“With our course offerings, regular live events, and weekly 'office hours,' I’m able to create a rhythm for our members that’s also totally manageable for me. We plan quarterly and give our members a ton of things to look forward to.”

“The first one we did, we thought about 50 people would come. And I remember thinking, ‘That’ll be a good number. I can’t be embarrassed by that.’ And it ended up being 500 or 600 people total. It was such great energy.”

“I’ve been doing this for 23 years. I’ve been around the block. We're moving all of our experiences over to Mighty — that's how good it is.”

“Once Dr. Julie discovered Mighty Networks, I got this incredibly enthusiastic call and she said, ‘I’ve found the answer. This is what we have to do.”

“I had people from places like Australia who would watch the tutorials and write to me about using their own microcurrent machines (typically dug out from under their beds!) to get the same results I showed in my tutorials. Their responses definitely reinforced the feeling that I was onto something …

“I kept adding these different things at different times. I tried to bring in some plugins to allow people to have boards and a forum for more of a community feel. But we’d always end up reconfiguring. It was a technology nightmare getting things to stay working. And it never …

“We're all in this together. It's our community. Mighty Networks’ structure really supports that. It's not about me as some figurehead or waving magic wands. It's about creating this space where you have the opportunity to connect.”

“We knew our virtual conference needed to be even more participatory and two-way than an event in real life. It couldn’t just be a content dump in a live online forum, or (gasp) an attempt at a virtual panel. Instead, this needed to be the kind of experience where attendees …

“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.”

“We have more quality engagement with 325 paid members than 560,000 followers on Facebook.”

“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 …

“Mighty Pro saved us the headache of building our own branded app. We don’t need to manage a whole team of engineers or worry about updating our app. Being that this is a startup and we both also run other businesses as well, it's helpful to reduce that time investment …

“Having branded apps is really, really important to us. It’s the main reason why our members feel safe and comfortable sharing mental health information. The apps provide a dedicated space where they can feel safe sharing what they are going through."

“And firefighters have a tendency to be a little bit competitive.”

“My clients weren’t having good results because they were bombarded by ads, censorship, and the drama.”