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tribes” as a way of providing the right
Both Brandi Lytle, of Not So Mommy … type of support for people as they move
and Nicci Fletcher have personal forwards in their healing and acceptance.
experience of the isolation that being They also touch on the challenges and
Childless Not By Choice creates. You feel benefits of belonging to exclusively CNBC
that your close friends are leaving you groups compared with belong to groups
behind has they join the parent-club and that also contain parents. As well as
leave you stranded with membership to sharing information about groups and
the club that none of us wanted to join. blogs that they find useful they explore
Not only that, you feel that the rest of the the roles and responsibilities that the hard
world doesn’t even hear/recognise you working group admins and thought-
pain let alone understand it. leaders have within the CNBC community.
In this frank, open discussion Brandi and Because there is more to each of us than
Nicci talk about why humans need to feel our CNBC status Nicci also shares
that they belong. They share the personal information about some groups and blogs
impact that isolation had on their lives that might be of interest to bloggers and
and what led them to finding their tribe. people who run their own business.
They explore the need for “tribes within
Nicci & Brandi
Discussion Part 1
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