Staci Wright of HeartProfit is solving the mental health crisis through workplace innovation and revolutionizing business. She fosters a compassionate era by integrating care and connection into successful business practices.
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Fostering A Compassionate Era With Staci Wright
Good beautiful day, beautiful souls. This is Charla Anderson, host of the Charla Anderson Show, collector and connector of fascinating people and every one is fascinating, especially YOU. I’m incredibly grateful that you would join us. I have a stunning guest, Staci Renee Wright with the HeartProfit. We’re going to be introducing her in a moment but first, we’re going to get our little centering and our mini-vacation, this little breathing exercise.
I would like to encourage you to join me in breathing in 7 seconds of calm and holding for 4 seconds then breathing out 11 seconds of gratitude. It helps us all. We should do it multiple times a day to get a little grounding here. Let’s go with the 7 seconds of calm. Here we go. Breathing in. Hold. Release. Thank you. Gratitude.
Thank you for joining me with that. I encourage you to do it more often. We all need to. We have too many devices. I have this incredible guest, Staci Renee Wright with HeartProfit. We met in February, I believe, at Krista Medlock, the Girl Cave. You were a speaker and I was blown away by your concept of what you’re doing in the world and how amazing you are creating this heart space in a workplace. I’m so grateful for HeartProfit.com and we’ll get into all the details.
Looking Back
Staci, thank you so much for joining me. I fell in love with you. You spoke and several of the ladies I met that day came to my Win-Win Women event. I’m on the Win-Win Women platform and we’re directed primarily toward women. It seems like we’re taking over the leadership in a lot of ways these days and what you’re doing blesses humanity in a huge way. I’m so grateful. Let’s talk about Staci and tell me who you are in this world and a bit about what you do. We’re going to get to know each other a little bit better and have a heartfelt conversation.
Thank you, Charla. Thank you so much for doing what you do. It was fun meeting you that day. You had a lot of energy and I thought, “This is somebody I’d like to get to know better,” then you had an event. We came to your event then we went to another event as a result of that. It was three things right in a row. I appreciate what you’re doing to help elevate people’s voices and get the word out about the good things that people are doing because there are a lot of women doing a lot of good things in the world. Thank you for doing what you’re doing.
I am an entrepreneur. I’ve had six businesses over the last twenty years. I decided at this point in my life, that I want to make an impact on our social issues and make a positive impact in the world with power and sustainability. How I got to that place was between business number three and business number four. Business number three was a very successful product-based business. We grew a business with a patented product.
We had the world’s first and only welding helmet with a 180-degree lens design. We built that up to a $5 million business and it was fantastic. We achieved all the things we wanted to achieve, and then we got hit with a lawsuit. Over the course of the next ten years, it was a total loss in my life. A total come-apart. I lost everything from the business, my income, and my husband. All of the life that I had built was gone.
During that time, it was a time of very deep grief. It was a very hard time. What I found, thankfully, was that being of service to others allowed me not to be in so much pain myself and not to be engulfed in the grief that I was dealing with. I threw myself into service. I volunteered for a whole bunch of charities in my local area. After a couple of years of doing this, I started recognizing some big problems were happening in the world.
We had a fast-growing population of people who needed mental health services, who were homeless, and who needed food. This population of people in need was growing at a faster trajectory than the charities could keep up. As an entrepreneur, I want to solve problems. I’m looking at this saying, “What’s going on? What can we do? How can we fix this problem so that we’re not facing extinction?” It’s not looking good the trajectory that we’re on.
At that point, I decided businesses solve problems with power and sustainability. Why can’t we bring that mechanism of problem-solving to our social issues, dive in, get to the bottom of it, and fix these so that we can have a brighter future? That’s what I set out to do. Over the course of the following years after that, what has evolved is the HeartProfit, which is the movement that I’m leading now. That’s in a nutshell how I got here. HeartProfit itself is a movement to solve the mental health crisis through workplace innovation. That’s where we’re at and where we’re doing now.
