awareness, Learning, and Motion.
✨ NEW✨12-Week Clarity Course & Community OPENING Spring 2021Do You have a business idea but don’t have clarity on the process of creating a plan to get it out into the world? Working with Deb in the 12-Week Clarity Course you’ll learn how to implement the CALM Method, of Clarity, Awareness, Learning, and Motion, with the tools and support of a small group mastermind all starting at the same place and working together to build a business.
Are you a community builder? I currently offer community consulting to help you find calm in the process of building and launching a community. I've worked with over 20 Mighty Hosts who I've helped build and launch on the Mighty Network You can check it out and Join 4 Free Here!
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In this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast, I chat with Mitko Karshovski, the founder of the That Remote Life and 6-Figure Nomad, who ventured to become a digital nomad after learning of the phrase back in 2015. Since then he’s earned enough money to “Quit the Cubical” and become location independent.
He’s traveled internationally all while learning how to earn money through eCommerce, social media marketing, copywriting, web development, coaching, project management, and partnering in leading a marketing agency.
Launching That Remote Life Podcast in 2019, he has been interviewing entrepreneurs from all over the world who share their recipe for a successful online business. He helps remote workers of all levels from freelancers to nine-to-fivers who want to follow in his footsteps.
Recently opening the 6-Figure Nomad, the only community for digital nomad and location independent entrepreneurs based on the Harvard Business School case study method.
Discussed during our interview:
- Stepping into location independence with the intention
- Connecting with a community of fellow entrepreneurs
- Remote life, working from home, creating non-negotiable time
- Starting a business, making six-figures, and becoming that “digital nomad”
- Travel talk about Merida Mexico, this Forbes article lists 10 reasons to visit
About Find Calm Here~ I'm Deb Schell and created Find Calm Here**, a community offering mindful resources for those seeking to find calm through the process of creating their ideal lifestyle. Wanting to share how I've found calm in my life, I connect you to experts who share their methods and practices of how they've found calm in building a business or community through the CALM Method of Clarity, Awareness, Learning, and Motion. This process is how I've paid off $46K, left my 9-5 job, and launched a business in 2020.
I currently offer community consulting and bring together business and community builders in small masterminds to connect, share, learn, and grow. Get on the waitlist for the next opening of our private mastermind group! Sign up HERE Want to build a community? Check out the Mighty Network*, Join 4 Free* Here**!
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In this episode, I share a conversation with Sue Dickens, a tech-savvy content strategist with a passion for helping business owners create content and build an audience online.
Her process of taking concepts to content brings calm by offering a proven process to purposely plan online social media marketing and copy for websites, allowing them to breathe easier knowing there’s a structure that is easy to implement into their busy life.
She offers one-on-one coaching to help entrepreneurs by creating a customized process based on the business goals and needs of the client. Do you have an amazing business the world needs to know about but you are too afraid to put yourself out there? Check out Sue’s 5 STEPS to start creating your content strategy!
You can learn more about Sue on her website, follow her on Instagram, or connect with her on Facebook or LinkedIn
In this episode we discuss:
- How to share content with purpose and intention
- Repurposing content in 14 different ways
- The struggle to wear “all” the hats as a solo entrepreneur
- Finding calm with the process by breaking it down into bite-sized chunks
- Trello boards for project management, time-blocking, and setting non-negotiable time
- Implementing a content strategy that fits your life
- Travel talk, Sue shares her favorite things about Tasmania, Australia
About Find Calm Here~ I'm Deb Schell and created Find Calm Here, a community offering mindful resources for those seeking to find calm through the process of creating their ideal lifestyle. Wanting to share how I've found calm in my life, I connect you to experts who share their methods and practices of how they've found calm in building a business.
Find Calm Here will be offering business development masterminds to support your next business idea. Get on the waitlist for the next opening of our private mastermind groups! Sign up HERE
Want to build a community? Check out the Mighty Network, Join 4 Free Here!
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In this episode, I talk with Tom Norman Founder of the How To Be Human Project. He shares how he launched in 2016 to bring people together by offering them a space to feel like they belong. He’s taken what he’s learned and launched his company Kickstart Your Community to help startups, NGOs, cafes, and musicians take communities from zero to thousands of active members.
Discussed in this episode:
- How Tom built an in-person community and the commonalities between virtual and in-person experiences to spark collaboration and conversation.
- Challenges in building an online community
- Ideas around creating a supportive community with similar interests
- How he leads communities he’s managing and tips for community managers
About Find Calm Here~ I'm Deb Schell and created Find Calm Here, a community offering mindful resources for those seeking to find calm through the process of creating their ideal lifestyle. Wanting to share how I've found calm in my life, I connect you to experts who share their methods and practices of how they've found calm in building a business.
