The X Podcast

Hosted by Brenda RIgney

Business

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216

Latest episode

Nov 2026

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EN-US

About the show

The X Podcast with Brenda Rigney looks at the invisible work of Gen X women entrepreneurs. You’ll hear from Brenda, a 27+ year corporate exec drop-out and solopreneur on what it takes to run your business behind the scenes. Brenda will share her personal stories and lessons weekly and debunk the myths that stop you from launching your dream biz. Brenda coaches entrepreneurs in her ALIGNED AF Community membership, at her global retreats and in private coaching experiences. Learn more at BrendaRigney.com

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November 10, 20269 min

How I Turned $400 into $15K/Month in Just 3 Months

🎥 Watch this episode on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=sDP6X9c_dUs Check out my Skool communities here 👉🏼 skool.com/skool-scale-camp 👉🏼 skool.com/ai-driven-business-summit 👉🏼 skool.com/the-skool-summit-community-4445 For over a year, I was stuck at $400/month inside my Skool community — even though I had the funnels, email sequences, webinars, and daily content. I wasn’t lazy. I wasn’t clueless. The model was wrong. In this video, I break down the shift from traditional funnels and long nurture sequences to community-based summits on Skool — and how that took me to $10–15K/month in recurring revenue in just three months. If you’re tired of building complicated funnels that don’t compound, this might change how you see everything. Subscribe for more on building real momentum through summits and community. Create your own skool community👇🏼 skool.com/signup (affiliate link, I may earn a commission if you join through this) This video was made with @BenjaminEwt Want to learn more about YouTube? Ben's skool 👇🏼 skool.com/ben (affiliate link, I may earn a commission if you join through this) Affiliate Disclosure: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links, which means I may earn a commission if you sign up or make a purchase through them – at no additional cost to you. I only recommend tools and communities I personally use and trust. Disclaimer: Results shared in this video are based on personal experience and may vary. Past performance does not guarantee future results. #CommunityDriven #MRRGrowth #OnlineCoaches #SummitMarketing #SustainableScaling

November 10, 202613 min

I Audited a $10K/Month Skool Community… It's Still Leaking Money

I audited a Skool community with 4,500 members, 99 premium members and $10,000 a month in recurring revenue. It was still leaking money. In this episode, I walk you through the 5 leaks I find in almost every freemium Skool community: why a cheap premium tier hurts your buyers, how overstuffing your free tier overwhelms members, why you need to design premium before you launch free, how to share proof without feeling salesy, and why engagement isn't about likes. I also share how I went from $400 a month to over $16,000 a month in recurring revenue with no sales calls. 00:00 Intro 00:29 Who I am 01:06 Leak #1: Premium is too cheap 02:34 Why I start premium at $49 a month 03:33 Raise the price $10 every month 05:07 Leak #2: Giving too much away for free 05:56 Leak #3: You launched free before you designed premium 06:46 Give away 2 to 5% of your premium offer 07:54 Leak #4: Not enough proof 09:40 Leak #5: You think engagement means likes 10:17 Use the leaderboard to reward progress 11:47 Recap 12:26 Join the Skool Scale Camp ▶️ Join the Skool Scale Camp to launch, lead and scale your Skool community: skool.com/skool-scale-camp ▶️ Join the AI-Driven Business Summit: skool.com/ai-driven-business-summit 🎥 Watch this episode on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=-xBtiSQAFZg 🚀 Start your own Skool community: skool.com/signup Disclosure: Some of the links above are affiliate links. If you sign up through them, I may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.

October 2, 202615 min

How To Build An Online Business Without Burning Out

Check out my Skool communities here 👉🏼 https://www.skool.com/skool-scale-cam... 👉🏼 https://www.skool.com/ai-driven-busin... 👉🏼 https://www.skool.com/the-skool-summi... If you’ve been told you need complicated funnels, endless content, or paid ads to make money online… this will challenge everything.In this episode, I break down how I built 3 Skool communities to $15K/month in recurring revenue—without funnels.No complicated tech. No burnout. Just a simple, community-first model that turns conversations into consistent income.If you’re a woman over 40 building a coaching business, membership, or online community, this is your permission slip to simplify.Subscribe and join my Skool community to learn how to build yours—without overcomplicating it.Create your own Skool community👇🏼 https://www.skool.com/signup?ref=8533... (affiliate link, I may earn a commission if you join through this)Disclaimer: Results shared in this video are based on personal experience and may vary. Past performance does not guarantee future results.

