Women With Latitude Membership Guidelines

"Clarity leads to power." — a key principle from Money & You®

Welcome

Women With Latitude (WWL) is a community for women, and people identifying as women, navigating business, relationships, travel, advocacy, and personal growth—built on collaboration, freedom, and the belief that no one needs a permission slip to chart her own course.

These guidelines exist so every member knows exactly what membership includes, what it doesn't, and how to engage with us in a way that respects everyone's time and energy—ours included.

What WWL Membership Includes

As a WWL community member, you have access to:

The WWL community space on our platform, including discussion channels such as Members Help and Need Help, Members Collaborate, and others as the community grows.
WWL Compass Meetings, held weekly on Thursdays—our core gathering for navigation, connection, and charting our course together.
Meeting replays and resources, including summaries and highlights from past Compass Meetings, available under Attached Files.
Community connection with other members who share a commitment to collaboration, mutual support, and building something that works for everyone.
A bonus free starter membership in Positively H.U.B., which keeps you informed about offerings from our broader network.

Membership in the basic Women With Latitude Community is free, and it will stay that way for those who want to participate at this level.

What WWL Membership Does Not Include

WWL membership is community participation—it is not a service agreement, a consulting engagement, or a guarantee of our time.

Specifically, membership does not entitle a member to:

Priority access to Jackie's or Xóchitl's time, expertise, or labor on a personal project
Free or discounted design, technical, marketing, hypnotherapy, consulting, or other services we offer. To qualify for discounts on the services we offer, please apply to join our Positively H.U.B. Silver Membership.
A specific turnaround time for any request made inside or outside of community channels
An implied business partnership, revenue share, or collaboration arrangement

Conversations are exploratory until something is written down. If a conversation—whether on a call, in chat, or over text—touches on the possibility of working together on a project, that conversation is the beginning of a discussion, not a commitment. No collaboration, paid or unpaid, is in effect unless and until both sides have agreed to specific terms in writing, including scope, timeline, and (where relevant) compensation.

We want every member to feel free to bring ideas, ask questions, and explore possibilities with us. We also want to be honest that enthusiasm in a conversation is not the same thing as a finalized agreement, and we'll always tell you plainly when something needs to move from "let's explore this" to "let's put this in writing" before any work begins.

Supporting the Community: Sustainer Level

For members who want to support WWL's growth financially, a pay-what-you-can Sustainer level is available starting at $8/month, at whatever amount feels right to you. Sustainer support helps cover the real costs of running and growing this community, and helps keep free membership free for those who need it.

Sustainer-level support may include additional perks such as workshops, master classes, sustainer-only discussions, and inclusion in an expanded member directory. These offerings will be detailed separately as they're built out.

Becoming a Sustainer is a way of investing in the community—it is not, on its own, a service agreement either, and the same guidelines above apply.

How We Communicate

We do our best to respond to community questions and requests in a timely way, but we are a small, two-person team (Jackie and Xóchitl) balancing many priorities, including this community.
For anything time-sensitive, important, or involving a potential project or paid work, we ask that you reach out directly rather than assuming availability—and we'll be honest with you about our bandwidth.
We prefer to handle anything nuanced, sensitive, or potentially emotionally charged via call or written conversation by email rather than back-and-forth text, so we can actually hear each other.

Community Guidelines: Relationship Skills in Practice

Any human community is a place where differences, misunderstandings, and unmet expectations will come up, and that's not a sign something has gone wrong. It's part of being in relationship with other people, and WWL is, among other things, a place to practice doing that well.

We hold high standards for how we engage with each other here, and we also hold genuine compassion for how hard this can be. Relationships bring us our greatest misery and our greatest joy, often within the same week. It's why we offer the Relationships for Conscious Living (RFCL) course in the first place—these are learnable skills, not fixed traits, and every member is welcome to keep growing in their skills for as long as they're part of this community.

Our shared intention: When something feels off between members—a miscommunication, an unmet expectation, hurt feelings, a broken agreement—our genuine intention is to resolve it, not to win it, avoid it, or let it quietly fester. That takes good faith from everyone involved.

Go to the person directly. If you have an issue with another member, the first step is bringing it to that person directly, with curiosity rather than judgment. Doing this can feel vulnerable, and it's worth doing anyway, because it's the only path that actually has a chance of resolving the issue.

What triangulation is, and why it matters. Triangulation happens when, instead of going to the person you have the issue with, you go to someone else—a third party—to tell your side, get validation, or build an ally against the other person. It feels relieving in the moment, but it doesn't solve anything. It just pulls a third person into a conflict that isn't theirs, and it tends to make the original issue harder to resolve, not easier, because now there's a "side" instead of two people trying to understand each other.

This pattern has a name, the Karpman Drama Triangle, and three familiar roles: a Victim (the one who feels harmed and tells the story), an Aggressor (or Perpetrator, the one seen as having caused the harm), and a Rescuer (the third party who takes the victim's side). All three roles feel justified from the inside, and all three keep the real issue from ever being addressed directly.

Triangulation is not the same as needing support. There's an important difference between triangulating and reaching out for help because you feel too vulnerable to address something alone, and we want every member to feel free to do the latter. If you're not ready to approach someone directly, it is entirely appropriate to talk to a trusted person, including either of us, for support in processing your feelings, gaining clarity, or to ask that third person for help navigating that conversation alongside you, with the intention of resolving the issue, so you don't have to face a difficult conversation alone. Getting intentional support moves you toward resolution; triangulation moves you toward division and away from resolution.

If you're ever unsure which one you're doing, it's worth asking yourself: Am I trying to get help approaching the person I have an issue with, or am I trying to get someone on my side instead of their side?

We're here to help, not to referee from a distance. If a conflict between members reaches a point where you'd like support working through it—together, separately, or as a mediated conversation—come to us. We're glad to help members build the skills to navigate this well, including modeling tools like asking for what you want and need without blame, separating the facts of what happened from the story you're telling yourself about it, and finding what actually works for everyone involved, rather than who's right.

If the issue is with us. These same guidelines apply when the unmet expectation, miscommunication, or hurt feeling involves Jackie or Xóchitl directly, and we want you to feel just as free to come to us as you would to any other member. Please bring it to us directly rather than to another member, a meeting, or a public channel. We will do our genuine best to hear you, take responsibility for our part, and work toward a resolution that respects both your experience and the realities of what we can offer as a small team. Despite our best efforts, we won't always get it right the first time, and we'd rather know about it from you than learn about it secondhand.

Membership Removal

Community membership in WWL is a privilege, and Jackie and Xóchitl reserve the sole discretion to remove any member at any time based on our own determination of what is healthy for the community and for us. We will not do this lightly, but we will do it when we believe it is necessary, and we are not required to justify that determination.

If you have been removed and believe the situation warrants a conversation, you are welcome to reach out to us directly to request reconsideration. We will listen in good faith. However, all decisions about membership reinstatement are final and rest entirely with us.

We take no pleasure in removing anyone from a community we have built with care and love. When it becomes necessary, it is because the health of the whole—including our own—requires it.

Questions

If anything in these guidelines is unclear, or if you'd like to explore a potential collaboration or project with WWL, just reach out. We'd rather have that conversation directly with you than leave room for assumptions on either side.