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Collected Item: “Thrive Not Just Survive - A series”

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Thrive Not Just Survive - A series

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VLOG, Youtube Playlist, Interviews with experts on wellness, mindset, home, parenting, and fun through Covid-19

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

In March 2020 when we in Australia were first told to head into lockdown stage 3, I realised that my community although initially bought together in our mutual interest in renovation and property investing were also now all in this time together and I could use my networks and platform to assist us all during this time. So instead of selling courses I concentrated on bringing together experts to assist my community. I also incentivised people in joining my community by encouraging them to donate to Kids Help Line (who needed resources desperately as they only could answer 40% of the 9000 calls they were getting a week) by giving them for free access to my Your Property Success Club (normally $695pa). I raised $10,000 in 14 days for KHL and helped my community through the initial confusion and stress of the shutdown. I have received so many messages about how these trainings helped and served and I am so grateful for the support of my friends, family and network who quickly responded and gave their time so I could interview them over the 3 week period that these 15 episodes were recorded.

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#mindset, #wellness, #australia, #vlog, #charity, #kidshelpline, #parenting, #remotelearning, #workfromhome

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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_B92b8b8IRhIQRwRF13ME1LtvI6ldBgh

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Jane Slack-Smith

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2020-04-03
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