I love the distinction between it’s a business but it’s your passion. It’s not your money-making business. It is your movement that is meshing with how you’re doing. You have a manufacturing plant, a facility, and a brick-and-mortar workplace.
That’s how it started. It was just me having my own business which is a manufacturing plant where we had care, compassion, and connection with our people. Mental health coaches as managers, people who understand brain science and stress and how that impacts our brain and how to help people, versus writing them up and threatening them with their job. Creating and cultivating a community within the workplace that supports mental well-being, that nurtures people into mental well-being. That’s how it started.
It started with that. As I was talking about this to other business owners, and this is the part that’s exciting to me. As I was telling the story about how we’re doing business differently and what we’re trying to solve. People were coming alongside me as business owners saying, “We want to do that too. We want to do business that way. This makes a lot of sense.” All of a sudden, the wheel started to turn and I thought, “What if we could change all of our businesses to be like that? Not just the one business that I’m building.” That’s how HeartProfit evolved into what it is now with a community of business owners and business leaders who want to bring care, compassion, and connection to the workplace.
It’s fabulous. I said decades ago about churches. If you don’t meet the needs of the community, you will not grow. I believe in what you’re doing here, the businesses. If you don’t meet the needs of your workers, you will not grow. You know as a Zig Ziglar Legacy Certified Trainer, they have this exact same passion for finding the needs of your people. What are their dreams? How can you lift them up? If they grow in to get their dreams, they may leave, but I guarantee you, they’ll be loyal no matter what.
They’ll leave you better than they found you.
Mental Health
The Win-Win is a huge piece of my world. I don’t think we’re going to go into it because there are reasons that their mental health has become such a crisis. There are reasons behind it, but offering solutions is critical.
It’s a complex issue and I am not qualified to speak as to why we’re having a mental health crisis. What I’m focused on is how can we stop this, how can we turn it around, and how can we change it going forward. What I see is the answer is our heart, bringing our heart into business practices and the workplace. When we do that, it helps people along.
I’ll give you an example. I had an employee who was having a hard time focusing at work. Ten years ago, the actions I would have taken was to have a sit-down meeting and tell him, “This is not okay. You need to start paying attention. You need to get your work done. You need to focus. If you don’t, you’re going to get written up.” It was more of a threat. More of a command and control.
Now, the conversation went much differently. It was sitting down with him and going, “Clearly, the smart part of his brain is not functioning now. What’s going on to cause that? It can be caused by stress.” My guess or my intuition was that it was stress. Something was going on. I sat him down and said, “What’s going on? What have you stressed? What are your stressors?”
Through the conversation, I found out that he was a single dad and his car was breaking. He didn’t have a family. If he couldn’t get to work, he couldn’t support his kids. It was this whole big stressor and he didn’t have the money that was going to take to fix his car. He was trying to overcome this challenge by himself and didn’t have the resources to do so. I connected him with an organization that I knew of that helped people in crisis like that.
Within three days, his car was fixed and he was back on the road and back at work. Things were so much better. I solved the problem because the problem wasn’t his lack of focus. That was the symptom of a deeper underlying problem. By solving the problem, we averted so many other issues that could have been. He could have been late for work or not been able to show up for work. All of the problems that can come from having a car that doesn’t work consistently would have been more problems for the business.
Not just for him. It was a win-win. He got help but you got your employee back in prime condition.
If we all as leaders took that approach and understood brain science and why people do what they do, we could help avert a lot of the problems that we’re facing and help our people thrive in the world. In today’s world, we’re all living under tremendous stress and it does impact our brain and how our brain functions. I think it’s key for employers, business owners, and leaders to understand that so that they can help people through this crisis that we’re all in. We’re all in this together.
We are living under tremendous stress today, and it impacts our brain functions. Employers and business owners must help employees get through this crisis we are all in. Share on XBusiness World
There are a lot of these old big industry leader businesses or corporations that I feel like they’re dump trucks rather than speed trains. They don’t innovate necessarily very quickly and define the right person to get some of these ideas going. Perhaps some of them or many of them don’t care.
