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Guiding Conversations with Community Leaders.

In this podcast, we'll explore the human journey of leaders, their stories of humility, triumph, roadblocks, and lessons learned. Come join us as we journey together and uncover the questions you've always wanted to know.

Sarah so this was an inspiration that kind of came to you a while ago to have this Guiding Growth Conversations podcast. Tell me a little bit about what brought that on. Where did that come from? How did this come about for you?

You know, in the past year, I've really observed the power of a strong network of individuals who bring each other up. I just think it's important to understand where people come from and why they do the things they do and how they operate. So for me, this podcast really is about understanding the person behind the title.

When you think back to your younger years, I know, like a long time ago, do you have anybody that comes to mind that you, like, think of that inspires you in this way or that you were like, boy, if I could go back, I'd love to hear their guiding growth conversation with me.

You know, the older I get, the more I realize there's really seasons in life, and people come into your life during different seasons. They serve you. They serve a role or a purpose in your life where you have the opportunity to learn from them and to contribute to their lives as well. And so there's so many people depending on where I am in my life. I just shared with you that I spent the weekend with my grandpa and the opportunities that I have to learn from my own family members, from other professionals in this world, and it becomes more and more evident that we don't get to success alone. We are surrounded by people who guide us along our journey. And I think that's true for everybody.

What do you think you want listeners to get from this podcast as they listen to this? What are you hoping that they'll take away and they'll be like, this is. This feeds me this way. How do you think that should be for them?

I hope it allows them to be introspective, to understand their own journey a little bit better, reflect on who it is that contributed to their journey, but also how do they contribute to others?

I think it's going to be interesting to learn from the individuals that we are able to partner with on this and have those conversations. I would love to pick their brains and learn their perspectives on not so much their business journey, but their life journey, which is really what this is about. Right. That story, in itself, I think, will be inspiring. I think that those stories will help me reflect on maybe choices that I made or making. Right. Because we're always looking for those inspirations and help kind of guide me through some of those things. I think that's why the title is so important for me. The guiding principles that we have in this particular podcast. So I'm excited about that. I think together we're going to have a lot of fun talking to folks, and I hope that they come away with not only inspiration that we get from those that we are communicating with, having conversations with, but also just from the journeys that you and I will be able to share as well. Because it's yes. About the people we're talking to, but I think we'll have a lot of takeaways that we'll have and we'll have a lot of fun.

I do, too. I think this is an opportunity to learn and to grow.

I'm excited. This is going to be cool.

Yeah.

Guiding conversations with community leaders.

Ben, let me ask you a question. How do you see other community members being involved in this podcast?

This is going to be a great opportunity for so many people in the community to have a chance to be heard if they want to tell their story or if they just want to be part of this journey with us and help sponsor in a way that helps bring more people to the table with us. So I think there's many opportunities at hand. Whether you want to again be on the show, reach out to us, let us know what your story is and how you think you could be part of it. We'd love to hear from you. Reach out, let us know and we'll see if we can make that connection.