My god... You two are so easy to listen to! A relief for my ears, from high intensity information overload talks so common on RU-vid at the moment. EVERYTHING mentioned here is so relevant to what I am doing at the moment, in me trying to bringing local builders and handyman together. Going to bring my note book 😄 as I continue listening to the rest of the conversation, while painting a house in Norway, on this sunny day, overlooking a fjord 😄☀️🙏🏻
@@communitycultivated yeah, I’m currently making plans to build my own online community around songwriting, using Skool. I’ve been taking notes throughout the whole video - love the info on setting boundaries, defining the community’s purpose etc
This conversation between Sam and Shana was an absolute delight to watch and honestly, I was riveted to the screen for the entire 3 hours. Shana has a masterclass-level knowledge of online communities. Her ability to convey her thoughts with such precision was both enlightening and educational and provided me with a fresh perspective on building and nurturing my own community. Thank you!
Totally love this! Sam your podcast guests are awesome and so interesting. I got so much value from this on what is the right mindset when building community.
Sam- Your community does have a feeling of safety by the rules you set for the community. Also, you have been authentic and real, allowing the freedom for your students to show vulnerability.
Thank you for this one❤ So needed. Genuine connection, community - such a very important conversation to be having. The skills modeled by the best community managers are much like those of effective parents.
This was such a pertinent topic in these days. It seems as though, as Sam had not long ago suggested, that the model he sees being the best now is a members community, a high ticket product and a mastermind. For us just starting out, the member's community is essential to starting to get feed back and momentum. It's like consulting isn't even necessary, the group gives the feed back although, unfortunately with out as much or any profit. Many successful entrepreneurs are now giving away there goods in hopes of profits at the back end. Free gets peoples toes wet to test your waters and build the trust and connection. I guess I just iterated this for my own programming. Hope this makes sense. Getting real excited to launch!
This has been useful so far and I expect it to only get better. Thanks for bringing Shana on Sam, after my current product dev phase with my biz partner we're moving into community building and I think she'll really like Shana so I'll be checking out what services she provides soon enough
Legendary intro 😂 But seriously Sam I think you've struck gold with this format. I love hearing the nuances and tangents, Shana is a great guest as well!
Haha... although his second release, this was his first interview. And you know how that goes... never quite sure how to start. We just rolled right into it though.
This is one of the best podcasts I have ever listened to! Thank you Shana and Sam! Such a shame the podcast won't continue but I am excited to explore and build my community in Skool 😍
This was awesome. I started a community today. No courses yet. I feel passionate about my community because I’m one of the people that my community is for. Thank you both :)
@@communitycultivated haha, you've been meditating haven't you :D I just wrote my observation, glad you improved on this aspect of your life, it shows :)
This relates a lot to mihaly his flow theory, he says that if a group of people is just "drinking buddies" there's no goal, nothing to learn or grow into. But once they have a goal the whole group gets into the flow state
2:54:20 I am not sure.... but I think it is because the paradigm of each one. Most people are afraid because they are looking the collaborative frame from a competitive frame.
This episode was simply beautiful (never thought I'd use that word to describe a podcast episode, but Shana is a true gem) Super keen for more discussions like this.
Thank you Shana and Sam for opening my eyes to a completely different way of looking at the info industry; and for giving me the feeling that I can start a community, that it doesn't have to be a burden, and that it can provide more value to people than content. Thank you and god bless you.
The biggest insight that I learned from this is I've been looking at and approaching "Community" the wrong way. Ive been asking the wrong questions. Its kinda relieving that there are no set rules and a lot of managing a community should come from the internal members not the creators of the group. It almost sounded like Sam and Shana the perceived pros in my eyes are also learning alot about community still.
That's exactly it! We were just excited to jam out on community and I knew Sam had a lot to share because we've chatted about it before. Glad you enjoyed it.
Please have both speakers wear headphones. They can hear subtleties in the voices which translates better to audio. Just my opinion. Really loving the content. Thank you for making it!
Epic interview! People have to be good at knowing who to intro who to who because I see a lot of dud introductions because people don't really understand who people want to meet. Just because people have the same interests doesn't mean they're a good match, sometimes you want to meet people in different areas or people you can actually serve not just people doing the same or similar things as you.
Hey sam, could you consider also uploading the conversations in other podcast platforms such as spotify? The most time that I find in my routine to listen to you is when driving and working out. It would be a really easier content consumption considering the length of the conversations.
reason is simple its because people in business have a BIG tendency to focus on money but the thing that everyone seem to forget is that whos got the money??? PEOPLE!!! lol. if we give what people want and need then they will throw money at you and when they get results they will get attention from people around them and they will talk about you.
Fantastic podcast. Thanks for taking a far more relaxed interview style. Sick of all the short form content and blasted word-bits nowadays.. This was refreshing.
@@chartreusecircle1546 Lots of options depending on the situation. Chances are you already know what feels right to you keeping in mind you do what's best for the good of the community as a whole, not the individual. Here are some thoughts. 1) First check your own thinking to make sure it's really a problem that's impacting your community and not something you just perceive is an issue because of your own filters. Sometimes we think everyone thinks/feels the same way we do. 2) Take a look at your culture and what you are modeling. Are you creating a culture that celebrates being the "right" one or the "expert" with all the answers? Is it naturally competitive/one-up in nature? Consider how you can shift that through modeling responses and celebrating the curious and supportive ones in the group. 3) redirect/realign - I really appreciate your expertise in X area and how you're always willing to offer your advice. As you do, I'd love for you to keep in mind that we want to create a culture of curiosity/collaboration etc.. whatever aligns 4) remove if you want. It's your community. You don't have to tolerate people that aren't a culture fit.
I know exactly what she means when she says communities can drain you, I've built had some great communities then cant wait to dismantle them as time goes on as i feel like there is a constant need to 'show up'' and keep it ''active''
@@communitycultivated Yeah this podcast very helpful / insightful thanks. I plan on making a community one of the most important factors in my program moving forward. A good community can make the need to make sales / marketing irrelevant once it get to a certain size.
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Yes, every 10 mins starting 5 mins in and ending about 2:50 🤪 I may be bias but put it on 2x and listen like a podcast… it’s well worth it if you are running or want to run a community
UBUNTU is the S Africa word meaning the essence of community. Michael Tellinger is an interesting person discussing UBUNTU. This is not the Linux distro.
how did you "make it right" with the already WeTube customers? I understand why they were upset, but also not really. The TV I paid $600 for being $450 on Black Friday makes sense, and I don't think I'd get upset about that (especially on BF) Maybe I'm missing nuance.
2:30 -- Couldn't disagree more. The entire online hypercyber space has trained the world to jump far ahead to WHY, skipping WHO and even WHAT. Look at 911 perfect example. First words of GBush's mouth: "They hate our freedoms" -- the WHY. All else was secondary, the WHAT happened wasn't even relevant. So in a world trained for that, to that, suddenly it's reversion to WHO or even WHAT? It's great idea, but tough to do in practice. It's far more flow-go to query: "WHY are you here?" or to prompt, "this is WHY I'm here". 7:30 -- Couldn't disagree more. Where are you from is the kindergarten starter. In hypercyberspace that kind of thing couldn't matter less, except in context of maybe a food or travel site. The best cybercommunities I've yet enjoyed have worldwide members. Suggest instead the far more direct and sharper, "tell three things you love, in one sentence (or even one-word) each." And, tell when was the last time you did or experienced or pursued or enjoyed one of those things you listed that you love?
