the weekly newsletter is BACK 🎉 your weekly dose of what's coming this week, what you might have missed last week. === 📣 COMING UP THIS WEEK - 9-11 Oct 👻 Ghost Hunt - find the members who joined and never said a word. send 10 real DMs by Sunday. report how many you brought back from the dead. best DM script wins btw, you can find more October events on the Calendar. you wanted earlier heads up - there you go. - i am starting to update Hackathon lessons, cause some things have changed on Skool + i learnt a lot. and there is nothing on Growth Boost. i am also updating the Vault with communities to promote your group and our VIP members communities. - i am beta-testing the Night Agent - an agent trained to direct you to the right lesson/event in Skool First 100. hope to make it available to all Premium and VIP members by the end of the week. even more reasons to upgrade. === ⏪ WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED LAST WEEK - Skool removed Keywords - so, if you are replying on Skool traffic, make sure your About page is SEO optimized for your keywords. - we wrapped up Community Clinic 2.0 with great feedback as always. recordings are available to Premium & VIP members. huge thanks to all participants and guest speakers! - i was shortlisted as a finalist in the contest, organised by @Ben Sherry . amazing challenge. we should organize smth like this here, right? === 🔍 MEMBERS POSTS HIGHLIGHTS

Saturday movie time: Julie & Julia. one of my favs and it's secretly a movie about building a community. if you haven't seen it, Julie decides to cook all 524 recipes from Julia Child's cookbook in 365 days. and blog about every single one. her first reader was her mom. that's the part i love most. she kept cooking and posting for an audience that didn't exist yet. day 12. day 40. day 90. mostly quiet. but then people started showing up. not because one post blew up. because she'd been there every day when they arrived. that's why consistency matters on Skool. people do stay where someone has clearly been showing up for a while. which brings me to the flame 🔥 yes, there is a lot of discussion about the flame: to flame or not to flame. in the Hackathon i keep nagging you about it: - 10 activities a day on Skool. - a like, a comment, a post, - anything counts. and i know some of you are thinking "what does a little flame have to do with getting 100 members or success on Skool" everything, actually. the flame is your Julie blog. it's proof that YOU ARE TAKING IT SERIOUSLY. because the people who get to 100 members aren't the most talented ones. they're the ones who kept showing up on the boring days. i know that most of you have a job, a family, a life. BUT 10 activities is something you can do on a coffee break. Julie had a day job too, and she still boned a duck at midnight. so while you watch, ask yourself: 1. when does Julie want to quit, and what keeps her going? 2. Julia gets told no on her book. what would you have done at the first no? 3. Julie cooks after work. where's your "after work" slot for your business? 4. if you committed to your community for a full year, not a month, what would you do differently starting Monday? grab popcorn. come back and drop your answer in the comments: what day of your flame are you on? ⬇️ p.s. i changed my plans here to annual only: Premium at $9/ VIP at $90. you must commit or it does not work.

since there are bunch of new ppl, let me explain: - everybody celebrates wins. but not many i have seen celebrate failures. yet, failures are not optional, they are a MUST if you want to achieve any sort of business success. - also, you hear a lot of successes - in Skoolers, in other communities. ppl are eager to share amazing things that happened. so, you might fall into the trap of "survival bias". if only thing you hear is wins, you might believe it is a norm. it is not. win is an outlier. - finally, people love to share a hero journey story. because it's good script. it's likable. "things were bad, i took a chance, things became great - i am winner now". nothing wrong with it. or? so, we are here share raw, pure FAILURES - not covered with the success story. as is. === now, let's get clear - what is FAILURE in our playbook? - it's an action you did and the result was not what you expected/wanted to be and what failure is NOT? - when you don't take action - post, call, launch - that's not failure. that's STALLING in our playbook. and that needs to be fixed, not celebrated. finally, why do we CELEBRATE failure? failure means you took action. - action deserves celebration. - courage to take action deserves celebration. - courage to share your failure deserves celebration. === time to share ⬇️ ps please, please, please share your wins in Wins&Failures category any day, every day. we need to hear wins as well.

it's movie Saturday. today, let's talk about New Amsterdam. it's an amazing series. highly recommend (first 2 seasons, for sure). you can find it on Netflix. 7.9/10 rating on IMDB. the tag line: "a new medical director breaks the rules to heal the system at America's oldest public hospital." why i like it? - i love medical movies. i might have been a doctor in previous lives. ... seriously, i think i envy the rush, the purpose, and the lack of ambiguity. - i am a rebel just like Max. i fight the system is the system is broken aka Growth Boost 😎 - i learn how to lead from Max. i learn how to stay positive. and i learn how to be persistent, despite all the difficulties. when you watch, ask yourself these questions to turn this into coaching session: - what bugs me in this world and what am i doing about it? - what i silently agree with that i should not? and what can i do about it? what do you think? did you watch? ps the next Community Clinic 2.0 is New Amsterdam themed. have you put it on your calendar yet?

Community Clinic is back. 24–26 Sept. Check the Calendar the first one was in May. it was amazing. yet... this one is less talking and more fixing: - you bring your community, we figure out how to fix it. - no slides. no teaching. nobody presenting a framework at you for 45 minutes. day 1 is about your offer. day 2 is about engagement and conversion. day 3 is about how to get more traffic to your community. yes, that's backwards. on purpose. Monday the 28th i'll do the debrief. should be really cool 😎 it's free. nothing to prepare. put on your calendar. show up. and bring a friend - become an affiliate 😜