@Katinka Barry Wow! We are the same age. I'm 51 as well. I suppose we all have a version of the "keep myself small" belief. The only difference is how each one of us has that belief wired in them, what they do about it, and how they witness and rise above it. Have you worked out the source and nature of yours?

@Katinka Barry yep. one of my fav topics... so i made you a short loom video

And... What Happens In The Build Room? You've probably seen VIP mentioned and wondered what actually happens in there. Fair question. Here it is, plainly. The Build Room is four live workshops a month. You don't sit and watch me — you build. I set the frame, then everyone works on their own thing while I walk the room and answer whatever comes up. You leave holding a finished thing. Not notes about a thing. The thing. The month, every month Week 1 — Commit. You name the one thing you're shipping this month. Out loud, in front of people. Then we work on whatever's actually been stopping you from doing it — and yes, that's usually the inner stuff, not the tactics. Week 2 — Build. Twenty minutes of framing, then we build. You'll have something real by the end of the hour and a half. I also show you how to use the best in AI to help you build, if you are interested. Week 3 — Break. The room attacks it. Kindly, but properly. Better we find the holes than your customers do. I'll take a couple of pieces and run them through AI live to see what falls over. Week 4 — Ship. It goes out. In the room. You send the email, publish the page, name the price. We watch you do it. What you can bring Anything you've been avoiding. Your offer. Your pricing. Your niche. The talk you keep not writing. The delivery model that would let you stop being the bottleneck. The half-finished thing from March. Or it can be entirely inner game — the block, the ceiling, the pattern that shows up every time you get close. That's a legitimate build too. The artifact is a written protocol you can actually use, and week 3 pressure-tests it like anything else. Your choice, every month. Nobody hands you a topic you didn't pick. Who this is really for You already know what to do. You're just not doing it. You're 80% done on everything and 100% done on nothing. You've bought the courses. Some of them are mine. They're sitting there. If that stung a bit, that's the room. The practical bits Four sessions a month, about 90 minutes each. Everything is recorded and the archive is yours to keep. Come to all four or come to one — the ship log tracks what you've actually finished, not what you attended.

And the challenge and Q&A sit inside the premium membership, while the build room is in VIP membership.

@Lori Saulibio Yep, that's true. AI perfection is not possible. It's kind of like a thing that keeps getting better over time, but it's nowhere near perfect today. BUT... It is better than nothing, and it is more than good enough in terms of the results it creates.

@William Gikandi hey Will! Yeah, that is so spot-on! Thanks, mate. I think having a very clear future vision is critical for being in the right state to get there, because it reinforces the "I am-ness" and bolsters the belief systems. It directs the attention, energy, and so much more. I would agree with you that without being in the right state (beingness, identity...), it's very difficult to execute strategy, and one great way to set the state of being is to clarify vision.

I'll be providing more details later in the week, but this screenshot gives you a rough idea of how this community will be operating. I expect the live events, such as the Q&A and the workshops, to start this September now that we have the classroom and the tools pretty much ready. Also, in case you're wondering about the updated membership rates, I'd like to assure you that you are grandfathered at whatever you joined at. We no longer have a free tier. We now have a standard tier, but if you're in here from the old free tier, please know that you are most welcome to stay on for free, and you are able to stay for free as long as you like. If you were on, let's say, the Premium plan at the previously lower rate, then know that you won't have to bump up your subscription, you are also grandfathered on the old lower one you got in with, for as long as you wish to stay on. I just wanted to clarify that and reassure everyone that the new pricing won't affect current members. Thank you

@Lad Mandiola yay! glad to have you here, Lad. and I do have to say that you really do walk the talk when it comes to great conversations that lead to meaningful relationships and business growth, as I've observed over the years

@Lad Mandiola Hey Lad, please feel free to share your story on video here. It's all good. You are most welcome to share your story here in this thread or start a fresh one, and you can do it on video if you like. That would be awesome. Thanks! We do have live community video events that are going to start soon, as of September. We will have a weekly group Q&A for Premium & VIP members, and we will also have weekly group build workshops for VIP members. I don't think those Q&A and Workshop sessions are the best settings for us to share our personal stories, so maybe we can start by sharing here in the community ad hoc. If that's something more and more people want, we can figure out a live container later on where members can meet up and do more besides the Q&A and the workshops