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Most business coaches will tell you your first hire should be a virtual assistant. Paige disagrees — and she's been building and scaling memberships since 2019. In this episode, she breaks down exactly who your first hire should be, why hiring from inside your community almost always wins, and how to create a legacy membership by giving members real roles, real growth, and real reasons to stay.

You'll discover:

1. Why the fear of hiring is usually about missing processes — not the actual hiring
2. Why a community manager (not a VA) should be your very first membership hire
3. The two ways to find a community manager and why hiring from within your community wins every time
4. How hiring from within actually builds culture and signals internal growth opportunity to your members
5. Why retention is 70%+ of your membership revenue — and how your first hire directly protects it
6. How to create volunteer roles inside your community to deepen engagement and keep your best members motivated to stay
7. The exact progression from first hire → community manager → volunteer roles → paid roles → legacy membership

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Million Dollar Memberships is the go-to podcast for online membership and community builders who want to go beyond the basics. While most business podcasts give generalist advice, this show goes deep on the strategies that actually move the needle for membership-specific businesses — from retention to team-building to scaling past $100K/month MRR.