Behind The Community

Season 2: Episode 1 How to Create and Grow a Sustainable Community  Do you want to grow your community quickly and sustainably which brings real value?  Well this episode is for you! Meet Erica and Nastie, the founders of the D2 Collective, a value based technology community with over 3,000 members globally and over 100 events! AND all this in 14 months!!! Erica and Nastie started out their career...

#10, Fostering Community Belonging and Engagement with Reina Pomeroy  In this episode, Michelle Sims had the pleasure of speaking with Reina Pomeroy , the Senior Director of Community at Good Inside. Reina, a seasoned Social Worker turned Certified Coach, community builder, and social strategist, brings a wealth of experience to the discussion. Formerly the head of community at Modern Fertility, s...

On today's podcast, Michelle Sims interview's Talia Deer . Talia is currently the Head of Community & Growth at The Trium Group, a management consulting firm in San Francisco, where they focus on executive community building and connecting professionals in the field of leadership, culture, and strategy execution. Prior to her role at The Trium Group, Talia served as the Head of Commu...

On today's podcast, Michelle Sims interview's Shana Sumers , Shana Sumers, is the Senior Manager of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Communities at HubSpot. Shana's impressive career in community building includes launching HubSpot's groundbreaking Black@INBOUND community. She was also Head of Community at HER App. , where she launched the app's first community...

On today's podcast, Michelle Sims interview's Community expert Blaise Grimes-Viort Blaise has more than two decades of online community, social media strategy and management experience. He’s an online communities consultant and manages well known communities like the Community Collective on Guild. To many of his client’s, he’s known as the fractional Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Social...

 #6 Richard Millington, Lessons From A World Leading Community Consultant On today's podcast, Michelle Sims interview's the Founder of FeverBee, Richard Millington Over the past 13 years, Richard has helped to develop over 310 successful communities, including those for Apple, Facebook, Google.  Richard is the author of both Buzzing Communities, The Indispensable Community, and Build You...

On today's podcast, Michelle Sims interview's Talkbase’s COO & Head of Community, Tiffany Oda . Tiffany is an experienced business leader at high-growth B2B SaaS companies with expertise in community, operations, program management, and strategy. Her superpower is operationalizing ideas from inception to implementation. She's a leader with a reputation for getting stuff done. Sh...

On today's podcast, Michelle Sims interview's community builder & leader, Jayvee Nava . In 2019, she was named Forbes 30 Under 30 for Marketing/Advertising. Jayvee worked at Peloton for nine years and went from VP of Studio Operations to VP of Community. As VP of Community at Peloton, she oversaw member engagement as the company accelerated from a startup to a publicly traded company...

On today's podcast, Michelle interview's Marsha Druker who is a marketer, community builder and the founder of the popular event series Fuckup Nights Toronto which aims to de-stigmatize business failure. She’s also the Host of Create Community Podcast . On this episode we covered… Why she started Fuckup Nights Toronto How she builds meaningful connection through failures The secret to en...

On this podcast, Michelle Sims spoke with Vera DeVera who is an incredible community builder and Head of Community at Vareto , the next-gen FP&A platform for strategic finance and executive teams. I had so much fun speaking with Vera about career progression, her passion for events and how her community activations influenced millions of dollars in revenue for the business. Our conversation co...

On today's podcast episode, Michelle Sims spoke with Simon Balmain : Simon Balmain is a Senior Community Manager who has worked at several successful companies including Twitter , Sphere Messenger , Monzo Bank and the BBC . As a true believer in the power of community, Simon values radical transparency, building in public and finding the magic points between company vision, product management...