Hey everyone and welcome back to BeU with BU. In an era dominated by social media, virtual gatherings, and online interactions, the longing for genuine human connection persists.

This episode of BU with BU is about how to deepen those connections by coming together in real life.

Hopefully you'll find a newfound appreciation for the immense potential of blending the digital and physical worlds

to cultivate communities that are not only connected online, but also rooted in the authenticity of real-life interactions.

In episode 104, creating community in a digital age.

Okay. creating community in a digital age. When we started, we really wanted to focus on community and make community really separate

than the traditional quasi-opportunity, if that makes any type of sense.

But in doing that, you have to spend time with people,

I think, really to forge and build relationships. And anytime we spent time with individuals,

it was bigger than just let's draw up how money works and how you can make money. I believe that

you can do that at any time. There's a million ways to make a million

dollars. And so I really think that the growth of our company was in direct proportion to the

quality of community that we were able to develop and give people something bigger to see

than dished, you know, the selling of a supplement or a product or ketones. The reason I'm

saying that to you guys is that it was never really about, um, the magic of what we created was

never really about how rich we could get. Um, it still isn't. And, you know, what we did organically is

we literally had events every 60 to 90 days.

And organically, what that did was it forced relationships.

It forced a bigger picture.

It got people out of their comfort zone.

And selfishly, I did it because that's all I've ever known.

I'm old, a little bit old school.

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