Find Calm Here will be offering business development masterminds to support your next business idea. Get on the waitlist for the next opening of our private mastermind groups! Sign up HERE
Want to build a community? Check out the Mighty Network, Join 4 Free Here!
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**In this episode, Jason Robinson shares his life experiences in finding calm through experiments he’s tried over the years.
He shares these experiences on his YouTube Channel and Blog**
“It’s about having fun and not taking ourselves so damn seriously all the time. It’s about finding your inner badass and defeating the dark side of the Force,” Jason says on his blog.
He had to figure out how to get out of his own way and start exploring and over the past three years, after paying off $50K in debt, he’s challenged himself with international travel. He left a corporate job, learned how to work remotely and become a solopreneur, bought a house, sold that house, bought a van, sold that van, built out his Jeep, and is now he's a digital nomad!
Recently he was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes and has become an advocate for others with the disease. He shares all of these experiences and also shares how he’s been able to balance work, life, and travel all while working within a budget.
In this episode we discuss:
- Strategies and habits that help solopreneurs build a successful business
- Health challenges, illness, and healing from injuries while on the road
- Connecting with a community for support, building up your resilience
- Medical Tourism and how not only affordable dental work can be, but it’s safe!
- His new book, coming soon!
You can follow Jason on Instagram @ thenomadexperiment and on Youtube The Nomad Experiment.
About Find Calm Here~ I'm Deb Schell and created Find Calm Here, a community offering mindful resources for those seeking to find calm through the process of creating their ideal lifestyle. Wanting to share how I've found calm in my life, I connect you to experts who share their methods and practices of how they've found calm in building a business.
Find Calm Here will be offering business development masterminds to support your next business idea. Get on the waitlist for the next opening of our private mastermind groups! Sign up HERE
Want to build a community? Check out the Mighty Network, Join 4 Free Here!
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In this episode, Sarah Isely shares her journey of finding calm by supporting small businesses, investing in culture, discovering what she loves, and sharing her dreams for how to create experiences for families.
Sarah is the founder of Hotel Cataleya, an experience design service and travel membership where your social values meet your vacation goals. With the new challenges that families face while booking travel and the heavy impact that COVID has had on many small businesses that depend on travelers for their revenue, Hotel Cataleya is a service designed to help families travel in a more easeful, meaningful way, and more effortlessly support diversely owned, small business along the way. Sign up for their email list to follow along as they launch their first experiences this year!
Discussed in this episode:
- Energy Leadership Index - 7 levels of energy catabolic/anabolic
- Higher Playbook
- Hotel Cataleya
- Supporting Small Business
- Learning about culture from locals
- Recording of Sarah’s Find Calm with Intention Workshop
About Find Calm Here~ I'm Deb Schell and created Find Calm Here, a community offering mindful resources for those seeking to find calm through the process of creating their ideal lifestyle. Wanting to share how I've found calm in my life, I connect you to experts who share their methods and practices of how they've found calm in building a business.
Find Calm Here will be offering business development masterminds to support your next business idea. Get on the waitlist for the next opening of our private mastermind groups! Sign up HERE
Want to build a community? Check out the Mighty Network, Join 4 Free Here!
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In this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast, I speak with Nelia Hutt, Co-Founder of TravelLiveGive.com and host of the Giving Starts with You **Podcast. We recently connected to chat about how she's found calm through the process of building her podcast, and how she's taken on challenges in her personal life with grace and gratitude for the journey.
Mentioned in this episode:**
- Free Gift Discover Your Purpose
- Pick a Passion and GO Ebook
- Giving Starts with You Podcast
- Find Calm Here Community
- Business Development Mastermind Waitlist
About Find Calm Here~ I'm Deb Schell and created Find Calm Here, a community offering mindful resources for those seeking to find calm through the process of creating their ideal lifestyle. Wanting to share how I've found calm in my life, I connect you to experts who share their methods and practices of how they've found calm in building a business.
Find Calm Here will be offering business development masterminds to support your next business idea. Get on the waitlist for the next opening of our private mastermind groups! Sign up HERE
Want to build a community? Check out the Mighty Network, Join 4 Free Here!
Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/debschell)
In this podcast episode, I talk with Joanne Flynn Black, Founder of Launchb4 about launching, leading, and learning along the way. In her community, she brings together women on a mission to create something bigger than themselves. She helps members make savvy decisions about tech tools to launch and grow businesses or projects so that they can put the "thing" they’ve been dreaming about out into the world without fear and be the "badass selves" they know they are deep down.
As mentioned in this episode
- Mighty Network, Join 4 Free Here!
- From Vision to Action Plan Course can help you jumpstart your year!
