The Passion Pod

Welcome to The Passion Pod, the community building podcast by Disciple. In this show, we interview community experts and hosts from all industries as we discuss building and scaling communities. In today's episode, Disciple founder and CEO, Benji Vaughan sits down with Todd Nilson, the owner and digital strategist at Clocktower Advisors and Disciple customer Nick De La Torre from Awaken Catholic as they talk about what's next for my thriving community. Let's get to it! About Todd Todd has worked in online communities and digital workplaces for most of his professional career. His earliest experiences with online communities were in discussion forums for multi-player games. Since then, he has worked with dozens of companies to help them devise a successful strategy for the online communities they want to build. He starts from scratch and focuses on the business goals you are trying to achieve. From there, he helps leaders understand the factors that influence whether your online community platform will succeed or fail. About Nick Nick has served around the United States as a musician and speaker for Dynamic Catholic, Renewal Ministries, Extraordinary Mission and Life Teen retreats, conferences, and events. Nick and his wife, Alina, are recording artists and you can discover their music at https://nickandalina.com. Nick is also a music producer and mixing/mastering engineer which you can learn more about at https://dltstudios.com. Most importantly, Nick is just a dude 😎

Welcome to The Passion Pod, a podcast by The Collective, powered by Disciple. In this show, we interview Disciple customers and community enthusiasts from all industries as we discuss building and scaling communities. Tune in to learn all about the creator economy, how you can create your own private community, and much more. In today's episode, we have Head of Community & Brand at Disciple, Nicolette talking to Terry Williams, founder of Terry the Trainer. Let’s get to it. About Terry Terry has worn many hats, from gym owner to ministry leader, to private conditioning coach for professional athletes to ambassador for global active lifestyle brands. Among all of these lies one common thread: They are roles in which he lives out his chief core value: Love people well.  Holding a bachelor's degree in communications, a master's degree in health and human performance, and an accredited certificate in faith-based life coaching, Terry now walks in a new lane that fully expresses his passion to call out greatness in the human heart. It’s time to do some training outside the gym! Welcome to life in rhythm. Terry the Trainer website: https://www.terrythetrainer.life/

Welcome to The Passion Pod, a podcast by The Collective, powered by Disciple. In this show, we interview Disciple customers and community enthusiasts from all industries as we discuss building and scaling communities. Tune in to learn all about the creator economy, how you can create your own private community, and much more. In today's episode, we have Head of Community & Brand at Disciple, Nicolette talking to Wade Saxton, Founder of Smoke & Bacon. Let’s get to it. About Wade Wade Saxton is CEO of Smoke & Bacon Media LLC based in Richmond, Virginia U.S.A. Smoke & Bacon is a full-service media company that has successfully moved all its operations away from Facebook and over to Disciple. His community is a social media system that encourages you to enjoy social media the way it should be, providing a safe space free of advertisers hounding you, companies selling your information, apps tracking you, and censorship. Join Smoke & Bacon https://smokeandbacon.disciplemedia.com/ Smoke & Bacon website: https://www.smokeandbacon.com/ Update: Smoke & Bacon has since completely migrated away from Facebook and now only operates using other Disciple powered community App! 🎉

Welcome to The Passion Pod, a podcast by The Collective, powered by Disciple. In this show, we interview Disciple customers and community enthusiasts from all industries as we discuss building and scaling communities. Tune in to learn all about the creator economy, how you can create your own private community, and much more. In today's episode, we have Head of Community & Brand at Disciple, Nicolette talking to Randy Pratt, founder of Master Books Let’s get to it. About Randy Randy Pratt is a curriculum development and sales specialist who has owned his own curriculum company called PennyWise, and currently serves as VP of Marketing for Master Books. He is also a homeschooling father of nine and a former pastor. Master Books website: https://www.masterbooks.com/

Welcome to The Passion Pod, a podcast by The Collective, powered by Disciple. In this show, we interview Disciple customers and community enthusiasts from all industries as we discuss building and scaling communities. Tune in to learn all about the creator economy, how you can create your own private community, and much more. I’m Nicolette, Head of Community and Brand and today we have Disciple CEO and Founder, Benji Vaughan, talking to Erica Kuhl, CEO & Founder at Erica Kuhl Consulting. Let’s get in to it. About Erica Erica has over 20 years of Enterprise community expertise. Formerly VP Community at Salesforce she built everything from scratch from strategy and programs to metrics & ROI. She understands running community programs on any size budget & with any size team big or small. She’s also seen massive company growth from 176 to 49,000 employees allowing her to adapt strategies & deeply understand challenges at any stage. Erica has now ventured out on her own (ericakuhl.com) to help customers like Slack, Zendesk, Atlassian, Google Cloud, and Github build robust community strategies and programs with her extensive expertise, authentic approach, and trusted services. Listen to the In Before the Lock podcast https://ib4tl.fm/

