The Community Strategy Podcast

By Deb Schell

Your online community strategy is vital to the success of your course, program, or membership. This podcast provides real-world examples from community builders who've developed their community str

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April 11, 2021Episode 30: Find Calm discovering your niche with Amelia Sherry
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In this podcast episode, Amelia Sherry, founder of NourishHer, shares her journey to starting a business and how important feedback from a trusted group helped her make decisions on her niche. She shares her experience with the Mighty Mastermind, a group within the Find Calm Here Community.

Amelia works with women by building attitudes about eating that helps all girls thrive. Her website focused on helping mothers overcome dysfunctional relationships with food in order to take better care of themselves and their families.

She is a professional writer and former magazine editor who pursued a credential as a nutritionist and public health professional to better understand women and children’s relationships with food. Her work has been published in American Health, Family Circle, Fitness, Latina, Reader’s Digest, Redbook, SELF, Today’s Dietitian, and more.

In this episode we discuss:
The transition from a writer to a nutritionist
Coming together following the Mighty Networks Community Design Masterclass
Amelia shares her experience working with Deb in the Mighty Mastermind
Self-discovery journey and connecting to self
CALM Method of Clarity, Awareness, Learning, Motion
Journals tools: the Clever Fox Planner and the Change Makers Journal
A 30-day challenge to write goals for a business idea to gain clarity
Letting go of good/bad with nutrition, body-image acceptance
Starting with a “goal” when gaining clarity for business ideas
Eating Skills Workshop on May 15th
Resources for parents for feeding kids
Last year’s Find Calm Here workshop
About Find Calm Here~ Deb Schell is the creator of Find Calm Here, an online community offering tools and resources to help you find calm in building a community with energy, joy, and abundance. We offer support, feedback, and encouragement to each other for cultivating communities that thrive. As a Mighty Networks Community Design Consultant, Deb offers resources for cultivating contribution, creating an awesome onboarding process, and connecting your members to spark inspirational conversations that help your members transform. Interested in building a community on the Mig
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The Community Strategy Podcast (CSP) offers interviews with online community leaders who share their community-building journey. Our podcast covers community concepts, community building, community strategy, community structure, community membership, and community management. We deep dive into the best ways to launch with platform reviews, give our thoughts on cultivating engagement, and the keys to identifying ideal members who will keep coming back and becoming super supporters.

Visit our Website Find Calm Here to learn more about working with Deb
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April 04, 2021Episode 29: Find Calm managing time with Paul Casey
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In this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast, Paul Casey shares his journey as a professional speaker with over 25 years of experience in leadership and personal growth. He helps people take back their calendars and to restore sanity in their lives with time management. His company, Growing Forward Services, partners with corporations and professionals to transform their vision, habits, and lives with his inspirational messages. He’s an author of four books including The Static Cling Principle (on habits and mindsets), Maximizing Every Minute (on time management), Leading the Team You’ve Always Wanted, and Leading with Super-Vision. He also interviews local leaders in his podcast: the Tri-Cities Influencer.
Notable Quote: “Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”― Bill Gates
In this episode we discuss:
Building an online business
DWMY - Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly goals for success
How coaching supported Paul during the Covid-19 pandemic after losing speaking gigs
The challenge with virtual events, being zoomed out, zombies
Building community in 2021 to scale business
Book recommendation Tribes by Seth Godin
Reviewing your weekly wins and looking ahead for growth
You can connect with Paul via email at [email protected] and get the FREE GUIDE to Take Back My Calendar.
I met Paul on PodMatch! If you have a message to share and want to reach out to more people, I highly recommend joining PodMatch, it’s FREE! Want to be a guest on the Find Calm Here Podcast? Let me know!~
About- Deb Schell is the creator of Find Calm Here, an
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The Community Strategy Podcast (CSP) offers interviews with online community leaders who share their community-building journey. Our podcast covers community concepts, community building, community strategy, community structure, community membership, and community management. We deep dive into the best ways to launch with platform reviews, give our thoughts on cultivating engagement, and the keys to identifying ideal members who will keep coming back and becoming super supporters.

