Pam Slim On The Power of Community

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Good Life Project

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2015-09-23

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Pam Slim is one of those people. You know, the ones who see the best in everyone. In everything. In every seeming barrier, she sees the lesson. The good. The opportunity to learn. To grow. To create. To collaborate. The one whose lens I aspire to embrace, but still find myself failing more often succeeding (someday, lol). She's also just an amazing human, dear friend and award-winning author who is in the midst of very cool 21-city Indispensable Community Tour. And, it just happened that one of the stops on that tour was NYC a/k/a my little town. So before she swept out to the next city, I asked her to jump in and share a special GLP "Guest" Riff about the power of community, especially as it relates to makers and entrepreneurs. In her short and sweet Guest Riff, she asks a big question: What if we thought more about serving a community as a community? Now, of course, the realist in me always kicks in when I hear things like that. Sounds good in theory, I snicker, but can it really happen in the real world? According to Pam, yes. Sure, we still all need to build our own things. We still need to put food on the table, honor our paths and build what we're here to build. But in the end, she argues, all ships rise when we start thinking about community not just as a target market, but as a collective solution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • Jonathan here with this week's Good Life project, short and sweet riff.

  • So we've got a little bit of a special riff for you today.

  • I have a dear friend of mine who has been in town doing these really cool gatherings.

  • In fact, she's touring the whole country, bringing people together.

  • And her name is Pam Slim.

  • You may have heard of her before or read her many fantastic books or blog or heard her speak.

  • And I kind of snookered her and grabbed her and said, hey, before you leave, you want to record a quick riff so that we can share what you're up to with my community?

  • Because I think they would really dig it.

  • And she said, yes.

  • So without further ado, I'm going to turn this week's riff over to my dear friend Pam Slim, who, by the way, you can find@pamelaslim.com over to you, Pam.

  • Awesome.

  • Thank you, Jonathan.

  • Well, in 2009, I remember wandering the hallways at south by Southwest.

  • And in fact, I think that was the first time that I spent significant time with Jonathan.

  • My first book had just come out, escape from Cubicle Nation.

  • And on one of the days, in one of the hallways, I ran into Sunir Shah, who at that time was working for fresh books.

  • And he introduced me to a few friends, one, I think, from Mailchimp and from batch books.

  • And they were in this heated, excited conversation about how they had known about each other for a really long time.

  • And they were attending some sessions at south by Southwest, and they started talking and they said, you know what?

  • We all seem to serve a very similar client.