E34: Finding Your People - How Community Helps Founders Thrive

Running a business can be lonely - especially when you're spending most of your time sat at your desk, trying to do everything yourself.

In this solo episode of Creating the Curve, Anna Bravington reflects on last week's conversation about community and digs into why community matters so much for founders - not just for support, but for visibility, confidence, learning, and even winning work.

Drawing on her own experience of building, joining and running communities, Anna explores how showing the human behind the business changes how people connect with you, trust you, and choose to work with you. She also breaks down the different types of communities founders can join, why size isn't everything, and how to find (or build) communities that actually fit your working style and energy.

In this episode, Anna talks about:

• Why community reveals the human behind the business and why that matters more than a polished corporate image
• How being active in communities can lead to work opportunities without "selling"
• Why smaller, niche communities often work better than huge, noisy ones
• How to choose the right platform based on how you already work and think
• Why community participation is real work, even if it doesn't feel like traditional productivity
• How stepping away from your desk and into community can move your business forward faster

Whether you're already part of several communities or haven't joined one yet, this episode is a gentle nudge to rethink how connection, learning and support fit into your working week and how community can help you feel less alone as a founder.

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