I would love your feedback please wise and wonderful Skoologists. I am making some changes in my community to bring in more benefits and value for our members. We started off as a forest regeneration group to try and help financially support our efforts, but switching to a much more member-centric approach with the profits still going to the forest project. This community is also to share our ever evolving story to help support and inspire others. Background: The new community concept follows our personal story. We started with our family recycling, swapping our supermarket shampoo for a natural shampoo bar and evolved over time to an 850 acre forest regeneration project, nature accommodation, and following our personal dreams/goals/vision that is evolving into something truly magickal and well beyond anything we initially imagined. It will be a group that meets you where you are at. We start small ..... for example, take one product in your home that is about to run out and see if you can find a healthier/more environmentally friendly alternative. We won't tell you what to buy, but we will support you and teach you what to look for so you can be a conscious and informed consumer. You can stay there or you we can take you deeper. How to make your own products,, do you even need this product? and so on. As this evolves we encourage our members to think, if I can change this in my home, what can I change in my personal life, career, wider community. What is one small meaningful change I can make that will ripple out to something more in alignment for the life and world that I want to live in? The name and tag lines I have come up with that feel the strongest are: Community Name: Start Small. Live Well. Tag Line: Practical choices. Conscious living. Benefits (to get people to have a look in): Save Money • Save Time • Healthier Home • Healthier You I am, what some might call, 'woo woo' so as far as the name goes this is me trying to be a little bit 'normal' and work in with Discovery, algorithms and all that stuff.

I shared this yesterday in another community, and Donna suggested I bring it here and share a little more of what I’m actually testing. I created Lighter as a 7-day guided mental load reset, and before deciding what comes next with it, I wanted to get it into the hands of a few women and hear about their actual experience. I’m especially curious to learn: - What feels genuinely helpful during the 7 days - What they actually use vs. what they don’t - What feels unclear or could be simpler And how they feel at the end of the experience It’s for women who are tired of carrying all the plans, reminders and invisible things in their heads. In exchange, I’m simply looking for honest feedback on the experience. Comment “LIGHTER” if you’d like to try it. I’ll send the free access privately. And I’ll come back and share what I learn from the test! 💕 Thank you🫶

Sometimes the build needs a conversation, not another answer. Todd and I had a conversation with @Helen Harris today about what’s changing inside My Tree Legacy. She came in with LOTS of thoughts. 😂 A bigger vision was emerging, but with it came questions about who the community is for, what she wants people to experience, what stays, what changes, and how all the pieces might fit together. All the pieces were there. They were just whirling around in her head at the same time. I believe this is a part of building we don’t talk about enough. Sometimes you don’t need someone to tell you what to do. You need somewhere to say the half-formed idea out loud. Someone to ask: 🌿What do you mean by that? 🌿What if you looked at it this way? 🌿What part of this feels most like you? 🌿What are you trying to protect? 🌿What could you test before deciding? At one point, Todd threw out a thought that sent Helen in a completely different direction with her thinking. Was it the answer? We have no idea. 😂 That wasn’t the point. It opened another door. Sometimes that’s exactly what a good conversation does. By the end, Helen hadn’t walked away with a perfectly packaged new community. Good. She walked away with more clarity, new questions to explore, a few things she wants to test, and permission to keep playing with the possibilities. She also realized something about content that I think is going to matter for her. Helen has a VERY full life. Trying to carve out extra time to “create content” could easily become another job. But she’s already living the stories. Khemeia Valley. Homeschooling. Regenerating the land. Growing food. Experiments that work. Experiments that don’t. The choices her family makes and why. So instead of asking: “What content should I create?” We started wondering: What if the content is already happening? Maybe the practice is simply getting better at noticing it and bringing people along. That’s the build sometimes.

There's a quiet difference between an invitation and a sales pitch, and it changes everything about how it feels to ask someone to join what you've built. An invitation is simple. Here's the community I've made, here's what it's for, here's what it costs. I'd love for you to be part of it. Then you let the person choose. Persuading is different. Persuading is trying to manage their answer, handle the objections, say the right things so the no never comes. And here's the strange part: persuading usually feels safer, because if you can just convince them, you never have to sit in that vulnerable moment of offering something real and letting it be freely turned down. But persuading costs more than an honest invitation ever does. It's exhausting, because now the outcome is your job to control. It quietly turns the person in front of you into a target instead of a guest. And underneath it, persuading whispers something you don't actually believe: that what you've built can't stand on its own, so you'd better push it across the line. That's not how belonging works, though. You can't manipulate someone into truly belonging somewhere. You can only invite them, honestly, and let them feel whether it's for them. An invitation trusts what you've built, and it trusts the person to know their own yes. That freedom isn't a weakness in the ask. It's the whole integrity of it. There's a quiet test in here, too. If you can only bring yourself to invite someone when you're sure they'll say yes, that's not really an invitation. It's collecting a guaranteed win. A real invitation includes the possibility of no. That's what makes it honest. And honestly, that's what makes it kind. So here's what I'll leave you to ponder in your own community. When the moment comes to bring someone in, are you inviting, or are you persuading? And what might change, for you and for the people you're inviting, if you trusted what you've built enough to simply hold the door open, and let them decide whether to walk through?

What happens when you ask an experienced builder: "Knowing what you know now, what would you do differently?" You'd better be ready for the answer. 😂 We recently went Behind the Build with @Michael Wacht, builder of AI Bits and Pieces and Lone Wolf AI League. And Michael shared A LOT. We talked community growth. Free vs. paid. Finding members outside Skool. Engagement. YouTube and LinkedIn. AI. Monetization. Charitable giving. What he'd do differently. And, because apparently we wanted the FULL Behind the Build experience... our technology decided to misbehave, too. 😂 Michael? Total champ. He came to the rescue, got us back on track, and then kept right on sharing. And there was SO much worth sharing. 💰 One lesson? Free doesn't automatically lead to paid. Michael has built AI Bits and Pieces to roughly 850 members. But if he were starting again with the ultimate goal of building a premium community? He'd think differently about starting freemium. Because the people attracted by free aren't automatically the same people who will eventually pay. That led us to a question every builder should probably ask: Are you attracting the people you want today... or the people you'll eventually want as customers? Those may not be the same people. ❤️ Then Michael made us think differently about VALUE. Through his Learn With Your Whole Heart initiative, Michael donates 30% of subscription fees, after platform and credit-card costs, to charitable organizations. One of his Premium members told him something fascinating. The charitable component was a big reason he chose the annual plan. Read that again. It wasn't another course. Another feature. Another bonus. What Michael stood for became part of the value that member was choosing. Now THAT gave us something to chew on. 🌎 And where are your people finding YOU? Michael doesn't expect Skool to do all the work of finding members. We talked LinkedIn. YouTube. Shorts. Search.