Visit our Website Find Calm Here to learn more about working with Deb
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March 28, 2021Episode 28: Find Calm managing community with Jeff Roe
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In this podcast episode, Jeff Roe shares his passion for community as a Senior Community Manager on the Strategic Services team at Khoros, the leading community engagement platform helping companies connect with their customers authentically. He also serves as host for the Austin chapter of CMX Connect, a volunteer-led arm of CMX that brings community professionals together with over 60 chapters across the world. Jeff built his social media and community skills working for brands like 2U, graze.com, and SiriusXM. Check out the following links to learn more about Jeff's team at Khoros and the Austin chapter of CMX Connect. You can follow Jeff on Twitter @chaffrey.
In this episode we discuss:
Utilizing life experiences in community building
How he works with companies to support community
Tips for community managers to build engagement
Managing large communities and creating safe spaces for cultivating trust
Connecting with community professionals with CMX
About
Deb Schell is the creator of Find Calm Here, an online community offering tools and resources to help you find calm in building a community with energy, joy, and abundance. We offer support, feedback, and encouragement to each other for cultivating communities that thrive. As a Mighty Networks Community Design Consultant, Deb offers resources for cultivating contribution, creating an awesome onboarding process, and connecting your members to spark inspirational conversations that help your members transform. Interested in building a community on the Mighty Networks? It's free!
Support the Show.
The Community Strategy Podcast (CSP) offers interviews with online community leaders who share their community-building journey. Our podcast covers community concepts, community building, community strategy, community structure, community membership, and community management. We deep dive into the best ways to launch with platform reviews, give our thoughts on cultivating engagement, and the keys to identifying ideal members who will keep coming back and becoming super supporters.

Visit our Website Find Calm Here to learn more about working with Deb
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March 21, 2021Episode 27: Find Calm building a thriving community with Valentina Ruffoni
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On today’s episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast Valentina Ruffoni shares her experience launching a community called Eat Out Madrid in 2016 after moving to the Spanish capital in addition to her travels across the globe. After growing this Facebook group to over 7,500 she shares what has worked for her as she continues her community-building career, now with Disciple Media and CMX. She leads the Madrid chapter of CMX Connect. You can connect with Valentina on LinkedIn and follow her on Instagram.
In this episode we discuss:
Building community in-person and online
Travel and having a location independent job
Facebook groups to build community and nurture volunteer moderators
Networking globally now that events have gone virtual
Identifying the right fit for a new community manager
Upcoming events with CMX Connect, Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
About

Deb Schell is the creator of Find Calm Here, an online community offering tools and resources to help you find calm in building a business to live your ideal lifestyle. We bring together entrepreneurs so that they can lead a successful online business with energy, joy, and abundance.
When you join the Find Calm Here Community you’ll find over 30 workshops we’ve held in 2020 to help you find calm in daily life. Inside our exclusive cohorts, we connect, learn, and share our business ideas, challenges, and successes with each other for support, feedback, and encouragement in our process as we put our ideas out into the world while gaining clarity around ideas and tools to help implement our process using the CALM Method of Clarity, Awareness, Learning, and Motion.
Support the Show.
The Community Strategy Podcast (CSP) offers interviews with online community leaders who share their community-building journey. Our podcast covers community concepts, community building, community strategy, community structure, community membership, and community management. We deep dive into the best ways to launch with platform reviews, give our thoughts on cultivating engagement, and the keys to identifying ideal members who will keep coming back and becoming super supporters.

