🎙️Behind the Build with Jen Ps. · Skoolology: The Skool Lab

Donna Thornton

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Aug 24 (edited) • 🔵 🔬 Research Lab

🎙️Behind the Build with Jen Ps.

@Jen Ps

opened the door before she had all the answers.

When Jen P. launched The Room to Breathe, she didn't have every piece figured out.

And that was kind of the point.

Jen had been sitting on the idea for a while.

She knew the problem she wanted to help solve: the invisible mental load carried by high-functioning women who may look like they have everything together while carrying an awful lot underneath.

She'd researched.

She'd prepared.

She'd thought.

And there was still that nagging question...

What if I build it and nobody comes?

Eventually, Jen decided there were some things she couldn't learn by thinking about them longer.

She needed to open the door.

And then something pretty wonderful happened.

Women she hadn't personally invited started joining.

Jen remembers thinking:

"Okay, wow. There really are women who want this space."

That didn't give her every answer.

It gave her something better.

Real people to learn from.

Now Jen is paying attention to what they respond to, what they talk about, what they need, and what they value.

As she put it:

"It's becoming our room."

I love that.

And I especially love that Jen isn't pretending she has the rest of the build figured out.

She has a free Mental Load Pattern quiz.

She has a paid 7-Day Guided Mental Load Reset.

She can see possibilities for how The Room to Breathe could evolve.

But exactly what comes next?

She doesn't know yet.

And she's becoming comfortable with that.

Some answers aren't supposed to come before your members arrive.

Your members help you discover them.

That's what makes Jen's Behind the Build story so valuable.

We're not looking back at a finished build and making everything sound obvious in hindsight.

We're meeting Jen near the beginning.

There are still experiments to run.

Questions to answer.

Things that will work.

Things that probably won't. 😂

And people who may change what she builds next.

Jen said something in her written Q&A that I think every builder should hear:

"Eventually, you have to open the door."

We've just added Jen's full story to our Behind the Build classroom.

She shares what finally got her to launch, what her earliest members are teaching her, how she's thinking about value and monetization, what she deliberately chose NOT to figure out first, and what she'd tell another builder who's still waiting to feel ready.

👉 Go Behind the Build with Jen

And Jen, thank you for letting us document this part of the journey before you know how the story ends. ❤️

I have a feeling that's exactly what will make it so valuable to come back to later.

👇 And for the rest of us:

Is there something you're trying to figure out before you move that you might actually learn faster by moving?

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🎙️Behind the Build with Jen Ps.