Welcome to The Passion Pod, a podcast by The Collective, powered by Disciple. In this show, we interview Disciple customers and community enthusiasts from all industries as we discuss building and scaling communities. Tune in to learn all about the creator economy, how you can create your own private community, and much more. On today's episode I'm joined by Maggie Graff, founder of Ignited Let’s get in to it. About Maggie Maggie is a one woman show founder of Ignited and music photographer. She always knew she'd find both personal and professional fulfilment within the music industry, but it took getting behind a camera at a concert for her to find her angle in. Mainly self-taught, in the beginning, she'd go to venues that allowed cameras, shoot musicians’ sets, and send them a link to photos the next day for them to use. This led to paid work and authentic relationships with both the bands and other industry individuals. But her biggest takeaway: understanding the local industry’s unsolved needs, like that of a centralised community resource accessible to all involved in the Charlottesville and Richmond music industry. Find out more about Ignited: https://www.ignitedva.com/ Join the community: https://community.ignitedva.com/signup

Welcome to The Passion Pod, a podcast by The Collective, powered by Disciple. In this show, we interview Disciple customers and community enthusiasts from all industries as we discuss building and scaling communities. Tune in to learn all about the creator economy, how you can create your own private community, and much more. On today's episode, I'm joined by Sherry Sims, founder of the Career Hub by the Black Career Women's Network. Let’s get to it. Join The Career Hub: https://thecareerhub.bcwnetwork.com Black Career Women's Network website: https://bcwnetwork.com

Welcome to The Passion Pod, a podcast by The Collective, powered by Disciple. In this show, we interview Disciple customers and community enthusiasts from all industries as we discuss building and scaling communities. Tune in to learn all about the creator economy, how you can create your own private community, and much more. I’m Nicolette, Head of Community and Brand, and today we have Disciple Founder and CEO Benji Vaughan talking to Sofia Rodriquez Mata Let's get to it! About Sofia Sofia is an award-winning community builder who has managed B2B, B2C, and PTP communities. As a Director of Community at Venafi, Sofia is passionate about educating, empowering, and enabling security experts. She has managed user group programs, top contributor programs, online communities, and field marketing events for startups and large enterprise companies. Sofia earned her MBA in 2020 and is a lifelong learner. Follow her on Twitter https://twitter.com/SofMata Check out the Venafi website https://www.venafi.com/ Follow Venafi on Twitter https://twitter.com/Venafi Join the Venafi Warrior Community https://www.venafi.com/community

Welcome to The Passion Pod, a podcast by The Collective, powered by Disciple. In this show, we interview Disciple customers and community enthusiasts from all industries as we discuss building and scaling communities. Tune in to learn all about the creator economy, how you can create your own private community, and much more. I’m Valentina your host for this episode and today I’m talking to Nicolette Roses-Agoro, Head of Community and Brand at Disciple. Let's get to it! About Nicolette Nicolette is an international third culture kid, being from Spanish and Nigerian parents, born in London, raised in South Africa, educated in Malaysia and now back in London. She has dedicated her entire working career to community management, having a great love for understanding people, what makes them tick and learning how to build true, valuable connections. Nicolette currently heads up the Community and Brand Team at Disciple where they are focused on championing the power of community and stepping into a new movement. Outside of work, she can be found cooking her way through a multitude of recipes, creating ceramic all-in-one plates and delving into new virtual communities. Join The Collective:  https://www.thecollective.disciplemedia.com 

Welcome to The Passion Pod, a podcast by The Collective, powered by Disciple. In this show, we interview Disciple customers and community enthusiasts from all industries as we discuss building and scaling communities. Tune in to learn all about the creator economy, how you can create your own private community, and much more. On today's episode we have Head of Community and Brand At Disciple Nicolette talking to Virginia Scheuer founder at Body Soul. About Virginia When Virginia Scheuer sets her eyes on her purpose and passion, she is unstoppable. She has been a soulpreneur for about 14 years. She started her adult career with her Masters of Fine Arts in Acting. She spent a brief time as an actor in California, where she found herself falling in love with the idea of working for herself, and with this idea she went to school and became a certified wholistic massage therapist. Realizing that her life was taking a new path, she found herself teaching secondary and post-secondary education over the span of a decade. Virginia is multi-passionate, with a deep love for personal development and inner-soul connection. In 2017 she left teaching full time and started her own business. By 2019 she built a 6 figure online business by building a small following of a couple thousand and helping over 200 businesses through 1on1 and group/ community coaching. Virginia has expanded this business by founding the Soulpreneurs Association that provides resources and tools like the Body Soul App and SoulSoftware.co to help heart-centered professional reach new levels in their daily life and business.Let’s get to it. Join Body Soul https://hello.bodysoul.app/