How to Get Free Financial Help and Give It
Struggle. When whole communities are affected by bad news and financial challenges, moods and momentum slow way down. It’s hard to find the way out of the downward spiral. I say turn that spiral in the opposite direction and lighten up together.
What’s an opposite spiral?
Essentially, every person we touch is a communication point. Since women are connectors, we are innately built to help one another in this networking way. You help Chandra. Chandra helps Claire. Claire helps Jill. We spiral out. Now’s the time to offer your networking circles to your communities. Lend a hand. Flex your generosity muscle and put the word out. Not only will you get outside yourself and your own downward spiral, but you’ll get your community circulating again.
Here are some ways to get the help flowing:
1. Active listening and networking: Start with people you know.
Ask five people you know in your life how they are doing, what’s happening for them in business, and how can you help them grow? Tell those five people to call you or email you with their pitch. Then give them yours. Once you exchange, you each now have in your back pocket their pitch to share when you overhear someone at the market saying they need your person’s services…a contractor, a CPA, an assistant, a coach, a CEO.
2. Continue outside your immediate sphere.
Post those same questions on Facebook. Ask friends and visitors to post their pitch, so that your readers can see them directly. That’s the beauty, and one of the original purposes of Facebook, making connections.
3. Spiral past your circles into community.
Is there anything you can help support in your community? One of Green ...
