So about a week ago, I went from a Freemium watercolor painting community to making my standard tier $7. I know one week is a short time, but what I’ve learned so far is interesting: 1. My healthy stream of free members is now at a standstill. But I did expect that. 2. Growth Boost picked me up and folks started seeing me in ads within hours of making my community paid. TY those of you who sent me messages about this! 🙏 3. There was some website, IG, YouTube, Pinterest, and post copy to change/shift to reflect the 7 day free trial rather than free entry to the group. 4. I have a brand new YouTube video on my channel that talks about my free group (maybe before I made the group paid) and I’ll probably have to hide it for a while… 5. I’m focusing the energy I was using to welcome new members, on free members who may not know what premium or VIP can do for them. Right now, paid seems harder because - Despite some major growth boost ads, no $7 sales yet. - I feel like I’m speaking to 4 separate groups now instead of 3, and there were some significant changes to make not only in my copy, but in my positioning. I know it’s only been a week, but I’m really missing Freemium. Especially after listening to @Brenda Rigney’s new YouTube video on why her free groups are making more than her paid ones. Thankfully, this was just an experiment and I can change it back to Freemium anytime. Brenda, or some of you with paid groups, maybe you have some tips? 😊 Should I it more time? Or call it quits?

I'm back at my kitchen island (with Sadie asleep at my feet), ready to get to work on our plans for August. Here's what's coming up in my three communities by August 10, 2026 (take your time - I've never added so many links to one message!!) 📣 Level 5 Members: - As a Level 5 member in any of my communities you can apply to speak or be a contributor in our communities Summits, Bundles and Mentor Programs - We'll have two summits: AI-Driven Business Community and Skool Scale Camp - To apply to be a Premium Mentor, please review requirements here. 🚀 Skool Summit Community: - We're increasing the price to $15/month and offering an annual VIP offer at a 40% savings at $108 - We have our Bundle Debrief session coming up on August 14 where I'll debrief the learnings from the recent Communities to Cashflow Bundle, and also share my Fall prep plan for 2 summits and 1 bundle in Q3/4. ⛺️ Skool Scale Camp: - Our Premium membership is increasing to $79/month and $380/year for VIP. Upgrade here - We are starting Week 4 of our How to Host a Summit of our Skool 9 week project for VIP's and launched Tech Systems Calls with Lawson Lim - I'm currently back resuming VIP community audits with members now that I am back from Europe - We'll have another 5-6 week project starting in October - to be announced - Launching Premium Mentor workshops focused on supporting midlife women entrepreneurs in their domains of wealth, health, nutrition and wellness, relationships, and more!! - stay tuned in the Calendar

…on how to run summits (and bundles) on Skool! Join me on July 3 at 8am PT | 11am ET for my Summit Debrief Session. I’m going through how I come up with my summit ideas, pitching speakers, delivering on the details and walk away with $10-15k from the event alone…never mind upgrading members to Premium and VIP membership tiers. How much? $9 in the Skool Summit Community: https://www.skool.com/the-skool-summit-community-4445/about?ref=8533a3b0fbe24101b9d035dc55d5670e (My ⭐️ new community) You can stay and get your summit launched this Fall. Or stay right here in the Skool Scale Camp as a VIP member, and work with me in our Summit Summer Project for 8 weeks. Each week we’ll tackle a step towards launching your summit on Skool this Fall!! I seriously can’t wait to see every member running a summit on skool!! Let’s get Sam Ovens stunned!!

Get ready!! The Built To Be Seen Summit - A Spring Activation for Women Building Relevant, Scalable Businesses on Skool is kicking off on March 30, 31 and April 1 50+ Speakers, Experts and Coaches Tools & Resources to Launch and Scale Your Skool Community 3 Days with LIVE and recorded training sessions Check out our LIVE speakers in the Classroom now ** Calendar and All Speakers coming out this week