We’ve spent the last two months digging into: 🎯 Outcomes: Are members making meaningful progress? 💰 Money: How does your community create and support value? (We'll be sharing our Behind the Build sessions all next week. Yahoo!) Special thanks to builders @Jen Ps @Michael Wacht @Jenny Rader-Bakos @Lisa Vanderveen and more to come! Yay! September is almost here, which means it’s time to point our magnifying glass at another part of SkoolMe. 🔍 But here's the thing... None of these pillars stand alone. Better onboarding can improve engagement. Stronger kinship can support outcomes. Clearer substance can make monetization easier. Leadership influences all of it. We separate the pillars so we can study them more closely, but we're always looking at how they work together. So, where would digging deeper help YOUR community most right now? 📚 Substance Is what you offer clear, useful, and worth coming back for? 🤝 Kinship Are members building meaningful relationships with each other? 🚪 Onboarding Do new members know where to start and experience an early win? 🧭 Leadership Are you leading in a way that supports the community you want to create? 💬 Engagement Are members participating in ways that actually matter? 👇 Cast your vote! Whichever area rises to the top, we'll spend September observing what's happening in our communities, testing small changes, comparing notes, and seeing what we discover together. Not sure what to vote for? This might be a great time to retake your free SkoolMe Snapshot. And if you've taken it before, compare the two. Has your priority changed? Has your community changed? Or are you simply seeing it differently because of what you've learned? Now I'm curious... 🔬 Where should we investigate next?

My Golden Ticket conversation with @Oddysey Campbell ended before either of us was ready. We lost our connection and never got our proper wrap-up. And the more I've thought about it, the more strangely fitting that feels. Because so much of our conversation was about being in the middle of things. Building while you're still figuring things out. Learning while you're doing. Trying something before you know exactly what it will become. Recognizing that you don't need a perfectly finished story before you have something valuable to offer. Oddysey is experimenting with something she calls Fun Audits, where she explores a community and shares what she notices with the owner. As we talked, something became really clear to me. The value isn't simply that she can spot a misplaced pin, confusing category, or something that could be organized differently. It's how she sees the community. Oddysey talked about something she calls "exploration empathy." Instead of only asking: Is this community set up correctly? She's paying attention to: What does it actually feel like to be a person inside this community? Where might someone hesitate? What feels welcoming? What creates frustration or confusion? What makes someone feel safe enough to participate? THAT opened up such a great conversation. Because sometimes the thing we're able to offer others isn't just what we've learned. It's the perspective we've developed along the way. Our experiences. The things we naturally notice. The questions we think to ask. Even the ways we think differently from the people around us. Oddysey reminded me that we don't necessarily have to become more like everyone else before our experience becomes valuable. Sometimes our difference is part of the value. Maybe there's another lesson hiding in the way our call ended, too. Not everything meaningful needs a neat ending. Sometimes you're simply in the middle of becoming, building, testing, learning, and figuring out what comes next.

Tomorrow we're pulling up a chair with @Lisa Vanderveen, and I want you to know a little more about the builder you're coming to meet. ❤️ Lisa serves Christian businesswomen who are building serious businesses while also navigating the very human stuff that can come with growth... doubt, second-guessing, overthinking, and the pressure to keep pushing. Inside Kingdom Identity Network, she brings together faith, business, and mind-body work to help women grow with greater peace and confidence while staying grounded in who they are and what God is calling them toward. Her work includes: 💜 Daily Quiet Time practices grounded in Scripture 💜 Her Savah healing process 💜 Vision and support for women growing their businesses 💜 Journals and resources she's created along the way Right now, Lisa is in an interesting season of her OWN build. She's making decisions. Rethinking pieces. Exploring monetization. Figuring out what deserves her attention now and what can wait. Tomorrow, she's generously letting us come along for part of that journey. This isn't an interview. It's builders talking building. We'll talk about what's working, what she's learning, what she's questioning, what her members are teaching her, and how she's thinking about creating value that can become sustainable revenue. And knowing Lisa and me, there's at least a 93.7% chance we end up somewhere neither of us planned to go. 😂 That's kind of the point. 📅 Wednesday, August 19 ⏰ 12 PM Central 🔗 Zoom link is in the Skoolology calendar Come listen. Ask a question. Join the conversation. Or simply pull up a chair and learn alongside us. 👋 Know another builder who would appreciate this conversation? Invite them! They don't have to be a Skoolology member. Can't make it live? We'll record it and share the replay. Tomorrow isn't just a chance to learn about Lisa's build. It's a chance to learn from it. And Lisa, thank you for being willing to pull back the curtain and let us in. ❤️

