This is an advert for Skool that I saw on FB but it gives great value about setting up your community. - she converted me again. Ha ha 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

In my past - back in 2010 ( feels like a whole lifetime away now) I participated in a course called the School of Social Entrepreneurs. It was a year course, in which we created a business for the benefit of society (social Entrepreneur) My project led me to creating a Not For Profit called ASPPIRE LTD. (short for Australia South Pacific partnering in resources Enterprise). This all came as a result of a beautiful nursing outreach that my husband attended in Solomon Islands in 2009, where I wanted to be useful and ran beading workshops - teaching women to take shells from the beach and wire wrap them and make necklaces, for the women in Gilbert Camp, Honiara. At the end of our week there, an elder of the church, Janet came to me and said "You don't know what you have done!" I replied, yes I do , I have given what I can to help. Janet said, No. you have done so much more. You have given the women an income. You have lifted our worth in the home. You have given us a skill and now we can make jewelleries and take it to the market. Our husbands now see us with different eyes. After that experience I gave all the rest of my supplies to her and it really impacted the way I see things. I ran the NFP for three years but soon realised that I could do more without all the red tape that comes with the paper work and board meetings. and closed down the company. True to my realisation, I was able to provide more resources to the school and create a trade centre through the President project with the Lions Club of Parramatta, when I held the President role. Amazing. I feel like one of my "super powers" is helping people with ideas and holding a space for people to create and also being a connector and a bridge - , connecting the idea to the people/ resources. One thing that came out of all of this experience is the knowledge that you don't have to have all of the plan at the beginning. Sometimes you just need to have the "Dream" and then the rest of the pieces come together to create something beautiful - something that you could never have done on your own.