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In the beginning, every community is intimate. Trust is high. Conversations are grounded and vulnerable. But how does intimacy in a community work when it grows? Gesche and Nicole have scaled their #community while sustaining #intimacy. They’re behind Dreamers & Doers®, which began as a small group of female entrepreneurs supporting each other over brunch. This month, they are celebrating a decade of lifting up and connecting women entrepreneurs and leaders, with thousands of members online! On Remote Daily, I learned from Gesche and Nicole that intimacy comes with 💡 establishing a careful, detailed, thorough vetting process 💡 enabling members to have meaningful interactions with one another, supported by tools such as Circle, Orbiit (acquired by Hivebrite) and Gatheround 💡 offering frequent 1:1 conversations with the community lead – shoutout to Nicole – while keeping boundaries in place. Sometimes, intimacy also comes with imperfection. We met in a real podcast studio in NYC, with dozens of community pros from around the world joining virtually. Minutes before going live my laptop went dark, the microphones lost power, the livestream went rogue and the studio technician started sweating. We ended up zooming in via our phones, improvising, holding the space, supported by the amazing Remote Daily crew (s/o avely, Elizabeth, Eleanor) and our community. Thanks to so many of you for your lovely feedback! 📺 Here are 15min (the maximum Linkedin allows) from this intimate Remote Daily episode – featuring the fabulous Gesche and Nicole ✨