I was asking around for reccs for women’s groups to join yesterday, even tho I know the whole if it’s not there build the thing you desire 🤪 and it took me a hot second of the adding through should I or shouldn’t I in my brain then decide fuck it let’s do it. Then my brain was like don’t name it that, it might prevent some from joining… but the name actually makes my soul giggle, and after another hot moment I was like we are going with it. I was looking for a women’s space where we can shoot the shit, talk about day to day things, going deep diving into topics that may be taboo elsewhere or things that interest us without worry. Where it doesn’t matter what we believe or hold for ourselves and our fam and life we can actually hold rational conversations and back and forth even if we don’t see eye to eye on something. No cattiness. No Drama. No self help spouting shite every post. If somethings not your jam you don’t need to add your two cents, but curiousity is always welcomed in a kind way. Where we can have hilarious fun, share the shite that’s happening honestly, and chewing on things together, without being worried about getting pitched at, how to make it worth something, or getting piled on for holding a differing opinion… or worry about presenting as whoever the fuck we are supposed to be according to society. It’s all just a grand experiment, if it sounds like something you have also been looking or wishing for feel free to join us in Women Behaving Badly 😈

I retired after more than 30 years in education. I thought I had a pretty good idea of what came next. I didn’t. 😂 Long COVID changed what I could do and how I could work. Some days it still does. And there’s something humbling about going from knowing what you’re doing…to figuring things out all over again. Maybe you know that feeling, too. Life changes. Plans change. Something you thought would work doesn’t. Or somewhere along the way, you realize you’re not finished yet. Somewhere in the middle of my own figuring-it-out, Todd and I found Skool. And we started building. No grand plan. We were learning as we went. Pretty soon, I became fascinated by all the other people here doing the same thing. People with an idea they believe in, trying to turn it into something real. Trying things that work. And plenty that don’t. 😂 Wondering why people join and disappear. Whether to change something or give it more time. Whether they’re doing too much, not enough, or simply the wrong thing. Building a business while also living an actual life? I understand that one. Todd started digging into the research. I started asking entirely too many questions. 😂 And somewhere along the way, Skoolology became our little community-building lab. We don’t have all the answers. We’re figuring things out, too. But we’ve learned that sometimes the best next move isn’t another strategy. Sometimes it’s slowing down long enough to understand what’s actually happening. At 60-something, I’m a beginner again. Some days that’s exciting. Some days I wonder what in the world we’ve gotten ourselves into. 😂 But I’m still curious. Still learning. Still building. And if you’re figuring out your next chapter while you build yours, too… I think we probably have more in common than you think. 💜

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We were living in suburbia, looking at the state of the environment and wondering what difference one family could possibly make. After having our first baby, I became much more conscious of the products and chemicals we were bringing into our home—but working out where to begin felt overwhelming. Rather than doing nothing, I decided one small change was better than no change at all. I replaced my supermarket shampoo with a naturally made, eco-packaged shampoo bar. From there, things began to snowball. Whenever something ran out, I looked for an option that was a little better for our family and the planet. Not necessarily the “perfect” choice—just something we could find, afford and manage at the time. What I couldn’t have imagined was the direction those small, meaningful choices would eventually take us. Today, we live in a rammed-earth eco-home at Khemeia Valley, where we’re regenerating 850 acres of former farmland back into forest. We homeschool our two children, welcome guests into nature, and create experiences that feel more aligned than anything else we’ve done in our adult lives. A shampoo bar didn’t cause all of that. But it was the first step in learning to pay attention, make a conscious choice—and then make another. If you’re curious to discover where your own small changes might lead, while helping our planet to thrive, come and say hello in Start Small. Live Well. We launch today! Join before the end of the year and your membership will remain free for as long as you stay in the community. 🌱

If you keep reorganizing your course outline, adding “just one more lesson,” or second-guessing what belongs in your course, you may not have a discipline problem. You may have a boundaries problem. In this week's episode of The Art of Online Course Creation, I’m sharing one of the things professional curriculum designers do before they build anything: set the parameters of the course. After 25+ years in curriculum design, I can tell you that expertise can actually make course creation harder. The more you know, the more you can see that could be included. Without clear edges, almost everything starts to feel relevant. In this episode, I break down: • The three questions that give your course clear boundaries • Why “who is this for?” is often answered far too broadly • A simple test for determining whether your parameters are actually useful • The overlooked question that can quietly double the size of your course • How clear parameters can turn a week-long content decision into a five-second one If you’re building a course and feel like you keep spinning in circles, this episode will help you figure out where the problem may actually be. 🎧 Listen to the latest episode of The Art of Online Course Creation here! If you are spinning, let me know in the comments below what has you stuck... 😊