Steve D Valentine argues leaders should build community through shared activities like hikes and pickleball instead of drinking-focused networking. Nearly a year sober, he says casual happy hours feel hollow compared to events that actually connect people.
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Were lacking strong, authentic leaders. They're willing to share both their failures and their successes so that other people can learn from those failures. And sometimes they're not even failures. Right. They're just stumbling blocks. They're obstacles. Right. Learning moments. Right. I didn't know that. So I'm not going to do that again. I'll do it this way. Yeah, for sure. But you also start to see where, you know, if I just trickle back to the rehab thing. It's been almost a year that I've been sober, and you look at it and you go, okay, when I go to happy hours now, I look around, I'm like, this is not a good business environment. Nothing is happening here. Nothing good comes from nothing. So when I think about my community, my events, I'm like, okay, cool. We're not doing happy hours. We're gonna do hikes. Right? Right. We're not doing happy hours. We're gonna get together and play pickleball and have, like, these are the things. Or like, the event we're doing in October is we're gonna go do an event in Tucson and we're gonna. The drift track. Right. So trying to figure out how to have some fun, some life, and build that type of community rather than, well, how's your business? What kind of leads you got going on? Can you help me with that? No. This is not life.
