is that title to grandiose? It’s my hope that it is true, so I will leave it.

I think back to a couple months ago when Toni first proposed the Get Inspired! Project. The initial thought came from going to see the movie Julie and Julia and focused on inspiration. We all thought we could add to the amount of light in the world by focusing on how people thought about inspiration, what inspired them and who they inspired (or thought they inspired)

What I think escaped us was the impact the project would have on us. I think specifically on Toni and me, especially. How is it that we didn’t see how contacting and interviewing these folks would impact us? I mean how empowering is it to contact someone and have them agree to an interview and have them very grateful to be a part of something that was only recently just a thought in our heads?

conducting the interviews has had many aha moments for Toni, I know that’s true, we’ve talked a bit about that and how the project is so much more than we anticipated, but I didn’t know my search for people would impact me so much. It’s crazy to think that world leaders and people on the leading edge of thought and inspiration are so in-tuned with what we are doing. To get a response back from Janis Ian or Noam Chomsky just humanizes the entire world. We are all just people and we all are looking at the same things and having similar dreams and everything.

And to have someone  ‘unknown’ speak a few words, a mere 15 minutes, and that impacts hundreds or thousands of people. Amazing. The Internet has linked us and this project is just one small example of the good it can do We’ve had over 1100 unique visitors and over 65,000 hits in 18 days with no publicity and no marketing except word of mouth. we have some big hitters coming up soon, and they will add light and power, and that in turn shines the light on all the virtual unknowns who deserve exposure. I am blown away by the potential.