This week I'm talking to Kim Restivo Lange, a therapist and entrepreneur in Wilmington, North Carolina. Listen as we talk about how and why she created the Growing Up Confident Collective, a membership for parents who want to help their kids with social and emotional learning. Kim tuned out the most common advice and conventions about what she SHOULD be doing in her business in order to create the vision for her collective. In this conversation we get into how she made the rebellious decision to start her community before some people would have said she had a big enough audience.

For me this brings up the question of how you decide what to create.

You can get advice from colleagues and coaches and consultants about what you SHOULD create, but if you don't create what really fascinates you and brings you joy week after week and month after month, what's the point?

As you create your signature program, how can you let JOY have a seat at the table from the very beginning?

As you listen to Kim talking about her program, I think you're gonna FEEL her genuine love and excitement.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Why Kim loves to help adults come together and have important conversations with kids
• Starting with an online course and realizing it's not the right format for her
• Getting out of the expert trap and creating a community based on mutually sharing
• How her membership works
• Monthly topics including anger, anxiety, and sadness
• Bringing in guest speakers
• How she uses her bi-monthly email
• Free opt-ins she's created and what's working best
• Using Pinterest to grow her audience
• How she manages her days and her week
• The online platform she uses for her community
• Honing the skill of writing good copy
• Why she's glad she didn't wait to create her community

Show notes at http://rebeltherapist.me/podcast/114