Short panel-style video featuring multiple Salesforce MVPs describing what being an MVP means to them. Speakers emphasize community service, mentorship, accessibility (being a connector), leadership without self-interest, passion for learning/teaching, and personal rewards from helping others (career growth, small technical wins, personal connections).
Being a Salesforce MVP is not first about trying to be an mvp. It's really about first trying to give back, make a difference in your local community. It's about helping others accelerate. It's about lifting others to teach them about the platform.
To me, to be an MVP means to be an unselfish leader in the community. And it's not that you're being recognized for just the things that you do. You're being recognized for the heart and soul that you bring into the community.
Being a Salesforce MVP means being accessible to other members of the community to help them solve problems. And it doesn't necessarily mean I need to know all the answers. I'm the connector, so I'm a few degrees of separation away from all the answers for all the people that know them.
I take the time out of it because I enjoy it. I enjoy giving back. I enjoy seeing people progress and grow. And if I can help someone achieve their dream job, that just makes me feel 10 times better. That's why I do it.
It all comes down to passion and just wanting to learn from each other and wanting to teach people as well.
In addition to this, just feeding my soul. It's all the little victories. It's the workflow rule that someone needed help troubleshooting, and we were able to figure it out. It's the promotion that someone got after coming to an event and figuring out how to quantify their worth. It's the marriages and the babies. It's the fun hugs. It's all the little things that make this so worth while.
To be honest, there were so many trailblazers before me who helped me get to where I am today. And so it feels good to help continue that cycle and help other people learn, too.
It's like life coming full circle. You help somebody achieve their dreams, it helps you achieve your dreams. And I think that's the best part of it all.