- Sharing video messages with Marco Polo Channel
- Follow Joanne: IG @jflynnblack, FB @launchb4, LinkedIn @JoanneFlynnBlack
- Bee Varga the hula hooper, IG @beevargathehulahooper
- Side Hustle Success Challenge - OWN with Trav
- Gina Cerbone - Body Rejuvenation Program
- Laughter Yoga
- Emmy Wu - Video
About Find Calm Here~ I'm Deb Schell and created Find Calm Here, a community offering mindful resources for those seeking to find calm through the process of creating their ideal lifestyle. Wanting to share how I've found calm in my life, I connect you to experts who share their methods and practices of how they've found calm in building a business.
Find Calm Here will be offering business development masterminds to support your next business idea. Get on the waitlist for the next opening of our private mastermind groups! Sign up HERE
Want to build a community? Check out the Mighty Network, Join 4 Free Here!
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In this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast Deb share's her word for 2021, past words that have lead to massive action, and the process to help you identify your WORD for 2021.
Here's the link to the full blog post and the link to my Year In Review
Mentioned in this podcast:
- Traveling Jackie's JUMP Podcast
- Location Indie Community
- My Personal Blog, Capture My Best Life
- 2021 MASTERMIND WAITLIST
- Find Calm Here Community
Find Calm Here is an online community offering resources to help you find calm in building a business and creating financial freedom to live the lifestyle of your dreams. We believe it is possible to find calm in the process of creating, growing, and building a business, and connect you with others who share their journey in our private global community.
When you join the Find Calm Here Community you’ll find over 30 workshops we’ve held in 2020 to help you implement the CALM Method of Clarity, Awareness, Learning, and Motion.
Find Calm Here Podcast offers stories of our members and others who’ve found calm through the process of building and growing a business. Podcast Host Deb Schell is the creator of Find Calm Here, a community offering mindful resources for those seeking to find calm through the process of creating their ideal lifestyle.
She interviews entrepreneurs to learn how they’ve found calm through the process of creating and growing a business. Inside the Find Calm Here Community, she offers members a safe space to continue the conversations around her uniquely designed C A L M Method of Clarity, Awareness, Learning, and Motion. This process is how Deb paid off $46K of debt, left her stressful corporate job, and built an online business during the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic.
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If you’ve never experienced floating before, or have no idea what that is, or you are a regular to a float spa, this episode is one you don’t want to miss. I recently went down to Baltimore for the weekend and experienced the Red Lotus Float Spa for myself, meeting Marie Bittinger, the co-owner. We had chatted after my float and I later invited her to share her story here in this interview.
Marie started manifesting Red Lotus Float Spa in January of 2018 and has been running the operations with the help of her husband and three part-time employees since opening in November of 2019. Her mission is to create a safe atmosphere that nurtures mindful reflection, curiosity, playfulness, and healing.
Floating is a form of sensory deprivation. And, while that may sound scary on the surface, the reduction of our external senses, allows the mind and body to focus on itself, creating what some describe to be a “euphoric” experience or sensory enhancement. Flotation Therapy provides an array of benefits depending on your wellness goals. Whether you are looking to detox, recover or meditate, floating can be an important component in balancing your health.
Links to articles and videos about benefits of floating:
CBS This Morning - How sensory deprivation and floating impacts the brain
BBC News - Clinical Floatation
In this interview we discuss:
- What floating is, how it works, and the benefits it brings
- How Marie took this idea from conception to reality
- The importance of knowing your “Why” for business
- When to launch a new business and what’s involved before “opening”
- Opening a business right before COVID-19
- Business and personal mindset for being an entrepreneur
Learn More about Marie on her website.
About Find Calm Here~ I'm Deb Schell and created Find Calm Here, a community offering mindful resources for those seeking to find calm through the process of creating their ideal lifestyle. Wanting to share how I've found calm in my life, I connect you to experts who share their methods and practices of how they've found calm in building a business.
Beginning in 2021, Find Calm Here will be offering business development masterminds to support your next business idea. Get on the waitlist for the next opening of our private mastermind groups! Sign up HERE
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On this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast, I interview Susan Michal, a professional photographer, and photographic artist I recently met and discovered our mutual love of photography. Her artwork brings calm to thousands who view her work online and at gallery exhibits she's hosted in Florida. She's currently offering a 12-day Holiday Giveaway
Entering is easy and there are lots of great prizes to win from now until Christmas.
Click HERE to learn more.
In this episode we discuss:
- Identifying struggles that artists face including standing out and being authentic
- Finding calm with self-confidence and letting go of others' expectations
- Applying life experience to career shifts for success in any field
- Finding calm in the business of art and sales
- Transitioning from creator to teacher
- Mindest and strategy to be a successful artistic photographer
An internationally published, award-winning artist, Susan’s unique and compelling images have been used in calendars, greeting cards, and posters around the world. Her art has been displayed in prestigious galleries, corporate locations, and prominent homes.
