Hello {{first_name | EduCreator}},

I go quiet when I’m in hyper-focused build mode. After a 2 week fast in January, which consisted of a lot of prayer and asking for direction, I took a sudden and sharp pivot. When the fast was over, I had so much clarity, I felt like I was moving quicker than every before.

I could barely sleep because my mind was flooded with ideas, insights, and creative direction. I kept asking God to keep me focused and to not let me “take things too far” as I tend to do.

This meant I had to take some time away from writing this newsletter everyday, which was not an easy decision to make.

Honestly, it wasn’t even a decision. Everyday, I would think “I need to write. I need to keep up with the consistency I’ve built.”

I put this pre-launch together in 3 weeks, which still makes my head spin. I learned so much and I also know the journey is just beginning. I’m planning a full launch in late-Spring.

I’m looking forward to passing on some of the very important lessons I’ve learned, as I love to do.

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I went quiet for a couple of weeks.

Not because I ran out of ideas.
Not because this newsletter stopped mattering.

But because I was building something that required my full presence.

Bliss House: Founders Residence

An overnight pre-launch event exclusively for women founders, sponsors, and VIP guests.

And here’s the part that matters most:

I did not promote it publicly.
I did not send it to my email list.
I did not run ads.
I did not post about it everywhere.

It still sold out.

And that is exactly what community really means.

This event was filled entirely through relationship leverage.

Every sponsor came through community.

Not through cold outreach.
Not through funnels.
Not through paid traffic.

Each sponsor was someone I met inside a local community.

Or someone invited because they already lead their own community.

Communities supporting communities.

That is what made it efficient.
That is what made it powerful.
That is what made it sell out.

This is the shift most founders miss.

They think growth requires visibility.

But real growth requires connection.

When you build community the right way, you are not starting from zero every time you launch.

You are activating alignment.

Let me break down the deeper lessons this reinforced for me.

Trust transfers.

When a community leader supports something, their people feel safer stepping into it.

That is not marketing.

That is relational equity.

Instead of convincing strangers, I aligned with leaders whose values already matched the room I wanted to build.

The trust was already there.

Ads scale reach.

Community scales momentum.

When communities collaborate, you compress time.

Instead of building awareness from scratch, you tap into existing networks of trust.

One aligned sponsor connects you to 50 aligned people.
Another connects you to 100 more.

Not through blasting promotions.

Through shared mission.

This is what makes communities supporting communities so powerful.

It removes friction.
It removes resistance.
It removes wasted energy.

Most people treat community like an audience.

It is not an audience.

It is infrastructure.

Infrastructure means:

• when you launch, people show up
• when you pivot, people adapt
• when you build, people contribute

Bliss House didn’t have a banger (preview) comeback because I was everywhere.

It grew because I had spent years building real relationships inside real communities.

That foundation is what made this launch simple.

No ads.
No public campaign.
No urgency countdown timers.

Just aligned people building together.

This one surprised even me.

Selling single tickets means convincing many individuals to spend.

Selling sponsorship means aligning with a few strategic partners who want visibility, credibility, and association.

It is B2B leverage.

Instead of 20 small transactions, I focused on a few aligned sponsors.

Sponsors who already had communities.
Sponsors who believed in the mission.
Sponsors who wanted to support other founders.

That is community supporting community at a strategic level.

Your newsletter works the same way.

Instead of chasing hundreds of small offers, you can:

• align with sponsors
• build premium tiers
• create partnerships

Monetization becomes alignment, not pressure.

And alignment scales faster than hustle.

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You might be reading this thinking:

This sounds powerful.
But I am not part of communities like that yet.

Good.

That just means this is your next strategic move.

Community leverage is not luck.
It is proximity.

Here is a simple prompt you can use to identify aligned communities in your local area:

Community Discovery Prompt

Then replace the brackets with your niche.

After that, ask yourself:

• Which rooms already exist that I could walk into this month?
• Which leaders are already gathering the kind of people I want to serve?
• Where could I show up consistently instead of trying to be everywhere online?

Do not look for the biggest community.

Look for alignment.

Look for rooms where values overlap.
Look for rooms where collaboration feels natural.
Look for rooms where you can contribute before you pitch.

Remember:

Community leverage is built before you need it.

Founders Residence worked because relationships were built long before the launch.

Your next opportunity might already be in a room you have not walked into yet.

And this is why I care so much about what we are doing here.

Your newsletter is not just content.

It is community infrastructure.

When you build it intentionally, you are not building an audience.

You are building future leverage.

Future launches.
Future sponsorships.
Future collaborations.
Future rooms.

When I talk about helping you reach your first $1k per month, it is not about chasing transactions.

It is about building something strong enough that when you decide to build something bigger, you do not start from scratch.

Yes, my open rates dipped while I focused on this event.

That is normal.

Consistency rebuilds momentum.

And I am back to publishing regularly.

Over the next few weeks, I will break down:

• how to structure community leverage
• how to approach sponsors through alignment, not pitching
• how to build B2B partnerships that feel natural
• how to build communities that support communities

This is the future.

That’s all for now,

Christel

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