010: Alexis Teichmiller on Career, Community, and Creator Journey

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In today’s episode of The HeyCreator Show, Matt Ragland (⁠@mattragland⁠) and Alexis Teichmiller jam on leaving the corporate world to become a creator, along with the move forward into a corporate role again. 

Alexis is the Senior Brand Partnerships Manager at Circle — the platform we use to run the HeyCreator Community — so they also discuss different community business models for creators, along with the best ways to create signature gatherings for your audience.

(0:00) — Presented by Riverside

(4:08) — Matt & Alexis working together at ConvertKit

(11:59) — Romanticizing the leap from W2 employee to full-time creator

(16:18) — From full-time creator to W2 employee

(26:07) — Different types of community business models

(32:23) — How to create signature gatherings in your community

(42:03) — How to set yourself up for sustainability as a creator

(48:36) — Where each platform fits in the audience funnel

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