Giving What You Have with Mark Bustos

A Bit of Optimism

The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek

Business, Education, Careers, Self-improvement

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

When people want to do good they often get stuck because they don’t know what they can do. Mark Bustos figured out that to do good, all we need to do is what we are already good at, but to do it for someone else. Mark is a hairstylist turned humanitarian who will inspire anyone who hears his story to give more. This is…A Bit Of Optimism. For more information on Mark and his work check out: https://www.instagram.com/markbustos/ https://www.mydarlingivy.com/ https://www.silvervineroom.com/

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0:00.0	For all the shit that I give social media, I am fully aware that there were plenty of
0:11.4	good things that come out of it as well.
0:14.7	One of those things is Mark Bustos.
0:17.3	Mark is a hairstylist.
0:19.4	He gives fancy haircuts to fancy people.
0:22.7	But there's something he also does on the weekends.
0:25.2	He roams the streets of New York and gives free haircuts to the homeless.
0:31.0	It restores their self-confidence, it gives them a sense of dignity, it makes them feel
0:35.0	really good.
0:36.2	And the remarkable thing is what it's done to Mark.
0:39.9	This is a bit of optimism.
0:48.0	Mark, I can't tell you how excited I've been to meet you.
0:51.8	I first learned about you on the Instagram.
0:56.9	I saw a posting of you giving a haircut to someone who was homeless.
1:03.9	You showed the before and after pictures and you said how this simple act just lifted
1:08.5	their confidence and did remarkable things for them.
1:11.9	And I was completely struck by that.
1:13.6	I'm a sucker for people who do things for others.
1:15.8	I'm a sucker for those in service.
1:18.1	And as soon as I saw that I called our producer and said please, can you reach out to Mark
1:22.3	I really want to meet him.
1:24.4	So how did it start?
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