Welcome to the Thriver Circle! I’m so excited to have you join us!
Building a creative business can be such an isolating, confusing thing to attempt – but we’re here to make that journey easier through community, support, and useful and relevant information.
Please watch the video above – in it, I give you a little tour around the site and show you how to find everything – like your account, the courses, workshops, calls, and more. It will make navigating super-easy and help you to feel instantly comfy with how things work here.
One important thing: if you follow links to workshops, posts etc. (basically, any protected members-only content) from any Thriver Circle emails, or from the Thriver Circle facebook group, you will need to be logged in here on the site for them to work. If you’re not logged in, you’ll have to enter your details to log in before you can view the content. So just FYI if that happens, you’ll know what you need to do!
If you have any questions about how things run, or any technical issues, please contact me.
Now, make sure to head over to the Circle Forum on Facebook and request access – please be patient if it takes me a day or two to approve you (especially on weekends), as I have to do that step manually 🙂
You can use this time to start your first lesson of Your Year to Thrive and have a browse of the workshops and calls that are currently available.
Look out for an email from me at least once a month that will tell you what that month’s theme is, what time our live coaching calls are, and how to apply to be one of the people I work one on one with on these calls.
I hope you find the Circle a warm, safe place to share your questions, struggles and successes.
We’re all treading our own paths, but we’re all heading in the same direction, and understand the particular struggles YOU are going through, because we’re experiencing them, too.
Jess x
Useful Links
- To see what’s new, check out the latest here.
- To join & visit the Circle Forum, click here.
- To see all currently available workshops, click here.
- To download/listen to previous live calls, click here.
- Read the Community Charter.
Hi Jess – This is a beautiful idea – thank you! Very excited to be a part of this : )
Thank you, Sheree. And thank you for being here x
I Jess, I’m so excited to see what the circle is all about. It sounds like exactly what I need for that extra umph to get me over the hump of putting my goods out there. I’m just starting my online business and still in the process of getting everything lined up to make it legal but I’m very close to launching a new Etsy business. Thank you for this valuable info…I am so ready to jump in and learn what I can…:)
Definitely sounds like perfect timing, Vicky! I hope we can help you get things started with a bang!
Very happy to be here – can’t wait to begin unscattering my headspace and put some order to things.
Happy to be here! I have been working hard to get my business going and a good group of people to network with and learn from is exactly whats missing:)
Welcome Barbara! Oh, make sure to head over to ‘Latest Updates’ and check out the next book we’re reading – I think it will be perfect for that!
Welcome Greg! I hope you find what you’ve been looking for here in the Circle 🙂
Thank you Jess, I will do that.
So happy to be here! I found the podcast a few weeks ago and have been devouring them. They have been so encouraging and inspiring! I’m almost done with what’s available and was starting to feel uneasy that I wouldn’t have that daily encouragement. But now I’ll get it here. So excited to look around. Thank you for providing this wonderful place. – emily
Welcome, Emily!! I’m so glad you’ve been enjoying the podcast and finding it inspiring! There’s so much here for you to dig into – and I’m looking forward to ‘meeting’ you in the FB group 🙂
Hi Jess,
I’m looking forward to learning lots from yourself and this group.
Woo Hoo! I finally made a girls club! I feel so fashionable! Looking forward to sharing wicked humour, knowledge and having some fun with you ladies on this amazing creative journey. Thank you Jess, not just for this opportunity to connect but for all the help and support of your past endeavours with Create and Thrive. Chat soon. Kez ♥
Thank you for the invitation. I’m so happy to be here. Off to check the newbie section, see you all soon in the group
Welcome Kez! It’s great to have you with us – though, it has to be said, we do have a few awesome guys in the Circle, too 😉
Welcome Ava!
Welcome, Michelle!
Hi Jess Really happy to have found you and the circle I’m very excited to be here.
Hi Jess and everyone, this is great, I look forward to collaborating with you all 🙂
Hello everyone, especially Jess.
I have had a peek at this site every now and then, but now I’ve taken the ‘big girls’ step of joining. Let’s see how it goes!! 🙂
Welcome Jennifer, I hope you love being here!
