The Community Strategy Podcast: The nexus where online community strategy meets intentionality
The Community Strategy Podcast (CSP) offers interviews with online community leaders who share their community-building journey. Our podcast covers community concept, 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 become super supporters.
Episodes
In the final episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, Host Deb Schell invites Find Calm Here Founding Member Carol Chapman and her business partner, Lynnda Pollio, to share their collaborative project, a 7-week series called "WisdomKeeping.”
Carol Chapman is a Heart-Centered Practitioner who was called to leave her corporate career and spend time doing meaningful work. She co-founded several businesses focused on heart-cente...
In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, Carrie Melissa Jones shares her community experience from her early days to becoming a full-time consultant. She’s helped create community strategies for presidential campaigns, non-profits, small businesses, and the Fortune Global 50.
She’s the coauthor of Building Brand Communities, the Founding Partner, and COO for CMX Media (CMX Hub), the “community for community buil...
In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, David Siegel is the CEO of Meetup, the largest platform for finding and building a local community. He has over 20 years of experience as a technology and digital media executive, leading organizations through innovative product development, rapid revenue growth, and digital traffic acceleration.
Before joining Meetup, David was CEO of Investopedia and, before that, President of Se...
In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, Benji Vaughan, Founder of Disciple Media, shares his experience transitioning from a music producer to founding a community platform.
Benji shares, “As a musician, I had my own community of fans and followers. What I didn’t have was my own space to grow and manage that community in the way that worked for me. So, I set out to create that space. Along the way, I found a lot of other...
In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, Adrian Speyer, an experienced digital marketer and community builder shares the story behind his new book, The Accidental Community Manager.
With over 10 years of community industry experience, Adrian has delivered numerous talks about community building at major international conferences and is the author of The Accidental Community Manager. He has worked with top brands which has...
In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast the Community Consultants Collective, a cohort of new and veteran community industry leaders, share their experiences discussing the state of the community industry and what trends they would like to see in 2023.
The Community Consultants Collective, founded by Deb Schell, is a virtual group that meets once a month via Zoom to discuss how to be a consultant in the community industry...
Episode 94: Onboarding Automations for Course Creators that scale your community with Drew Dillion
In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast Drew Dillon, CEO of Burb shares insights about onboarding members into a cohort or course using their software as a service (SaaS).
An early employee at Yammer, building communities inside companies, where Drew developed skills and insights that helped him understand how peop...
In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, you’ll hear a conversation with CSP Host, Deb Schell, and Richard Millington, the founder of FeverBee, who talk about the insights he’s discovered on his journey as an international community consultant, and the author of Buzzing Communities, Indispensable Community, and Build your Community, Richard’s clients have included Google, Facebook, Oracle, Wikipedia, EMC, Greenpeace, and ...
In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast Taylor Harrington, Head of Community at Groove, a FREE app for solo workers to instantly connect and conquer their to-dos alongside each other, shares her mission to solve the loneliness epidemic.
Taylor shares how she’s designed online learning experiences with best-selling author, Seth Godin and that her community professional experience emerged from a job she had a at local craft...
In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, Lois Koffi shares her journey over the past two years of navigating the challenges of being an entrepreneur and how it changes as she learned more about how to get to the “heart” of selling, leadership, and how to feel better about life, relationships, and wellbeing.
Lois is a transformational sales coach, best-selling author, and speaker who’s coached thousands of people in busine...
In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, Laurence McCahill, Co-Founder of The Happy Startup School will share his journey to inspire, empower and connect entrepreneurs and leaders that want to create lives and businesses rich with purpose.
After running a digital agency for 10 years, Laurence and his co-founder have devoted themselves to realizing their vision for The Happy Startup School creating experiences, programs, an...
In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast Pablo Gonzalez, the inventor of the Relationship Flywheel, and Host of the B2B Community Builders Show shares his experiences.
Pablo is obsessed with human connection and has used his expertise to grow his business, and Co-Founded Be The Stage, a marketing agency whose concept is to start with identifying ideal clients, asking them about their challenges, and then using the content ...
In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, you’ll hear an interview with Pamela Slim, an author, business coach, and co-founder of the Main Street Learning Lab in Mesa, Arizona.
Since 2005, Pam has advised thousands of entrepreneurs as well as companies serving small businesses. Pam has written three books: Escape from Cubicle Nation (named Best Small Business and Entrepreneur book of 2009 from 800 CEO Read), Body of Work (2...
In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, host Deb Schell shares her notes and thoughts from the recent CMX Summit which she attended virtually on September 14th and 15th and attended several sessions in addition to networking with the world’s largest group of community builders.
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The world has experienced a mental health crisis in the past few years. One resource that offers a place for everyone to come and find a bit of calm is the Mindful Living Collective, led by Elisha Goldstein.
During this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, Elisha Goldstein shares why he decided to open up the collective, how his experience has been as a leader of a global community with over 7,000 members, and much more!
Eli...
On this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, Allegra Stein joins the Find Calm Here Community Members for a conversation about aligning strengths with a community strategy.
Allegra is a YouMap® Certified Coach who leads Misfits to Maverick, an online mentorship community for coaches who want to start taking simple, creative, and transformative steps forward in their coaching practice.
In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, Carolyn Zick shares her community journey and offers marketing tips for new community builders.
She’s the host of The Bad Axe Biz Club and AMIDST Creatives of the Midwest, both on the Mighty Networks platform.
During the recording of this live interview, you’ll hear some strategies to avoid burnout and Carolyn gives practical steps to grow your online business, scale your community...
In this episode of The Community Strategy Podcast, John Morley shares how he built an online community on LinkedIn by offering awareness, bringing delight to the members, and offering value in authentic conversations.
John is a self-proclaimed Serial Entrepreneur, International Professional Keynote Speaker, Podcast Host, Radio Personality on Drive-Time Radio, and Global Marketing Specialist
He’s the CEO and Founder of The JMOR Conne...
As an online community leader, it has been challenging to juggle personal and professional tasks over the past two years.
Many leaders feel overwhelmed with building, launching, and growing. I’m one of them.
In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, you’ll hear the second part of a recording of the Community Leaders Mini-wellness Retreat, held in June with fellow Find Calm Here Community members who share tips, success sto...
As an online community leader, it has been challenging to juggle personal and professional tasks over the past two years.
Many leaders feel overwhelmed with building, launching, and growing. I’m one of them.
In this episode of the Community Strategy Podcast, you’ll hear the recording of the 2-hour wellness mini-retreat that I hosted with community leaders and fellow Find Calm Here Community members. You’ll hear tips, success storie...
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