September 28, 202628 min

Why My Free Community Makes More Money Than Paid

Check out my Skool communities here 👉🏼 https://www.skool.com/skool-scale-cam... 👉🏼 https://www.skool.com/ai-driven-busin... 👉🏼 https://www.skool.com/the-skool-summi... Create your own Skool community 👇🏼 https://www.skool.com/signup?ref=8533... (affiliate link, I may earn a commission if you join through this)I run two free Skool communities with over 12,000 members combined — and they generate more revenue than most paid memberships ever will. In this video, I'll show you exactly how to monetize a free Skool community using 5 real revenue streams, why the freemium model outperforms traditional paid tiers for community growth, and how over-delivering in free communities is the smartest business decision I've ever made. This is how to build a profitable Skool community in 2025 and 2026 without charging a single dollar upfront. 00:00 Intro 00:32 Why most free communities fail 01:29 Treating free like a premium product 02:42 Inside Brenda's two communities 03:55 Revenue stream #1: Summit sponsorships 05:50 Revenue stream #2: Conversion to paid 07:52 Revenue stream #3: Affiliate commissions 09:47 Revenue stream #4: Pin posts & promotions 11:04 Revenue stream #5: Course sales 12:51 Design premium from day one 17:14 The reciprocity principle 19:42 Stop gatekeeping your best content 23:40 Start over-delivering (without burning out) 25:28 Think ecosystem, not funnel 26:27 The long-term payoffIn this video we go over the following questions:Why do most free Skool communities fail to generate revenue?How can a free community earn more than a paid membership?What are the 5 revenue streams inside a freemium Skool community?How do you design your freemium model the right way from day one?What is the reciprocity principle and how does it boost your Skool discovery ranking?Should you give away your best content for free?Subscribe to Brenda Rigney to learn more about building profitable Skool communities and growing your online business.

September 25, 202616 min

The 50% Commission Strategy That Grew My Communities Faster Than Ads

Check out my Skool communities here 👉🏼 https://www.skool.com/skool-scale-cam... 👉🏼 https://www.skool.com/ai-driven-busin... 👉🏼 https://www.skool.com/the-skool-summi... If you’ve been told you need complicated funnels, endless content, or paid ads to make money online… this will challenge everything.In this episode, I break down how I built 3 Skool communities to $15K/month in recurring revenue—without funnels.No complicated tech. No burnout. Just a simple, community-first model that turns conversations into consistent income.If you’re a woman over 40 building a coaching business, membership, or online community, this is your permission slip to simplify.Subscribe and join my Skool community to learn how to build yours—without overcomplicating it.Create your own Skool community👇🏼 https://www.skool.com/signup?ref=8533... (affiliate link, I may earn a commission if you join through this)Disclaimer: Results shared in this video are based on personal experience and may vary. Past performance does not guarantee future results.

September 21, 202611 min

You Don’t Need Ads to Grow a Community (Do This Instead)

Check out my Skool communities here 👉🏼 https://www.skool.com/skool-scale-cam... 👉🏼 https://www.skool.com/ai-driven-busin... 👉🏼 https://www.skool.com/the-skool-summi... If you’ve been told you need complicated funnels, endless content, or paid ads to make money online… this will challenge everything.In this episode, I break down how I built 3 Skool communities to $15K/month in recurring revenue—without funnels.No complicated tech. No burnout. Just a simple, community-first model that turns conversations into consistent income.If you’re a woman over 40 building a coaching business, membership, or online community, this is your permission slip to simplify.Subscribe and join my Skool community to learn how to build yours—without overcomplicating it.Create your own Skool community👇🏼 https://www.skool.com/signup?ref=8533... (affiliate link, I may earn a commission if you join through this)Disclaimer: Results shared in this video are based on personal experience and may vary. Past performance does not guarantee future results.

