How To Build Communities That Matter w/ SC Moatti, Darryl Grant & Anne Devereux-Mills

Having a supportive community full of inspirational people surrounding you can be the difference between success and failure. You can find your community online, through social networks, but it’s even better to find a group local to you to get that inspiration face-to-face. Today’s guests, SC Moatti, Darryl Grant, Anne Devereux-Mills, are all founding members of women’s communities who find great comfort and support within their groups.

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In this episode, we’re talking about the power of social communities, how these leaders have built their groups, what value they have, and how other members have received support from within. You can absolutely bring a group together and embrace the resulting empowerment, and each leader explains how they’ve cultivated that for themselves.

We discuss what it’s like to nurture and advise young women and transfer these skills to working with business executives across a diverse range of industries. Establishing relationships among your community is vital to creating a harmonious environment that promotes support and inclusivity as well.

Community relies on strong leadership and consistency in order to grow and develop trust. Everyone wants more community, the key is finding people that actually inspire you.

Do you have a community of powerful women who support you? How have you embraced all of the ups and downs that life has given you? When is the last time you met up with a local person who inspires you?

About Anne Devereux-Mills

Anne Devereux-Mills is a driving force behind making change possible and showing women where to start. She’s the founder of Parlay House, a national affiliation of thousands of diverse and inspirational women. Anne praises collaboration over competition and believes that women are oftentimes guilty of rejecting other women.

Check out Anne’s new best-selling book released January 7, 2020. “The Parlay Effect: How Female Connection Can Change the World”

About Darryl Grant

Darryl Grant was born and raised in Harlem, NYC, and has 20 siblings! Through his involvement as Senior Vice President with Toppan Merrill Corporation, he founded Inspiring Connectivity, a community of C-level executive women based in San Francisco. Darryl takes his inspiration from his mother, Eloise Grant, who raised hundreds of children and mentored dozens of women, sometimes in the middle of the night.

About SC Moatti

SC Moatti is the managing partner of Mighty Capital, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, and Products That Count, one of the largest communities of product managers, leaders and entrepreneurs in the world. Previously, she built products that billions of people use at Facebook, Nokia and Electronic Arts. Andrew Chen, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, called SC “a genius at making mobile products people love.” For more information, visit Mighty.Capital.

In This Episode:

How to reframe what’s important in your life after everything changes
How you can bring a group of diverse women together to embrace empowerment
What it’s like being an advisor to young women
Why you need to build and nurture relationships across the board
How you can build a network full of support and trust
Why you need to run events on a consistent schedule in order to build community
Why you need to embrace both the highs and lows that come on your journeys
Why it’s more important to meet the people that inspire you, rather than the people who just bolster your numbers

Quotes:

“There’s so much judgment in this world. So many times that women reject other women, either because they’re competitive with them or they don’t feel they’re right for a job, that I didn’t want to cultivate a place of rejection or encourage a choice to be included.” (8:24)

“I think so many of us that are successful want to present ourselves as perfect, whether it’s on social media, or in our work lives, or to our families and not wanting to show that there are struggles. And the fact that we can create these environments where people who you might view as role models are saying ‘here’s what was really going on behind the scenes’... it makes everyone not feel alone when they have their own struggles.” (11:53)

“Find your tribe, surround yourself with great people, focus on one thing that matters, and find others that want to be part of that with you.” (35:55)

“Sometimes trying and failing is more insightful than trying and succeeding.” (42:23)

“Continue to be ambitious in your dreams and reshape that image in the mirror. Always evolve. Anchor yourself in what you want to be and continue to reach for that. No matter what the people around you say. Be fearless and continue to reshape that image in the mirror.” (57:24)