Hey Circle – welcome to the new-look website for 2025!
I wanted to give you a heads-up on what’s changed before we dive into another year of learning.
I’ve also recorded a video of the changes, which you can watch at the end of this post!
Redesign
You’ve probably noticed that the site has fresh new branding – I hope you like the new look!
My goal was to bring it more into line with my broader Create & Thrive branding, while also giving the Circle it’s own feel.
This branding includes a new logo, colours, workshop covers and icons, our course colours, etc.
You will notice that all the workshops still have the old branding – as recording 56 new videos was a bit beyond my capabilities in one month!
Courses
You now have access to a NEW courses section on the site!
Right now, you’ll find 2 courses available: Handmade Business Fundamentals & Your Year to Thrive.
Yes! If you want to re-take YYTT, it’s now right here on the site.
Handmade Business Fundamentals and most future courses (there are many more coming) are available on-demand – you can do them in your own time.
However, YYTT is still a year-long course, and from the date you complete your first lesson, you’ll get access to a new lesson weekly.
I have plans to release a new course every month in 2025, and probably more beyond that!
Most courses will include the currently available workshops – but they will be arranged around a theme (such as Pricing, or Marketing) and they will have added Quizzes to reinforce your learning, and a Certificate of Completion that you can download when you’re done!
I hope that this will make the content in the Circle more accessible, useful, and motivating to complete!
(You can access the courses from your Account page, or from the Resource Library – and start them whenever you’re ready!)
Themes
Alongside our new courses, I will be giving each month a ‘Theme’.
For 2025, each theme will have a corresponding course to complete.
I’ll also be sharing regular info in the Facebook Group throughout the month to educate and motivate you related to that month’s theme!
We’ll also have live coaching calls where we’ll dive into what we’re studying.
Live Calls
There will now be 2 live coaching calls each month.
This will be your chance to:
1. Apply for a Business Intensive or Critique
2. Hop on and work on theme-related topics
3. Ask me general business questions
We don’t have any other regularly scheduled live events lined up at this stage, but that is subject to change!
Account Page & Cancellation Process
I have switched the site over to new membership software, which has enabled me to update some areas of the site (such as offering the courses).
This also means you will now see and ‘Account’ page when you log in.
On this page, you will see links to manage your ‘Payments’ and ‘Subscriptions’. HOWEVER!
Because I wanted to let you all continue to pay the old membership price, these links won’t be active to you (unless you leave and come back in future, signing up through the new software). Unfortunately, there was no way around this.
Therefore, in order to cancel, you have to do so using another method.
You have 2 options (which are outlined on this page, but I’ll pop them below for your reference, too).
1. You can simply email me and I will process your cancellation for you.
2. You can cancel your subscription via Paypal following the steps below, and I will then manually remove your access to the Thriver Circle membership.
Here’s how to find your automatic payments on the PayPal website:
- Go to Settings.
- Click Payments.
- Select Automatic payments.
- Select your payment for the Thriver Circle.
I was really hoping you’d all be able to access the new Account features, but there was no way to make it work without forcing you to cancel and re-subscribe. And, as I’m moving the pricing going forward into USD, this would have meant you couldn’t keep the price you’re currently paying, which was not acceptable to me.
Apply for a Member Spotlight
I will be sharing 1-2 Thriver Circle members each month as part of a NEW Member Spotlight feature!
This will be shared inside the Circle – but also publicly on my Create & Thrive social channels.
In order to be considered for a feature, you can apply here.
New Denied Access Message
If you happen to visit the site or be directed to a piece of members-only content from the Facebook group or emails when you are not logged in, you’re going to see a new message pop up directly on that peice of content!
It will encourage you to sign in, and there will be a log-in form DIRECTLY on that page, so you don’t have to click away to log in before coming back to the content – hurrah! You just log in right there and the content will pop up.
Relaunch & Giveaway!
I still have a bunch of work to do in order to get the site ready for fresh new members later this month, but as far as I know, everything should be functional for you now!
If you come across any bugs, PLEASE let me know – either by email, or in the Facebook group – so I can fix it up.
Now, I will be re-launching later this month, and as part of that, I’m running a HUGE 10-day, 10th anniversary giveaway!
All giveaways will be open to YOU – so you could win free months of membership, 1-1 sessions with me, free access to Set Up Shop or Wholesale Know-How – and more!
I will be giving you plenty of notice, but FYI, I’ll be running these daily giveaways in the NEW free Create & Thrive Facebook group that I announced late last year.
I won’t be very active in this group outside of this giveaway extravaganza (because I dedicate my time to YOU, my lovely Circle!) but it will be a lovely place where you can connect with the wider Create & Thrive community!
You can join the group here.
Whew, that was an epic update! I hope I remembered to tell you all the important changes, but let me know if anything is still unclear.
I’m really excited to dive into another year with you in this fresh space – here’s to our best year yet!
Jess x