Visit our Website Find Calm Here to learn more about working with Deb
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39min
March 14, 2021Episode 26: Find Calm becoming pain-free with Ani Papazyan
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In this episode of the podcast, Ani Papazyan founder of LastStop4Pain and a former professional athlete turned pain relief specialist shares her journey to launching an online business and interacting with a mastermind.
She’s spent over 25 years helping clients live a pain-free life. With Ani’s guidance clients receive a customized plan utilizing blood chemistry and genetic test analysis to create a roadmap for not just pain relief, but to overcome pain. You can follow her and get pain-relief training on her YouTube Channel.
In this episode we discuss:
Ani shares her rich life experiences of growing up overseas and moving to America
Shifting from in-person to virtual sessions
Ani shares her experience working with Deb in the Mighty Mastermind
How to be okay with and learn how to pivot when things don’t turn out as expected
Passion for helping others and how that can drive time, money, and resources
Connecting with community and the value of networking
How to live pain-free and not accept that pain is a part of daily life
A free gift for listeners Ani share’s 5 Tips to a Pain-Free You
About Find Calm Here~ Deb Schell is the creator of Find Calm Here, an online community offering tools and resources to help you find calm in building a business to live your ideal lifestyle. We bring together entrepreneurs so that they can lead a successful online business with energy, joy, and abundance.
When you join the Find Calm Here Community you’ll find over 30 workshops we’ve held in 2020 to help you find calm in daily life. Inside our exclusive cohorts, we connect, learn, and share our business ideas, challenges, and successes with each other for support, feedback, and encouragement in our process as we put our ideas out into the world while gaining clarity around ideas and tools to help implement our process using the CALM Method of Clarity, Awareness, Learning, and Motion.
Support the Show.
The Community Strategy Podcast (CSP) offers interviews with online community leaders who share their community-building journey. Our podcast covers community concepts, community building, community strategy, community structure, community membership, and community management. We deep dive into the best ways to launch with platform reviews, give our thoughts on cultivating engagement, and the keys to identifying ideal members who will keep coming back and becoming super supporters.

Visit our Website Find Calm Here to learn more about working with Deb
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March 07, 2021Episode 25: Find Calm pivoting to the positive with Lori Baker-Schena
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In this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast Dr. Lori Baker-Schena, founder of Baker Schena Communications shares her experiences as a leadership coach and professional speaker.
She works with entrepreneurs and small businesses to achieve high levels of excellence, productivity, and profitability by reclaiming passion and expertise in their industries. She’s also the creator of LeadHERship Consortium LLC giving women the leadership skills they need to succeed in their personal and professional lives. A cancer survivor, Lori inspires women to “pivot to the positive” as they mindfully create a career that matches their passion and strengths.

I met Lori on PodMatch! If you have a message to share and want to reach out to more people, I highly recommend joining PodMatch, it’s FREE!
In this episode we discuss:
Getting clarity with self-discovery, alignment of passion and purpose
Letting go and asking “What’s the worst that can happen”
Surviving cancer and radically changing career to inspire and motivate others
Building confidence and self-worth in women leaders with LeadHERship Consortium LLC, giving women the leadership skills to succeed
Celebrating International Women’s Day 2021
The Solution Shift – mindfully shifting from a problem-centered to solution-focused life
About Find Calm Here~ Deb Schell is the creator of Find Calm Here, an online community offering tools and resources to help you find calm in building a business to live your ideal lifestyle. We bring together entrepreneurs so that they can lead a successful online business with energy, joy, and abundance.
When you join the Find Calm Here Community you’ll find over 30 workshops we’ve held in 2020 to help you find calm in daily life. Inside our exclusive cohorts, we connect, learn, and share our business ideas, challenges, and successes with each other for support, feedback, and encouragement in our process as we put our ideas out into the world while gaining clarity around ideas and tools to help implement our process using the CALM Method of Clarity, Awareness, Learning, and Motion.
Support the Show.
The Community Strategy Podcast (CSP) offers interviews with online community leaders who share their community-building journey. Our podcast covers community concepts, community building, community strategy, community structure, community membership, and community management. We deep dive into the best ways to launch with platform reviews, give our thoughts on cultivating engagement, and the keys to identifying ideal members who will keep coming back and becoming super supporters.

