Deb Schell is the Creator of Find Calm Here LLC — As a community strategist who guides leaders, founders, startups, and organizations in best practices for and how to create an online community.
After leading her community for over two years, Deb’s learned a lot about setting clients up for success by gaining clarity on the community concept, developing a community strategy, and putting together a great community launch plan for marketing on social media.
Combined 20 years experience as a journalist, travel writer, professional photographer, business owner, and marketing expert, she’s skilled at identifying your vision and bringing it to life.
Deb is a Community Leaders Institute Certified Community Professional. She’s also completed the CMX MBA program (2020) and has also completed an 8-week program (2020 to become a professional public speaker.
Inside the Find Calm Here Community, she brings together community-builders who feel overwhelmed and offers tools, support, and accountability. Together, members find calm in the process of building their online Mighty Networks, sharing their successes and struggles.
Since 2020, Deb’s been the Host of The Community Strategy Podcast, where Deb shares conversations she has with community-builders who share how they’ve found calm in the process of building, launching, and growing their online paid communities.
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CSP Episode 88: Community Building using Ecosystems with Pamela Slim
Pamela is seeing a trend that business owners are looking to go deep and shift in the marketplace. She shares that a big audience isn’t necessarily what so many are seeking right now, it’s actually about working more deeply with fewer clients.
Episode 87: CMX Summit Recap with Deb Schell
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.
The Widest Net: Session 4 with Pamela Slim + Join Agcongay
“Community is the earth, water, air, and sunshine for our sense of belonging and purpose. It is the ecosystem – the set of people, places, structures, organizations, resources, and behaviors – that allow us to feel like we are seen, heard, understood, and valued, and where we find the tools to reach our goals.”