Mighty Networks & Community Mindset
Ana Melikian, PhD
AI Without Burnout | Mindset Optimization Strategist, Public Speaker, Top 1% Podcast Host & Amazon Best Selling Author of MINDSET ZONE
An interview with Gina Bianchini
In this episode, Gina Bianchini joins me to talk about how to create thriving and successful communities.
She explains why social media isn’t a community and offers her insight on how to identify a real community. She shares an example of a thriving community and explains why just about everything can be traced back to community.
Gina discusses what it really means to be a social animal and talks about Mighty Networks, explaining what it is and why it’s needed. She points out that human beings aren’t one-size-fits-all, and neither should be communities. She also talks about the community formula.
This Week on The Mindset Zone:
- Defining community
- Why social media is not a community
- How to identify a community
- Why it all comes back to community
- What it means to be a social animal
- The mission of Mighty Networks
- The community formula
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The Guest:
Gina Bianchini is the Founder & CEO of Mighty Networks. Her mission at Mighty Networks is to usher in a new era of creative business built on community. Mighty serves “creators with a purpose” selling experiences, relationships, and expertise to their members via community, content, online courses, and subscription commerce–all offered in one place under the creator’s brand. Before Mighty Networks, Gina and Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen launched Ning, a pioneering global platform for creating niche social networks. Under her leadership, Ning grew to ~100 million people in 300,000 active social networks across subcultures, professional networks, entertainment, politics, and education. In addition to Mighty Networks, Gina serves as a board director of TEGNA (NYSE: TGNA), a $3 billion dollar broadcast and digital media company, and served as a board director of Scripps Networks (NASDAQ: SNI), a $12 billion dollar public company which owns HGTV, The Food Network, and The Travel Channel that merged with Discovery Communications in 2018. Gina and Mighty Networks have been featured in Fast Company, Wired, Vanity Fair, Bloomberg, and The New York Times. She has appeared on Charlie Rose, CNBC, and CNN. She grew up in Cupertino, California, graduated with honors from Stanford University, started her career in the nascent High Technology Group at Goldman, Sachs & Co., and received her M.B.A. from Stanford Business School.
The Host:
Ana Melikian has a Ph.D. in Psychology and 20+ years of experience working in human potential. Her keynote, "The Happiness Fallacy" re-envisions and revitalizes how we think about and work with happiness for personal and collective good. Ana loves to connect here on LinkedIn with difference-makers in coaching and B-Corp spaces.
The Podcast:
The MINDSET ZONE podcast was selected for The Huffington Post's “15 Podcasts That Will Leave You Pondering Life's Big Questions,” listed alongside the Peabody Award-winning “On Being” and “TED Radio Hour” by NPR.
"Our mindsets determine the way we see the world, as well as, the way we behave and who we are as people.
It’s very easy and normal to stay stuck in fixed mindsets - limiting beliefs about our abilities and skills that prevent us to learn new things.
We can intentionally cultivate a growth mindset that allows us to stretch our minds and amplify the realm of possibilities of what we do, and who we are.
Amplifying our mindsets is one of the secrets of success, for most entrepreneurs, business owners, and professionals out there."
~Ana Melikian, Ph.D., Host of the Mindset Zone Podcast
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2 年WOW! I love the concept of Mighty Networks and building community. Am off to demo the tool about building a valuable and unique community. Thank you Ana Melikian, PhD for a fascinating guest and a relevant tool to build relationships.
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2 年great interview
Award-winning Communication & Storytelling Coach, Trainer & Speaker | Igniting clear + compelling communication | Official Member Forbes Coaches Council | Top Expert in Executive Communication | 4.9/5 rating
2 年Sometimes in my work, I do forget the importance of real as opposed to social media community. But human connection and true listening really is a way to not only be there for someone, but to work out our own challenges with less effort and more fun.
Certified Leadership & Wellness Coach helping Sr Mangers and Directors get promoted & strengthen influence, communication, relationships, wellbeing, & confidence
2 年Cultivating a growth mindset and of noticing when you may be slipping into a limiting belief is a helpful framework for building self compassion and for increasing our comfort in stretching ourselves. Thanks for sharing!
Speaker, Author, High Energy Workshop Facilitator, Certified Chief Happiness Officer and Muse helps you increase performance, productivity, wellness and, of course, employee and customer loyalty.
2 年So nice to know more about Mighty Networks. I participate in two and now I hunger for more information on how to use them. Community is so key right now as we are still recovering from the shocks of the past two years. Community brings us back to our roots as social beings. Thanks Ana Melikian, PhD for your insight!