What Comes Next: Building the I Want Her Shoes Community

Somewhere between the podcast conversations, dinners, brunches, WhatsApp messages, new friendships, introductions, and women showing up for one another, something unexpected happened. The audience started becoming a community.In this special solo episode, Anna steps out from behind the interview questions to share what she’s been quietly building: I Want Her Shoes Club, a new digital and IRL home for ambitious, accomplished, curious women who want meaningful connection alongside all the beautiful things that make life fun.Anna takes listeners inside the early version of the platform and shares the thinking behind it from member connections and curated events to trusted experts, recommendations, fashion, style, and eventually a much smarter relationship with our own closets. But the vision isn't to create another social network designed to keep women scrolling.It's almost the opposite. Anna has spent years working in AI and building technology communities, and now she's applying that experience to something intentionally human: using technology to help the right women find one another and then get off their phones and into the same room.Miami is only the beginning. The bigger vision includes city communities, intimate dinners and experiences, trusted recommendations, experts, fashion and wardrobe tools, and a network that can travel with its members wherever life takes them.And because the Club is still being built, Anna isn't simply inviting women to join it.She's inviting them to help shape what it becomes.👠 Key MomentsHow I Want Her Shoes evolved from a podcast into a real communityWhy the shoes were never really about fashion they've always been about the journeyWhat Anna learned from bringing women together for intimate dinners and brunchesWhy connection not networking is the productThe vision behind I Want Her Shoes ClubWhy AI should facilitate human connection rather than replace itWhat's coming around events, experts, style, recommendations, and our closetsWhy Anna wants the earliest members to help build the community alongside herAnna doesn't want to build another place where women perform how successful, polished, or fabulous their lives are.She wants to build a place where women can actually know each other.Where you can talk about the promotion and the divorce. The company you're building and the terrible date you went on. The investment you're considering and the shoes you're considering.A place to share what we've learned, celebrate one another's wins, open doors for each other and occasionally tell another woman, “Girl, absolutely do not buy those.” Because the shoes were never really about fashion. They've always been about the journey. And this is what's coming next. Adding a chic twist to each episode, the 'I Want Her Shoes Podcast' is recorded in Anna’s stunning personal closet, strategically located near the vibrant Miami Design District. This unique setting not only provides a visually captivating backdrop but also embodies the spirit of fashion and innovation that the area is known for. 📺 Watch the episodes on YouTube to get a glimpse of this one-of-a-kind Miami closet, it’s definitely worth the view! https://www.youtube.com/@IWantHerShoesPodcastFollow us for more updates:IWHS Club Beta: https://iwanthershoes.com/community?utm_source=podcast IWHS Pod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iwanthershoespodcast/Anna’s IG: https://www.instagram.com/iwanthershoes/  EPISODE CREDITS:Writer and Host: Anna AnisinProduced, edited, and mixed by the Formulatedby TeamFollow us on IGWatch on Youtube Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.