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Creating communities of solutions rather than problems · Inside Strategic Relations

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If you want to accomplish more, you can't be a big old whissy.
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You can't be a sissy. You can't be afraid. You've got to go
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forward with a clear and active plan. In today's episode, we're going to
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talk specifically about that. I'm just in hit with inside strategic relations. If
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you're a business owner and executive, if you're responsible for other people's good well
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being through their paychecks or your own financial wellbeing as a head of the household,
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then pay close attention to get things done. We must hold people accountable.
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We must have a clear and active plan for implementation. We must address
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and qualify problems and find the root cause to move towards the outcome we desire.
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It's most important that you know what outcome you desire. So I do
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social experiments to test the implementation of historical strategies. Because I've been doing this
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for twenty three years. I've had coaching clients, I've worked in high stakes
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environments. I've been in the trenches with techniques that I will recycle into the
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current economy using a social experiment to determine whether or not it's relevant. I'm
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going to share with you one of those social experiments, but I'm going to
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keep the discretion of the members quiet. So basically, what I've established is
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a small group of individuals that were previously pumping me for funds, so they
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reached out to me. I'm a permaculture design consultant. I write about food
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security, I write about sustainability, and these folks reached out, and it
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became very clear that these folks reaching out with for me were either desperate in
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their situation or otherwise trying to scam me. Now I constantly get sweetheart scam
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contacts, I constantly get phishing emails. I constantly get a lot of different
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things because of the publicity related to the podcast, publicity related to the websites,
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and so folks will come out of the woodwork. So what I decided
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was to take this specific group of individuals who I could help with their solution,
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because if they're really having food insecurity, if they're really having clean water
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issues and sanitation issues, those are things I can help them solve, not
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by giving them money, but by helping them with specific implementations. Again,
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it doesn't matter what this is. This could be a problem in your business
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where people keep coming to you and saying we've got this problem. We need
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to solve it. It could be a problem in your industry you're solving for
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clients. It doesn't matter what it is. The key is you can do
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a social experiment around it to test ideas and concepts before you roll out.
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And ultimately it doesn't have to be with the original group. It could be
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a proxy, like what I've done here. Now, the key thing of
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helping these individuals is we have to define the problem. So these folks are
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in a country that most would consider a third world country. They're showing me
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pictures of orphans, They're showing me pictures of water, They're showing me pictures
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of their life conditions and situation. The first thing I did was verify their
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location. I either used the metadata that's in the files they sent over,
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which by the way, many of the files they sent over were actually just
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searched off the internet their stock files, but the ones that I got them
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to take locally, so I had them take a local picture. Helped me
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determine through landmarks and the a few other acts beesk whether they were really taking
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the picture, and then I used the gpis the GPS code from the image
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itself found their location on a satellite, verified some information and realized these people
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really are desperate. They're really in a bad situation. They don't have clean
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water, they don't have proper sanitation, and they've resorted to scamming because they
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are contacting hundreds of people on Facebook, scamming individuals for five or ten dollars
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here and there, and they're raising about one thousand dollars a month, but
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the money that they're raising is not being distributed to help local individuals. Now,
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ten or fifteen of these people they start talking to each other, I
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end up with twenty or thirty of these people contacting me direct. So I,
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after I verified of that group which ones are actually in desperate dire straits.
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Because I read did this whole thing on each of the individuals who would
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participate, I now am going to focus those resources on helping those individuals.
