“Wow, I really needed this space. I really needed a platform to come and connect with other people with Type 2.”

"We started with the Business Plan on Mighty Networks. But found there was a disconnect as we didn't have our own branded apps, so people had to work harder to find us."

“Mighty Networks checked all the boxes for us and even provided direction and growth for what we might do in the future.”

"I've built a super profitable community in short amount of time. Mighty Networks is a game changer!"

“During my podcast I impulsively, stream-of-consciousness said, ‘Hey I'm thinking about doing these online coaching and accountability groups and I'll have more information for listeners next week.”

“I hadn’t really thought about that. I hadn’t considered making it a thing. I started this purely because I needed it, but it turned out there were a lot of other women who needed it too.”

“The NCIDQ was providing some online resources, but they were pretty minimal. The only other option was to attend a live workshop in your local area. But you had to have a specific number of people together. And if you didn’t get that number the workshop was canceled. It just …

“I like to say that Empify is the parent, and The Wealth Builders Community is the child that Empify birthed."

"I can't recommend Community Design™ enough. Mindblowing. This community is so awesome!"

“Boston has a reputation of being not that welcoming, and a lot of people of color have a hard time feeling like they belong. It’s hard to find a community here, period.”

“Members have told me, ‘I'm getting rid of my social media and spending more time here. The quality of engagement, the supportive mood — it’s far and away a better place to spend my time.’”

“One thing he talks about is how you can bring your community together in a dedicated space, where they can engage with each other. And that was exactly what I had been looking for: the tool to take these courses from being a static thing to being a dynamic thing.”

“Part of my job was to make cake pops. This was super basic stuff: sprinkles, drizzle, that kind of thing. But I had so much fun with it. And it made me realize that I had lost touch with my creative side.”

“More and more people were expressing interest in the stuff I was talking about and wanted to learn more. It got me thinking, 'How can I help the people that I’ve started to meet because of the podcast.”

“[Being an artist] is a lonely profession. Worse, like the rest of the world, there’s a lot of inequality. Our goal was to change this by creating a safe, supportive space for female, nonbinary, and gender fluid artists to learn and grow together.”