In this spoken segment, the speaker shares a concrete example of an "IOI" (Intent of Intent) that emerged from a Wisdom Council session. A participant from Scotland spontaneously expressed a desire to host a retreat in Italy. Three months later, an entrepreneur offered a villa in Italy, enabling the participant to organize a week‑long retreat for 20 under‑privileged, predominantly Black high‑school students from London. The retreat’s theme was love, aiming to address emotional gaps in the youths’ lives. The speaker emphasizes the importance of documenting the experience through video testimonials from the children and proposes a five‑year follow‑up interview plan to capture long‑term impact. These testimonials are positioned as powerful evidence of the retreat’s legacy, illustrating how a single IOI can evolve into a purpose‑driven movement that creates measurable social change.
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This is for me. It's like, what do you mean? It's like, this is my IOI for Wisdom Council. Ah. I didn't plan on talking about IOI. But let me give you an example of an IOI from Wisdom Council. So when we went to Delphi last time, one person there said, I want to do— literally he said, I want to do a retreat in Italy. It's like, OK, he's from Scotland. I'm like, what makes you say Italy? So do you, yeah, right? And I was like, I don't know. I don't know. He had no contact with that, nothing. He just said— but being specific, right? But that came out of Wisdom Council. I said, write that down. This is the thing that you want to do or create. So then 3 months later, he's sitting in some sort of meeting in the UK, in London. And he's talking about this thing. And there's an entrepreneur that's like, I have a villa in Italy. Do you want to use it? Yeah. I think he got it for free because the guy said, I'll give it to you because I believe in your mission. He's like, great. Then he took 20 underprivileged kids, high schoolers, out of London and took them to Italy for a week-long thing. And the topic of the retreat was love. These kids came from like, they've never been talked to about love because they've, you know, hard, it's, you know, parents aren't at home, underprivileged and all that kind of stuff. So he had that week. Before he had that— and that was like March of that same year, I think, or the next year. And I said, before— what I'd really love for you to do is take a video of your event, and I want you to do testimonials of the kids that were there. And then my challenge for you is 5 years later, find who you can and have them do interviews again. This is for me. It's like, what do you mean? It's like, this is my IOI for Wisdom Council. Ah, these are— and those testimonials, I want to take those testimonials of, you know, predominantly black kids, and they're gonna, you know, put it out there and go like, this is the customer's customer. This is like, these are kids that are having impact on from that 100,000 people. When they raised their kids and how they changed their lives, how he changed their lives in that week. Awesome. That's IOI to me.