People Magic: How to Build a $1M Community

People Magic: How to Build a $1M Community

What if it was easy to create a $1M digital business you could be proud of? The path lies in creating people magic. Gina Bianchini, founder and CEO of Mighty Networks, has helped over 10,000 entrepreneurs, brands, and creators grow incredible businesses that put people first and generate millions in profit. Now she’s bringing the secrets of the most successful communities directly to you. In this series, Gina will show you how to build a community so valuable you can charge for it and so well-designed it essentially runs itself. She’ll answer your most pressing questions surrounding community building like: what has changed in the past six months that makes building a community so profitable TODAY? What is the #1 mistake new community builders make? How do you find members? Join us for People Magic today.

Episodes

Courses are Content

May 22, 2025 • 20 mins
Whether your course sales are down or you just want to increase your sales, there is a way to make courses more interactive and future-proof. Reimage your course as a set of things that a group of people are going to do together instead of passively consuming content alone. In today’s episode Gina breaks down why this will make your content more valuable and why it’s so easy to do on Mighty Networks. Want more? Listen to: Inves...
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How to Charge for a Course

May 15, 2025 • 15 mins
If you’re charging someone a fair price for something that’s going to have an impact on their life and get them results and transformation, you can pick a price that everyone will feel good about. In today’s episode Gina breaks down charging for a membership vs charging for a course, event or challenge and why you don't have to choose that price out of thin air if you’re focusing on the results your members are looking for.
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Using AI to Spend More Time with People

May 8, 2025 • 18 mins
If we spend too much time interacting with synthetic people, we get worse at communicating with real people. Whether you're building new courses for your community or if you could use help organizing your thoughts, articles and content, AI can be a super useful tool. But if you lean on it too much for content production it can be really mediocre. In today’s episode Gina dives deep into how people are using AI to bring community tog...
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When You’ve Hit a Plateau

May 1, 2025 • 15 mins
When your business has hit a plateau, it’s important to take a pause and do an inventory. In today’s episode, Gina dives deep into transitions and why getting more specific about how you help someone with that transition and their overwhelm will encourage them to keep coming back to your community and bring new people in. Spend time thinking about the uniqueness of your community and how you can help them navigate and then you can ...
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Let’s Do a Mastermind

April 24, 2025 • 15 mins
What’s a Mastermind? It’s a small group of people who gather to help one another achieve their goals. In today’s episode, Gina breaks down why the power in a mastermind is so powerful and how it lies in the curation of who is in those groups. It requires finding people who are in a similar stage of life, stage of business or stage of a similar challenge they are navigating. Masterminds can be in addition to a community, helping peo...
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Create A Companion Community

April 17, 2025 • 18 mins
Have an existing business that could benefit from adding a community? Then this episode is for you. Gina asks to shift your perspective from an e-commerce only business to helping your customers or ideal members navigate a transition in their lives that is connected to your product. A companion community helps connect your customers in a way that benefits their lives and keeps them coming back. In the same way you think about subsc...
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Save Yourself From Burnout

April 10, 2025 • 10 mins
When you fear burnout is near or that your energy is fading it might be time to evaluate what you're focusing on. In today’s episode Gina tackles the very human question about how to stay energized AND excited about business over and over again. If this resonates with you it might be time to make some really important decisions and make some really important changes. Sometimes burnout happens and we can see it coming for a mile awa...
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Simply Build Community Identity

April 3, 2025 • 19 mins
When thinking about building an online community and long term retention, it’s back to the basics. Identify your ideal member and focus on which transition you want to serve. In today’s episode Gina breaks down how to build long term retention by building your community’s identity, getting really specific about how to help your community AND making sure you don’t overwhelm your members or yourself in the process.
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People Magic: Season 3 Trailer

April 1, 2025 • 1 min
Season 3 of People Magic: How to Build a $1M Community is here with a new look and more tips and tricks to help you build the community you need and the life you want.
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Stop Using So Many Platforms

March 27, 2025 • 11 mins
Do you have a newsletter and a podcast and an Instagram page mixed in with a few courses? Managing all those separate platforms is a lot of work and we can make it easier. In today’s episode, Gina asks some really great questions to help figure out where YOU want to spend your time and how to make it easier for YOU to do them. People Magic is durable and sustainable. It’s able to keep so many things in one place so you can focus on...
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How Do You Value a Community?