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So what's the lesson here, Well, if there's problems in the marketplace,
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you want to validate those problems to determine whether it is the actual problem at
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hand, that problem statement, or is there some other root cause. Now,
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in this case, the root cause includes government regulations on the use of
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seeds or the actual holding of seeds. It is illegal where they're at to
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grow a plant, take the seeds for that plant and transform to another party,
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or to trade them with other people. So if you've got a papious
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seeds, for example, you can't just trade them for orange seeds from somebody
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else. There's licensing, there's weird things in their country. So we're looking
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at ways to get around it. Now, by the way, I'm not
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spending a full time job on this. I am very specific that we are
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going towards results. As I opened this podcast episode, it is about the
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results, not about the activity. And so what we've done here is now
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I've identified the people who are legitimately having problems, and then, using satellite
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technology because I know their actual physical location, I contacted every NGO within a
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reasonable distance of their location, and in doing so I engaged other people who
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could provide local solutions. Now this comes from my Hurricane marketing system, where
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we talk about how service providers can basically be heroes to their community to a
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major event and use that to build customer loyalty and build actual tangible results from
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a human perspective. And so what I'm doing is I'm finding the local market
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that has jerry cans, for example, I'm finding the local resources to get
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charcoal, I'm finding local resources to get sanded. I'm doing the things these
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individuals cannot do because all they have is cell phones. They're using data networks
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or a shared Wi Fi in the village in order to reach out on Facebook.
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And because they're reaching out, I'm willing to invest the time in those
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who are legitimately in need, and so we're finding them jerry cans, water
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containers. There is recently a flood in the area, so water filtration and
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sanitation is important. We're doing recause analysis. I'm enrolling people to help these
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individuals. Nobody's getting paid, yet everybody's cooperating because again there's a shared mission.
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We're applying methodologies and technologies in a place that has no resource, which
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is essentially a proxy for a post natural disaster or post you know, for
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these people, it is the apocalypse because they literally have Say here's the problem.
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There's people using bush toilets. That means people are literally crapping in the
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woods, and then when it rains, that washes into the boreholes, which
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is the only source of water for these villages. And so now they have
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human waste going into their only source of water, and then people drink the
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water and they end up with worms, they end up with illnesses, they
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end up with other things. Now, the individuals on the ground actually know
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this is a problem, but they don't have tools and solutions to solve it,
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or local regulations doesn't allow them to solve it. So what we're doing
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is we're interacting with these individuals who are have legitimate needs, and we're doing
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baby steps to move them towards the solution. Now, the reason I took
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the individuals who were reaching out to me directly, and when word spreads,
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a lot of people contact. These people can not give me money for my
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time. So what I did is put them together in a group, And
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by putting them together in a group, I'm encouraging them to help each other.
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Now, it's not working very well because the mentality is is demand and
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need, and that's what happens when customers in a marketplace are really struggling,
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they're going to try anything because they're desperate for a solution. But the more
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desperate they become for a solution, the less likely they're work together because it
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becomes competitive for limited resources. And so we have to overcome that. And
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that's what we're working on right now, is helping the individual see that while
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they each have nothing, they each have something. And this is a key
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principle in the strategic relations methodology. And if you want to sit down personally
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and talk about how this works in your environment, I can simply do that
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in a paid consultation or in some kind of discovery call. But let's get
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back to the main point. If we have ten people in a group and
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each of them are equally poor, each of them are equally desperate, the
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probability of one of those individuals having a practical and useful solution that will alleviate
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the level of discomfort for the other people is very, very high. So
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let's say each of them have a discomfort between one and ten for sanitation in
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their community. And some people have a one discomfort, which is a very
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low discomfort, and some of them have a ten discomfort that's very high.
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If I go through as the facilitator or as a mediator for the group,
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and I help them work out where they are on the scale, I can
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take the people who have the lowest amount of discomfort and have them share their
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practical best practices. Now, remember all these folks are on the ground in
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the same community. They could be twenty kilometers from each other or one hundred
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kilometers from each other. But I've concentrated this group. And now somebody says,
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well, we use dry toilets in our village. We raise our toilets
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up high enough so when the floods come that we don't have have any wash
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out of the waste. And then we've made blocks of dry toilets where people
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can come in and use the bathroom, and that reduces the number of people
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who use bush toilets. Great. One person has an idea, which I
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then syndicate to the other nine people, and now it's up to the other
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nine people to adopt. But do you see what we're talking about here,
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Even though they're all equally poor in the areas that matter of sanitation, food
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security, and clean water, they have varying degrees of discomfort. And we
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take those that have the least discomfort because they found practical solutions for their area,
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and we syndicate those ideas to the rest of the group. Now everybody
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moves on the gauge. So if they had a ten discomfort in sanitation.
