This is a short transcript excerpt from The Awaken Podcast episode discussing the value of personal and professional relationships (inner circles) for connecting people and small workplaces with appropriate support services. The speaker emphasizes referral networks as a way to match needs (e.g., workplace performance problems) with affordable, relevant help that might otherwise be invisible to those in need.
There's this power in those relationships and in the people that are in our circles, not even our outer circles but our inner circles that unless we know about each other, we don't know who to refer each other to. And I've had a few different people come to me now and I work with workplaces to help employees reach their peak performance and I've had a number of people who had a spouse or a friend who are having challenges in their workplace or their small workplace and because they knew me, they're like, oh, I know somebody who does that. And otherwise you're kind of lost, right? You have a challenge. You're like who do I call? Like, do I call like these big, huge expensive companies? Well, a lot of small businesses can't afford that, right? So there's these opportunities within our circles that you can't even see that can come out of these types of interactions where we can connect need with the people who have the need.