March 20, 2025 • 12 mins
What’s the difference between a community driven business versus a content driven business? Trillions of dollars. The value of a network effect  community driven business goes up with every new member. How? Through creating a group identity and connections between members NOT building an audience. In today’s episode, Gina does a deep dive on how you value your community, charge up front, save money on marketing and help people buil...
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Member to Member Connection

March 13, 2025 • 13 mins
Your community and you as a host are unique and amazing but if you’re still coming to community building with the mindset of “content is king” is not unique. Why you think “content is king” is because that’s what you’re being told every time you open your phone or your computer. In today’s episode, Gina breaks down why building an ecosystem for people to gather and connect with a shared identity is the key to long term success.
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Am I Still Relevant with AI?

March 6, 2025 • 10 mins
Human beings are never going to become obsolete with AI but a lot of our manual efforts will be done by software. If you are drawn to a community because you love people and connecting with them, AI will make it easier for you to do just that. In today’s episode Gina responds to the fear of AI and how she reframes when she is driven by fear as opposed to excitement.
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Pick a Transition not a Niche

February 27, 2025 • 11 mins
If you are trying to figure out how to make your life really easy when creating a community you really want to just start with a transition. It’s the first step and it’s the most important step. Human beings are constantly in transition, it’s what makes life interesting and fun, even if it’s a challenge. In today’s episode Gina breaks down why she doesn’t recommend starting a community with a niche and why starting with a transitio...
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Why a Paywall works

February 20, 2025 • 14 mins
If you’re putting up a paywall for the first time, breathe. It can be scary but the results of charging for your work are incredible. In today’s episode Gina breaks down why a paywall works AND why you can still offer things for free to bring people in. When setting your price you want to aim as high as you can. The results of your community are the value of your community. People pay attention to what they pay for and people will ...
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Communities are powerful AND forgiving

February 13, 2025 • 15 mins
We are social beings, we are meant to learn from other people and understand the way the world works because we watch what other people do. Who you surround yourself with every single day has the most impact on who you are and what you can accomplish more than anyone else. In this episode, Gina breaks down how communities are powerful and why they are the perfect place to make mistakes and have setbacks because they are forgiving.
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Be Thoughtful About Your Ask

February 6, 2025 • 14 mins
When building a community it can be hard to motivate people to find new members. In today’s episode Gina invites you to go back over your work and make sure your ideal member is super clear along with your transition. Having a clear ideal member and transition not only makes finding new members easier, it also adds more value to your community because you have already done the work of getting really specific. When asking your netwo...
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Groups > 1:1

January 30, 2025 • 19 mins
On the surface one would think that 1:1 coaching would be more expensive than group coaching. In today’s episode, Gina challenges that notion and believes that group coaching should be at the top of your offering. With group coaching or as Gina likes to call it, a “Mastermind” you can grow faster, add more value and make it a more rewarding experience for your members. We have been taught that worshiping the individual is the best ...
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Make Your Business a Flywheel

January 23, 2025 • 14 mins
When you are building a business you want it to take on a life of its own so it can continue to grow without you having to constantly sell as you would with an e-commerce business. That’s a flywheel. A flywheel starts to build momentum of other people taking actions, other members providing value for each other and other members bringing in more members. In today’s episode Gina breaks down the meaning of a Flywheel business and why...
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Controlling Your Own Destiny

January 16, 2025 • 18 mins
With uncertainty at work, there’s no better time to start your side hustle than right now. But if you’re like most people you’re probably asking yourself, “where do I find the time?” In today’s episode, Gina breaks down how she carves out time. Don’t worry, it’s not about inventing more time but rather replacing a time suck with something more productive. Because building an additional revenue stream gives you more flexibility and ...
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