She is the author of two books highlighting her work, Flowers in Transition and Dancers in Motion. Susan was a contributor to Wowsdom, a book that empowers teen women, and a variety of industry-related publications. She is a respected lecturer both in her community and within professional photographic associations around the world.
Susan has served as President and Chairman of the Board for Professional Photographers of America. She holds a Master Craftsman Degree in photography and is certified by the Professional Photographers of America. Susan is one of only 135 photographers to receive the prestigious fellowship from The American Society of Photographers and is a member of the Society of 25.
You can learn more and subscribe to her newsletter here.
Susan is part of a Find Calm Here 90-day mastermind for business and development. If you are interested in joining a mastermind, connect inside the community, and share your interest. A waitlist for the next 90-day mastermind will be opening in March.
Want to join us? Membership is FREE! You’ll have access to more than 30 hours of workshops that we’ve hosted on various topics around finding calm including; energy, intuition, intention, affirmations, nutrition, fitness, routines, habits, mindset, minimalism, morning routines, strength, organization, and more!
About Find Calm Here~ I'm Deb Schell and created Find Calm Here, a community offering mindful resources for those seeking to find calm through the process of creating their ideal lifestyle. Wanting to share how I've found calm in my life, I connect you to experts who share their methods and practices of how they've found calm.
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An Interview with Deb Schell – Writer, Photographer, Podcast Host, and creator of the CALM method for finding calm and happiness through Clarity, Awareness, Learning, and Motion.
In this interview, Carol learns how Deb Schell turned her life around and found a sense of calm that she has shared with many others through her Find Calm Here Community. Self-examination helped Deb find the courage to ask hard questions that opened her eyes to finding a path to calm and happiness. In doing so, she realized that her environment and past habits were holding her back from feeling empowered. Deb explains how the elements of Clarity, Awareness, Learning, and Motion helped her manage stress, leave the corporate world, find financial freedom, and create an environment of calm.
Show Notes:
- Waiting vs. Starting – “Stop wishing and go create!”
- Stepping into confidence
- Honoring self over people-pleasing
- Physical environment – clutter and placement
- Paying attention to relationships
- The power of choosing a word for the year
- The road to sharing the Find Calm Here message
- Creating a welcome warm space
Deb has created the Find Calm Here community where members are welcomed warmly and offered monthly interactive meetings in an atmosphere of wellness and encouragement for living a life of Calm and Empowerment. Find Calm Here Community on Mighty Networks
Want to join us? Membership is FREE! You’ll have access to more than 30 hours of workshops that we’ve hosted on various topics around finding calm including; energy, intuition, intention, affirmations, nutrition, fitness, routines, habits, mindset, minimalism, morning routines, strength, organization, and more!
Leading a heart-centered life is something that might not be top of mind right now, but incorporating small mindful actions and practices can allow us to step out into the world with a positive, compassionate, kindness to share with others.
Join the Find Calm Here Community at 7 PM Eastern on Wednesday, December 16th to learn about how to Find Calm with Heart, led by Carol Chapman. Join us for this upcoming LIVE workshop by registering in advance for this meeting here
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In this Find Calm Here Podcast episode, I speak with Sandy Wang, a Find Calm Here Community **Member who shares what she's done to create calm in her own life, and what she's enjoyed about the community since it opened back in the spring of 2020.
“Deb summed it up for me during our call today: When you gain clarity, it takes away the anxiety, and that’s how you find calm… I’ve been feeling motivated recently after finding calm in my time management/procrastination issue. I could finally set goals for myself because I’m less anxious. Deb has created an amazing community called “*Find Calm Here.*” It’s only been less than a month since I’ve joined, but I’ve got so much support from her and others in the community!”- Sandy
You can follow Sandy on Instagram** @passportwalletgo
Want to join us? Membership is FREE! **You’ll have access to more than 30 hours of workshops that we’ve hosted on various topics around finding calm including; energy, intuition, intention, affirmations, nutrition, fitness, routines, habits, mindset, minimalism, morning routines, strength, organization, and more!
About Find Calm Here~ I'm Deb Schell and created Find Calm Here**, a community offering mindful resources for those seeking to find calm through the process of creating their ideal lifestyle. Wanting to share how I've found calm in my life, I connect you to experts who share their methods and practices of how they've found calm.
Want to build a community? Check out the Mighty Network, Join 4 Free Here!
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Leading a heart-centered life is something that might not be top of mind right now, but incorporating small mindful actions and practices can allow us to step out into the world with a positive, compassionate, kindness to share with others.
Join the Find Calm Here Community at 7 PM Eastern on Wednesday, December 16th to learn about how to Find Calm with Heart, led by Carol Chapman.
In this episode, I speak with Carol about her experience in learning how to live a heart-centered life and how that brings calm to her life, work, and personal experiences.