Visit our Website Find Calm Here to learn more about working with Deb
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39min
February 28, 2021Episode 24: Find Calm knowing your numbers with Tara Brown
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On this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast Tara Brown shares her experience working with Deb in the 90-Day Business Development Mastermind and how she went from concept to clarity using a combination of business tools to build her coaching program.
Tara is a Certified Public Accountant with over 25 years in the industry and has worked with companies big and small. She’s recently launched her coaching business which helps small business owners by offering a safe space to ask about their business practices without judgment, get customized answers to their business challenges, and brings calm by offering a structured program using her unique CLEAR Technique.
In this episode we discuss:
Jumpstart on launching a business with the support of coaching and community
Moving past the “fear factor” of starting a side-hustle and benchmarking for success
She shares the CLEAR Technique she has designed to help small business owners
Financing strategy tips for small business owners for improved cash-flow
Sharing her tools for success including a discussion about the importance of therapy/counseling to find calm through the process of building her business
Here's an article Tara recently wrote What Therapy Taught Me
You can follow and connect with Tara on Instagram!
About Find Calm Here~ Deb Schell is the creator of Find Calm Here, an online community offering tools and resources to help you find calm in building a business to live your ideal lifestyle. We bring together entrepreneurs so that they can lead a successful online business with energy, joy, and abundance.
When you join the Find Calm Here Community you’ll find over 30 workshops we’ve held in 2020 to help you find calm in daily life.
Inside our exclusive cohorts, we connect, learn, and share our business ideas, challenges, and successes with each other for support, feedback, and encouragement in our process as we put our ideas out into the world while gaining clarity around ideas and tools to help implement our process using the CALM Method of Clarity, Awareness, Learning, and Motion.
✨ NEW✨12-Week Clarity Course & Community OPENING Spring 2021
Do You have a business idea but don’t have clarity on the process of creating a plan to get it out into the world? Working with Deb in the 12-Week Clarity Course you’ll learn how to implement the CALM Method, of Clarity, Awareness, Learning, and Motion, with the tools and support of a small group mastermind all starting at the same place and working tog
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The Community Strategy Podcast (CSP) offers interviews with online community leaders who share their community-building journey. Our podcast covers community concepts, community building, community strategy, community structure, community membership, and community management. We deep dive into the best ways to launch with platform reviews, give our thoughts on cultivating engagement, and the keys to identifying ideal members who will keep coming back and becoming super supporters.

Visit our Website Find Calm Here to learn more about working with Deb
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39min
February 21, 2021Episode 23: Find Calm working remotely with Mitko Karshovski
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In this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast, I chat with Mitko Karshovski, the founder of the That Remote Life and 6-Figure Nomad, who ventured to become a digital nomad after learning of the phrase back in 2015. Since then he’s earned enough money to “Quit the Cubical” and become location independent.
He’s traveled internationally all while learning how to earn money through eCommerce, social media marketing, copywriting, web development, coaching, project management, and partnering in leading a marketing agency.
Launching That Remote Life Podcast in 2019, he has been interviewing entrepreneurs from all over the world who share their recipe for a successful online business. He helps remote workers of all levels from freelancers to nine-to-fivers who want to follow in his footsteps.
Recently opening the 6-Figure Nomad, the only community for digital nomad and location independent entrepreneurs based on the Harvard Business School case study method.
Discussed during our interview:
Stepping into location independence with the intention
Connecting with a community of fellow entrepreneurs
Remote life, working from home, creating non-negotiable time
Starting a business, making six-figures, and becoming that “digital nomad”
Travel talk about Merida Mexico, this Forbes article lists 10 reasons to visit
About Find Calm Here~ I'm Deb Schell and created Find Calm Here, a community offering mindful resources for those seeking to find calm through the process of creating their ideal lifestyle. Wanting to share how I've found calm in my life, I connect you to experts who share their methods and practices of how they've found calm in building a business or community through the CALM Method of Clarity, Awareness, Learning, and Motion. This process is how I've paid off $46K, left my 9-5 job, and launched a business in 2020.

