Deep dive into the strategies that will help you build, launch and grow your online communities, courses and memberships. Whether you are a BuddyBoss user or not, this podcast will give you actionable strategies, inspirational stories, and tactical advice on what’s working now in the world of online entrepreneurship.
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Are you tapping into the power of community? Why NOT? Let's Talk Community where Jorge and his guests discuss the communities they belong to and how they've tapped the power. Everyone has communities they belong to and we can easily tap into them to grow our business, advance our careers, make changes in our personal lives and, of course, in our relationships. Join us. You may learn something. "Let's Talk Community" is brought to you by www.CelebratingRelationships.com. Visit us for more res ...
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Wes Tatters on Rapyd: The Journey Towards an Optimized BuddyBoss Hosting | Inside BuddyBoss
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In today's episode, we have a captivating chat between our Managing Director Graham Hoffman and the new Managing Director of Rapyd, Wes Tatters. They dive into what went behind launching Rapyd, a tailored hosting service for dynamic WordPress sites, especially those powered by BuddyBoss. Graham and Wes talks about: The issues hosting services face …
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CEO Tom Cheddadi on the Evolution of BuddyBoss and and What’s Next for the Company | Inside BuddyBoss
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In today’s episode, our CEO Tom Cheddadi joins our Managing Director Graham Hoffman as he shares the fascinating journey of BuddyBoss and what’s to come. Tom talks about: BuddyBoss' incredible journey, from humble beginning to becoming a thriving company with thousands of happy customers globally. The story of how he joined the company and went on …
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Create Community Over Competition: How The Boutique Hub Helps Independent Retailers Survive in a Post-pandemic World | Customer Stories
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In today's episode I'm joined by Ashley Alderson from The Boutique Hub; The Boutique Hub helps independent retailers find the education, trusted community and wholesale partners they need to grow! Ashley tells us about • How the three types of retail content; "Branded Content", "Sales Content", and "Engaging Content", need to play together to fuel …
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Advancing more women in every career phase at 10,000 organizations | Customer Stories
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In today's episode I'm joined by Natalie Benamou from HerCsuite; HerCsuite™ advances and engages women at every career phase with Turnkey Speaker Events, Leadership Development, DEI Council and Women on Boards Programs. Natalie tells us about • How 29 years of working in events and trade shows felt like a sinking ship at the start of the pandemic, …
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Creating a Community That’s as Obsessed as You Are | Customer Stories
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What Is A Community Funnel & Why Do You Need One | Topic Explainer
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In today's episode I'll be discussing what a community funnel is and why you need one. We'll go over: Best practices for generating leads and managing your community by using a funnel Tapping into your community to drive traffic and boost value of your customer journey Examples of free vs paid funnels to fit your community needs ---------- Show not…
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From Burn Out To Book Publishing, Fusing Fitness & Faith with Candice McField | Customer Stories
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In today's episode I'm joined by Candice McField from As for Me and My Body; the community that helps believers bridge their spiritual and physical health 365 days a year and provides a safe haven to celebrate everyone’s wellness journeys. Candice tells us about • How in-home fitness coaching left her feeling burnt out and searching for a way to im…
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Tools You Need To Deliver Your Online Course | Topic Explainer
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In today's episode, I am going to talk about • The challenges with depending on a single cloud platform solution to host your online course • 3 minimum requirements for selling and delivering an online course to your audience. • The collections of tools to start deploying at both a basic and professional level. ------- Show notes & transcript: http…
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13 Best Ways To Monetize Your Free Community | Topic Explainer
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The 7 Types Of Membership Content You Need To Maintain Sustainable Profit | Topic Explainer
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What Is the Community Engagement Ladder and How Do You Use It to Increase Engagement in Your Online Community
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In today's episode, I'm going to dive into Community Engagement and tell you about • What actually is community engagement, what defines it, and is it the same for everyone? • What community engagement is, and what it is not! (Hint: Engagement is NOT a measure of success 🤯) • The 5 steps up the ladder of community engagement and what types of activ…
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How the largest African-American Church in San diego California connected its global congregation with BayviewU | Customer Stories
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How Kristina Romero has created an immersive and transformational learning experience for FREE with The Hagios Study | Customer Stories
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In today's episode, I'm joined by Kristina Romero from The Hagios Study; The Hagios Study is a series of Bible studies with a companion mobile app designed to provide a dynamic experience through the written word, audio and visual meditations. Kristina tells us about • How past experiences with bible studies that she didn't think were working was t…
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How a pivot in the pandemic has helped open up a world of possibilities for Back In Shape | Customer Stories
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How starting local allowed Her Suite Spot to build brand awareness, credibility and a community of raving fans. | Customer Stories
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In today's episode, I'm joined by Marsha Guerrier from Her Suite Spot; HerSuiteSpot is a digital platform designed to empower women of color to advance as leaders in their careers and business. Marsha tells us about • How she started by giving out micro-grants of just $100 that she bootstrapped from the profits she made selling services and program…