February 22, 202644 min

Do This 20-Minute Exercise to Gain Total Business Clarity with Bree Boucher

If you’ve been feeling stuck or unclear about your next move in business, this 20-minute guided exercise will help you reconnect with your direction. In this episode, EFT and hypnosis practitioner Bree Boucher leads you through her Hypnotic Akashic Awakening™ journey—a gentle, guided visualization designed to help you access clarity, alignment, and your future business self. This isn’t about predicting the future. It’s about accessing the clarity that already exists within you. Find a quiet place, press play, and give yourself the space to experience it. Connect with Bree Boucher: Skool: WooPreneur Society Instagram: @bree.boucher

February 13, 202615 min

I Couldn't Scale Past $400/Month... Until I Did This

For over a year, I was stuck at $400/month — even though I had the funnels, the emails, the webinars, and the daily content. I wasn’t lazy. I wasn’t clueless. My business model was wrong. In this video, I break down the one shift that took me from $400 to $10–15K in monthly recurring revenue in just three months — moving from launches and long funnels to community-based summits that actually compound. If you’re working hard but not seeing momentum, this might be the shift you need. 👉 Join my free Skool community where I share everything in real time. Check out my free communities here 👉🏼 https://www.skool.com/skool-scale-camp and https://www.skool.com/ai-driven-business-summit And subscribe for strategies that help midlife entrepreneurs grow without burnout.

January 30, 202613 min

Monetizing Your Skool is Easy Once You Learn THIS (#7 will surprise you)

I invite you to join my community here 👉🏼 https://www.skool.com/aligned-af-comm... Check out my free communities here 👉🏼 https://www.skool.com/aligned-af-camp and https://www.skool.com/ai-driven-busin... Most people think there’s only one way to make money on Skool.Start a paid community.Charge a monthly fee.Hope people don’t cancel.That’s wrong.There are actually 9 different ways to monetize a Skool community — and most creators miss at least half of them.In this video, I break down the only 9 monetization paths that actually work on Skool, how they funnel into each other, and which ones make sense based on your audience and your lifestyle.For context, I’m Brenda.I’ve monetized 3 Skool communities, grown them to 9,000+ members, and scaled them to $10–15k/month in recurring revenue — without funnels, cold DMs, or the content hamster wheel.In this episode, you’ll learn:✅ The non-obvious ways creators are monetizing Skool (most people never talk about these)✅ How free, paid, and backend offers stack together✅ Real examples from inside my community of people using these strategies✅ Which monetization paths work best depending on your goals + energy⚠️ And make sure you watch all the way through — #4 is extremely underleveraged, and most people have never even heard of it. 00:00 – Why most people get Skool monetization wrong 02:10 – My background + Skool results 04:12 – The 9 ways to make money with Skool 10:40 – The most underleveraged Skool monetization method18:10 – How to join the Aligned AF CommunityCreate your own skool community👇🏼 https://www.skool.com/signup?ref=8533... (affiliate link, I may earn a commission if you join through this)This video was made with / @benbranding Want to learn more about YouTube? Ben's skool 👇🏼 https://www.skool.com/ben/about?ref=8... (affiliate link, I may earn a commission if you join through this)Affiliate Disclosure: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links, which means I may earn a commission if you sign up or make a purchase through them – at no additional cost to you. I only recommend tools and communities I personally use and trust.Disclaimer: Results shared in this video are based on personal experience and may vary. Past performance does not guarantee future results. #Skool #SkoolMonetization #CreatorIncome #OnlineCommunities #RecurringRevenue

December 29, 202512 min

At 56: What Running a Skool Community Taught Me About Energy, Income, and Building Smarter

In this episode, I share the real lessons I’ve learned about running a business and a community in midlife—after corporate leadership, burnout, reinvention, perimenopause, and building multiple communities on Skool.If you’re a midlife woman entrepreneur who:• Is tired of chasing algorithms• Wants recurring income instead of constant launches• Needs systems that work on low-energy days• Wants her business to support her life (not drain it)This episode is for you.I walk through the 10 biggest shifts that changed everything for me—from monetizing lived experience to building community instead of content chaos—and why Skool became the container that finally fit this season of life.👇 Want to go deeper? Join me inside my FREE Skool communities:✨ AI-Driven Business Summit Communityhttps://www.skool.com/ai-driven-business-summit/about✨ Aligned AF Camp (for midlife women building smarter businesses)https://www.skool.com/aligned-af-camp/aboutMidlife isn’t about pushing harder.It’s about building smarter—with what you already have.👍 Like💬 Comment🔔 SubscribeAnd share this with a woman who needs permission to build differently.