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🏵️ Free Yearly Planning Template & Our 2025 Wrapped Metrics 👀

🏵️ Free Yearly Planning Template & Our 2025 Wrapped Metrics 👀

Paz Pisarski
February 02, 2026

"Focus on quality over quantity. A smaller, highly engaged community is far more impactful than a large, passive one."

- Liz van Zyl @ Tractor Ventures x FKS x AFC

Alrighty my friends. I’m officially back from 6-weeks off in Australia x India 👋

I’m excited for 2026, the year of the Fire Horse in Chinese Zodiac 🐎 Especially as we had a HUGE year in 2025. Read on for The CC’s 2025 Yearly Wrapped Metrics 👀

The 1 metric that blew me away was 9.9k people RSVP’d to our 145 events with 3.8k attendees across 16 cities (and online) in 2025 alone… That’s an average of 2-3 events per week… woah - HOW DID WE DO THAT 🤯 Go team 👏 I’m so proud.

For today, we’ve gathered the top jobs x events in the community x startup space for you 🧡 As well as featuring our Community Builder of the month and sharing our Free Yearly Planning Template for you.

Grab a cuppa and enjoy the read! ☕️ It’s good to be back.

Hiked Wilson’s Prom in Australia

5-day meditation retreat near Himalayas

Make us smile? Forward this email onto a friend to join 4.1k of us keeping up to date with the community x startup space, from an Aussie perspective 🦘

Plus if this newsletter gets clipped in your email, read the full version here.

🏵 Free Yearly Reflection and Planning Template

Have you reflected fully on the year that’s been and planned the year ahead?

If you want to really grow this year, we've created a free template for yearly reflection and planning 🧡 This is the exact process I’ve done for the last 5 years and swear by it.

🏵 Behind The CC Scenes

Get a sneak peek into what’s happening at The CC. Written by yours truly (Paz) 👋

Read The CC’s 2025 Wrapped Metrics

🏵 The CC 2025 Wrapped Metrics: Our annual metrics are IN and they're wild 🤯 Each year we review our impact inspired by Spotify's Yearly Wrapped. Read here.

🌴 Team Break: Our team is back from a lovely summer break! We had an entire company close down over the Aussie summer and now we’re back ready to go yew!

💭 Dream Speakers: Who do you want to hear from in 2026? Suggest your dream speakers here and we’ll do our best to bring them into The CC!

🧈 Butter Closing: Our fave tech tool Butter is closing and we need your help to find a new digital home for our online events and cohorts 😭 Suggest a new tool.

🎓 Cohort #8: Last chance to get $600 off Cohort #8 before our New Year Sale ends today 🔥 Apply here.

😱 Speaker Lineup Launching: Our Cohort #8 speaker lineup drops in 8 days... Join the waitlist along with 900+ others to hear the big reveal on 10 Feb 👀

🤝 Community Partners: We're so excited to be Community Partners for _SOUTHSTART x Growth Summit x Blackbird Sunrise events 🎉 Get tickets asap.

🌍 Community Manager Day: Amazing to partner with Led by Community and organise meetups around the world for Community Manager Appreciation Day 🎉 Join upcoming meetups.

Thanks for joining The CC x Led by Community meetups around the world in Jan 2026 😍

🐎 2026: Year of The Fire Horse

According to Chinese astrology, from 17 Feb, the Year of the Fire Horse is a time to embrace the qualities horses represents: passion, independence, and bold action.

Fire Horses are known for unstoppable energy and fierce determination, a powerful symbol of breaking free from limitations and charging towards your dreams. Fire Horses are bold, they lead rather than follow.

This makes 2026 a year of courage, where taking decisive actions and trusting your vision can lead to your dreams unfolding & inspiring others along the way. Yewwww.

The key takeaway?

2026 is a year to back yourself, make moves that matter, and go after the future you actually want (and that benefits the world around you). Let’s gooooooo ma friends.