When the teacher is ready the student appears and when the student is ready the teacher appears! It was just meant to be!!

This part!!!! "I realised I was treating alignment and making money as opposites, like I had to choose one or the other. But they're not opposites. They're the same journey, just different stages." Money is just a byproduct of value created for someone other than yourself. When we actually get out of our own way long enough to realize all we need to do is serve and show up is when things actually move. The best leaders get the plane off the ground and figure it out a long the way. No one really KNOWS anything we're all just doing the best we can and over time the skills, insights, intuition all start to come together and the results compound. But not before. The more I do this the more I realize theres no substitute for time in market. If you just keep doing the thing long enough it will always give back to you 10 fold but never in the way you think and its not a 1:1 its 10x that.

I started mine because I had tried everything else - facebook groups, kajabi, thrivecart, samcart, teachable, flodesk / mail chimp and nothing had worked. I was scrolling tiktok lives one day sitting in my car after just being turned down by a prospect for the 3rd time (I was in sales) and came across a guy Mike Gowans who had a whiteboard up talking about how he used Skool in his biz and how it replaced his email list, funnel, payment processor, course platform, community, calendar etc. I hate reading emails but knew the power of email from my years as a marketing exec. So the email thing was like WHOA this sounds like me. I thought fuck it what do I have to lose so I joined his community, went all in doing everything he told us to do and within 90 days hit my first $10k month (I was going live on tiktok every day) Thats when I realized holy shit this actually works. Ive always wanted to be a coach and help people. I got my masters in positive psych and 6 ICF certifications bc I KNEW this is the only thing that makes me happy but they never taught you how to actually take that knowledge and turn it into biz. Skool was like the missing link for me that finally brought it all together. Honestly if money were no object I would do this anyways. But obviously need money to support yourself. So for me I'd say it was all the things

I feel this for sure. I’ve noticed that at the beginning of building your community. It is just you showing up and giving a lot and you have to be OK with the fact that the return on investment might not be immediate or one to one, but it is always infinitely more than what you put in just not necessarily at that time. But then overtime you get to have communities like grow with Evelyn where yes she’s still showing up and giving to her community but she’s not the one in their answering every single question. Members are supporting members. You have growth operators, and co-coaches. Given that we’re in the coaching, education space I don’t think anyone should be building alone. I’ll speak for myself at least when I’m not working with someone. I tend to go down these like crazy ass rabbit holes that don’t actually get me anywhere and totally lose the plot. How can I expect someone to feel safe investing in themselves to work with me if I’m not doing the same thing? Like what’s even the value of Coaching or a community if you’re not being coached or in a community yourself? Ya know? It’s just alignment.

@Lara Bruyelles I agree with everything you said. As long as you’re doing the work you love and just showing up as your full authentic self everything else is figure out able. You’ll never lose the skills, resilience or learnings that you get along the way, and it all adds up all the time. And I can still be like this in my business. Where I’m like should I do this challenge or this challenge. This kind of ad or this one. TikTok or IG? This offer or that offer? And then I have to remind myself that that’s literally getting me nowhere. It’s not like I have to react from pressure and just do things that don’t feel aligned, but you also just have to follow your heart and iterate along the way I mean, that is basically the definition of entrepreneurship.