Season 3: Top Six Impact Crushin' BEhaviors
Welcome to Season Three of the Bonfires of Social Enterprise!
This is Romy, and I am the host of today's episode that we are calling ‘Impact Crush!’ We are doing a Top 6 countdown on behaviors we are crushin’ on. And, at the end, we are going to leave you with the most popular artist and song from Season 2- a real crowd favorite!
You might be wondering who ‘WE’ is….The WE is me, Romy, and my partner, Natalie Hazen. Welcome Natalie!
Romy: Natalie, what do you say, we move into the Top 6 countdown?
Natalie: Let's do it!
Romy: Okay, here we go...
Romy: Here is the Impact Crush Countdown- Top 6 Impact BE-haviors we have a Crush on over here.
Natalie: Number 6! BE HAPPY for others. Their success does not leave less room for yours.
Romy: lots of room for all of us to be successful!
Natalie: Number 5! BE AUTHENTIC.
Romy: The world is full of copies! Your originality and unique purpose are critical to the overall survival of social enterprise. Now, we don't mean stick out in a crowd just to draw attention to yourself. I mean, if you need to be separate because it is part of who are, then do it! Just do it in love
Natalie: Number 4! BE A PRACTIONER. Practice your craft, practice your pitch, practice your operations, practice your speaking, practice, practice, practice.
Romy: We can never practice enough. I can easily take the bait and just did it last week, on why do I have to explain this again. Granted it probably was the 200th time I went over something, but it was the first time for that person I was talking to. Practice. Part of a good social enterprise is role modeling, and practice is a key to excellence. Just ask any Olympic athlete!
Natalie: Practice makes permanent
Romy: Sometimes we have to repeat ourselves a lot, do the basics
Natalie: (say something here)
Natalie: Number 3! BE A LOVER OF OTHERS. Be a lover of others. We don’t mean slobbering over someone in a romantic manner. In this context, we mean loving others when they aren’t acting right or loving you back.
Romy: We people don’t always act right and, often, love must be a choice. Loving others involves patience, kindness, encouragement, listening, protecting, trusting, always hoping, always persevering with them. We are not asking anyone to be a saint; we are saying make the choice to BE A LOVER! We are watching social enterprises, and impact investors make the choice to love even under extreme conditions.
Natalie: We have had a lot of people say NOT nice things about us in public, people we don’t know, but we love on them, and they become our biggest supporters.
Romy: Oh yeah. We love people.
Natalie: Remember when those people sued you and were able to take the bank accounts?
Romy: Yes, ha, it is hard to forget. We won that, but I remember sitting in meetings about people investing millions with 0.00 in my bank account. Ha
Natalie: But, we won that false claim and made friends with them.
Romy: Yup! Ha, that was kind of about us, wasn’t it?
Natalie: Yup, ha ha, we’ll we are pretty great too! Just sayin’… Move on?
Romy: Let’s do it!
Natalie: Number 2! BE AN INFLUENCER.
Romy: Be such an influencer that people want to copy you and steal your stuff! Be an influencer that takes full responsibility for what they write, record, post, and speak- both privately and publicly.
Natalie: I feel pretty good, people take our stuff all of the time…
Romy: Yeah,