Melissa Dlugolecki argues that showing up to give value, not to calculate returns, opens doors you can't predict. When you stop thinking transactionally and stay present with people, unexpected collaborations and opportunities emerge that a spreadsheet would never have caught.
My goal is that people always find value. You know, I don't get up to hear myself speak. This is stuff I've been doing and saying for a long time, so. And I can't emphasize enough getting in the rooms with people. Like, just get in the rooms. And so many people are so transactional, like, "Well, what am I gonna get out of it?" And the truth is, like, the magic is what you don't even know you're gonna get out of it. Can you trust yourself enough to show up in a way where you're gonna create a relationship, create an opportunity, create a collab, create something? Because you share value and you're open and you're vibrating at a level that people wanna be around. I keep hearing it. It's like kind of funny because like I'm very structured, but this is a very energetic group, you know? They're very, very woo. I don't know if you caught on to that. Got a lot of barefoot people.
