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Episode Transcript
Hey everybody.
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This is Addison Berry and you'relistening to the Osio Labs
podcast, the show that exploresthe question, how can we create
sustainable businesses that carefor people and make the world a
better place?
For today's episode, it's goingto be a little different in that
this is going to be therecording of our first Osio Labs
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community newsletter that we'reputting out.
So this is not gonna be a normalepisode here.
I'm gonna start with a tl;dr or"too long, didn't read" summary
of the newsletter, and thenI'll, I'll just dive into it and
read the newsletter.
So for folks who don't want toread or that just more difficult
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for them, they'll be able tolisten to this recording
instead.
So for the TLDR, we're startinga new community focused on
self-development and leadershipfor building communities.
While business and career can bea part of that, we also want to
embrace and focus on thechallenges in volunteer groups
as well.
So you can join the discussionfor free at
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community.osiolabs.com.
And Osio labs isO-S-I-O-L-A-B-S.
So that's the summary.
And now I'm just gonna go aheadand, and read through the
newsletter for you, a new kindof leadership community.
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OCL Labs is known to some folksas a technology education
company due to our mostwell-known products,
Drupalize.Me and HeyNode.Com,which provide online tutorials
for learning Drupal and node jsrespectively.
Beyond the products we'vecreated, we're also very focused
on being an open-hearted, openbooks company that takes a hard
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look at what it means to be ahuman-centered, sustainable
business.
On our podcast, for those whohave listened to previous
episodes, we have discussed howwe run our business and a
variety of social and businesstopics.
We're launching an onlinecommunity to dive into these
topics with a broader viewbeyond business, turning an eye
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specifically towards volunteercommunities.
The community is a place todiscuss self-development and
leadership for buildingcommunities of all types.
While business and career arecertainly one aspect of this for
many people, we want to widenthe approach to cover a range of
communities and bring light tothe challenges specific to
groups of volunteers as well asgroups of employees.
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If you're involved in groups ofany size and sort, you're
probably familiar with thechallenges in group dynamics and
keeping your own involvementbalanced and healthy.
Humans are a social species, andwe gather in a huge range of
groups, including families andfriends, volunteer programs,
open source work, leisure,everything in between.
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Building better relationshipswith ourselves and other people
makes for more fulfillingcollaboration and helps us bring
positive change to the world.
Our Osio Labs community is aplace to find and share
resources as well as talkthrough the multitude of joys
and challenges that we encounteron our paths both shared and
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not.
There are discussion forums nowand shortly we'll be adding some
mini courses on topics likeself-awareness, values,
motivation, communication, andmore, stuff like that.
As the community grows, we'lloffer live events, uh, for
sharing knowledge and to havereal time discussions, run group
coaching sessions, inviteexperts in for workshops and
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implement other great ideas thatcome from the community itself.
Access to the communitydiscussions is free and open to
all.
You can join us today atcommunity.osiolabs.com.
Our newsletters are availableinside the community site where
you can also make suggestionsand then join the discussion
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around the newsletters.
And if you would like to getthis newsletter in your inbox,
you can also sign up for anemail newsletter.
So if you go to the podcastepisode page, we'll have links
for signing up for the emailnewsletter and a link that can
take you to the community site,which again is
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community.osiolabs.com.
So thanks for listening to thisrecording of our newsletter, and
we certainly hope to see youjoin in our community and, Start
taking part in discussions aboutwhat does it mean to be
self-aware, to exhibitself-leadership, and how do we,
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how do we help our communitiesgrow and.
Accomplish the, the goals andthe dreams that they have.
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