Diary of a Community Builder

About Diary of a Community Builder

A daily dose of what building a community-led business actually looks like, from the founder of coCreator Society and host of the Community at Heart podcast. Every weekday morning at 6am, a new entry lands in your feed. A few minutes of what happened in the build the day before. The moments that made her pause, the aha moments of figuring out something new, the behind-the-scenes of running communities, memberships, and everything in between. No intro music. No polish. No highlight reel. Just the Tuesdays of building something real, because everyone shares the launch and nobody shares the Tuesday. Each entry ends with one journal prompt to carry into your own day of building. Listen for a few minutes, think for a few minutes, and start your morning a little more awake to what's happening in your own business. New entries drop Monday through Friday at 6am Eastern. Free to subscribe. The conversation happens inside coCreator Society.

Publisher

Rachel Starr

Category

business · society & culture · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Jul 2026

Latest episode

18 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

45 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   18 Sept 2026

   Entry 045: Your Gut Knew First

   We made it to Friday, and here's the last entry of our cleaning-house week: a story about trusting your gut. While organizing all that YouTube content, I realized I hadn't put a video out in a while, not for lack of recording (I've been recording constantly), I think I just got a little burnt out. So I sat down to record one on a brand-new Circle feature, and it felt forced. I never struggle to record my videos. Turns out my gut knew something my brain hadn't caught up to yet. In this entry: Realizing I hadn't posted a video in a while, and the camera burnout behind it A PSA: do not install Circle's new getting-started checklist yet (as of recording, there are real issues) How I found out, reaching out to my contacts at Circle, and why I pulled the video Why I won't put my name on "go turn this on" when I know it's broken The real lesson: the recording felt forced because my gut already knew the feature wasn't working Something to noodle on: when did something feel off and you pushed through anyway? The Diary of a Community Builder is a daily, behind-the-scenes look at what it really takes to build and run a membership community and a community-led business. Real entries about community building on Circle, trusting your instincts, protecting trust, and the honest, in-between moments of growing an online business, without the highlight reel. Want to take it one step further? The Diary lives inside coCreator Society too. Each day's question drops in the community, you leave your own entries, and we support one another while we build our community-based businesses, together, out loud. Come join us 💛 https://cocreatorsociety.com/ (https://cocreatorsociety.com/) ABOUT THE DIARY OF A COMMUNITY BUILDER The Diary of a Community Builder is a free daily podcast from Rachel, a Circle Expert and founder of coCreator Society. Every weekday at 6am Eastern, a new entry drops: musings, behind-the-scenes moments, and lessons from inside real membership communities and community-led businesses, plus one question to noodle on in your own day of building. It's the messy, honest, in-between of building something that lasts. For full-length strategy episodes, listen to the Community at Heart podcast wherever you get your shows.

2. 

   17 Sept 2026

   Entry 044: Doable Is What Gets Done

   If you haven't caught the theme yet, we are cleaning house this week, and I am not done. Today's confession: for my one-on-one clients I have this really robust build-your-community checklist, and it needed updating because there are new features and new ways to do things. And you know me, I did not just update it. I noticed a lot of the tasks only applied depending on your pricing tier, so I did a little vibe coding and built a system that hands you a personalized launch list based on the plan you're on. In this entry: The robust build-your-community checklist, and why it needed a refresh Keeping up when you're at the helm of a product like Circle Embedding it into the Membership Architect launch Vibe coding a system that personalizes your launch list by plan, plus predetermined paths (want to run a course? here's yours) Why it all comes back to meeting your customer where they are Something to noodle on: where are you handing people a one-size-fits-all thing that should meet them where they are? The Diary of a Community Builder is a daily, behind-the-scenes look at what it really takes to build and run a membership community and a community-led business. Real entries about community building on Circle, customer experience, launch systems, and the honest, in-between moments of growing an online business, without the highlight reel. Want to take it one step further? The Diary lives inside coCreator Society too. Each day's question drops in the community, you leave your own entries, and we support one another while we build our community-based businesses, together, out loud. Come join us 💛 https://cocreatorsociety.com/ (https://cocreatorsociety.com/) ABOUT THE DIARY OF A COMMUNITY BUILDER The Diary of a Community Builder is a free daily podcast from Rachel, a Circle Expert and founder of coCreator Society. Every weekday at 6am Eastern, a new entry drops: musings, behind-the-scenes moments, and lessons from inside real membership communities and community-led businesses, plus one question to noodle on in your own day of building. It's the messy, honest, in-between of building something that lasts. For full-length strategy episodes, listen to the Community at Heart podcast wherever you get your shows.

3. 

   16 Sept 2026

   Entry 043: Nobody Posts Their SOP Library

   You've made it to Wednesday, and you can tell we've been busy. But the website and the Notion move aren't even all of it. We've also been building out our SOPs and designing internal skills using Claude. Our SOPs weren't all in one spot, and I finally wanted to build them out with a real framework. And because I cannot do the small version of anything, it became part of our Membership Architect launch: forty-nine bare-bones SOPs plus a builder that lets you create your own and store them. In this entry: Finally getting our SOPs out of scattered docs and out of my head The forty-nine standard Circle SOPs and the builder, now part of the Membership Architect launch Storing all of ours inside Notion, and the peace of everything in one spot (thank you, Molli) What a custom skill is, in plain language The skills we've built for repeatable work: setting up events, writing event replays Something to noodle on: what process only works when you do it? The Diary of a Community Builder is a daily, behind-the-scenes look at what it really takes to build and run a membership community and a community-led business. Real entries about community building on Circle, SOPs and systems, AI skills, and the honest, in-between moments of growing an online business, without the highlight reel. Want to take it one step further? The Diary lives inside coCreator Society too. Each day's question drops in the community, you leave your own entries, and we support one another while we build our community-based businesses, together, out loud. Come join us 💛 https://cocreatorsociety.com/ (https://cocreatorsociety.com/) ABOUT THE DIARY OF A COMMUNITY BUILDER The Diary of a Community Builder is a free daily podcast from Rachel, a Circle Expert and founder of coCreator Society. Every weekday at 6am Eastern, a new entry drops: musings, behind-the-scenes moments, and lessons from inside real membership communities and community-led businesses, plus one question to noodle on in your own day of building. It's the messy, honest, in-between of building something that lasts. For full-length strategy episodes, listen to the Community at Heart podcast wherever you get your shows.

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