Find Calm launching a Mighty Network
with Mackay Rippey
On this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast, Mackay Rippey shares his experience launching Beyond Protocols, a Mighty Network that helps health practitioners find calm by offering them ongoing education with leading industry experts, a connection to a community of peers, and the tools to learn new strategies so that they can make better, more well-informed decisions about how to test for toxicity, integrate genomics, and functional medicine into their methodology to support revenue growth while getting inspiration and encouragement from others.
Notable moments from our conversation:
4:55 Community is important to bring people together to learn best to connect with others who are learning and implementing specific tools at the same time, to learn together! “It’s all about implementation.”
6:06 Selecting the Mighty Network for creating a supportive community. “Mighty Networks is a nice, calm place to gather and not have all the distractions.” Mighty Networks is a place to find your “tribe.”
8:05 Launching a community on the Mighty Networks in 2021, discussing the challenges of launching and growing the network. The benefits of utilizing collaborations and partnerships to work together to find calm in building the community.
9:55 Connecting in a small group mastermind to discover how to best collaborate for launching a partnered Mighty Network and discovering the path to finding calm in building, launching, and growing the network.
25:01 Member experience, dealing with members who cancel their subscription and understand what they need, want, and why it might not be a good time for the member. “Be annoyingly helpful to your members.”
29:31 Expectations on live virtual events, and plan appropriately with what works in your community; it is a constant trial and error to determine what works. Pivoting a weekly call to a monthly challenge to encourage participation when members aren’t attending the live calls.
36:44 Creating content that is relevant for the community based on the host’s interest, sharing what inspires you with the community.
42:54 Features of Mighty Networks that are helpful to the hosts; analytics to discover inactive members and utilizing the search bar for fast-finding materials.
Community Strategist
Since 2020, as a community strategist, Deb’s guided more than 50 entrepreneurs in building, launching, and growing an online community. She’s worked with companies and organizations in non-profit , wellness, healthcare, leadership, coaching, and business development.
Deb’s work spans the globe with business leaders in the United States, Mexico, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Spain, Brazil, and Norway.
Deb works with an organization’s leadership in 3 areas: discovery, strategy, and implementation of an online community. She also provides best practices to keep it simple for both the user experience and the back-end operations.
In 2021, Deb founded the Community Consultants Collective, a group of consultants who gathered to share resources and expertise and offered encouragement and support. A Global Advisory Board was established in 2022, and a formalized program begins in 2023.
From Creator to Community builder...
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