How To Build Communities That Matter w/ SC Moatti, Darryl Grant & Anne Devereux-Mills
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Release Date: 01/10/2020
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Having a supportive community full of inspirational people surrounding you can be the difference between success and failure. You can find your community online, through social networks, but it’s even better to find a group local to you to get that inspiration face-to-face. Today’s guests, SC Moatti, Darryl Grant, Anne Devereux-Mills, are all founding members of women’s communities who find great comfort and support within their groups.
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info_outlineHaving a supportive community full of inspirational people surrounding you can be the difference between success and failure. You can find your community online, through social networks, but it’s even better to find a group local to you to get that inspiration face-to-face. Today’s guests, SC Moatti, Darryl Grant, Anne Devereux-Mills, are all founding members of women’s communities who find great comfort and support within their groups.
SC Moatti is a technology visionary, entrepreneur, and investor. She founded Mighty Capital, a tech company based in Silicon Valley, and Products That Count, one of the largest networks for product makers in the world. Her companies focus on creating products that people love.
Darryl Grant was born and raised in Harlem, NYC, and has 20 siblings! Through his involvement in the Merrill Corporation, he founded Inspiring Connectivity, a community of C-level executive women based in San Francisco. Darryl takes his inspiration from his mother, Eloise Grant, who raised hundreds of children and mentored dozens of women, sometimes in the middle of the night.
Anne Devereux-Mills is a driving force behind making change possible and showing women where to start. She’s the founder of Parlay House, a national affiliation of thousands of diverse and inspirational women. Anne praises collaboration over competition and believes that women are oftentimes guilty of rejecting other women.
In this episode, we’re talking about the power of social communities, how these leaders have built their groups, what value they have, and how other members have received support from within. You can absolutely bring a group together and embrace the resulting empowerment, and each leader explains how they’ve cultivated that for themselves.
We discuss what it’s like to nurture and advise young women, and transferring these skills to working with business executives across a diverse range of industries. Establishing relationships among your community is vital to creating a harmonious environment that promotes support and inclusivity, as well.
Community relies on strong leadership and consistency in order to grow and develop trust. Everyone wants more community, the key is finding people that actually inspire you.
Do you have a community of powerful women who support you? How have you embraced all the ups and downs that life has given you? When is the last time you met up with a local person who inspires you?
In This Episode:
- How to reframe what’s important in your life after everything changes
- How you can bring a group of diverse women together to embrace empowerment
- What it’s like being an advisor to young women
- Why you need to build and nurture relationships across the board
- How you can build a network full of support and trust
- Why you need to run events on a consistent schedule in order to build community
- Why you need to embrace both the highs and lows that come on your journeys
- Why it’s more important to meet the people that inspire you, rather than the people who just bolster your numbers
Quotes:
“There’s so much judgment in this world. So many times that women reject other women, either because they’re competitive with them or they don’t feel they’re right for a job, that I didn’t want to cultivate a place of rejection or encourage a choice to be included.” (8:24)
“I think so many of us that are successful want to present ourselves as perfect, whether it’s on social media, or in our work lives, or to our families and not wanting to show that there are struggles. And the fact that we can create these environments where people who you might view as role models are saying ‘here’s what was really going on behind the scenes’... it makes everyone not feel alone when they have their own struggles.” (11:53)
“Find your tribe, surround yourself with great people, focus on one thing that matters, and find others that want to be part that with you.” (35:55)
“Sometimes trying and failing is more insightful than trying and succeeding.” (42:23)
“Continue to be ambitious in your dreams and reshape that image in the mirror. Always evolve. Anchor yourself in what you want to be and continue to reach for that. No matter what the people around you say.” (55:24)
Links
Find Anne Devereaux-Mills on Instagram | Twitter
Find Parlay House Online | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Find SC Moatti on LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram
Find Mighty Captial Online | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Find Products That Count Online | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Find Darryl Grant on LinkedIn
Find Toppan Merrill Online | Twitter
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