I currently offer community consulting and bring together business and community builders in small masterminds to connect, share, learn, and grow. Get on the waitlist for the next opening of our private mastermind group! Sign up HERE Want to build a community? Check out the Mighty Network, Join 4 Free Here!
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The Community Strategy Podcast (CSP) offers interviews with online community leaders who share their community-building journey. Our podcast covers community concepts, community building, community strategy, community structure, community membership, and community management. We deep dive into the best ways to launch with platform reviews, give our thoughts on cultivating engagement, and the keys to identifying ideal members who will keep coming back and becoming super supporters.

Visit our Website Find Calm Here to learn more about working with Deb
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39min
February 14, 2021Episode 22: Find Calm building a content strategy with Sue Dickens
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In this episode, I share a conversation with Sue Dickens, a tech-savvy content strategist with a passion for helping business owners create content and build an audience online.
Her process of taking concepts to content brings calm by offering a proven process to purposely plan online social media marketing and copy for websites, allowing them to breathe easier knowing there’s a structure that is easy to implement into their busy life.
She offers one-on-one coaching to help entrepreneurs by creating a customized process based on the business goals and needs of the client. Do you have an amazing business the world needs to know about but you are too afraid to put yourself out there? Check out Sue’s 5 STEPS to start creating your content strategy!
You can learn more about Sue on her website, follow her on Instagram, or connect with her on Facebook or LinkedIn
In this episode we discuss:
How to share content with purpose and intention
Repurposing content in 14 different ways
The struggle to wear “all” the hats as a solo entrepreneur
Finding calm with the process by breaking it down into bite-sized chunks
Trello boards for project management, time-blocking, and setting non-negotiable time
Implementing a content strategy that fits your life
Travel talk, Sue shares her favorite things about Tasmania, Australia
About Find Calm Here~ I'm Deb Schell and created Find Calm Here, a community offering mindful resources for those seeking to find calm through the process of creating their ideal lifestyle. Wanting to share how I've found calm in my life, I connect you to experts who share their methods and practices of how they've found calm in building a business.
Find Calm Here will be offering business development masterminds to support your next business idea. Get on the waitlist for the next opening of our private mastermind groups! Sign up HERE
Want to build a community? Check out the
Support the Show.
The Community Strategy Podcast (CSP) offers interviews with online community leaders who share their community-building journey. Our podcast covers community concepts, community building, community strategy, community structure, community membership, and community management. We deep dive into the best ways to launch with platform reviews, give our thoughts on cultivating engagement, and the keys to identifying ideal members who will keep coming back and becoming super supporters.

Visit our Website Find Calm Here to learn more about working with Deb
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47min
February 08, 2021Episode 21: Find Calm building a community with Tom Norman
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In this episode, I talk with Tom Norman Founder of the How To Be Human Project. He shares how he launched in 2016 to bring people together by offering them a space to feel like they belong. He’s taken what he’s learned and launched his company Kickstart Your Community to help startups, NGOs, cafes, and musicians take communities from zero to thousands of active members.
Discussed in this episode:
How Tom built an in-person community and the commonalities between virtual and in-person experiences to spark collaboration and conversation.
Challenges in building an online community
Ideas around creating a supportive community with similar interests
How he leads communities he’s managing and tips for community managers
About Find Calm Here~ I'm Deb Schell and created Find Calm Here, a community offering mindful resources for those seeking to find calm through the process of creating their ideal lifestyle. Wanting to share how I've found calm in my life, I connect you to experts who share their methods and practices of how they've found calm in building a business.
Find Calm Here will be offering business development masterminds to support your next business idea. Get on the waitlist for the next opening of our private mastermind groups! Sign up HERE
Want to build a community? Check out the Mighty Network, Join 4 Free Here!
Support the Show.
The Community Strategy Podcast (CSP) offers interviews with online community leaders who share their community-building journey. Our podcast covers community concepts, community building, community strategy, community structure, community membership, and community management. We deep dive into the best ways to launch with platform reviews, give our thoughts on cultivating engagement, and the keys to identifying ideal members who will keep coming back and becoming super supporters.

Visit our Website Find Calm Here to learn more about working with Deb
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49min

FAQs about The Community Strategy Podcast:

How many episodes does The Community Strategy Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 130 episodes available.