Happy Thursday Syndicate Members. 10am Eastern time this morning, we have our first Success Chat, that is open to ALL MEMBERS. Excited to have @Andrew Edwards (Ace), lead the chat today, which will be all about his expertise in optimizing LinkedIn profiles. Should be a great chat, I hope you can join, but we will always have the replay up later today. Just click the Calendar or Link above to join chat. It's Day 4 in our "5 Day Pride Month Business Ready Sprint" Today is all about Partnerships, Press, and Community Power Pride gets stronger when your business stops operating alone and starts building visible community connection. The goal of today's course is to identify Pride-aligned partners, community opportunities, media angles, and collaboration ideas that create visibility and shared impact. Today's attachment is a Sample Pride Press Release Template and suggestions on where to send it to. Everything is available by clicking on the "Classroom" tab at the top of the page.

Happy Humpday Morning Syndicate Fam! We are on Day 3 of our 'Pride Month Readiness Sprint.' Today, it's all about taking the ideas we went over yesterday and creating a content plan to make your ideas a reality. If you are late to the party, head up to the "Classroom" tab at the top of the page and you can see all of the lessons so far. Today is our second "Questions and Ideas" chat at 1pm Eastern Time. Anyone is welcome to pop in and ask questions, share their ideas, or just chat with syndicate friends. Just click on the "5 Day Sprint LIVE Chat" link above, or go to the "Calendar" tab and join there. I have also attached today's Sample Pride Planning Template for everyone. Based on YOUR feedback, our Thursday Success Chats are now open to ALL MEMBERS. If you missed joining in because you were not a Premium or VIP member, you are now able to join the chat LIVE. I'm looking forward to tomorrow's Chat at 10am Eastern Time, that will be led by member @Andrew Edwards (Ace), and it's all about how to optimize your LinkedIn profile to make your business stand out and be noticed. This is Ace's 'day job,' and him and his business partner have helped 100's of business entrepreneurs improve their profiles on the LinkedIn platform. Ace will be doing some mini-assessments of members profiles during the chat, so bring the link to yours if you dare, LOL. Hope to see you in chat if you can make it. Excited for member @Jonathan Shuffield for launching his Crowd Funding campaign for the new lgbtq sitcom he is producing and starring in, "Almost... Not Quite." Full disclosure, I am a Producer on this project, but I believe strongly in Jonny's talent and commitment and hope you y'all might want to join our journey. If you want to contribute to this film AND get some fun perks for doing it, then head over the the Seed & Spark website and look over this campaign. www.seedandspark.com and look up the title, "Almost, Not Quite."

Good Morning Syndicate Fam. I hope you are all having a great start to the week. I've got some great DM's and positive feedback for our Pride Readiness Sprint. This was designed for you to work at your own pace and get your business or coaching ready for Pride Month this June. I had a great chat with @Bill Roberts about his goals and there will be open chats at 1pm Eastern Time, this Wednesday and Friday, for any questions. You can always DM in chat as well. Of course, although June is the official Pride Month in the US, Pride is celebrated at different times all over the country and the World, depending on individual cities and communities needs. Today's Sprint post and worksheet is all about creating an event, offer, or visibility hook for your business and the ideas can be for Pride, but hopefully be incorporated to your business all year long. Attached is the "Idea Guide" to get you thinking about how you can create your own individual projects for Pride and/or year round. This will be this Tuesday's "Tools For Growth." Now............Drumroll Please........... Here is the Success Syndicate Pride Event for 2026. We are going to have our own Virtual Pride Parade!! Over the next 4 weeks, I am asking members to CREATE YOUR OWN FLOAT for our Virtual Pride Parade. I want you to create either "A Still Photo," or "A Short '3-10' Second Video," of a float that BEST REPRESENTS YOUR BUSINESS. Make it Fun, Make it Gay, Make it Full of Pride, and Make it Represent Your Business, Coaching, Product or Service. You need to turn your float into me by May 26th, and I will take your photos and videos and turn them into a Virtual Video Pride Parade and post it here in the Syndicate and all over our social media accounts. I hope you will all get creative and participate. I can't wait to see what you come up with.......S

Good Monday Morning Syndicate Fam! I hope you all had a most excellent weekend. If you didn't read this week's newsletter, it is FULL of good information and I Hope you will check it out (you can find it on the newsletter category above). Let's welcome our newest member, @John Morley who is from North New Jersey, and is an Author, Engineer, Video Producer, and President of Garden State Gay Socials. Welcome John, looking forward to connecting. Today's Motivation Monday is to get you motivated to take part in our "5 Day Pride Month Business Ready Sprint." Over the next 5 days, on the Classroom Tab above, I will be adding lessons on how to get your business/coaching ready for Pride Month. Hard to believe but we are only a little over 4 weeks away, but there is still time for you to create a game plan for your business to participate authentically and with some flair. Each day I will add a new course, that has ideas, worksheets, attachments and encouragement to be ready to engage with your customers and clients in June. I will also be LIVE TODAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY, from 1-2pm Eastern time for questions or just to chat. Feel free to pop in and say HI if you can.