Building Community: The Power of Putting Yourself Out There

We explore how putting yourself out there allows the community to get to know you better. We discuss how sharing your journey can spark connections and create opportunities for building relationships, all while keeping the engine running. it's, it's really interesting how when a person does put themself out there, that then that gives the community the opportunity to get to know you. Uh, l- looking back and, and, and I don't wanna go back because I've got some You just keep I'm firing on all cylinders here, Heidi. Uh, 2 years, you know, the And, and also I would think that over that time that, you know, in the beginning, you, you know, y- you mentioned challenges being that you really didn't know a whole lot of people- Mm-hmm. and, and maybe a whole lot of people didn't know you- Exactly. and so then you put yourself out there. Yeah. Well, that gave a lot of people in the community time to, to get to know you. Mm-hmm. It's like, if you wouldn't have done that, I probab- we, we might have walked by each other or been in, in line at the Dillons- or the Walmarts or whatever, and never had a conversation.