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Ask yourself, do you want to live a more meaningful life? Have you ever felt like you would like to contribute to a cause, but don’t know where to start? Belinda and Sarah have built a beautiful, user friendly platform that makes it easy for you to add that extra meaning into your life. LocalMotion allows ordinary professionals to contribute to charities, social enterprises and the community in an extraordinary way!
“I think a more meaningful life occurs when you do something for a reason that’s bigger than yourself.”
Belinda Poole
Belinda shares the extensive and thoughtful market research they went through to make sure LocalMotion was a benefit to the professional donating their time, as well as for the recipient organization. They realized that solving the skills gaps through training in the charities themselves only provided those teams with more work and added pressure, so instead they realized that short term projects by professionals with those skills already developed was the solution they were looking for.
Another valuable lesson learned in their market research was that the volunteers asked to be able to see or understand the value of their time that they are contributing. As a result, Belinda and Sarah have added on their website the hours that have been donated, and the total value of that in HKD. Not only that- they have the charity/organization send the professional a personal message explaining how their work will benefit the organisation going forward.
“The secret of presentations that engage others is to be yourself.”
Felicity McRobb
In this episode you will learn about…
- How the platform works from both the professional and the organization’s perspectives.
- How ‘stupidity’ was an enormous asset in getting their project started, and even to the scale it is today.
- Belinda’s outlook on the general goodness of people.
“Understand what sparks passion and joy in your life.”
Sarah Fowler
Belinda mentions that despite their platform being up, live and gorgeous- due to the unrest and strikes in Hong Kong, they have not been able to blast their platform out as much as they’d like to. She says, ‘Quite frankly, it’s not appropriate to say how amazing LocalMotion is when others in Hong Kong are having such a hard time.’
Despite that, she has been surprised by how many people are already ready and eager to volunteer their skills and give back to something bigger than themselves. She has realized that people are so much better than you ever think they are going to be, and encourages listeners to get out and do something nice for someone else today. That is one thing you can do today to make the world a better place.
“Do your best to be kind to people.”
Belinda Poole
“You don’t have a choice in what happens to you, but you absolutely have the choice in how you respond. And you can always, always do something positive.
Belinda Poole