This is the mentality of business. I’ve been in business for twenty years and what I learned is this is how we do business. We live in or we’ve been living in a society where the whole model of a successful business was profit at all costs and people are expendable. We were taught to keep our employees at a professional distance. Do not get emotionally connected. Don’t get involved with your employees because profit is what’s most important and people are expendable. You may have to expend some people to succeed.
I don’t know where it came from or how it came about, but that’s what we were taught. Now, we’re moving into a more compassionate era of life in general. The world is evolving and we’re seeing business owners coming alongside and saying, “We want to do this too.” We had a whole lot of business owners who said, “Yes, we love the idea of doing business from the heart. It aligns with who we are, especially women. It comes very naturally. That other way of doing business didn’t ever feel good to me. Now this feels good.”
What we’re finding is that performance is falling. As we’re bringing in more compassion, care, and connection, we’re losing a little bit of that drive in that high standard or high expectation and their performance is falling. It’s like the pendulum is swinging. We have to figure out a way to combine both the profit and the compassion together.
Part of HearProfit’s mission is to educate business owners and business leaders on how to practically do care, compassion, and connection in the workplace, and maintain high standards and high performance so that you can have the sustainability that you need. One of the pillars of HeartProfit is education and teaching business owners how to do that. There are skill sets that you can learn and develop that allow you to beautifully have both living under the same roof. It doesn’t have to be exclusive anymore. That’s one of the ways that we’re making an impact.
Making The Change
You have a new business and they’ve been going along and everybody’s mad at each other, whatever it is. Where do you start? All of a sudden, we got to hire people who have the brain knowledge and skillset. The people you said you were hiring as managers do have some of that. It’s not counselors or therapists. It’s people that have a bit of neuroscience. That’s the word.
Understanding the neuroscience.
I love that there’s so much going on around all that. I’m a sponge for a lot of that information, but you have to start somewhere. You’ve been running your business all along and it’s hit or miss a lot of times, restaurants or whatever it is. The turnover in restaurants is big. Perhaps, that would happen if they had a little bit more care, compassion, and understanding of what’s going on in our world.
They could create different environments in different workplaces.
Where do they start with that? How would you start? A business that you’ve run across that all of a sudden is like, “This is what’s missing.” Where do they start? You also do a certification. Maybe it’s there.
Join the community. Join a community of like-minded people because we’re all learning this together. We’re all moving into this evolution together and we’re learning as we go. Community is so important and HeartProfit is a community. Join a community like HeartProfit and start these skillsets and take in this information so that you are better equipped to bring the heart into the business.
Join the HeartProfit first. That’s a shameless plug, but 100% of the people who are members of the HeartProfit community have brought compassion to their business because it comes naturally. The shift has caused employees to take advantage of them and feeling of entitlement in the employees. They’re bringing the heart and now, all of a sudden, everything shifted. There are other skills and tools that you can bring in to help balance that out so that you’re not suffering alone in trying to be compassionate.
For example, we had a woman come to our certification and she said, “I want to be compassionate. I had an employee and her car was fixing to be repossessed.” She said, “I’ll help you and I will front you the money so that you don’t lose your car and you can pay it back over the next few paychecks.” The employee was very grateful. They did that, but then the employee quit before the money was paid back.
The employer felt like, “That was a slap in the face. Part of me wants to shut down and not do that anymore, but then there’s another part of me that doesn’t want to do that.” Where’s the balance? Now, we’re just getting taken advantage of. That’s one example. Another example was a business owner who decided that she was going to do something nice for the employees. She asked them what were some of the things that they all would like. They responded in a survey that they would love to have snacks provided in the break room.
She thought, “That’s an easy way for me to show love to my employees. I love food. Food is important to me.” She stocked the break room with snacks. A year later, the employees came back and said, “Can we just make more money? Quit buying snacks and pay us more money?” It was almost like this feeling of entitlement and they were wanting to ask for more. She felt like it doesn’t feel good anymore.
