S3: Impact Crushin’ – Top Six Countdown #66

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, I think we know of at least 40 times, no biggy, it is kind of an honor…ha ha Romy: Be...