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BTS of Building a Community with Alicia Allen | Sept 08, 2025
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In this episode, host Lee Smalt interviews Alicia Allen (formerly Alicia Reece), co-founder of Nice Moves Minnesota and head of operations at Modular, for an in-depth look at building and sustaining creative communities.This episode covers:Nice Moves origins: Casual conversations between Mike Nelson, Mike Zugshwort, and Alicia at bars and barbecues converged into an official organization, launching in 2016 with just a logo and Facebook pageInfrastructure development: Transition from informal friend groups to structured nonprofits, including fiscal sponsorship with Minneapolis Television Network and establishing boards with term limits to handle member transitionsPandemic growth: 2020 forced rapid formalization and the move to Discord, expanding reach beyond Minneapolis Leadership transitions: The challenges of stepping away as founders while ensuring continuity, emphasizing early documentation and accepting that organizations evolve beyond original visionMentorship scaling: Ongoing challenge of mentor demand outpacing availability, with new Tally-Notion integration helping match participants based on specific skills and career goalsCommunity impact: Salary surveys that forced local studios to raise compensation levels, and recognition from MCAD professors as a legitimate professional development organizationTechnical skills gained: Documentation, systems thinking, change management, and strategic planning as transferable skills from community work to professional operationsUpcoming Schedule:No meeting Monday, September 15th (Camp MoGraph attendance)Regular programming resumes September 22ndVisit MondayMeeting.org for this episode and other conversations from the motion design community!SHOW NOTES:Monday Meeting PatreonMonday Meeting DiscordMondayMeeting LinkedInMondayMeeting InstagramMondayMeeting BlueskyMondayMeeting NewsletterNice Moves webpage: https://nicemoves.org/NM Discord: https://discord.gg/X2TRASPkv8Modular webpage: https://www.modularstudio.tv/Foreign Fauna webpage: https://foreignfauna.com/Tally: https://tally.so/Zapier: https://zapier.com/Make: https://www.make.com/
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In this episode, host Lee Smalt interviews Alicia Allen (formerly Alicia Reece), co-founder of Nice Moves Minnesota and head of operations at Modular, for an in-depth look at building and sustaining creative communities.This episode covers:Nice Moves origins: Casual conversations between Mike Nelson, Mike Zugshwort, and Alicia at bars and barbecues converged into an official organization, launching in 2016 with just a logo and Facebook pageInfrastructure development: Transition from informal friend groups to structured nonprofits, including fiscal sponsorship with Minneapolis Television Network and establishing boards with term limits to handle member transitionsPandemic growth: 2020 forced rapid formalization and the move to Discord, expanding reach beyond Minneapolis Leadership transitions: The challenges of stepping away as founders while ensuring continuity, emphasizing early documentation and accepting that organizations evolve beyond original visionMentorship scaling: Ongoing challenge of mentor demand outpacing availability, with new Tally-Notion integration helping match participants based on specific skills and career goalsCommunity impact: Salary surveys that forced local studios to raise compensation levels, and recognition from MCAD professors as a legitimate professional development organizationTechnical skills gained: Documentation, systems thinking, change management, and strategic planning as transferable skills from community work to professional operationsUpcoming Schedule:No meeting Monday, September 15th (Camp MoGraph attendance)Regular programming resumes September 22ndVisit MondayMeeting.org for this episode and other conversations from the motion design community!SHOW NOTES:Monday Meeting PatreonMonday Meeting DiscordMondayMeeting LinkedInMondayMeeting InstagramMondayMeeting BlueskyMondayMeeting NewsletterNice Moves webpage: https://nicemoves.org/NM Discord: https://discord.gg/X2TRASPkv8Modular webpage: https://www.modularstudio.tv/Foreign Fauna webpage: https://foreignfauna.com/Tally: https://tally.so/Zapier: https://zapier.com/Make: https://www.make.com/
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