Those are the things that we’re finding as we start to open up to this heart-based way of doing business and how things are changing. It’s not the employee’s fault. It’s human nature to do those things. There are some things that you can put in place that will help you develop the culture of care and respect both ways so it’s not just one way. You can cultivate that. It’s coming from them to you and from you to them. It’s very synergistic and symbiotic.
That’s critical. My mom has said, “Leave the world a better place and take the high road. When it doesn’t feel right, take the higher road.” When you have that mindset, those losses. I don’t mean it in a flippant way. You can’t sustain those kinds of losses. This is an example my mama said and I talked to my sister. My sister is in Tennessee right now. I was like, “Mom said our job is to give. It’s not to judge.”
If you feel led to give to the homeless person and somebody says, “They’re just going to go whatever.” If you’re led to do it, then it’s up to you to do it. It’s not up to you to judge. I feel like all of those are pieces of this puzzle that you’re trying to create here. I feel like it’s so aligned with everything I believe in corporations. Back in the day at Delta Airlines, we bought an airplane for the company when they were going through tough times. The employees pulled together. I was on maternity leave at the time, but it was coming out of my paycheck because I said, “Yes, we’re going to help.”
We had the spirit of Delta’s airplane that the employees purchased for the company when they were going through stuff. I started in the early ‘70s with Delta Airlines and at the time, they worked for us and we worked for them. We never became unionized because we’re all in this together. It’s not us against them. When you can pull that out, that’s a huge benefit and we were so loyal.
My former husband worked for Delta for 37 years and never called in sick in 37 years. Amazing human being and loyal to a fault. There were so many of us with Delta. I was 34 years. That was an example of the ways to do that in the old days. It wasn’t us against them. We’re in this together. If we don’t make a profit, you’re not going to win either.
Somewhere along the way we lost that and it became more about the profit and less about taking care of your people.
Socials And Current Efforts
More about the shareholders. These are human beings out here too. If you’re taking advantage and running the company in the ground for more profit, the golden egg dies. I am thrilled with the concept. How are you getting the word out? How do people find HeartProfit?
If they go to @Staci.Renee.CEO, that’s my handle on all the different platforms.
It’s important to spell it correctly. That’s where we are in this world. How do businesses find you? How is this word of mouth getting out? How are you sharing this information?
We have been a grassroots movement for the last few years. We have local meetings monthly. We have a meeting in Sherman once a month. We have a meeting in Dallas and in Frisco once a month. We also do an online meeting. Our word of mouth is how we’re getting it out right now. We are working on some marketing campaigns to move it out further. We’re getting ready to launch and this is what I’m super, super excited about. This is brand new.
We’re launching a business accelerator program. We want to accelerate and proliferate this way of doing business into the world. One of the ways that we’re going to do this or we’re working on this is through young entrepreneurs and young business owners. We’re going into pitch competitions. These are entrepreneurs that have an idea that they’re pitching to the judges or the investors. We’re going into those competitions and we’re inserting the HeartProfit tenets and that education into these young entrepreneurs.
We’re teaching them, “This is how you want to do business. This is a HeartProfit way of doing business.” If you incorporate this into your business plan, at the pitch competition, we have prize money for them. We’re helping to proliferate the young heart-minded or heart-based entrepreneurs into the world through the acceleration program. That is a crowd-funded platform. We are recruiting 100,000 who care. We’re looking for 100,000 people across the globe to give $5 a month. That $5 a month from 100,000 people is $500,000 a month that we can funnel to these young new entrepreneurial ventures that are heart-based and are solving social problems in the world by the way that they’re doing business.
HeartProfit.co is our main website. People can find us there and there’s different ways to participate in different levels. It starts at $5 a month and goes all the way up to $200 a month, depending on how you want to be involved. We also do accept tax deductible donations. We have that vehicle if people want to give in that way. There are multiple ways that people can give, but the main way they can find us is through my social media pages and on HeartProfit.co.
