In this episode of the Find Calm Here Podcast, Tigrilla Gardenia, host of the Naturally Conscious Community, a Mighty Network shares her experience in building, launching, and growing a community that empowers creatives, healers, and entrepreneurs who love nature to take action with confidence to become the conscious leaders of their lives. She is an influential speaker and teacher, running courses on reconnection with the plant kingdom to consciously discover the elements of Life that nourish you to flourish.Always eager to learn, she studied with some of the greatest minds in bio-inspired sciences, gaining a master's degree in Futuro Vegetale (Vegetal Future): plants, social innovation, design under Stefano Mancuso, University of Florence. She has also studied Biomimicry for Social Innovation and Product Development. Tigrilla is an executive board member of the BAM Foundation, founder of the BAM Institute for Civic BioDesign.During this episode we discuss: 3:49: Tigrilla explains her background and work history, noting a common theme around communicating and creating a safe space to promote not just the community and ecosystem, but the ecotones. 7:48: Tigrilla discusses the process of launching her community in December 2020, feeling the push to move her course offering off of Facebook.15:00: Getting into the specifics of the onboarding process, Tigrilla explains distinguishing between onboarding for the course, onboarding for the main network, and defaulting to the course feed.30:33: Tigrilla shares the top tips she’s learned since opening her community, including creating events, thinking about branding, and taking time to strategize how you attract people to your network.About Find Calm HereI’m Deb Schell, creator, and host of the Find Calm Here Community.  Inside the Find Calm Here Community, I bring together creators who feel overwhelmed with building, launching, and growing their a paid online membership and offer strategies that can be used on any online platform by offering a great member experience and help others transform. We love people and gravitate towards helping others as community-builder. My goal is to help you find calm in any stage of your community-building process to lead your network with joy, energy, and abundance. Join Us!Support the showThe Community Strategy Podcast (CSP) offers interviews with online community leaders who share their community-building journey. Our podcast covers community concepts, community building, community strategy, community structure, community membership, and community management. We deep dive into the best ways to launch with platform reviews, give our thoughts on cultivating engagement, and the keys to identifying ideal members who will keep coming back and becoming super supporters. Visit our Website Find Calm Here to learn more about working with Deb