Joining Fractional People People

We appreciate everyone's interest in FPP and we also have an obligation to keep the space a safe one for our community.  This community is for those who have been HR practitioners (or HR adjacent) in their past career and who are now just beginning, or already established, in the journey of HR fractional/consulting/advisor solopreneurship (or HRpreneurship as we call it😄). 

This community and these applications are run and reviewed by the founder and members who also have their own businesses. We appreciate your patience as we may take up to 4 weeks to review your application. Should you be accepted, you will receive an email with payment and onboarding information! 

You mean benefits other than being surrounded by chosen coworkers accessible to you when you need them, and aligned in the core values of #abundance and #joy ✨🎉?? 

Current members will hopefully tell you there are even more benefits to being a part of the crew than the below, but here are few cliff notes! 

Community, Networking & Learning

• Exclusive Slack community where the community magic happens 🪄
• Slack Pro workspace 💻
• Ongoing live learning sessions to skill up on your lead generation, values based pricing and other HRpreneur skills, as well as access to previous recordings in Disco📝
• Slack channels dedicated to help you with the HR stuff, managing and negotiating with your clients, and setting up and managing your own business 👷‍♀️
• Shared drive of resources with crowd sourced documents, templates, contracts and more 📄

Perks, Discounts & Partnerships

• Access to solopreneur lifestyle perks and benefits through Beanstalk Benefits (USA) 🩺
• Exclusive discounts, perks and referral partnerships with FPP vendor partners 💸
• Access to the #new-biz-opportunities channel and FPPers who love referring FPPers 💰

Member Only Events

• Access to FPP member only virtual and IRL events 📆
• Quarterly virtual all team FPP calls 🥳
• Virtual coworking sessions anytime you need them 🤝
• Location specific channels & IRL meetups 📌
• Invite to the FPP member only annual #FPPIRL in person offsite & retreat 💖 (tickets sold separately)

$120 membership contribution per year, paid one-time (equivalent to $10 per month). This membership contribution keeps the lights on and funds community operations. 

It is intentionally set at a cost equivalent to a lunch with your coworkers each month so that no matter what your revenue is for the year, you can afford to be part of the team. And it is intentionally not a monthly opt in or opt out, because if you're interested in being a part of the team, then we ask for some commitment up front so we know we can count on you to be there! 🤝

This community was started with an email from the founder to a handful of her peers doing similar work. 1 year later? Over twelve hundred amazing FPPers, in almost every continent, thousands of Slack messages, hundreds of new business deals, an all community IRL event, and countless friendships made. Whew! What an amazing year it has been! 

With all the increase in activity however, the costs of operations also increase. Up until this point the FPP Founder has been investing her personal dollars into the operations of FPP (Slack Pro, Disco, Google Workspace, Fireflies, Website, Legal - you get it!). Since FPPers are AMAZING, many of them encouraged her to let the community be the ones to support the community - together. 💖

It's important that your intention in joining is to be part of the community & FPP team (ex: we call each other "chosen coworkers"). The best way to get new clients in this HRpreneur life is through referrals, through trust, and through relationships. Members have built up their entire business, client list, and increased their revenue through the relationships they've built inside of FPP because they are open to building relationships and a network of FPPers. If that sounds like you, then we're excited to collaborate with you! You will get as much out of the community as you put in. 💫

We believe strongly in #learningeveryday and growth mindset. In that spirit, a few things you should know before hitting that submit button : 

• Our international presence grew super fast in 2024. We have many active European, UK, Canadian (& many other countries!) FPPers in the crew, but our content, meeting times and all FPP events are often US centric. We have many exciting ideas about how we can better engage with, add perks, and create an international presence to continue spreading the education about Fractional leadership and HR throughout the world, but we know we can improve in this area! 🌍
• Slack is our main form of communication. We now have Disco as well for a one-stop shop, or "intranet" as we HR peeps call it 😊. If you are not familiar with Slack when you join in, just be aware that it may be feel overwhelming at first, but we have videos, tutorials, onboarding sessions and lotssss of friendly FPPers who are happy to help you navigate! 🤝

You bet.  Community membership fees can be deductible for independent contractors as business expenses 🙌