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 full community events calendar with a team of 2
Clara Ma is the founder of Ask a Chief of Staff, a community membership business that helps Chiefs of Staff level up in their career. If you are one of her 23k+ followers on Linkedin, you will know…
Don't try to engage every member the same way
Ece Kurtaraner is the community consultant for Generalist World, a fast growing community membership business that helps generalists grow in their careers. Along with this, she also works with Rosie…
How to host a memorable online event with a guest
Michelle Varghese is the community manager for Small Bets, the largest private online community for entrepreneurs with over 5000 members. She has also helped in managing some iconic communities like …
How a challenge can 5x your community growth
Anthony Castrio is the founder and CEO of Indie Worldwide, a private community of bootstrapped founders. In this interview he shares his revenue, how he attracted new members in the early days using …
How to build a business around a free community
Grace Ling is the founder and CEO of Design Buddies, a free community with >64k members on Discord and a total audience of >150k. Here she leads a vibrant online community, does in-person meetups aro…
How to build a community business without an audience with Tatiana
Tatiana Figueiredo is the founder of Business of Community - an online school and community that helps founders create profitable businesses by building communities. She has helped multiple people …
Developer Relations 101 with Logan from OpenAI
This episode is sponsored by Curated Connections - a simple and powerful matchmaking tool to make communities more connected.
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Logan Kilpatrick is the first Developer Relations hire at OpenAI - …
Building a membership community business with Chris Samila
Chris Samila is the co-founder of Partnership Leaders - a strong bootstrapped business that provides community, connections and resources for partnership professionals.
This episode is supported by…
How Nikki built a community of senior professionals with the help of volunteers
This episode is supported by Curated Connections (https://curatedconnections.io/) - a simple matchmaking tool with an easy-to-justify pricing.
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Nikki Thibodeau is the Senior Manager of Community a…
Landing senior roles that are never posted with Jessica from Hampton
Jessica is the Head of Community and Events at Hampton - a private and highly vetted community for founders and CEOs started by Sam Parr.
She has more than 7 years of experience building communities …
How Madi went from being a software developer to the head of community at Contra
Madi Pignetti is the Head of Community at Contra - a commission-free freelancer marketplace. But she was a software developer before this. In this episode she shares how she made the pivot and what h…
How Amanda is leading Rails developer community with her events, marketing and education experience
Amanda has been led by what she found interesting throughout her career. So she completed a 6-month coding bootcamp last year, after having spent 20 years in events and marketing.
In a recent career …
How Marcie grew her career in building communities for startups
Marcie Walker is the Head of Community Engagement at Gatheround - a startup building a fun, new online events platform that makes virtual events actually fun.
In this episode, Marcie shares all the l…
The highs and lows of building your consulting business with Jenny
Jenny Weigle is a strategic consultant who has worked with some well-name brands like Airbnb, Google, Sephora, Visa and many many more such household names - and helped them build their online commun…
How Ben got his dream job at Notion by building side projects
Ben Lang is the Head of Community at Notion. He attributes almost all of the opportunities that have come his way to the side projects he has built out of passion.
Believe it or not, The Internationa…
How to build a career that makes your heart sing with Casie
Casie Tennin is a Community Builder and a Certified Life Coach.
As a Community Builder, she has built communities for fast-growing startups like Masterclass and TaskHuman. As a Professional Life Coac…
How Rahul went from 30% to 80% conversion rate for his community membership business
Rahul Desai is the General Manager of the Chief of Staff Network - a community membership for Chiefs of Staff to network and learn from their peers in the industry.
He the person responsible for maki…
Dealing with community layoffs, Community Operations 101 with Tiffany Oda
If you have wondered about a career in community operations, this episode should help you understand what it is, how Tiffany broke into it and how you can too. Tiffany Oda is the COO of Talkbase - a …
How being product-led has helped Murtaza build a passionate community for Heartbeat
Murtaza Bambot is the cofounder and CEO of Heartbeat - an awesome platform for building online communities. It combines the powers of Slack, Notion, Luma, Meetsy, Zoom and other platforms that commun…
Taking paycuts to move forward, validating your startup idea, what a founder values in an employee
Jakob is the cofounder and CEO of Butter - a startup that is bravely going against the video conferencing incumbents like Zoom and Google Meet by building a fun, interactive and delightful video conf…