Skoolology is officially 60 days old today. But a community isn't 60 days of content. It's 60 days of people showing up, trying things, asking questions, experimenting, learning, changing their minds, and moving forward. So today, we're not celebrating Skoolology. We're celebrating YOU. 🥳 And I have a challenge for us... 🏆 CAN WE COLLECT 60 WINS FOR 60 DAYS? Drop ONE win you've had since joining Skoolology. And before you say... "Yeah, but mine isn't really a big deal..." Nope. Not today. 😂 Big wins count. Tiny wins count. Messy wins count. Quiet wins nobody else knows about count. Maybe you... → Finally posted instead of overthinking it → Welcomed a new member → Tried something you learned here → Changed something in your community → Got clearer about what you're building → Simply kept going when it would have been easier to stop If it moved you forward, it counts. And there's a reason I want us to do this. What we focus on, we notice more of. When we're always looking at what's unfinished, what's not growing fast enough, or what we haven't figured out yet, we can miss something important: Evidence that we're making progress. Sharing wins makes that progress visible. But here's the really cool part... When you share your win, someone else gets to see it too. And they might think: “Wait. Maybe I can do that too.” THAT matters. Because healthy communities aren't built only by people teaching each other. They're built by people showing each other what's possible. So here's our 60-day mission: 👇 Drop ONE win below. Then find someone else's win and celebrate it. Let's see if we can fill this thread with 60 wins for 60 days. Big win. Tiny win. Quiet win. Slightly ridiculous but you're still proud of it win. 😂 If it moved you forward, it counts. Happy 60 Days, Skoolologists. 🎉 Now... WHO'S GOT WIN #1? 👇

🌟 @Oddysey Campbell Founder, Exploration & Empathy "I want to help people truly accept themselves with balanced confidence and patience. My hope is to create a wave of people who know how to shine their light without being burned by it." Meet Oddysey Sometimes a name tells you a lot about the person behind it. Oddysey isn't her legal name. It's the name she chose for herself around age 13, when she decided she wanted to take ownership of her identity rather than let the world tell her who she should be. That decision feels deeply connected to the work she's doing today. Oddysey is a mom, wife, entrepreneur, and the builder behind Exploration & Empathy, where she's creating space for people to better understand and accept themselves. Her work isn't about asking people to become someone different. It's about helping them develop the confidence and patience to become more comfortable with who they already are. Why We Chose Oddysey Oddysey brings something unmistakably her own to Skoolology. She's curious. She asks questions. She shares honestly. She encourages other builders. And she isn't afraid to explore a different path when something doesn't quite fit. We've also had the privilege of watching her grow more focused and confident about what she wants to create. And she's not finished. Some big ideas are beginning to take shape for what Oddysey may build next. We're not giving those away before she's ready, but we're excited to watch this next chapter unfold. That's part of why we chose to recognize her now. Headliners isn't only about celebrating where someone has arrived. Sometimes it's about recognizing a builder in the middle of becoming. Oddysey reminds us that progress can look like greater clarity, stronger self-trust, and finally having the courage to build something that feels like you. Builder Takeaway You don't have to become someone else to become a better leader. It's easy to look around at successful community builders and begin borrowing their voices, personalities, strategies, or definitions of success.