I Almost Didn’t Join the Blitz — Joining Changed Everything · 𝙂𝙊𝙊𝙎𝙄𝙁𝙔 🍓🐛🦋🌈⭐️🩷

Jen Ritchie

Jan 7 (edited) • 🌈 Blitz

I Almost Didn’t Join the Blitz — Joining Changed Everything

I signed up for Skool in August 2024.

I paid the $99/month.... and just kept paying it.. having zero idea wtf to do with it...

So in May 2025... after paying $990 and having done eff all with it...I opened Skool with the intention

to shut my community down, stop paying for something I wasn’t using, and move on.

Instead, something caught my attention.

I went down a rabbit hole.

And somehow… I ended up in Goosify.

I didn’t know what Goosify was...

I didn’t know what the Blitz was.

I joined my first star call where

@Vincent Roswandowicz

was lighting firecrackers in his room dressed as wizard or something.....and I was like what kind of business growth community is this???

And oddly — and inexplicably — something in my heart said… these are my people.

But what I definitely didn’t know was how much this place was about to change my life....

Probably like a lot of you in here right now.

So, wanted to share my real timeline here, with actual context, because maybe it might help some of you.... especially if you’re feeling unsure, too small, too behind, or staring at Goosify thinking what the fuck is this, what is a blitz and am I already late?

🅹🆄🅽🅴 2025

I joined my first Blitz with 35 members in my community.

That’s it.

35 humans.

And with that group, I finished Top 5 in the Blitz

I set the goal of 1000 members by Jan 1st 2026

🅹🆄🅻🆈

I hit my first goal: $250 MRR.

It was small but intentional and that’s what mattered.

I didn’t hustle for it. I just opened a door.

So I celebrated it — because that’s how momentum actually works.

🅰🆄🅶🆄🆂🆃

I won the Blitz with 69 members in my community.

Yes. Really.

You read that right. 69.

My goal had been 100 members.

I didn’t hit it.

And I won anyway.... and 69 is way more fun than 100 anyways

I partnered with

@Arda Halibryam

, and what made it epic wasn’t the number — it was how aligned, collaborative, and genuinely fun it was.

That mattered more than the result.

🅾🅲🆃🅾🅱🅴🆁

This month was wild.

I went to my first Skool IRL in Costa Rica.

While I was away:

My community reached 199 members
I ran a mini-launch that brought in $6k
My group logged 3,000+ activities in a single day
I earned the ⭐️ — Top 30 in the Money category
I reached Top 100 groups overall on Skool

All of that happened while I was travelling and fully present at the IRL and nearly checked out of my community entirely while i focused on the IRL connections... and my community gave me the space, energy and support to do that all while rallying together to meet our community goals.

I also met my first Skool IRL besties and got to hange with them in real life having epic adventures in Costa Rica ----

@Goose Dunlavey

@Tony Loew

@Vincent Roswandowicz

@Yahya Kazi

@Rositsa Aleksandrova

@Ravi Gregory Etherton

@Diego Joel

@William Milliken

@Jason Olofsen

🅽🅾🆅🅴🅼🅱🅴🆁

I went to the Taiwan IRL got to hang out with the Goose team again, and my community hit $2k MRR!!

🅳🅴🅲🅴🅼🅱🅴🆁

My community crossed 500 members.

I attended Bangkok IRL with

@Ryan Duncan

@Sophie Bella

and met some more epic people

and again

@Ravi Gregory Etherton

(plus got to spend a week hanging in Bangkok with the Goose team)

🅹🅰🅽🆄🅰🆁🆈

My community has now crossed 600 members.

PLUS in 3 weeks... I’m heading to ANTARTICA!!!! to make literal lifetime memories with

@Joshua Gatonyi

@Ravi Gregory Etherton

@Kevin Gong

@Jason Olofsen

and Goose team again... but excited to meet

and others who I am too excited to remeber their names at this moment.

Did I hit my original goal of 1,000 by January 1st?

No.

Did that stop me?

Absolutely not.

Because I understand how this works now.

I’ve been higher on the leaderboards before.

I stepped back.

I rested.

And yes — my rankings dropped.

That’s allowed.

Small, intentional actions — taken at the right time — compound.

I’ve won the Blitz.

I’ve earned the star.

I’ve climbed the leaderboards... i used to be all-time #3 here .

And I’m using this January Blitz to climb again — calmly, intentionally, and without burning myself out.

This time, I’m doing it with

@Zee Riter

and we’re going to have fun with it.

And yes… I’ll be showing Z how winners do it 😉 watch out y'all!

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗳𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝗲

Not just numbers.

Not just rankings.

But a global family... a support network of complete and utter nutters that have my back and I have theirs.

It gave me, mountain drives in Costa Rica stuck behind slow scooters.

Temple fortune readings together in Taiwan.

Running through the streets of Taipei for last-minute hot pot before the airport.

Racing tuk-tuks through Bangkok traffic.

Round tables, deep work sessions, ridiculous inside jokes, conversations and connections that have not only changed how I run my business but, how I live.

These are lifetime memories

And they came from showing up consitently, even when my community was small.

𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂’𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲, 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀

If you set one goal this year:

👉 Go all in on your community and your connections across Skool.

Not perfectly.

Not loudly.

Not with pressure.

But consistently, intentionally, and with a shit ton of heart.

Every small connection counts.

Every opportunity adds up.

This could be you in six months, however big or small your starting point is.