The bold, the elite and the few – Sharni Maree Taylor rocks and love her work!
Some weeks back I think I was sitting at my desktop at home, the air conditioner was blowing a beautiful dehumidified 20°C onto me (with the outside not far from the 40’s) and I received this kind energetic message over Meetup.
I run the Profitable Marketing Meetup Group in Sydney CBD and a fellow organiser of her own group messaged me to say hello, become friends and take things from there. I get lots of people approaching me and most of them I turn away; but there was something unique I could tell about this person.
They weren’t in it for themselves, they seemed to understand the idea of win / win and they were so reasonable I started a conversation with them.
Very quickly I felt her genuine nature come through and Sharni Maree Taylor told me part of her story and invited me to her new Meetup group. In the Therapy space in Sydney, she is one of their emerging Leaders and in walking the talk – she started her own new community to bring Therapists together to strengthen the community and each other’s interests.
Last night she had one of her launch nights on and there was a powerful group of us. She invited me to visit as a Marketing Specialist / Commander to support everyone and she ran a great Goals / Planning workshop.
Sharni worked her butt off for everyone! She ran the workshop on the house, put in lots of effort to help everyone and building on that – it invited us to give back too. I think she is wonderful and I can see us becoming great pals very quickly and it has me thinking about the top performers in any industry.
Interestingly, no one made Sharni put on that Meetup group, do all that work and perform at that level. She did it of her own free will and it was a choice that she made to really go the extra mile, deliver value, put herself out there and help others. In having done this myself as well – I know that over time the results really pile on and make you more powerful than ever.
We had this interesting conversation about being a great ‘Community Citizen’ last night which is something I have understood but not in these words. Community Citizens are those people that go the extra mile to give freely to their community without expectation of immediate results.
Surprise, surprise – they go on to be leaders that reap in the rewards and yes you have to do lots of work – sweat a little bit, but you lead and incredible life.
My advice and thinking? In learning from Sharni and myself once (remembering I lived in my car for a while there) – it doesn’t matter how privileged or disadvantaged you are, it takes inner strength and guts to get up and decide to lead.
I have many friends from around the globe that choose to do this and I commend them as I do Sharni. This awesome character has me thinking more about confronting my own mirror and wondering how I can improve from here? (hmmm).
I love her work. Make sure you LinkedIn + Facebook her and become pals. She rocks. Thank you for the read, love your work Sharni and stay awesome friends!
P.S. Thank you Henry Tang for providing the workspace!
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