As a Vista, my job is to build sustainability. So I understand that I need the help of volunteers to help guide my sustainability efforts and serve as a direct service agent. One of the biggest challenges we have faced is creating more coach clients, clients that finish the program and then return as a coach to take on clients on their own. The goal of sustainability is highly weighed on that task.
Not only do we task our volunteers to help change/provide a different perspective for an individual to evaluate their cognitive mindset but also to encouragement the client to return to become a volunteer, each a notably difficult task in their own right.
We have one volunteer Bill Kresser that has accomplish such a feat and then some. His first client match has had a dramatic shift in her financial paradigm. Furthermore, she exited the program and has agreed to be a volunteer financial coach herself. On top of working with his client one-on-one, Bill has participated in countless workshops and helped recruit his co-workers in becoming volunteer financial coaches.
Denzel Washington said, “At the end of the day it’s not about what you have or even what you’ve accomplished… It’s about who you’ve lifted up, who you’ve made better. It’s about what you’ve given back.” This quote pointedly dares you to question the positive impact that you have and will have on others. I can attest, that at the end of the day, Bill has lifted, made better, and given back to others in ways that have matter the most.
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