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Show Notes:
How do you create an incredibly valuable and thriving membership community?
As you're about to hear, it takes planning, intention, care and the willingness to experiment.
You're about to get a masterclass on creating a community from Erica Courdae, co-founder along with India Jackson of the Pause On the Play Community: a hub of entrepreneurs and change-makers connecting at the intersection of values and visibility.
Meet Erica Courdae.
She's dedicated her life to expanding how others interact with the world through powerful conversations. As an entrepreneur and certified coach, her work is focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), imperfect allyship, and imposter syndrome. This work has taken her into communities and onto national stages as a speaker and educator at events like AltSummit, ShePodcasts Live, and Being Boss. Erica is also the owner of an inclusive beauty salon, Silver Immersion, and the host of Pause on the Play, a podcast that features open dialogue on topics like company culture, visibility, and mindset.
Here's some of what we talked about:
Creating the Pause On The Play podcast, almost by accident
Choosing their platforms intentionally, and why they left Facebook
Creating different events including workshops, trainings, sound baths, podcast episodes and movie watch parties
Being experimental and responsive with what they offer the community
How they draw the right fit people and also detach from the need to be the right fit for everyone at every time
Being consistent with their values and their communication style so people sign up knowing who they're getting as their community leaders
Why they stopped using an application for their community and what they do instead
The deep empathy they see between their community members
How Erica and India protect their friendship and business relationship in loving ways