You are primarily local. DFW area is where you are based. Are you finding these entrepreneurs locally or primarily locally?
Because we are grassroots, it is starting here and it’s spreading out. We do see this as a global movement and we are setting up all of our certification courses online as well. Now, it is more local and we are looking to expand globally.
Manufacturing Plant
You have a team. You have a manufacturing plant North of DFW. You have a physical hands-on brick-and-mortar. You have people that you’ve already got working like this. How do they find you? I heard that you have a waiting list for people wanting to work for you because you have daycare centers in there. You have mental health experts. I’m sure you have snacks and things that encourage people to want to stay working there and give them the tools to progress and grow. I’m assuming, you assess their skills along the way. I’m talking about your personal manufacturing plant business that people want to come to work there because of all of those benefits.
When I first started conceptualizing what I wanted to do with the manufacturing plant, I was looking at the stress levels and how we can turn things around. What I what I was thinking was if we can get to the kids, we can turn things around quicker than the adults. It’s easier to mold the kids and to help the kids have mental well-being rather than fix a broken adult. Part of the concept that I had was to have daycare on site for the employee’s kids.
This does a couple things. One is it gives us access to the kids where we can make sure they’re getting their needs met and they have what they need for proper brain development, and the wisdom and the knowledge they need to properly function. The second thing is it takes a load of stress off the parents of the children. Children who are bathed in a constant sea of stress are not developing properly. Their brains are not developing properly. If we can lighten the load for the parents, it’s going to help the kids in the long run.
Children bathed in a constant sea of stress are not developing properly. Parents must get proper support here to help kids in the long run. Share on XThat was the concept behind why we have daycare on site in our plant here. That was one of the things we were thinking with that. The food was to make sure that everybody had the proper nutrients that they needed for brain development and brain functioning. That was a natural next step of creating a world of thriving individuals. Those were part of the things, then having managers who understand neuroscience, how the brain functions when they are stressed, and who understands what people need in order to thrive and can create a pathway for people to learn what they need to learn.
Financial literacy is something that a lot of people don’t get in school. Emotional intelligence is relatively new, and brain science. There’s a lot that has happened in the last ten years that we didn’t have before. Helping people learn these things and grow along their own personal journey into being a thriving member of the community who is serving others and giving back. That’s what we want to create. We want to create those individuals through our workplace. We create pathways for people to become the best versions of themselves.
I’m assuming you have break areas that are unique or maybe have exercise equipment or things that they may want to do during their break time.
That’s a great idea. We’re relatively new. We started in 2020, so we’re still in the scaling phase. Some of the things that we have that are different is we do have a room set up for group therapy and we haven’t done this. We haven’t had it come to fruition, but my vision is to have a room where on Wednesday afternoon, we’re having group therapy because we all have trauma. We all have to overcome it and we can do it better as a group than we can individually.
Having rapid transformational therapies available in the group room on a regular basis for the employees so that they can start healing those traumas that are keeping them. It’s that unconscious mind that keeps sabotaging them over and over. We all have it. The voice that says, “We’re not worthy. We’re not enough. We got to do more. We got to prove ourselves.” We all have those things. That is a human condition, especially in the world we live in today. We’re creating a room where we can start unloading those things and transforming those things rapidly.
That’s amazing.
I don’t have a lot of ping pong tables and video games. I don’t have those things. We were more about like let’s get people into a mentally well state.
Community Building
They start knowing each other better. You start creating community and friendships in the workplace. You’re in a small community. They get to perhaps be on the same softball team or whatever afterward. There are a lot of components to it and you mentioned that you started in 2020. Congratulations. A lot of things changed that year. You’re part of that cutting edge of the new world that we want to live in. I feel like there’s a 3D world. We’re moving to a 5D world and it’s more about heart. The quote that you spoke and put into your notes that I have heard you say before, it’s so true. I love it. What’s that? Do you have a quote in?
It’s from Minouche Shafik who was the director of the London School of Economics. She says, “The jobs of the past were about muscles. The jobs of today are about brains, but jobs of the future are going to be about the heart.”
