For years, when something happened in my day, I'd Slack a voice note to my team or my business girlies. The goosebump moments. The hard days. The wins that got celebrated loudly. And those voice notes were more honest than anything I ever published.

So I started keeping track of them. And now they're yours too.

In this first entry:

• The habit that started it all
• Why this isn't another Instagram, Threads, or Substack
• What's waiting for you every weekday at 6am Eastern
• Something to noodle on: what happened in your business last week that made you pause?

The Diary of a Community Builder is a daily, behind-the-scenes look at what it really takes to build and run a membership community and a community-led business. Real entries about community building on Circle, member engagement, retention, launches, working with AI as a community builder, and the honest, in-between moments of growing an online business, without the highlight reel.

Want to take it one step further? The Diary lives inside coCreator Society too. Each day's question drops in the community, you leave your own entries, and we support one another while we build our community-based businesses, together, out loud.

Come join us 💛 https://cocreatorsociety.com/

ABOUT THE DIARY OF A COMMUNITY BUILDER

The Diary of a Community Builder is a free daily podcast from Rachel, a Circle Expert and founder of coCreator Society. Every weekday at 6am Eastern, a new entry drops: musings, behind-the-scenes moments, and lessons from inside real membership communities and community-led businesses, plus one question to noodle on in your own day of building. It's the messy, honest, in-between of building something that lasts. For full-length strategy episodes, listen to the Community at Heart podcast wherever you get your shows.