I opened The Smell of Money 13 months ago. It was a private money club for 12 OGs who wanted money mindset strategies to build wealth. We exclusively focused on aromatherapy. I set up the Classroom and let the ladies navigate on their own while I was fully immersed in open enrollment (I'm an independent Health, Life, and Annuity broker). In February of 2026, I changed everything. I have to admit, I never focused on growing the community. The audience size didn't matter to me. I cared more about helping the people who were already there get results than chasing a bigger member count. Then I hired a new coach, a team, actually, who gave me a different strategy. It wasn't aligned. I declined folks who released negative energy. Many churned because they wanted to "put their focus elsewhere". Every time I had an increase of numbers, my community would decrease by 20%. But today, when I saw 233 members, I smiled. I LOVE those numbers. 🥰 But what I love even more is watching this community finally become what I wanted it to be—a place where people actually TALK about money, make Money Moves, ask questions, share wins, and figure this stuff out together. And apparently 233 was the little nudge I needed to give you a sneak peek at what I’ve been building behind the scenes. Cash Flow to Wealth For the woman who knows how to earn money but still wonders: “Where the heck did it all go?” 😂 The whole idea came from something I see over and over: You've learned how to make money. Now let's decide what your money needs to do. Cash flow. Debt. Savings. Money decisions. Wealth. Not another course to watch. Six weeks of actually working on YOUR money. And I finally have the new sales page coming together! 💖 I’m sharing a little sneak peek soon because so many of you have watched me build, change, simplify, scrap things 😂 and keep going until it feels RIGHT. When you join The Smell of Money, you'll get to see what we are doing.

I got the Skool part wrong on yesterday's post. Skool runs its own payment system through Stripe (Skool's Payments FAQ), so Apple and Google aren't taking a cut of your membership. Their app store fees are real for apps that use their checkout. Skool just isn't one of them, and I connected dots that didn't connect, but it is worth knowing for other apps you may use. But a few of you mentioned referrals going missing, and that part is worth knowing about. As one of our members pointed out, Skool takes a 30% commission through Growth Boost when it brings in a paying member. So if someone finds a group through the Discovery page instead of your link, Skool gets the credit, not you. So the advice still stands: if a friend referred you, use their link instead of finding the group through Discovery. Click the link and join directly. Skool credits the last referral link you clicked, so if you click someone else's link or find the group through Discovery afterward, the credit can go to them instead. Thank you @Lisa Vanderveen for pushing on this.

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Midlife has a way of handing you a blank page and expecting you to know what to write on it. The kids are grown. Or the marriage ended. Or your body changed without your permission. Or all of it, or none of it. Maybe life just kept happening, little by little, and you didn't even notice you were changing. Then one day you wake up and think, "Who the heck am I? And where do I go from here?" @Shandanette Goodwin likes to think of it this way: you're not starting from scratch, you're starting from experience. And she'd know. She's a former beauty entrepreneur who reinvented herself, and today she's a certified menopause coach helping women 40+ do the same. That's what 𝗠𝗶𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗳𝘁 is for. Inside, she offers weekly prompts and challenges, mindset conversations, and journaling. It's all for women who are ready for what's next and unsure of where to begin. Her rules are simple: no shame, no pressure, no pretending. If that sounds like you, this is the place 👉 𝗠𝗶𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗳𝘁 So which one hits home for you? Kids out of the nest? A marriage that ended? A body rewriting the rules? Or something else that has you asking, "Who am I now?" Drop it below. 👇 And if you know a woman who's been saying "I don't even know where to start," tag her.

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