Join us for this upcoming LIVE workshop by registering in advance for this meeting here
About Carol- “I’m Chief Consciousness Catalyst, and co-founder of Hearts Rise Up. I am also the host of the Hearts Rise Up Podcast, and an author, writer, and speaker. Hearts Rise Up is a community of impassioned consciousness warriors committed to self-discovery, expanded awareness, and self-mastery. We provide courses, coaching, guided meditations, and a transformative community that enables everyone to realize true Freedom, fully inhabit the present moment, and lead a heart-centered life of unconditional love that heals and transforms the world. Visit my website at Hearts Rise Up. I’ve found that meditation, positive psychology practices, regular exercise, and the outdoors help me find calm in my daily life. I am a certified coach, certified coach, and trainer in Emotional Intelligence, have a certificate in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).”
About Find Calm Here~Deb Schell is the creator of Find Calm Here, a community offering mindful resources for those seeking to find calm through the process of creating their ideal lifestyle.
Inside the Find Calm Here Community, she offers members a safe space to continue the conversations around her uniquely designed Method for C A L M. (Clarity, Awareness, Learning, and Motion). This process is how Deb paid off $46K of debt, left her stressful corporate job, and built an online business during the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic.
Join our FREE FCH Community on the Mighty Network and connect with over 130 members in our global community.
You’ll have access to more than 30 hours of workshops that we’ve hosted on various topics around finding calm including; energy, intuition, intention, affirmations, nutrition, fitness, routines, habits, mindset, minimalism, morning routines, strength, organization, and more!
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Create calm in your life by tapping into your own happiness. Spend an hour with Bitsy McCann, self-proclaimed Happiness Expert, and Find Calm Here partner, as she walks you through your own happiness exploration.
Join the Find Calm Here Community to attend this talk (Dec 9th @ 7 pm) for free, register here.
In this podcast episode, I talk with Bitsy about how she’s created happiness in life and how she can help you if you struggle to find your happiness during this upcoming workshop.
About our fearless leader~” My name is Bitsy, and I’m a strategic branding, marketing, and graphic design professional. Though I absolutely love my work, I am even more passionate about connecting with people and helping them see the beauty and magic within themselves. It’s not always easy to love yourself where you’re at, but it is absolutely possible (and necessary!). If you need a little bit of guidance on how to show yourself how amazing you are, I would be overjoyed to assist.”
About Find Calm Here~Deb Schell is the creator of Find Calm Here, a community offering mindful resources for those seeking to find calm through the process of creating their ideal lifestyle.
Inside the Find Calm Here Community, she offers members a safe space to continue the conversations around her uniquely designed Method for C A L M. (Clarity, Awareness, Learning, and Motion). This process is how Deb paid off $46K of debt, left her stressful corporate job, and built an online business during the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic.
Join our FREE FCH Community on the Mighty Network and connect with over 100 members in our global community.
You’ll have access to more than 30 hours of workshops that we’ve hosted on various topics around finding calm including; energy, intuition, intention, affirmations, nutrition, fitness, routines, habits, mindset, minimalism, morning routines, strength, organization, and more!
Want to build a community? Check out the Mighty Network, Join 4 Free Here!
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On this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast, I talk with Jesse Harless about the upcoming LIVE Workshop. Jesse shares his methods of how he finds calm with resilience talk about his book Smash Your Comfort Zone With Cold Showers, and how he helps people through his transformational workshops.
If you are interested, you can join a call with Jesse during the upcoming Interactive Resilience Workshop to tap into your individual and collective strengths inside this community.
At 7 PM Eastern on Wednesday, December 2nd, Jesse Harless will lead us through the creation of an empowering sentence of resilience which is turned into a personal resilience affirmation. This is followed by an action plan that embodies resilience for success in life and recovery.
About Jesse Harless ~“I’m Jesse, and I’m a leader in the addiction recovery and mental health space. My passion is to help individuals and organizations share their voices in order to co-create a better world for us all. I facilitate highly interactive online and in-person events to help individuals and organizations discover their inherent ability to increase coherence, build resilience, harness strengths, amplify appreciation, and create purposeful visions. I’m also a life coach who emphasizes spiritual growth as a way for someone to realize their dreams. I started Entrepreneurs in Recovery® in 2017 as a way to transform the lives of 5000 men and women in addiction recovery through one-on-one coaching, facilitation, and speaking.”
Register in advance for this meeting HERE, I hope you'll join us!
About Find Calm Here~Deb Schell is the creator of Find Calm Here, a community offering mindful resources for those seeking to find calm through the process of creating their ideal lifestyle.
Inside the Find Calm Here Community, she offers members a safe space to continue the conversations around her uniquely designed Method for C A L M. (Clarity, Awareness, Learning, and Motion). This process is how Deb paid off $46K of debt, left her stressful corporate job, and built an online business during the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic.
Join our FREE FCH Community **and connect with over 120 members in our global community.