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Inside BuddyBoss Customer Support - with Customer Support Manager Graham Hoffman | Inside BuddyBoss
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How Carrie Green doubled the size of her membership in one week... by closing it down! | Customer Stories
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In today's episode I'm joined by Carrie Green from Female Entrepreneur Association; The Female Entrepreneur Association is a global community platform connecting thousands of women worldwide, helping them to grow successful businesses through online Masterclasses and Workshops. Carrie tells us about • How the isolation and aloneness she experienced…
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The Best Types Of Online Course Launch & Which One Is Right For You | Topic Explainer
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How Think Differently Academy is helping people release the person they were designed to be from the beginning. | Customer Stories
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In today's episode I'm joined by Bob Hamp from Think Differently Academy; Think Differently Academy helps people find release from life limiting beliefs and circumstances while training others to do the same. Bob tells us about • How operating inside facebook is like being inside a noisy gym, where the loud shouting of everybody drowns out the impo…
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How Gamactica is setting itself apart as a Content Creators networking and growth platform. | Customer Stories
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In today's episode I'm joined by Anthony DiMoro from Gamactica; Gamactica is a social media and marketing platform for the content creation & gaming metaverse Anthony tells us about • How there is a glass ceiling on all social media platforms that is attractive for initial growth but eventually prevents you from truly owning your content and your b…
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The true cost of developing and maintaining an app without BuddyBoss! | Customer Stories
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In today's episode I'm joined by David H. Lawrence XVII from VOHeroes; VOHeroes teaches professional actors how to add voice over to their performance portfolio, and helps people outside show business sidegrade into a voiceover career. David tells us about • How developing his first app, over 10 years ago, cost him over $100K in time and resources …
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How TabiFolk is helping people with disabilities rediscover the joy of traveling.
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How Outdoorsy Black Women is creating safe sisterhood outdoors and online.
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In today's episode I'm joined by Toyin Ajayi from Outdoorsy Black Women; the social network for all Black Women to connect, celebrate, build community and open their minds to an outdoorsy lifestyle. Toyin tells us about • How the limitations of Facebook groups led her to launch her own community platform to featured black owned businesses serving h…
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Introducing Blockli: The new 3rd party design add-on for the BuddyBoss App | Developer Insight
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In today's episode I'm joined by Philip Ikpeiwunna from Blockli; the new 3rd party add-on for the BuddyBoss App, giving users a set of customisable blocks to visually display and connect content in their App. Philip tells us about • How the first app he built, outside of WordPress, took him 2 years to develop and never saw the light of day! • How b…
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How App Designer Pro is deploying apps for clients in under 48 minutes! | Customer Stories
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In today’s episode, I’ll be talking to Ryan Carlock from App Designer Pro whose agency helps entrepreneurs and business owners rapidly develop decentralized apps that bridge the gap between Web 2 and Web 3 technologies. Ryan tells us about: How BuddyBoss has allowed him to start building 10 years ahead of anything else out there. That discovering t…
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How ReligionAndPublicLife.org is countering religious hostility and creating Evergreen Communities. | Customer Stories
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In today’s episode I’m joined by First Amendment and Human Rights educator Rev. Dr. Nate Walker from ReligionAndPublicLife.org - the social learning community and mobile app providing civic education for the common good. Nate tells us how he has rallied a network of philanthropists to invest in the technology that facilitates the teaching of religi…
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How HeyCollege is breaking down the barriers to education in the US. | Customer Stories
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I'm joined by Anna Sharp from Hey College - the college access mobile app powered by BuddyBoss that helps High school students in the US navigate the college application process and prepare for university admission and success. In this episode we discuss: How Anna has used BuddyBoss to scale her resources and the services she can offer to reach mor…
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How Sophicly is converting up to 90% of consultations to paying customers. | Customer Stories
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I’m joined by Abdullah Neil Williams from - Sophicly the English Tuition platform for 16 year old UK students that helps them get top grades in their GCSEs Abdullah has gone from dragging a suitcase full of books all around London, earning as much as he was losing in travel and costs to having his best year ever of student results. In this episode …
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Welcome To The BuddyBoss Podcast | Introduction Episode
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Welcome to Episode Zero of the brand new BuddyBoss Podcast where we dive deep into the strategies that will help you build, launch and grow your online communities, courses and memberships. In this episode I’m gonna give you a bit of an introduction, on what to expect from the podcast, introduce myself and tell you a bit about my own journey with o…
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#15 What Is a Mastermind and Why Should I Care…and You Should?
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Masterminds are more like a real community than any else. A well-run mastermind provides you with a group of peers that take interest in you. If the mastermind involves your business, they can provide you with support, encouragement, advice and guidance to help you succeed. There’s nothing like a knowledgeable outside team give you a hand. In this …
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#14 How Do We Cope and Adjust When as Change Gets Thrust Upon Us?
