Lea Rosenberry on Chatter Social: Building Global Connections
In this unscripted live interview, host Adrienne Barker, MAS, chats with Leah Rosenberry, a tech‑business consultant and longtime Clubhouse user who now volunteers as a community coordinator on the emerging social audio‑visual platform Chatter. Leah explains what Chatter is—a continuous series of Zoom‑style rooms that combine live audio with optional video—highlighting its global reach, inclusive community, and practical use cases such as walking rooms, Toastmasters clubs, expert master‑classes, and real‑time Q&A. She shares growth numbers (≈34 000 registered users, 16 000 active invitees) and recent feature updates like the Chatter Studio link. Leah also describes her own background as a university math instructor turned IT trainer, now teaching newcomers how to navigate the app. The conversation touches on the value of live, spoken interaction versus text‑based social media, the opportunity to hear diverse perspectives, and a cautionary note for thought leaders about the responsibility of public statements on live platforms. Throughout, Adrienne interjects personal anecdotes, promotes upcoming rooms she hosts, and underscores the platform’s potential for authentic connection, networking, and community building.
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hear you explain it. Okay, everyone, I'm taking a breath. Okay, this is Leah. I have followed Leah for, huh, about 4 years on Clubhouse. I would see her face and I always was like, I wonder who she is. One day I'm gonna meet Leah. And then I got the chance to meet Leah, and Leah's a volunteer. I'm volunteering, helping Leah. It's like an amazing coordinator. So I'm not gonna say anymore. I want Leah to introduce herself because this is Live with Adrienne Barker Speaks, no prep needed. So I didn't do that much prep with Leah. So Leah, tell everyone what you do, who you are, share.
Definitely no prep today. Definitely no prep. Yeah, so my name is Leah Rosenberry and I am, uh, in real life I do— I help businesses get their tech together and use that to increase profits and get more leads and things like that. In my, in my still real life, but my passion project, my fun project is I'm on Chatter and I help people learn how to use the platform and stuff like that. So that is me.
Chatter? What is Chatter?
Ah, perfect question. So Chatter is a social audio, and we're going to throw the visual app in there too. And so think of it like there's Zoom meetings running all the time with different topics and you can just hop in and meet people and talk about things and stuff like that. So you can meet people from all over the world. You never have to be lonely. I was thinking about it yesterday for, I was thinking about actually, think about people in like, people that are home alone or people that are recovering from an injury or something like that, or maybe people like even in a nursing home, even though sometimes we think they don't use tech or whatever, just being able to have that outside connection when you can't go outside. Clubhouse was the predecessor. Clubhouse sort of rose to fame during the pandemic. But I think the whole visual thing that is with Chatter and kind of all the extra possibilities they're adding is gonna kind of kind of extend that and, and do some cool things. So that is Chatter.
It really is live conversations. Like, it's so amazing. I love that you said, like, people at our home— there are times when my eyes are tired and I don't want to watch any more TV. I want— and I don't want to hear any more podcasts. I want to, like, hear real live conversations, debates. So, and, like, so what do you love about the best?
Uh, what do I love the best? I love that we can be sitting in a room and talking to people from all over the world. I mean, it sounds crazy and it sounds, you know, corny and whatever, but that's exactly the way it is. I never would have met you if it hadn't been for social audio. And, you know, we're in there, you know, talking tech or whatever we're doing if it's that kind of room, and Nowsell is in Kuwait and, you know, Nuala is in somewhere in England and I'm here in the States. You know, the founder is from Nigeria. It's just everybody is from everywhere, and yet we all talk and we have all these things in common, and it's just amazing.
I, I love it. Actually, I'm gonna like stand up for a second. Good thing I'm wearing pants. I love supporting too. This is Becca's book. Oh, that is amazing. It fills that need, Leah. Like, you're like me, we just want to support. How can we help? How can we help? And to me, I love my candles from Nolan's Nest, Kate. And then you start to get to know these— it's like walking into a living room. I feel like sometimes, like, when, when we're all in a room together just having chit-chat, it's amazing.
Yes. Most recently we've started in at 7:30 in the morning. I mean, and this is just an aside, but like a group of us are like, oh, you know, I go walking, I go walking. Well, I should start walking. So at 7:30 in the morning, we open up a room and people are walking. Like, I'm walking on my treadmill in my office, and, you know, Kelly is walking in Ottawa, Canada, and Rocky is walking in Williamsburg, and people just come in and out. And it's just— I don't know, it's just, it's just another, another way to communicate and, you know, not feel alone sometimes when the world can get crazy and things like that. I have plenty of things to do outside of Chatter, but it just I don't know, it's like the background of my life now instead of TV or, or, or, you know, some kind of streaming service or whatever. It's just real people, and I don't know, it's amazing. I love it.