Hi everyone – I’m excited to be here and to start learning! I’ve been giving away everything I make to family and friends, and my husband said, “You should start selling this stuff!” I was intimidated about starting from square one with no idea what I was doing… So happy now to have help! 🙂
Awesome! So glad you’re here with us, Kerry – welcome 🙂
Hi Jess & everyone, setting up my online business is such a big step but I’ve just joined Thriver circle and feel like it’s going to be a really interesting adventure. I am so looking forward to getting to know you all virtually and to listen to all your advice. 🙂
Yes!!!! I feel like I’ve been listening to your podcasts FOREVER!! I am so excited to be in the circle!! Can’t wait to dig in❤️
Welcome Rebecca!! 🙂
Hello Jess
Very happy to be in the ‘in crowd’ at the Thriver Circle. Although I have signed up, next week I have to go to hospital for major surgery on my right shoulder – I thought it would be a good time to read, listen and watch while recuperating – considering I am right handed and won’t be able to do much for about 6-8 weeks. Trust that is ok 🙂
But am very happy to be working towards my goal of a rewarding business 🙂 Very excited
Best of luck with your surgery and recovery – and that does sound like a very good use of recovery time! 🙂 Welcome!
Hi Jess, I am so thrilled to be a member of the Thriver Circle. As I am currently working through the Set Up Shop course, I can see that this is a wonderful way to gain further support and information for my online business. You and your team have done a truly generous and amazing thing in creating this safe haven within which your fellow crafters can grow and learn. Thank you!
So wonderful to have you here with us, Paula!
Hello Jess and All, Thank you for having me here X. I have been spinning, dyeing and weaving for over 50 years! I mostly sold through face to face markets which I really enjoy and I will still do a couple a year. However, the time has come to take on the world!! It took me a couple of years to build a web site and ever since to understand SEO. I have taken several online courses about Fb selling and slowly getting hold of the ideas but I just really need to get weaving! I think that the Thriver Circle is just what I need…all in the one spot! I am looking forward to the interaction and Congratulations Jess on this wonderful place.
Hi Jenny, Wow, you are a master at your craft 🙂 Welcome to the Circle!
I went through Set Up Shop a couple of years ago and am excited to be part of the Thriver’s Circle. So far, I only have one question. Is there a working link to the workshops somewhere? The link on this page is taking me to the registration page. Thanks for your help.
Hi Revka! Please try again – I did a redesign recently, and I think the old link was bust. I’ve just updated it and it should work now 🙂 And welcome!
Hey Jess
I’ve just finished 12 days selling at the Christmas market in dublin 100 km away,standing in the FREEZING cold,travelling there and back each day and while it was great Craic ( irish word for fun) and worth it I cannot wait to sit by the fire in my virtual shop and sell more. I have listed to ALL of your Create and Thrive podcasts ( think it’s an addiction at this stage!) and can’t wait to fire up the engines for 2018. Thank you!
Here’s to a great year! Happy Christmas to you and yours
Hey Toni! I hope the HBB has helped you get clear on a plan for how to get those online sales happening 🙂 I’m honoured that you’ve listened to all of my podcasts! 😀
Hi there from Canada! I’m so excited to be here and to join Thriver Circle. Thanks so much for having me
Welcome, Christine! So lovely to have you here 🙂
It has taken me a year to set up my shop. I had discovered your invaluable Utube lessons and honestly your direction was the only way I could discipher “How to Set Up”, with the Etsy Handbook. At a certain point I kept checking to see if you were finished with your new payment module so I could join US style. THEN, I hit a wall, which I won’t describe now, but for me, with total disbelieve, thinking I did everything I was required to set up~ now I must have triggered something, or something happened to where Etsy was asking me to set up yet another debit card (their recommended brand), because the customer made a mistake in checking out. OMG there’s more to the story but some other time. Why did I start my story. I am so HAPPY because I need real, nice, warm, wonderful people to talk to and get fresh ideas for selling and see what other’s experiences are. I just couldn’t understand what to do and I felt hopeless. I went back and forth with Etsy, and thank goodness I had another sale and nobody had any problems, but I never discovered what was going on, all I can say right now is that my shop’s mysteries resolved themselves, but I have no idea why. All is calm at the moment and now I have you all and you Jess as ammo. I am so looking forward to this. So sorry for this long paragraph, but I just wanted to say boy now I can “collect” myself and travel on the path I chose at this time in my history!
So glad my videos have helped you, Ellen – welcome!