You'll have access to more than 30 hours of workshops that we've hosted on various topics around finding calm including; energy, intuition, intention, affirmations, nutrition, fitness, routines, habits, mindset, minimalism, organization, and more!
Want to build a community? Check out the Mighty Network*, Join 4 Free* Here**!
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On this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast, I share my gratitude for the many people who've helped support the creation and implementation of the Find Calm Here Community, live workshops, and interactive virtual events throughout the past year.
If you are new here, I’d like to take you through the journey of how this community was built, and give credit to those who’ve helped support this little idea I’ve had into what it is today, and what I hope it will become for the future.
The very first Find Calm Here “event” was an “open house” at my apartment, to share how I’ve created a space of calm, with the products and services I’ve come to depend on for helping me get through tough days, deal with depression, cope with loneliness, and become resilient.
A close friend, Lisa, who started her own interior design company, helped me create a mood board for my apartment.
Years of learning the benefits of essential oils, thanks to my friend Leah, I invited her to speak about how essential oils have helped her manage stress and offer relief for physical and emotional ailments.
A dear friend, Elaine is a brilliant painter and mixed-media artist who’s been a bright light in some dark times. Her friendship has been really valuable to me and when seeing a piece that fits perfectly, I knew it was right.
Attending the workshop, she shared her unique process and detailed this piece for inspiring others to incorporate meaningful artwork intentionally in their spaces for finding calm
Karen, a yoga instructor, mindfulness teacher, and personal friend has held space for me to share my deepest darkest feelings and bring not only light, energy, and awareness, but offered to share her Balanced Life approach during our workshop. Her ability to bring us into the present brings a sense of calm and was a delight during this workshop.
Since April, we’ve had over 30 virtual workshops
It is with this gratitude that I ask you to join us inside the private community, where I’ll be looking to you for how I can help you this coming year
You’ve helped me by just showing up, contributing with comments, sharing with resources, and guiding us with your story of calm.
Thank you so very much, I’m grateful for each and everyone who’s been a part of Find Calm Here this year!
Find Calm Here is an online community offering resources to build mindful habits by hosting interactive workshops and cultivating conversations around self-care practices, healthy lifestyles, and creating positive mindsets focused on helping you find calm.
I hope you’ll join us for our upcoming workshops.
Here is the December Newsletter
12/2 Find Calm through Resilience
12/9 Find Calm with Happiness
12/16
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**How would you feel if you could create time in your morning for getting clear on your life goals, activate awareness, generate energy, awaken awareness for change, create hope, and empower yourself to follow your dreams?
In this episode, I chat with Michelle Pijuan about her experience creating calm by waking up early for building her dream lifestyle.
She now helps clients build this daily habit for creating change, inspiring hope, and cultivating joy into their day!
We preview the upcoming Find Calm Here Event, Find Calm with Sunrise: Add a Day to your Week Just for YOU! About Michelle ~
“I’m a Career Coach helping women define their passion and purpose with actionable goals and a clear new career path through a mentorship program I’ve titled The Best Age Is Now. I’ve found that women, especially moms have a very hard time making time for their professional and personal growth.
I’ve come up with a Sunrise Challenge showing them how to add an hour to their day by waking up with the sunrise and following a glorious new routine helping us women find calm in our personal and professional life. I am a Certified Mentor & Coach, past Corporate Business MBA Executive, and Recovered Perfectionist."
If you are interested in creating a morning routine but don’t know where to start, join the Find Calm Here Community at 7 PM Eastern, on Wednesday, November 18 for this LIVE Workshop, Find Calm with the Sunrise: Add a Day To Your Week Just for YOU.**
Register Here
About Find Calm Here~Deb Schell is the creator of Find Calm Here, a community offering mindful resources for those seeking to find calm through the process of creating their ideal lifestyle.
Inside the Find Calm Here Community, she offers members a safe space to continue the conversations around her uniquely designed Method for C A L M. (Clarity, Awareness, Learning, and Motion). This process is how Deb paid off $46K of debt, left her stressful corporate job, and built an online business during the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic.
Join our FREE FCH Community **and connect with over 120 members in our global community.
You'll have access to more than 30 hours of workshops that we've hosted on various topics around finding calm including; energy, intuition, intention, affirmations, nutrition, fitness, routines, habits, mindset, minimalism, organization, and more!
Want to build a community? Check out the Mighty Network*, Join 4 Free* Here**!
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If you’ve ever wanted to experience the calm that comes from hiking in nature, you’ll want to join the Find Calm Here Community at 7 PM Eastern on Wednesday, November 11th with our Find Calm Here partner, Ross Taylor.Register HERE!
Join the Find Calm Here Community during this Interactive Workshop will offer resources and support to get you hiking.