That gives me chills. I feel it. I believe the tipping point of good versus evil. We’re way past the good side. If you watch the news, you may not feel that. You’re out in the world and looking at how much good goes on. I had one sister who pass away in January and the community was incredible. My sister here in Tennessee, she’s heard the community has been unbelievable. People pull together to support and bring food and whatever it takes to help me through. A lot of people have felt isolated and a lot of people aren’t going to churches as much. That was the one community thing we had.
I went to a brainstorming session and there were 80 people there from every different facet of the community. We had police officers, teachers, mental health professionals, and business owners. Every angle that approaches the community was represented at this meeting. They were trying to create ways of overcoming this mental health crisis that we’re in. What they said at the very beginning is that one of the key drivers of the mental health crisis is the culture of independence that we’ve developed.
The culture of extreme independence and what you just said is that hard times happen to all of us. When you have somebody come in and say, “Here’s a casserole. Let me bring you food.” That means so much. It lightens the burden for some reason. It doesn’t make sense logically, but other people come alongside and give you a hug, bring you a meal, or take your dog for a walk, or whatever it is.
They say, “What can I do to lighten your load while you deal with this?” It does make it lighter and we’ve lost that. We have lost that in a lot of our communities and we have this hyper and extreme independence, which I’m guilty of. It does create stress and more strife than it is when we have a community around us. Community is a huge piece of mental well-being.
My sister here has a neighbor. Sometimes you can be like, “I don’t know where to start. I’m fine.” Perhaps change the words to, “Let me walk your dog and I’ll walk your dog four times a day,” and they just do. This is a story I heard when I was little. It was a long time ago, but there was someone that showed up. Someone had died and they showed up to polish the shoes. Such a small thing, back in the day, I remember when we polished those little baby walking shoes that were white. I remember that.
To have somebody show up and say, “I’ll wash your dishes. Let me wipe your sink.” Whatever it is and offer something could be a verbiage shift instead of, “I’ll pray for you.” We want prayers, but prayers with skin on. Somebody can be like, “Let me take the trash out. Let me get this trash can out to the street view.” Love each other. The harder people are to love, the more they need it, but love one another.
Remove the fear of being taken advantage of. You don’t want to ask people. You don’t want to inconvenience people. You don’t want to impose. We’re all so busy. Everybody is busy, but a lot of our busyness may not be productive busyness sometimes. We have a remote or a screen. Maybe if we shut those down and had a little bit more community involvement on a bigger scale, we would start lifting each other up.
I agree with everything you’re saying.
Homeless Person
I’ve been witnessing it up close and personal. My sister that passed was in a small town. I’m not in a small town. If something happened to me, I have no idea who might show up to the rescue because I’ve not been as involved in the community as I used to be. I probably will in the future as things have started settling down again for me. It’s critical. I say with skin on, you put boots on the ground. You personally have taken on a homeless person that you ran across and felt a human being that needs somebody. You’ve adopted her.
Yes, I did. I adopted a 65-year-old homeless woman. She has special needs. She needs a little help. She’s a beautiful soul, but needed somebody to look out for her because the world we live in has not been kind to her. They’ve taken advantage of her. I’ll tell the story. We don’t want to get off on too much of a tangent, but she was homeless because she had given her money because she has this ability.
She had given her money to a friend who was in a wheelchair and was about to be evicted. Her thinking was, “She needs it more than I do. I’ll keep her housed and I’ll go sleep in the woods for a couple of weeks until my next check comes.” She’s a beautiful soul who would give the shirt off her back. She needed somebody to make sure she wasn’t hurting herself.
I’ve invited that into my home and it’s been an experience for sure but she’s a beautiful person. We’re all struggling. None of us have it figured out. Life is complex. Life can turn on a dime. There’s so many different facets to this thing that we call being human, but none of us have it figured out. If we think we do, wait a few months because you’ll be shown that you don’t.