It really is. I was just with, um, talking to M. Curtis McCoy, who has the Newswire magazine. We were talking about like the, like, print magazines and how much we would go to the doctor's office. You always— I like, I love a good print magazine. They're still around, but You know, they're not as much, but like, I feel like social media, you're dead. You're dead to me though. I put like, there's, it's, it's, you can't compare. So when I talk to social media marketing agencies and people that are social media experts and I'm like, oh, if you're an expert, you should be on Chatter, right? Like, like, I mean, whatever you have to sell, whatever that item is or courses, whatever that looks like. Podcasts are now live where people can come up. I wanted to do the podcast live, but I need to figure out the Chatter studio. And is it that— I might as well take a minute. Everyone just listen. You may need this if you're smart and you get on Chatter. This will be actually something you want to know. So Leah, is the Chatter studio like you open a room and then you copy that little bit of the room description? Is it still like that? Because I was trying to look it up how I— so nothing's changed that way? Yep. Just improved.
Not really. The only, the only thing that's changed is you go to a different link. Everything else is the same.
Okay. And the link is in the Telegram group.
You got it. Yeah.
It's amazing, you guys. It's not just like chatter. Then you have all the connections outside. Dora Marie has a Toastmasters group Tuesdays at 12, which is unbelievable. I mean, and Gillette has one too. So both together, there's how many people are already on the app?
On the app, so signed up and having an account, I believe there's 34,000, but you need an invite to get in. And I believe 16,000 people have an invite and are in the app now. But we have some things coming up as soon as the algorithm is fully in place and kind of tweaked the way they want it. Anybody who has an account is going to get greenlighted and they'll be right in. And so it's going to, it's going to grow here shortly. So very exciting.
Just, just like, you are so professional. I love watching you and how you work. And Leah is so smart. So when the town hall is going on and Nelson is sharing his information, Leah is taking it on herself to take these notes and then to share these notes so that we know what's going on, because it's hard to always be on. And I was looking at Nelson the other day like a proud mama. And I mean, I think he just knows my name and that I support him, but I was like, gosh, After 4 years of listening to him on the Million Marathon and his— oh, he could be very—
he's just right.
Like, you just can't even see anything. It's just so— and there's rooms for everyone. I mean, believe me, I, I like all the rooms. So my algorithm, I put this on— I tweeted this, that like, I, I'm— there's no way I'm picking because I want it all. I want to see it all, and then I'll make my decision. I don't want to— I don't want to miss something because, you know, I want to support. And it's just— you guys, get on Chatter because it really is something else. And look at— Leah and I know each other from it, so that makes it all the best. So Leah, what else? Like, so you were— what, you were a teacher, I think?
Yeah, so my whole life is sort of teaching. I've, I've always been a teacher. I teach, um, university-level math my, my whole life. Even now I do just a couple classes just to keep up with it. Um, then I switched over to, uh, teaching IT like teaching people how to use the software that they, that they used at the school. And so, and I kind of always did that sort of informally, like if we would get something, I would be the one teaching everybody else how to use it. So I switched over. So I was an IT trainer. And then now it's funny because at Chatter, that's exactly what I did. I'm teaching people how to use the app and things like that. And we have a whole group of us, you included, that we, you know, host these rooms and kind of teach people the new features and stuff like that. For the most part, the app is super intuitive.
Intuitive.
You don't— it's not like you, you know, it's not like you have to learn how to use an app. It's not a big, you know, technology lift or whatever. But there's just so much available and little tips and tricks and, you know, different things like that, that it just, it just helps. And it's just a great— like we've been saying, it sounds like we're saying it over and over again— just a great way to meet people and just make friends that you would ordinarily probably not make. So it's It's just amazing. I love it.
And going down the rabbit hole— so I try to go down rabbit holes. Nuala, whoa, 35 years investigative journalist, her books, crazy. Hi, I haven't seen Hi in a while, New York Times bestseller and writer. He was doing rooms and like masterclass rooms at no charge. Amazing.
