Have shared a bunch about how trends seem to just reveal themselves to me when I look closely enough. In this case, those trends (all in one wk for me) had to do w the power GROUP support can have on healing, & even helping improve the performance of others.
One of you’d sent me a clip earlier this wk (slide 3), about how a player on the Phillies, Trae Turner, had been struggling at the plate & on the field. He’d dipped from 2nd in the order down to 8th. One of their fans @thephillycaptain made a video that went viral, asking fans (not always known for being the most warm & fuzzy ;)), to give Trae a standing O every time he came to the plate, instead of booing him. Totally turned his season arnd (watch the video).
Then I did an event w Ryan Leaf (2nd overall pick in the 1998 NFL draft whose career crashed & burned, leading to 350+ days in jail), at JP Morgan Chase. Ryan & other employees talked on stage in a room full of fellow employees & on live steam to the 300k employees at the company – about overcoming addictions. An atmosphere of a GROUP at a large company, supporting the individuals & their stories of challenges.
From there I went to present to the Ravens biz ops staff. A room full of their employees – voluntarily coming (was not a mandated event), bc leaders in 3 diff depts had heard me speak on an NFL league call & wanted to provide that comfort/convo they’d heard, to their fellow staffers. Group shot in slides➡️.
Lastly, yesterday, one of you sent me yet another Phillies video – fans continuing to sing a player’s walk-up song, leading to him hitting a lefty v left grand slam in the playoffs the other day.
GROUP support has the power to lift ppl in magical ways. This platform doesn’t love that msg bc it helps us see there are free things out there that support us in the biggest ways on our healing journeys. Not the best for sales here, but amazing for the power of human connection. Share & spread that power wide!
We’ll be announcing a new GROUP initiative soon, too: “SameHere Circles” (so that more of you can connect & support one another). More to come…