Hope you can join @Joshua Haag for this incredible class! Live streamed online, in the Thrive Community!! You can join below with Josh’s 50 percent affiliate link, https://www.skool.com/releasetheweight/about?ref=e57eed8e7140447fb756266b1f7e4a8f How to Fix Back Pain, Move Better, and Keep Pain Away for Life Back pain can be crippling, it can steal your workouts, your sleep, your confidence, and the simple freedom to move without fear. Bulletproof Your Spine is a hands-on workshop that teaches you why your back hurts, what keeps pain coming back, and what you can do immediately to take control. You’ll leave with practical pain-relief tools, mobility work, strength strategies, and a simple daily system to help you move better, feel stronger, and keep back pain from running your life. I’m so excited to share that Josh is also joining us LIVE in Western Colorado for the next Health X Summit, Saturday, May 16th! You can watch the speakers virtually right here, get the time to join and link in the calendar, www.skool.com/releasetheweight/calendar

Do you ever feel like you could help more people if only you had a platform, a place to teach your Masterclasses and share your expertise? In the Thrive Community, we are building exactly that!! It’s a Connection Hub for ALL your health and wellness needs! Whether you are a professional or simply a health and wellness enthusiast, someone who is passionate about living your best life and optimizing your health, Thrive has a space for you. We are Nutritionists, Personal Trainers, Naturopathic Doctors, Coaches, and all kinds of health lovers. For anyone interested in being more healthy and energetic… - get support on weekly calls - lower inflammation, increase your energy w/ the 14-day Intermittent Fasting Challenge - Optimize gut health w/ the Thriving Gut Series - Decrease stress w/ Heal Your Nervous System - Lose weight w/Release the Weight Masterclass For health and wellness professionals, - share your expertise, connect with potential clients - Lead Masterclasses on Premium - Participate in Virtual Summits on VIP This group’s NOT for you if you don’t give a crap how much energy you have or how healthy you are. If you’re happy sitting on the couch all day, every day, watching Netflix reruns, eating potato chips and ice cream, this is not the best place for you. If you struggle sometimes but want to have energy, feel your best, & heal anything that prevents you from living your best life, you may just LOVE it here.

It's always been a passion of mine to connect people for mutual THRIVING. It's been fun doing that in the realm of health and wellness, in the THRIVE Community. I'm leaning into connections more as I rebrand the community to create a bigger platform for all the amazing health and wellness professionals who have gravitated toward this space. There will still be posts about fasting and stress eating, and weekly support groups to navigate all of it, and I'm absolutely available for one-on-one coaching for anyone needing support in those areas. That's my jam, and none of that is going away! My hope is that this transition creates more VALUE for all of us... Those of us seeking support with health and wellness, we get to learn more about the resources and opportunities available here. Those of us working in health and wellness, we get more of a platform to share knowledge/expertise and support others. From now on, you will actually be able to post your offerings or your community DAILY in THRIVE, as many times as you'd like. There are a few guidelines... 1.) Anytime you share your biz, you can create a Value Post with the Value Post tab. You can share your biz when posting in other categories/tabs too, but it's important that you're adding value to the group with any post that you share, not just dropping a link. Your post can be a question, conversation starter, or tip/trick/experience to help people up level their health and wellness. As part of the post, you can link to your community or other offerings. I suggest changing it up, so you're not always including a link with every single post. For example, the following would NOT be a value post...posts like this would get deleted. "If you need help with training/nutrition/meals, come talk to me, here is a link" Posts that truly create value for members by getting people to think, starting conversations, sharing a new perspective, will be pinned and seen by more members. 2.) Anytime you share a value post and put yourself out there, comment on 3 other posts or comments.

I just took a look at the CLASSIFIEDS calendar and realized that there are a ton of amazing opportunities coming up in the next couple of weeks!!! This week is the PERSONALS for premium members. Come and meet other members, network, talk about your community and how you help people openly, and discuss the topic of the month (this month we are talking about churn!). The following week, I'm in Chicago, but the week after that, I'm offering something once or even twice a day(!!!). What was I thinking? I have no idea. Maybe making up for lost time....? I'll be talking about each opportunity more in the coming days, but for now I'd like to invite you to take a look at the calendar in list mode (did you know there was such a thing? It's a game changer) and see if there is anything you would like to add to your calendar. New member? There's something for you! Premium member? There's something for you! VIP member? There's something for you! Curious about becoming a VIP member? There's something for you!!! Questions, comments, thoughts, or feedback? I'm all ears. Shoot me a comment below! 😉

On The ART of Online Course Creation, @Mary Nunaley and I talked about gamefication and how to do it right. In episode #61, Beyond Badges and Leaderboards: Better Gamification for Online Courses, we dove into what works and what doesn't work and how different people respond to different types of incentivization. Mary is a learning engineer and co-founder of The Lavender Dragon Team. She turns complex ideas into human-centered learning experiences using storytelling, game-based design, and thoughtful applications of AI. Mary focuses on building learning that actually changes behavior not just checks a completion box. Her work sits at the intersection of learning science, creativity, and practical AI integration for modern educators and creators. I was honoured to have Mary on the show, and I hope you'll take some time to listen to the episode. It is definitely food for thought, and will give you practical tips and insights for your own courses and communities. Listen here!