What Can Happen in a Community a Year From Now

Yeah, I have a lot of favorite stories, but this is one we. We had a lady who I'm going to actually interview for this show. She's coming out of her shell, but. So she was 60, retired. It was very clear she had enough money, so money wasn't a worry. She always wanted to travel, but never has. And she was talking about traveling and going to Europe, but I'll do it through or four years from now. So that's the setup of her first part of her conversation that I had with her. And then immediately after that, she said, oh, yeah, my family has this degenerative disease. My mom's blind. My sister, who's younger than I, is starting to go blind. And, you know, so she just sort of threw that in. And I'm like, in my mind, I'm like, well, what the heck are you doing? You don't know if you have it or not, why you're not traveling. And she was like, oh, yeah, that's not a bad idea. Like, yeah, it's a good idea. And so what we did was we had a community. I anonymized her, and I hosted a meetup to build a travel guide to Europe. And so we had members discussing how to plan the trip, where to stay, things to do, and we just had an open discussion after I framed it the way I did. And then we took that and created a PDF resource, our guide to traveling to Europe, and gave it to her and gave it to everybody else. And literally three months later, she sent me a photo from, like, Munich. And she's been traveling nonstop. And so taking these little individual stories and. And holding someone up, even if it's anonymous, to try to love on them and empower them, that's community building.