Many of you know that this year I gave most all of my furniture to homeless families before I left on the road trip. At the time it seemed like the right thing to do. I mean, I needed a change in life, and it’s just “stuff”, and homeless families when transitioning into housing normally get a lot of very used furniture. Everything I gave away was quality and in good condition.
Being honest, even though in my heart I knew it was the right thing to do, I was starting to stress over not having any furniture, or that I would have to end up with junk furniture. I don’t have any savings and coming off the road trip back into a ‘normal’ life, outside of first and last months rent, I didn’t have the money to buy much of anything. Please know, this last few weeks humbled me like you wouldn’t believe and I am so grateful that I can afford a place to live.
Last week I was at Blog World, a conference for social media and blogging. It’s one of the few chances I get each year to see many of the great people who love and support InvisiblePeople.tv. The most important part of any conference is networking so I go out of my way to meet people I don’t know. For two days in each of my social networks there was this one girl. She seemed to be friends with everyone I am friends with, but for some reason I never got around to introducing myself. On the last night of the conference I stopped Aviva Mohilner and asked “we know so many of the same people how is it I don’t know you?”. Well, it was Aviva who came up to me about an hour later and told me some Matt guy was going to help me with furniture and wanted to do more to help homeless people.
Sure enough, a few days after the conference I connected with Matt from Apt2B and he told me if I could get a truck he’d hook me up, and that he did! Apt2B helped me with a couch, coffee table, some kitchen stuff and things like towels. I forgot I didn’t even have towels so a shower the next morning would have been lots of fun without towels.
But here is the cool part. Donating some stuff to help me was just the start of a really cool relationship. Matt and Apt2B are going to help Ascencia, the family homeless shelter where I work, furnish apartments when we transition homeless families into housing! That is AWESOME!
Matt and Apt2B didn’t want anything in return. They genuinely have big hearts and want to give back to their community. I did this short video to say thanks and to help motivate others to do good. Because if you do good things, good things will happen.
