Welcome to the 2026 version of my Official Skool Blog. Let's GO! What You'll Find Here: - Genuinely useful posts about best practices in Skool - Shared by a Skool-obsessed gal who has owned multiple top 1% groups and won the Skool Games (for the Connect & Collab group, we have a pretty awesome thing going there) - Favorite Skool groups and the cool things happening in those groups - Curated mix of some bangin' posts from around Skool What You WON'T Find Here: - Naval-gazing personal bits -- like what I ate for a snack today - Tons of personal stuff about me -- although sometimes I'll share personal stuff in the mix if it feels special and worthwhile enough - Boring rants (if we have a rant, the hope is that it will at least be interesting) How Often I'll Post: - Could be as often as 3-7x each week - At least once weekly - Probably not ever more than once daily unless there's a really good reason - We'll see as the year goes on, won't we?! Quick Background: - This started as an experiment, but in the last month or so I was too busy winning the Skool Games to keep it rolling (such a cool flex 💪🫠) - The flex was somewhat tongue in cheek. That last month was insane, and my MRR was nothing like what you'd see in the Money or Tech category. I had no sense of balance, and it was actually kind of a miracle that we won! 😃 - I freaking love the photo shared with this post because it might display just a tiny fraction of the obsession I have with Skool. - Pictured: my husband Carlos, married to this amazing man since 2005 and lucky AF, the Skool Cat (ha!), and me (hi! ::waving::) P.S. It's a "blog" but is also technically a group. Feel free to join by clicking the "JOIN GROUP" button, but you won't be able to post like in a normal group.

BOY OH BOY I've been thinking a lot about the conversation Martin started yesterday after our chat! BASICALLY, WE HAVE TWO OPTIONS: 1️⃣ FUNNEL-First Community = the community exists as a funnel, plain and simple 2️⃣ COMMUNITY-First Community = community is there for us to connect, even if it is also part of a business ecosystem which has paid offers. STAY WITH ME HERE on the incoming analogy... This got me thinking about how my daughter is 14, and now we have to teach her to be wary of boys. For some reason, when teenage boys' hormones get crazy, they're not always thinking of the girl and her brains and jokes and HER AS A PERSON. "NOTCH ON THE BELT" feels - honestly? GROSS - like there is the conquistador and then the conquest - as though one person is essentially there just to be used and tossed FUNNEL-FIRST COMMUNITIES = - feel much the same - like members are conquests - members are used like we're a cash machine to pull money out of And yeah, it's truly just like being another notch on the belt so the hustle bros* can brag about the $$$ from the launch. *QUICK NOTE about "hustle bros" --> I know this a gender-heavy marketing conversation. MEANWHILE... IN THIS ROOM, there are actual *GENTLEMEN*, so I want to take a moment to acknowledge that women can also show up as "hustle bros" and that men are often insanely thoughtful and gentlemanly in terms of the way they show up in life and business. This is not about man vs. woman. This is about the FEELING of being used or a conquest vs. the FEELING of being honored as a human. LET'S BRING THIS BABY HOME: In a community-first community where there are offers in place, there's no feeling of "notches on the belt" (which is obviously gross as a side note, but I make this analogy because I think we need to know that certain ways of showing up in relationships of ANY KIND feel genuinely... gross!). ➡️➡️➡️ YOUR THOUGHTS ON THIS ONE?!