Ross Taylor is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and helps professionals improve their visual communication skillset. He’s also an avid hiker who I met several years ago through a mentorship program with the National Press Photographers Association when I was a full-time reporter and photojournalist. Over the years, I’ve followed his career, taking him from Virginia to Colorado while he also takes hiking to a new level.
He says: “I’ve found that while I love this type of work, hiking and the outdoors **helps me find calm in many aspects of my life. I find it most when above treeline, around 13,000-14,000′ of elevation. However, just being outside on any hike helps clear my mind and calm my day.”
In the Find Calm Here Community*, we believe that it is possible to find calm in building a business, designing personal wellness, and creating financial freedom to live the lifestyle of your dreams.* Find Calm Here is an online community offering resources to learn, grow, and build mindful habits focused on helping you find calm.
About Us~*Deb Schell* is the creator of Find Calm Here**, a community offering mindful resources for those seeking to find calm through the process of creating their ideal lifestyle.
With the experiences she's found helped her, she helps others incorporate a sense of peace through the process of developing a wellness practice, building a business, and achieving financial freedom.
She hosts a podcast and monthly interactive workshops with experts who share how they've found calm through these modalities. Inside the Find Calm Here Community, she offers members a safe space to continue the conversations around her uniquely designed Method for C A L M. (Clarity, Awareness, Learning, and Motion). This process is how Deb paid off $46K of debt, left her stressful corporate job, and built an online business during the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic.Register HERE for Find Calm with Hiking, Wednesday at 7 PM Eastern
Join our FREE FCH Community **and connect with over 120 members in our global community. You'll have access to more than 30 hours of workshops that we've hosted on various topics around finding calm including; energy, intuition, intention, affirmations, nutrition, fitness, routines, habits, mindset, minimalism, organization, and more!
Want to build a community? Check out the Mighty Network**, Join 4 Fr
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Enjoy this Find Calm Here Partner Preview for our upcoming Find Calm Here LIVE Virtual Event, Find Calm with Feeding Kids.
Join The Feeding Well founder Amelia Sherry, RDN as she shares tips and tools from pediatric nutritionists and family therapists that help create mealtime peace.
In this live conversation at 7 PM Eastern on Wednesday, November 4th participants will learn evidence-based approaches to feeding kids that help:
*Decrease pickiness
*Increase fruit and vegetable intake
*Improve kids’ eating competence and self-esteem
*Reduce mealtime stress
*Help children reach a healthy body weight
*Reduce shame around foods and eating
Register in advance for this meeting HERE
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
About Amelia~
**"Feeling good about meals and food has gotten surprisingly hard for many families! As a pediatric dietitian, I've counseled thousands of parents on tough-to-solve eating issues, including balancing weight (both gaining and losing), increasing fruits and vegetables, and simply developing a healthy, balanced attitude towards eating and food. To get the best results for families, I rely on evidence-based approaches to feeding. I have a master's degree in public health nutrition (MPH), am a registered dietitian (RD), certified dietitian nutritionist (CDN), and certified diabetes care and education specialist (CDCES). I'm excited to share my experience with the Find Calm Here Community."
We believe that it is possible to find calm in building a business, designing personal wellness, and creating financial freedom to live the lifestyle of your dreams. Find Calm Here is an online community offering resources to learn, grow, and build mindful habits focused on helping you find calm.**
About Us- My name is Deb Schell and I’m the Founder of Find Calm Here. With experience in creating calm in my life through healthy and mindful habits, I wanted to share what I’d learned with others in my community. I do this by hosting Weekly LIVE 360 Interactive Virtual Events to dive into modalities to connect you with resources to find calm.
You can watch the past events on our YouTube Channel
We are launching a FREE Mindful Challenge in the Find Calm Here Community that YOU can join to gain awareness on YOUR ideal lifestyle! You can get on the WAITLIST HERE
I will help you FIND CALM faster and help you ACHIEVE YOUR DREAM LIFESTYLE
No matter where you are on your ideal lifestyle journey, this challenge will help you discover that it is possible to find calm in building a business, designing a wellness practice, and achieving financial freedom.
Interested in learning more about the Mighty Network? Reach out to me for a FREE Discovery Call!
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Do you struggle with a never-ending to-do list?Are you looking for a way to organize and complete all the tasks that you have in your mind?Join the Find Calm Here Community on Wednesday, October 28 at 7 PM EST for a chat with our Find Calm Here Partner, Stephanie Lay.She will share her strategies for Finding Calm with Journaling, with a focus on her Bullet Journal method.Come learn about how she utilizes her journal to organize her daily tasks, record gratitude, and track her habits, which can be applied to many different areas of life, such as health and nutrition and other mindful practices.This 360 Interactive Experience will offer resources and support to get you journaling. We will be asking some questions for you to journal and then share with a partner in a breakout room to help you identify how to get started for finding calm.You can share your favorite journals and support others who are just starting out by offering your experiences.You are invited to a Zoom meeting.When: Oct 28, 2020, 07:00 PM Eastern Time (the US and Canada)Register in advance for this meeting: Click Here(We only use your email to communicate with you in regards to this event and it is not shared with third-party companies or entities.)After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Find Calm Here- https://findcalmhere.com/
We believe that it is possible to find calm in building a business, designing personal wellness, and creating financial freedom to live the lifestyle of your dreams. Find Calm Here is an online community offering resources to learn, grow, and build mindful habits by hosting virtual events and cultivating conversations around time management, business success, healthy lifestyles, building resilience, stress management, and positive mindsets focused on helping you find calm.