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Change is inevitable. It’s the only thing we can count on, yet many of us fight and refuse to accept it. Jorge and Gary Melling talk about change in both their personal and professional lives and polarized people can get moving into competing tribes and fiefdoms at odds with each other. How do we take on change and use it to grow in community for t…
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#13 Tight Knit Mastermind Communities Get You Priceless Business Feedback
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A well-run mastermind group fosters transparent relationships between business owners. People who would otherwise not speak honestly to each other open up and willingly expose their vulnerabilities to each other. That provides the typically isolated entrepreneurs with relationships to fellow business owners who can get them valuable advice, guidanc…
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#12 How Do You Build Community at Home with Young Children?
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Building a positive, nurturing home can be difficult given the day-to-day challenges we all face. Many parents, for different reasons, struggle to build what feels like a cohesive, positive community at home. This week Jorge talks with Sabrina Peron. She’s an entrepreneur, life and business coach who shares some tips for building community at home.…
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#11 How Do We Make People Feel Like They Really Belong?
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In this episode, Jorge speaks with guest, Ricardo Gonzalez about belonging. Ricardo is the author of the soon to be released book, “To Belong or Not to Belong: Why People Want to Belong or Not.” Without belonging, people may technically be a part of your so called community and feel disconnected or even excluded. Jorge and Ricardo discuss this dyna…
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#10 How Do You Recreate an In-Person Community Online?
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Regardless of who we are or what we do, we belong to communities. We’re typically in community with others that share a common interest. Think music, church, flying planes, working out or kitting. We are in community, but may be failing to tap into all it can offer. This week Jorge talks with Finn McKenty. He's the Director of Operations at URM Aca…
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#9 Community and Sandwich Generation Homes Part 2
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This is a continuation of our previous episode where Jorge and his good friend and guest, Raul, discuss the legacy you leave behind to you children, their children and those farther down the chain. We all inherit a legacy. It’s the result of what the generations before us left. For some people, it’s a great legacy. For others, it’s not so great. Th…
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#8 Community and Sandwich Generation Homes Part 1
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The family community comes with inter-generational dependencies that shift over time. Babies and toddlers depend completely on their parents. Teens depend less on their parents, then adult children become independent. On the other end, you have elderly parents that begin to slow down and they depend on their children. In this episode, Jorge and his…
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#7 Let’s Discuss the Power of Collaborating Competitors
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You will often see competitors competing viscously for business working hard to keep others out. An alternative is to instead work side-by-side on projects collaborating with each other leveraging each other’s strengths. The learning potential and improvements to the end customer deliverable can be impressive. This week Jorge talks to guest Lee Dal…
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#6 Elon Musk's Telsa Community - Much More Than Selling Cars
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Talk to any Telsa owner and you can expect much more than stories about their car. They'll share with you “an experience” that includes a connection with an enthusiastic community of devoted followers. This tight knit community comes with tons of people in "LOVE" with their cars. Listen in as Jorge Diaz discusses talks to JP Dickson, a long time fa…
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#5 Jorge Answers, "Why Is Community So Important?" - Part 3
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You can't really cover the topic of community without talking family. Everyone has one. Some families provide a supportive community. Other's very in how well they do that. In the episode, Jorge shares his family experience growing up in a tight knit immigrant family. He tells us about the things his grandparent did to build a family community. The…
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#4 Community Can Be That Secret Sauce for Business
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In this episode, Jorge's guest is long time customer Megan McDonough. She is an expert in the field of positive psychology. She uses divergent thinking and creative perspectives to build organizations and networks that harness the best in people for the greatest good. Many organizations have a guru, expert or what some would call the "sage on the s…
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#3 Jorge Answers, "Why Is Community So Important?" - Part 2
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Often in our careers, we find ourselves needing or wanting a change. We need to make more money. We develop a new skill we want to use in our work. We identify a job opportunity that we want to take on. In this episode, Jorge continues from part 1 sharing how he reinvented himself and tapped into the power of community to make it happen. He went fr…
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#2 Entrepreneurship Can Be a Lonely Business
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This week Jorge and his guest, Mark Jamnick, discuss the community that brought them together and how it has supported them in their businesses. Running a business can be grueling and it can easily leads to isolation and loneliness. You get so "heads down" busy, that you don't think to reach out. Listen in as Jorge and Mark discuss this communities…
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#1 Jorge Answers, "Why Is Community So Important?" - Part 1
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In the first episode, the "Let's Talk Community" maiden voyage, Jorge tackles the question, “Why is community so important?” He comes clean about his tendency to isolate, especially when he’s under stress, and tells us about his experience with one very valuable community. He went through several bouts of unemployment, which was tough, but it's wha…
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