Life is complex and can turn on a dime. None of us have it figured out. Even if we think we do, just wait a few months and we will be shown that we actually do not. Share on XDo you remember the story about the starfish? The little guy was walking on the beach throwing thousands of starfish and somebody said, “There’s so many. What are you going to do?” He says, “It matters to this one, the one that I get thrown back.” You can’t do it all but you can do something. I love that story too because there are millions of homeless people. You could have chosen somebody else. She chose you probably.
I would say that’s probably what happened.
Our mindset or this concept, when I heard you speak at that event about this, I was on the front row if I’m not mistaken. This is exactly what I feel is needed in our world. We go to work. We got to make a living. We spend a lot of time there. What if we did it for people who cared?
What a difference it would make.
80-Person Group
I’m so grateful that’s what your passion is and has become. You have the spirit, the sweetness, and the compassion that shows. It breaks my heart that you had such a successful business before. It sounds like such an amazing thing. We’re in a litigious society and you’ve mentioned the word entitlement, we think we are owed something. Whereas, all of us are trying to get through the best we can. What’s next? Can I ask you a question? Who sponsored this 80-person group that you were involved with? Who was the sponsor of that initiative? Was it a city? You were talking about when you had 80 people get together as a thing.
That was the Texoma Health Foundation. It’s a health foundation here locally and they got a large grant from McKinsey Scott. Thank you very much, Jeff Bezos’s ex-wife. They wanted to impact the mental health of our community. They have that money all set-aside. They hired a team to do a survey and to gather information of what are all the different aspects of the mental health of our community, what are all the challenges, and the solutions that all the people have. They’re synthesizing that into the best way to use this $6 million to impact with sustainability the mental health crisis we’re facing. It was the Texoma Health Foundation locally that put that together.
That’s incredible. Were you able to speak? How many of those people heard your version? That’s a huge thing.
Every time I opened my mouth, it was HeartProfit. It was from every angle. They divided us up into small groups. There were five different stations and five different topics. Our group would go to one topic and talk to that facilitator, and then we go to the next one and talk to that facilitator. From every angle, I shared the HeartProfit vision with every single one of them. I don’t know if anybody heard it. There were a lot of people there, but I did my best.
Pitch Parties
Another question I have for you. Who is sponsoring the pitch parties that you’re talking about for the young entrepreneurs? Is that you guys or you’re collaborating with someone else?
We are collaborating with other pitch competition holders. There’s a group in Dallas, 3-N-1 Trinity and she’s a beautiful woman. You need to interview her. She’s amazing, but she does this entrepreneur class. She’ll take the entrepreneurs through a nine-month course where they learn how to do business, how to LLC, and all the things that they need to create a business, and then she does a pitch competition at the end and they give prizes.
They raise money with banks and different community players come and donate money. We’re teaming up with her. She’s the first one we’re doing and her next pitch competition is in January in Dallas. Our crowdfunding mechanism was the 100,000 who care that are on the monthly subscriptions. We’re going to livestream the pitch competition into the community and the people that are the 100,000 who care get to vote on where the money goes. It’s an interactive fun way to proliferate, to expand, and to influence the future of business.
Are you familiar with 1 Million Cups?
Yes, but I haven’t been to one of their meetings.
I know the founder, Cameron. I don’t remember his last name right now. I had a TV show back in 2018. He was a guest on my show there and an amazing human being. The people that I’m thinking of are that 1 Million Cups.
I would love to collaborate with them.
I was looking for speakers. The Ziggler Corporation has its version of education and all, but it’s heart-centered and working with the people.
We are looking to collaborate. Any of those organizations that want to bring these principles to their organization for young entrepreneurs, we want to support that. We want to collaborate with that. If there’s anybody out there who has connections with those or if you want to connect us with something like that, we would love to connect and collaborate because we’re all about win-win. The more we work together with other organizations.
