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Skool Stories episodes

July 11, 2024Meet The 20 y/o YouTube Expert Who Made $57k In 30 Days
After grinding on Skool for over two years with two failed groups and no money to show for it, Kai Nemzer launched a new community that hit $57k in one month — and won the Skool Games.
In this rollercoaster conversation, we talk about:
The one tweak he made that changed everything

Why his parents being therapists helped him get a billion views

Going all-in on YouTube instead of going to college

How insane amounts of failure and pain helped him (eventually) win

And the cheat codes he wishes he had known when starting off.
Enjoy!
Kai's Skool: https://www.skool.com/ytgrowth
58 min
July 10, 2024 How This Mom of 4 Became A Social Media Influencer
JOIN SKOOL: http://tinyurl.com/skool-games

Jennifer Gizzi is an ex-airforce influencer mom of 4 who will eat your excuses for breakfasts.

Jennifer Gizzi is an ex-airforce influencer mom of 4 who won the May Skool Games while moving house

In this episode, we talk about:

- Why it's never a good time to start your business
- Having to step up after her husband recently lost her job
- Launching "too early” and having $8k not counted towards leaderboard
- Dealing with burnout
- And how she won the games by ONLY selling through DMs

Check it out!

Jennifer's Skool: https://www.skool.com/elite-influencer-coaching-8221/about
50 min
July 04, 2024 The Secret to Keeping Your Skool Community Engaged FOREVER!
JOIN SKOOL: http://tinyurl.com/skool-games

Reducing churn is the most powerful way to increase the lifetime value of your Skool community.

To help you crack the code, we caught up with Team Captivate (aka THE CHURNBUSTERS) in Vegas 3-days ago to discuss:

- How to wrap broccoli in bacon
- Creating a sticky “community identity”
- Hormozi's Guru vs Community Model
- (And how it will forever change the way you think about Skool)
- Helping your community members fall in love with each other
- The magic of “inter-community” events
- And some secret rainbow sauce that will turbo-charge your community's engagement

Check it out!

@Goose Dunlavey, @Jeffrey Buoncristiano and @Nav Pabla
51 min
June 26, 2024“Being on Skool is like escaping into Narnia”
JOIN SKOOL: http://tinyurl.com/skool-games
Jade Jemma is a Sales Strategist and the SASSIEST user on Skool.
In this episode, we talk about:
Offending Americans with her English sense of humour

Building a huge community on Meetup 15 years ago

How she found her niche

Ditching corporate life

Getting up to mischief on the platform

And why using Skool feels like escaping into Narnia
Check it out!
Jade's Skool: https://www.skool.com/house/about
42 min
June 19, 2024Why 99% Of The Music Industry Can't Make Money
JOIN SKOOL: http://tinyurl.com/skool-games
Levi Patton & Christian Crenshaw are the co-founders of Muzic Money, a community that helps people in the music industry make a killing doing what they love.
In this episode, we talk about:
Becoming locally famous in their city

Booking 21 Savage, Kodak Black and Wacka Flacka for college shows

Losing their identity over COVID

Partnering with industry-goat Zaytoven

Winning The Skool Games

And their plan to create the "Harvard” of the music industry
Check it out!
Muzic Money VIP: https://www.skool.com/mfm-millionz-from-music-5010/about
Muzic Money Free: https://www.skool.com/muzic-money/about
46 min
June 13, 2024The Reality of Winning The Skool Games
JOIN SKOOL: http://tinyurl.com/skool-games
Jeffrey Buoncristiano is a Skool Games winner and the co-founder of Captivate.
In this episode, we talk about:
His big duck energy

The behind-the-scenes reality of winning the games

A sponge metaphor that will change the way you do business

The power of following your gut

Crying tears of joy

And how Skool has allowed him to finally find his people
Check it out!
Buon's Skool: https://www.skool.com/unfckd/about
37 min
June 11, 2024"Every community is its own mini-planet" — Nav Pabla
Nav Pabla is a mental health content creator with 300k+ followers on Instagram and a thriving Skool community.
In this episode, we talk about:
Revealing her face and real name online for the first time

How she felt when Hormozi roasted her about page

Wild theories on why Skool is resonating with people on a deeply emotional level

Hot takes on how “every Skool community is it's own planet”

How she got her first members

And her MRR goals for Christmas this year
Check it out!
Nav's Skool: https://www.skool.com/the-phoenix-field-7722/about
38 min
June 06, 2024This 22-year-old makes $45k/mo with AI, here’s how
David Ondrej is a 22-year-old from Czech Republic who is making $45k per month with his AI Skool Community.
In this episode, we talk about:
If the hype around AI is real or fake

How AI Agents will allow you to "build your own team members”

Quitting his 400k subscriber YouTube Channel to go all-in on Skool

Coming from a small village with less than 500 people

And why the smart will get smarter
Check it out!
David's Skool: https://www.skool.com/new-society
34 min
June 03, 2024How Your Style Affects Your Success | Antonio Centeno
JOIN SKOOL: http://tinyurl.com/skool-games
Antonio Centeno is a YouTuber with 3.5 million subs, fashion entrepreneur, father of 7 kids and the founder two of the biggest Skool communities on the platform — Real Men Real Style and The Brotherhood of Scent.
In this episode, we talk about:
The first time he got a tailor-fitted suit (it's not what you think)

How to use style as a tool

Hormozi's “uniform”

Putting his kids to work in the community

Sending hand-written letters and gifts to reward engagement

A crazy tactic for helping people jump to level 3 with their first comment

And the best gift he's ever received.
Check it out!
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Fashion community: https://www.skool.com/rmrs/about
Scent community: https://www.skool.com/bos/about
Contact form: https://www.realmenrealstyle.com/contact/
Interview with Sam he referenced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5c5EsKVXdM
53 min
May 30, 2024How the GIF KING broke Skool
JOIN SKOOL: http://tinyurl.com/skool-games
Ryan Duncan is a leaderboard menace and the co-founder of GIF.
In this episode, we talk about:
How many hours he spends per day on the platform

Single-handedly raising the Skool GIF bill

Trying to win the Games with a $1 dollar community

His monitor set-up for having 3 Skool tabs open at once

Getting challenged to fight by a professional boxer on Skool

And the hidden keyword to Sam Ovens' favourite GIF
Check it out!
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Ryan's Skool: https://www.skool.com/gif/about
Sam's interview with Shana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5c5EsKVXdM
48 min