@Dylan Johnson hey Dylan, I just came across this notification here. I'm head down in projects for my community, so this is where my focus is right now. It sounds like you're debating between Skool and Patreon. To be honest, Patreon is a very good archival tool. Its social elements are archaic and not sufficient. There's a lot of features that it could use. And the development team is not moving fast enough to keep up. Skool, on the other hand, I feel like combines the best of the worlds that I need. So the ability to have a community aspect (with people able to post and chat and interact with each other meaningfully) with the controls to manage people so you don't have to worry about scammers and stuff like that. Also, the classroom aspect of Skool is well-developed and well thought out in my opinion. I also have a background with other platforms like Kajabi when I had my LinkedIn Leadgen course and business. The other features of Skool that I like include: - The calendar is very good. It's quite simple to use and I feel like it's been made to be meaningful. - It's easy for people to add things to their calendar. - It's easy to do lives with integrated video and audio broadcast capabilities and one-on-one capabilities. - Recording and ability to create a download and then use that content on platforms like YouTube. - The map is really cool. - And the creative controls behind managing the community I think are well thought out. Then there's also the whole side of being able to popularize your Skool and get your Skool found through different techniques and strategies. Faith is very up to speed on some of those, especially relating to the free Skool group tactics and stuff like that. Myself, I use YouTube and then occasionally my interactions on Skool do get new members, but most of my activity is focused on YouTube. We're also now onboarding a newer strategy to start leveraging free groups or the classifieds group to start promoting our different communities between the Crypto side, the spirituality side and also the tech solopreneur side.

@Dylan Johnson got you! Okay. It sounds like you're being honest with yourself, which is good, in the sense of being realistic. Outside of the book, what I can recommend is there's a killer post by another YouTuber who does AI. He was a winner of the Skool Games, and he's an absolute goat. He's an absolutely wonderful guy. His name is Nick Saraev, and he lives in Edmonton, Canada. I've been chatting with him for a while now. back when I got started in Skool, like a month later, he won the Skool Games, and he made a post where he gave everything. Now his funnel is YouTube. I strongly recommend you go and use that. You will learn a shitload. The other thing that may assist you is Faith knows a lot about how Skool groups work and how they get indexed and picked up by AI from an SEO perspective and Google. I think those two leads would be good solid ones. I think one of the challenges for us as creators is it's easy to want to do more faster. That tends to be my nature, and you know, I've had to calm myself down and simplify. Thanks in part to my business partner and wife. Not having too many people involved in your direction is also key, and I think you totally get that because you've already explored these other avenues, and you feel strongly, for example, about your book approach, which I'm not going to argue against because I'm well aware of that strategy. It's just not for me for now. My focus is elsewhere. Happy to share more with you anytime, but you know, my attention is on my communities, and I wish you the best of luck. It sounds like you're off to a really great start, man. Congrats on your journey so far.

everyday, Im ok with it. Hannah is still coming round more and more.