Let's celebrate @LM Sharron, who has officially reached LEVEL 7 inside 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗢𝗻 𝗦𝗸𝗼𝗼𝗹! 🎉 And if you haven't checked out what LM is building yet, this is a perfect excuse to do it! ❤️ 𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹𝘀 is a free community for people who love animals and want to find meaningful ways to make a difference. LM Sharron has years of hands-on experience in rescue, wildlife rehabilitation, nonprofit work, and animal advocacy, and Empowering Animals is an IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Inside the community, she's bringing together animal lovers with trusted rescues and nonprofits, animal stories and facts, conversations with rescuers and advocates, and practical ways everyday people can help. 🐾 Whether you volunteer, foster, donate, rescue, advocate... or you're simply the person who stops scrolling every single time an animal appears on your screen 😂... there's a place for you there. And I LOVE the message behind LM's community: None of us can help every animal. But together, we can help a whole lot more. ❤️ Now LM has another reason to celebrate because reaching Level 7 means she's officially earned her place in the 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲! 🌟 So go check out LM's new spot in the Spotlight, then wander over to 𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹𝘀 and see what she's building! Congratulations, LM!! 🎉🐾🌟 Thank you for everything you contribute to The Directory AND for creating a space that turns a love for animals into ways to actually help them. Everybody give our newest Level 7 some love below! ❤️

UPDATE: Part of this post was incorrect. Skool runs its own payment system, so Apple and Google don't take a cut of Skool memberships. 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ I just learned something that honestly made my blood boil, and you deserve to know it. If you join or pay for a community from inside the Skool app on your iPhone or Android, Apple or Google takes up to 30% of EVERY payment. Not just the first one. Every month. They did nothing to earn it. They just own the app store. But here is the part that really gets me. If a friend told you about this community and you clicked their link through the mobile app, that friend gets NOTHING. Not the first commission. Not any of them. Ever. Their referral can't be tracked through Apple's or Google's checkout, so the person who sent you here gets zero while a trillion-dollar company pockets 30%. I don't know about you but I would much rather that money go to a real person than to Apple. So please do this one thing for me. If you are on your phone, open your browser (Safari, Chrome, whatever you use), open the join link there, and sign up through the website. It takes ten extra seconds but your money goes to the community and to the friend who referred you instead of an app store. And one more thing. If you're browsing Skool's discovery page looking for a community to join, check first whether one of your Skool friends has a referral link for it. Same community, same price for you, but instead of the money flowing straight to the big guys, it lands with a real person. Thank you for reading this. Now go tell a friend!

What if you spent 25 years or more being the one person that people called on when things needed handling? Whether it was a department at work, your household at home, any specific crisis... you were the one that got called, and you were good at it. Then one day the job's done... and before you know it, the kids don't need the same amount of attention from you the way they used to. And you're staring at a laptop, sending out resumes to businesses that apparently think decades of experience is a red flag. Cool. Cool, cool, cool. But what really sucks isn't that you lost your skills, because you didn't. It's that you lost the identity that used to hold them all together. And nobody's going to hand you a new one. You're just supposed to figure it all out on your own while juggling bills that are piling up and an identity keeps fading more and more into the background. This is the exact mess Alida Vermeulen built 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗳𝘁 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝗹𝗲 to fix. She works with women standing in the middle of that very circle I just described... except instead of another pep talk to "reinvent yourself," she gives them the bridge from the lost identity to the new one that makes sense for who you are now, and who you're inspired to be. She'll walk you through exactly how, inside her free community. And her whole approach, which is amazing, is that your experience isn't baggage, it's your advantage. You're not starting from zero. You're building on top of everything you've already experienced. If that's you, or you know someone in that circle → go check out 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗳𝘁 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝗹𝗲. Life can be crazy and sometimes we don't see the shifts coming, and that is okay. But, looking back, what's been the biggest identity shift you've ever gone through? Maybe it was a wedding. A divorce. A funeral. A business pivot. A layoff or a loss of income. Becoming an empty nester. A health scare that changed everything.

You've worked hard, or played hard, to leveled up! And you made it! So today all Level 5 and above members ... you get to play. 😎🔥 If you're Level 5 or higher, this thread is officially YOURS. Twice a month, we open up a dedicated space where Level 5+ members can share what they've got going on... And today is one of those days. 🎉 So YES... 🔗 Drop your link 📣 Share your offer 🖼️ Show us what you've created 👀 Tell us what you want more eyeballs on BUT REMEMBER... 🥛 Give us the glass of milk. We don't need the whole cow. 😂🐄 You don't have to write us a dissertation explaining every single thing you do. Give us enough to make us curious. You know, a good hook, a quick description, a graphic that makes us stop scrolling. And then... 👉 𝗟𝗘𝗧 𝗨𝗦 𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗞 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗡 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞. 😂 And while you're here... 🚫 𝗗𝗢𝗡'𝗧 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧 & 𝗚𝗛𝗢𝗦𝗧. 👻 This thread gets a whole lot more fun when everybody actually participates! So, drop your thing... THEN GO SNOOP. 👀😂 See what other people are building. Click some links! Ask some questions. Leave a comment. Tell somebody when something catches your eye. Make a connection. ✨ 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘂𝗽, 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘂𝗽 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗬𝗢𝗨. ✨ If everybody drops a link and disappears, we've just created a generic bulletin board. 😂 We're not here for a bulletin board. We're here to DISCOVER EACH OTHER. So Level 5+ crew... 🌟 THE SPOTLIGHT IS ON. Show us what you've got, then go shine a little light on somebody else, too. 👇👇👇 DROP IT LIKE IT'S HOT LEVEL FIVE+! 🔗🔥😂

Please help me celebrate @Amanda Mirrlees, our newest Level 7 member! 🎉 Amanda is the woman behind 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀, a community for women who are dealing with chronic pain and fatigue and want to explore a whole-body approach through plant-based food, gentle movement, education, and sustainable lifestyle changes. And I have to say, Amanda reaching Level 7 makes me smile... BIG! She's proof that you don't have to be the loudest person in the room, constantly be on camera, or show up in a way that doesn't feel like you to make connections and become part of a community. Amanda shows up day... but her way. Participating, connecting, contributing... and apparently collecting enough points along the way to slide right into Level 7! And you know what that means... 🌟 She's officially earned her place in our 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 on the 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲! Go check out her new spot in the Spotlight, and while you're there, take a peek at 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀. If you're looking for a community centered around plant-based living, gentle movement, healthier habits, and support for living with chronic pain, you'll want to get into Amanda's world. 💚 Congratulations, Amanda! Welcome to Level 7! 🎉 Something tells me she won't make a big fuss about it... so we'll just have to make the fuss for her. 😏🌟 Go make a fuss! 👇👇👇👇