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Now maybe they have an eight discomfort in sanitation. See, the person who
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has no discomfort in sanitation doesn't lose. In fact, we positioned them as
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an expert, which opens up income opportunity. Now, in a country that
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has a failing currency and a country that has hyperinflation, and a country that
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has limited resources, and even resources that are controlled by central authority such as
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a tribal leader or a local government, they can still barter on the authority
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by training each other, expanding the knowledge that they have, then forming together
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a syndicate or group, a private benefit organization that then goes out and helps
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the next people. Now, one thing that was interesting in this environment is
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that when one neighbor gets clean water, other neighbors get jealous and physically common
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take that clean water. So what's the solution for that? Now, again
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I'm trying to share with you practical examples in a worst case scenario. All
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of these methodologies work incredibly well when you're not in a worst case scenario.
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But in this case, when one neighbor has a low discomfort level with something,
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other neighbors find out and they will physically come and take those things.
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So one of the properties has fruits and vegetables, and they have a lot
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of things going on, and people will come and crap in their gardens on
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purpose because they're jealous of the fruits and vegetables. And I say, well,
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here's the solution. First off, you could get an AK forty seven,
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which evidentally is something easy to do there, and you could defend your
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property and that was the humorous kind of break the ice approach. Or you
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could teach the neighbors how to grow their own beautiful gardens, because that's evidently
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something you know how to do. If someone gets jealous of what you're doing,
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it is evidence that you know what you're doing and that you're doing it
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well. But to reduce the jealousy and get the cooperation, which is what
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strategic relationships is about, we've encouraged these individuals to go train their neighbors to
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exchange knowledge. They don't have money, they don't have food, they don't
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have clean water, they don't have sanitation, but they have some level of
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knowledge in an area of specialty or expertise which they can exchange with their neighbor.
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Because the neighbor is doing this out of desperation, not out of malice.
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This malice or desperation, even if it does exist, can be softened
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by sharing ideas and concepts. Hey, I noticed you took a big,
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giant, steamy dump in my garden, and I'd like to offer you an
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opportunity to have your very own garden to let nice, big steamy dumps in.
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Do you mind if we come over and have a conversation about this and
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I help you build a garden. In fact, I'll even bring you some
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plants. See when they when they realize that there is not competition, There
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is no competition anywhere, and that cooperation through mutually beneficial exchanges, which is
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free market, will often solve these problems. So now instead of neighbors coming
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over and crapping in your garden, and I and this is a real example,
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by the way, folks, and I'm having these private conversations with individuals
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and where dealing with the psychology. You know, they're embarrassed, they're concerned,
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they're afraid their neighbors are going to come take the harvest when it comes
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time to harvest. And I'm saying, invite them over and then encourage them
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to grow their own. It's confusing for them, but the basis here is
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this. When that neighbor has a beautiful garden and experiences the same challenge of
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others being jealous, and then educates and reduces that jealousy, you start building
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a community, and that community creates a new normal. So, hey,
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why you're crapping in my garden when we have these nice, clean, dry
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toilets which are creating fertilizer and biology in our environment so that we can all
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have beautiful and healthy gardens. These methods of strategic relations work in the business
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environment. They work in the cutthroat corporate environment. They work in the most
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competitive and tough environments, and through this social experience, I'm demonstrating that they
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also work in areas that have mass poverty, that have mass problems. Now,
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the reason that I'm taking the time to implement these things is because I
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do really care about these individuals well being and I have a personal satisfaction in
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solving these problems. Now, it's fascinating in this environment how the individuals don't
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want to cooperate even though they can literally walk to some of their neighbors.