It’s exponential. Their people get to hear. The third one I’ve been thinking about and I know the founder of Independent Stock Market, ISM. I was very involved and instrumental in some of the things. They did a pitch party on the TV show and we did a whole big old production in the stock garden. I wouldn’t let them come to Dallas. I wanted them in Fort Worth and Utah, but it’s an independent stock market where you get funded.
The founder, Adam Brandley, is a financial guy. He would build his people, get his businesses going, and get them on a stock exchange. He kept witnessing this pump and dump in the stock market. They’re doing good. They got all this stuff and the stock is going up, then the principal or the stockholders would somehow or another would lose their businesses because of less than ethical practices perhaps in certain scenarios. Anyway, he found a way around it and he’s got an independent stock market. They do pitch parties and a lot of things like that. I haven’t been in touch with them in a while, but those collaborations would be great as at least as an introduction, then it’s up to you guys.
I would love those introductions.
We’re all doing what we know to do and all we can do. My mom said, “All you can do is all you can do.” Sometimes it doesn’t ever feel like enough. Many of us have so much we want to give. We’re servers and givers. We want to share and our time is limited in what we can do.
That’s why collaborations are wonderful.
Episode Wrap-Up
I love you so much. I cannot wait for our gathering. The gathering we had on March 1st in that little community, I got so distracted and lost my connection with a lot of folks but there’s so much good in this world. There are so many people doing all they can do. Eight billion people is a lot of people. We’re not going to run out. They keep showing up. Sometimes, we’re the one that needs to help. Thank you for your incredible gifts, your time, and your spirit.
I had Gail Blair on a couple of weeks ago because of you. She was my guest and she has the same heart and the concept. I’ve had Alan Mikolaj on my show. I get to collect and connect with these people that I know have their hearts centered around HeartProfit concepts inside of them and spreading your word.
It is the future and HeartProfit is a bridge to help get us to where we’re going, but it’s coming. The compassion era is upon us.
If I have a business and I want to become accredited with you, do we go into HeartProfit.co?
Yes.
Does HeartProfit.com integrate or is it two separate sites?
HeartProfit.com is not our site. Somebody got that way back when and I’ve been trying to buy it from them, but I haven’t been able to get ahold of them. If you’re out there, I want HeartProfit.com.
I don’t blame you. You might have a disclaimer because a lot of people are not going to catch that it’s not com and it’s co. I know in the tech world, buying and selling domains and all this stuff, it’s like, “Eh.” I did some of that today. I’m working on that. You are precious to me and we’re going to regroup. I did get to go to one of your monthly things a few months ago and met Gail. An amazing beautiful soul that she is. She does food. She probably helps with your intuitive healing. I love her.
She’s amazing.
Super helpful. This is the Charla Anderson Show, collector and connector of fascinating people and everybody is fascinating. It’s live every Wednesday from 1:00 to 2:00 Central time. You come in. The Win-Win Women had it set up. We have guests. You can come in, contribute, and ask questions after the first 20 or 30 minutes. I’m looking forward to starting building that up a little bit and getting more live viewers and live interaction because it’s fun. We love to talk.
I would love for you to come back to another event. We have been drawing such a tremendous crowd of people who are like-minded and heart-based leaders who are doing big things. It’s a good place for you to come hang out on a regular basis when you’re back in town. Come and connect with us.
I hope. I’m getting back in town and starting to figure out what I’ve been missing for the past few months.
Bless your heart.
You step back and it’s okay. Sometimes it makes you lie down or whatever all of that is. Thank you so much, Staci. Let’s do it again sometime. I’ll be back to hang out sometimes. I always end this up by saying always remember to choose joy.
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About Staci Wright
Staci Wright is the dynamic CEO and co-founder of HeartProfit and IP2Market, LLC. With over two decades of entrepreneurial experience, Staci has successfully launched and scaled six businesses, demonstrating her expertise in business structure, organization, planning, and financial forecasting. At HeartProfit, she leads a movement to combat the mental health crisis in workplaces through education, certification, and acceleration along with community engagement. Staci is passionate about integrating care, compassion, and connection into business practices to achieve profits that benefit all people.
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