It is. You have access to all these experts who are offering their time and You know, yes, they have paid programs and all the things, but like you can get in rooms and ask questions to these people— Grant Cardone and Cindy Stumpo— and, you know, just, just different things. To be able to have access like that is— it's, it's like no other. It— I mean, it's just, you know, it's, it's crazy. You feel like you get to know them.
Cindy's really good looking too, I have to say. She's got a lot of knowledge. I love her. She's like everything that I'm not. Like, she's like Tough as Nails, which I think is the name of her show. She is incredible. So actually, by later today or tonight or tomorrow morning, I will have an article that I'm writing that was kind of spurred from chatter. And it is regarding it. I think it's really important, though, if you're a thought leader, that you want to be careful of what you put out there political-wise and saying things that maybe someone could actually Google and find out, like, wait, that's not actually right. I'm not saying who or what, But I'm like, that really— I just want to let people know, you have to be very careful. You're not like— you think, oh, I'm building my brand, or I don't care, I'm just this party and this is so important. But we could see in real life how it could really cause a problem, right? Like, you— the, the, the furiation that people have in this, like, passion, and then they get so angry, and then they say things that they shouldn't say. Do you agree?
Oh my gosh, absolutely. And I'll tell you what, the reason that I loved And this is back when they were still on Clubhouse. We were talking about, you know, Nelson when he was just, just starting out. The reason I love Nelson so much is because even back at the beginning during COVID his was a room. It was fun, but forget that. His was a room where both sides could express their opinion. One side would give an opinion, another side would give an opinion, and back and forth, and you could comment. And even though there was some lighthearted fun and sort of, you know, kind of maybe teasing one side or the other, everybody got to speak and they tried to make sure that nobody spoke over each other. And I love that. That is my thing. I learned so much. And then during the election after COVID sort of died down or whatever, I learned so much about like what people that were like kind of not on my side thought. And that was valuable to me. I love that. And I think that's missing in a lot of what we do. The other thing, you know, saying your stuff out loud instead of just behind a keyboard, you know, like it just, it just puts a person to it. And I don't know, I just, there's, you meet people, the people you meet on social audio and spend time with like that, I sometimes feel you, you get to know better than you do some of the people in your life. Because you, you, you kind of like, first of all, you spend so much time, but, but the way that, uh, people express themselves, they don't do that sometimes in real life. I don't know, it's just true.
I have shared so much that like, I have, you know, I— whether the story is that my mother and father rented to Ray Basino, like Eminem's, you know, and what do they call it, Enemy, uh, like that, that, you know, like the different things and personal, even way more personal than that, and but it's a feeling of friendship. So there's like, when you go on, you go on to rooms that you've never been on because you want to meet someone else, but there's a comfort in going to a room that's filled with women that we know. And, and Million Marathon, it is a show, so we have to remember that. So a lot of people get really upset, and that, that's what's making the show. And Nelson is so perfect. He knows exactly how to get people riled up in such a way, but then he will laugh so seeing him live in his face, I— yeah, it's just, it's a beautiful thing. So I love your time, Leah. Thank you so much. I want to get, um, I want to get everything so we could do this again on Chatter. I think that there's so many great things going on that we could talk about. Oh, I do have a room tonight at 5 PM. Heather's going to help me. Heather the sex coach, who I've shared a lot. She's already coached me and my husband, so amazing. So we are talking about You know what happens on a podcast when the topic derails and it may go to, you know, emotions. So we're having that discussion. And then tomorrow at 10, I'm running my room on the LinkedIn service. So I'm excited about that. So Leah, thank you so much for, for being a friend. I don't, I don't even know if I signed up for Chatter 101. I've been dealing with kidney stones. So it's just been, yeah, I haven't been feeling great, but my son's getting married. So I want to just get past that next Thursday, and then when I come back, I will, um, I will reach out. So I won't get beyond during— unless I could get on and I could show people Mexico or the wedding.
Oh, you should definitely do that. Like, anytime you—
that's—
how about that? That's the other thing too. Like, anytime you're in a nice place, you could just pop open a room, open up your camera, show people the, the sights and things. Absolutely. I'm so excited.
But let's just say it's not like Facebook Live where you're just live. This is where people can ask questions like, wait, can you go to the right? What is that? So nothing like just a live. Yeah, he's my, he's my, he's my baby. He's 29. He asked for the hand in marriage and he's just a beautiful young man. So I can't wait to spend time with him. Leah, thank you so much. I'll see you a little later today.
Okay, sounds good. Thank you. Bye-bye.
Perfect. Thank you, Leah.