About Us- My name is Deb Schell and I’m the Founder of Find Calm Here. With experience in creating calm in my life through healthy and mindful habits, I wanted to share what I’d learned with others in my community. I do this by hosting Weekly LIVE 360 Interactive Virtual Events to dive into modalities to connect you with resources to find calm.
Virtual Events - https://findcalmhere.com/finding-calm-virtual-events/
Podcast- https://findcalmherepodcast.buzzsprout.com/
Blog - https://findcalmhere.com/blog/
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Are you stressed about money? Does even the mention of budgeting sir up anxiety? We will be helping you find calm with money during our upcoming FREE Live Virtual 360 Interactive Event, Find Calm with Budgeting lead by FCH Partner Ryan Sefko.Join the Find Calm Here Community on Wednesday, October 21st at 7 PM EST to chat about how to find calm with setting a budget and getting clear on your income goals.This 360 Interactive Experience will offer resources and support to help you create and stick to a budget. We will be asking some questions for you to journal and then share with a partner in a breakout room to help you identify how to get started for finding calm. You can share your stories of success, resources you use for budgeting and support others who are just starting out by offering your experiences.About Ryan“I’m just an ordinary guy that loves earning, saving, and planning for my eventual exit from the rat race all while living a fulfilling life. I really enjoy helping others to do the same, especially when they feel like money, and thinking about finances gives them anxiety and panic. I’ve found that having a crystal clear view of money helps me to find calm and improves many aspects of my life. I’m spent over a decade invested in learning, testing, and sharing my knowledge on building a solid financial foundation even though all the hurdles life throws at us. I’m excited to contribute my experience with the Find Calm Here Community.”When: Oct 21, 2020, 07:00 PM Eastern Time (the US and Canada)Register in advance for this meeting:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvc-mqpjguH9z4XP2GsbJMbWOzKxLzGNp9After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/debschell)
Find Calm Here Partner Gary Ware and FCH Event Host Deb Schell chat about the upcoming LIVE VIrtual Event, Find Calm with Public Speaking. Come laugh as we play improv games in this brief interview! Want in on the fun? You'll have to join us Wednesday for our interactive call!
If you’ve ever wanted to gain courage for public speaking, we have an awesome special event for the Find Calm Here Community! Our FCH Partner Gary Ware will lead us through how to find calm with improv to find public speaking not only fun but calm as well! Join us for this awesome interactive event!
About Gary- I’m a creative catalyst that harnesses the power of applied improvisation and play. I provide workshops and coaching to busy professionals like yourself who are looking for ways to become more creative, confident, charismatic, or chill. I have found that my practice of LEGO building and meditation helps me find calm in many aspects of my life. I am certified in Laughter Yoga, Applied Improvisation, and working on finishing my hours for my Professional Coaching Certification through the International Coaching Federation.
Check out my website, and find me on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.”
Join Gary during the FREE LIVE Virtual Event, Find Calm with Public Speaking, at 7 PM on Wednesday, October 14
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https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0udO-gpzspE9Wmh_TVxhqiKEiV8klFkHXK
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Looking to ditch the 9-5 but don’t know how? Join us for the free virtual event, Find Calm with Location Independence where we will discuss options if you haven’t got a clue on how to start on your digital nomad lifestyle. Join us on Wednesday, October 7th at 7 PM EST for a conversation with Find Calm Here Partner Rachel Story.
About Rachel
“I’m an ESL teacher and content creator who wants to help you in your journey to location independence and the ability to work from anywhere. I’m passionate about helping you create a lifestyle that gives you more time for the things you love. And if you haven’t quite found your true passion yet, I want to help you discover that as well! I love live music and have built my lifestyle in a way that allows me to enjoy it whenever I please while also being able to explore new places in between going to concerts and music festivals. I’ve found that my love for music has helped me find calm in many aspects of my life. My job as an online English teacher has given me the time and resources to fully enjoy my favorite things in life and I want to help you do the same.
Head to my blog Grateful Gypsies to learn more or come say hi on Facebook or Instagram!”
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https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMlduuvqj0pGdB5ayW_DzbrKy5FyfVu7V4F
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