Dear Bri: Community Strategy, Fiascos, and Drama

About Dear Bri: Community Strategy, Fiascos, and Drama

Welcome to Dear Bri, an advice column for community conundrums, fiascos, and drama! In each episode, host and community strategist Bri Leever invites a guest community expert to respond to an anonymous letter from a real-life community creator in distress. From online community-building mishaps to community engagement tactics gone awry, this podcast delivers relatable stories and sound community strategy for navigating the chaos of digital communities—all with empathy, expertise, and a touch of drama. The mission? Helping community managers and community creators feel a little less crazy and a lot less alone while building thriving brand communities. You're in the right place if you are... 🐣 Community Curious: Creators or brands exploring the benefits of a community-powered business. Learn the fundamentals of community strategy for online businesses, and discover how to build an online community from scratch. 🐥 Community Hatchlings: Newcomers to community building seeking guidance and support. Get tips on how to grow a paid community, avoid common mistakes in community building, and build trust through smart community roles and responsibilities. 🦅 Senior Community Folks: Seasoned pros facing complex dilemmas. Explore topics like managing community drama, setting boundaries in digital communities, and advanced community retention strategies. Dear Bri combines relatable storytelling with expert community strategy, making it a unique and valuable resource for community managers and creators. Episodes provide the most up-to-date community management practices, common mistakes to avoid in community building, the best community engagement tactics I've seen, tips on setting boundaries and building trust in online communities, and of course, a touch of community drama to keep things interesting and fun! Community creators listening to Dear Bri will feel a little less alone in the important work of community building and a whole lot less crazy as each episode normalizes and provides strategic insights for some of the toughest online community scenarios. Whether you're curious about building a community, just starting out, or a seasoned professional looking for advanced advice, Dear Bri has something for you. Episodes drop weekly on Tuesday. Hit the follow button so you don't miss out! Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Publisher

Bri Leever, Community Consultant, Strategist, and Founder at Ember.

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Aug 2024

Latest episode

21 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 35 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   21 Jul 2026

   How to Grow Your Community Without Hustling Harder

   Send us Fan Mail One of the biggest fears community builders have is launching a community and hearing… crickets. No members. No engagement. No momentum. But after years of building communities for both my own business and my clients, I’ve learned that sustainable community growth isn’t about chasing more tactics, spending more on ads, or trying every marketing strategy you see online. You grow your community by focusing on the right foundations, the right funnel, and the right data. In this ...

2. 

   14 Jul 2026

   Great Community Engagement Starts With Asking a Different Question

   Send us Fan Mail Engagement isn't something that happens organically. It's something you design for. In this episode of Dear Bri, we're diving into one of the most misunderstood topics in community building: engagement. Most community owners focus on tactics, posting more content, creating discussion prompts, or trying to motivate members, but those solutions often miss the real issue. Drawing on BJ Fogg's habit-formation research, I walk you through the two hidden forces that influence membe...

3. 

   7 Jul 2026

   How much should I charge for my membership community? I don’t want to blow it!

   Send us Fan Mail Pricing your community isn’t just about revenue. It shapes the kind of members you attract, how they engage, and whether your community actually creates transformation. In this episode of Dear Bri, I’m breaking down the biggest myths around community pricing and why common strategies like free trials, low-ticket memberships, and tiered entry points often backfire. Because when pricing isn’t aligned with your community strategy, it can quietly erode the energy, retention, and ...

Inside a recent episode

Community Platform Showdown: Skool vs Circle vs Mighty vs Heartbeat

Published 17 Feb 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Fantastic. Thank you for sharing. All right. My next question I want to preface with community people are always so nice and that is so lovely, but this is the blood part of the battle and what I need you to be honest about is what's something in your platform that you wish you knew before you signed up. It can be as tiny as like there's this little extra feature that is missing that if I had it, something that like you're like, man, if I if I had known that that that might have changed something or maybe it's just a headache for you. Every platform has this just because you shared about your platform doesn't mean it's a bad platform. […]

Who has been a guest on Dear Bri: Community Strategy, Fiascos, and Drama

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Rebecca Davis
• Lindsay Rothfeld
• Amanda Northcutt
• Pia Silva
• Charmaine Jennings

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

29,042

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

33 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

27 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 68 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

85

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

51

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