Beginner Maps
Interviews with operators of top community business where they share their secret magic sauce. Learn the best of what operators of top community businesses have already figured out.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 57 minutes
- Episodes
- 55
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Creating a leading in-person conference as a solo creator
This guy bootstrapped a global community conference out of his own pocket. And it worked.Francisco Opazo is stubborn—his words, not mine. And thank goodness for that, because his relentless drive has…
Scaling a cohort-based community using hidden curriculum
Paz Pisarski has cracked the code on growing a cohort-based community business. She has taken The Community Collective from a meetup group to a community membership that had 102 people in its latest …
How to get top professionals sharing their secrets in your community
Running Remote is the best case study in building a paid community of practice. Run by Kasia Triantafelo, this is community of 250+ remote work leaders from companies like GitLab, Dropbox, and Zillow…
Building a 5500+ member paid community around a newsletter
Building a 5,500+ member paid community isn't easy. Abbey is one of the rare people who's managing just such a community at Health Tech Nerds. This episode is a must-watch for newsletter creators w…
How to use transparency as your community strategy to get 100s of paying members in months
John Faulkner-Willcocks built a 250+ member paid community in just 4 months with an astonishing 1.5% churn rate. His inspirations? On Deck and World of Warcraft (yes the video game). He's the cofou…
How to get 60% referral rates for a cohort-based community
As Program Director at On Deck and now founder of Next Careers, Anthony Nardini has helped 1000+ senior operators navigate career transitions. In this episode, he shares his playbook at Next Careers…
Building community as a solo creator without burning out
Carrie Melissa Jones shares the blueprint for building successful online communities. Carrie is the author of Building Brand communities, founder of the CMJ group where she offers consulting service…
How to turn a course into a transformational community
Ashley has managed to turn on-demand courses into a community experience that supports 1200+ paying members of Smart Passive Income’s All-access Pass community started by Pat Flynn.
She has created …
Building community businesses for world's top creators
Jordan Godbey has built communities for world's top creators like Justin Welsh and Ali Abdaal.
He helps experts start a new business line by helping them build Circle communities at his company Gro…
How to turn a bestselling book into a community business
Stephanie Baiocchi is the community team of one at IMPACT where she manages the membership behind the bestselling book - They Ask You Answer by Marcus Sheridan.
She single-handedly manages a 3,000+…
Frameworks to build a profitable community business
Bri Leever is filled with actionable frameworks for building a profitable community. She has honed them over the years by building communities through her consultancy - Ember Consulting.
In this int…
Lessons from building 8+ communities - hear it from an investor
Scott Amenta might be the most experienced person you'll ever met when it comes to building community businesses.
He's simultaneously running multiple 7-8 figure community businesses through Sylva, …
Building paid communities for top creators like Nik Sharma
Shin Takeda is changing the game for creators by creating done-for-you membership Slack communities for them. Creator funnels their audience, Shin handles end-to-end operations of running their paid …
Journey to 50k+ subscribers, $35k+ revenue in 1 year as a creator with a full-time job
Jordan Cutler (@jordancutler) has done what most of us aspire to. He grew his newsletter to 50,000+ subscribers in just one year.
Along the way, he has made $35,000+ in “passive” income, with $20,00…
Hosting masterminds that lead to a ridiculous retention rate
Ryan Wardell is the CEO and cofounder of Startup Sauce, a private membership for SaaS founders outside of Silicon Valley doing $5k+ in MRR.
This community is special for a couple of reasons:
1. It…
How to host 200+ meetups in 35 countries in one year
Shreman Shrestha is the Head of Community for the Friends of Lenny’s Slack community. This community comes bundled with the Paid subscription for Lenny’s Newsletter and at the time of recording there…
How to build a community business that does $400k+/yr
Daniel Vassallo is the cofounder of Small Bets - a private community membership for indie hackers, solopreneurs and wanna-preneurs.
This community recently crossed 5000+ paying members and has been…
How to build courses that busy professionals love
Kyle Hagge led the community efforts at Morning Brew's Learning division as a Director of Community. This interview is a “reflection episode” where Kyle takes us back to this time and shares his “m…
Bootstrapping a paid community to 100+ paying members
Charlie Ward is the founder of Ramen Club - a private community of 300+ bootstrapped SaaS entrepreneurs that gives them the support and education to grow their business.
In this interview, Charlie sh…
What it takes to build a premium community membership
Erin Halper is the founder/CEO of The Upside - a private community of top independent consultants that gives them the resources and the support that they need to grow their business. The Upside use…