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And when they do, they realize that cooperation versus competition, They realize mediums
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of exchange they realize they're not as poor as they think they are. Ultimately,
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they realize that the money is not going to be the solution because the
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money has too many strings attached. See the same jealousy, the same malice
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that happens with a neighbor crapping in someone's garden is what happens when individuals start
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becoming successful and the local government council's like, wait, where'd you get all
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that money? And so I've actually seen a situation where there was a fundraiser
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setup and I'm not giving these folks money. I'm not doing fundraisers, but
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there is a fundraiser setup and the money never made it to the individuals because
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some local official came in and quote, I'm doing air quotes quote taxed the
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money. And so there's even a problem with NGOs coming in the organization into
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the area because the NGOs are getting taxed, they have to pay bribes,
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they have to pay funds to local individuals, and still not be able to
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deliver aid. So again, the only solution here is for the individuals to
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help themselves, and they help themselves by building stronger communities. They start building
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networks of information and resources, and then through the technology that's available today,
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because they literally have mobile phones. Now I've talked to some of these folks
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on the telephone. We're talking over Facebook. They can talk over What's app,
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but they are literally you can hear in the background people screaming, and
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it's like a marketplace. They have to go to a marketplace to use Wi
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Fi and then they only have five minutes. Folks, it doesn't matter what
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your situation is. These techniques and methodologies work. I've shared a few of
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them here. The key is is that you build people up, you bring
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people together, you cultivate people. The money has no value. The relationships
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are everything. More importantly, how you apply those relationships to solve meaningful problems,
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that's priceless. So I hope I'm giving you useful information and that's my
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goal with this podcast. In fact, this podcast has been a social experiment
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for many years. Now, I give you useful chunks and I monitor to
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see who actually uses them, and those are the people where I'll concentrate my
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interest and then of course, if you ask questions, I'll tailor my response
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to your questions. Overall, though, these techniques work in the marketplace to
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increase your earnings, decrease your value, to limit the opportunity well, to
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limit the problem of getting laid off because you have new opportunities coming to you
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all the time, and to ultimately position you as an expert or an authority
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in a specific market. By doing these things, you gain greater influence,
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greater control over the outcomes, and then if there is an adverse situation,
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you have a skill set to overcome that adverse situation. I'm justin hit with
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Inside Strategic Relations, where we transform business relationships into profits. Those profits come
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in many forms, and ideally these things will relieve, alleviate human suffering,
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increase personal freedoms, and drive forward greater opportunities for our children. If you're
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We also have a contact page where you can ask your questions, and then
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again I will answer those questions in the podcast. I don't care about the
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thousands of people who listen to this and then listen to another podcast, and
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then listen to one more podcast, and they end up never taking any action.
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I care about the action takers, the individuals who have actual need in
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their home, in their community, in their business, who want to raise
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their hand and say yes, I'm willing to work. And if you're willing
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to work, we have tools, resources, ideas, and concepts that,
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once implemented, will transform your existence through the relationships that you develop, through
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the people you meet, through the problems you solve. Now listen to this
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podcast carefully one more time. I want you to have a notebook in front
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of you to take notes. To understand that you can structure people, you
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can challenge people, you can validate concerns and frustrations. And the last tip
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really is that if you have your staff coming to you all the time and
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saying you know, what problems do I have? You want to look at
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grouping them up by their topic area and then figuring out who already has answers,
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indicate those best practices, and then ask individuals to solve their own damn
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problem. I know that last part was probably a little rush in there.
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I can go into more detail in another program. I can answer your question
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about it. But if folks are coming to you and they are not able
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to solve their own problems, and the reason they're coming to you is because
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they're reverse delegating, because they're jealous of your position, because they have expectations
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of you that are unreasonable, because they are not thinking, because they're weak.
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There are so many reasons why the simple challenge of oh, well,
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tell me a little bit more about the problem. What do you think might
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be a great approach to solve this problem? And then ultimately what kind of
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implementation can we do to test That is what I've shared with you here at
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a practical example. That is what's going to help you get to the next
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level. That is what is going to help build people. By building people,
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we all benefit. I want to thank you for being a part of
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