A Tribe
So last week I became a published author. It is pretty friggin cool. There is this one awesome lady who decided to gather her community of Short Term Rental Hosts (Airbnb + VRBO hosts) and have them talk about what makes them Hospitable Hosts in a book (it’s called a multi-author book). This is her third volume. You have to be asked to be in the book (by application and interview). I am one of the lucky people who was asked. So, I got to share my story! The book is already an Amazon Best Seller (that took a day or two). It has been a wild week to say the least.
I broke my chapter into my 3 favorite Real Estate lessons – networking, communication and your tribe. I want to talk about Tribe.
My tribe is incredible. It has been SO fun to see my tribe show up to support me over the last week. I have gotten texts, phone calls, hugs, high fives, tagged in posts, SO MANY AWESOME THINGS! I think it is absolutely perfect that I wrote about my tribe in the book and now I get to see so many of them show up for me for this exciting new thing.
I think this is one of the most important lessons I have ever realized + learned in my life. The community we surround ourselves with is so important. It’s important to be able to celebrate the wins with our people.
It’s even more important to build that tribe for the tougher days. The days where we have to make hard decisions or go through tough situations (firing, breaking up, death, heartache, stress, debilitating fear). We have so many polarizing days. We could be up in the morning celebrating something, down at lunch because something awful happened and just trying to be steady the remainder of the day. None of us do life alone, I don’t think we are expected to do everything alone in life. I think we are meant to be in groups of people so they can help us shoulder things. They are there for us to hear that happened to them too. You aren’t alone. I think a lot of people think they are the only one with their fears or mishaps. They are the only one sad about this or the only one going through that. The more I talk about the shitty stuff that happens in my businesses or life, the more I hear someone relate their own story to mine. I hear a lot more clarifying stories outside of social media. The ones people don’t necessarily post about, but they are willing to talk about in a text message or phone call.
Those are the people I have been adding to my tribe for years now. The ones I didn’t know went through all the things I am going through or are going to go through. So now I have a slew of people to have conversations with that surprise me with anecdotes and advice when I am going through a weird time, a hard time, a stressful time, all of it. I think we are all secretly doing this and we just don’t know it’s happening. And then we keep our struggles + strife to ourselves so they don’t know that they need to let you in on their secrets. And by secrets I just mean their own personal experiences with life.
So do me a favor? The next time shit hit’s the fan or you are sad AF cause something happened or you really just feel like you are SPINNING and can’t stop. Tell someone. Scroll through your phone book and find someone that has a similar life to yours OR someone who has a business similar to yours OR the person that was your friend for 5, 10, 15 years and TELL THEM! You would be surprised how many people can relate.
