In today’s episode, Margaret and Janice talk with Marc Cowell, Executive Director of the Outreach United Resource Center in Longmont, Colorado. Marc shares his front-line perspective from working with local families that were knocked down by the pandemic, and are now facing round two of crisis with inflation and skyrocketing costs to live. He focuses on how he and his team were able to maintain focus during these relentless times.
You can read Marc’s post on the Leadership Deep Dive blog here.
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Marc challenges listeners to look for the gifts: can you make a list of the good things that have happened in the past two years?
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As 2021 ended, from my desk in the Executive Director office of a family resource center in Longmont, Colorado, I found myself feeling optimistic that the beginning of a new year would bring about a respite from all the stress and hardship that was created by the pandemic. After all, we did have reason for hope. The tidal wave of Omicron was subsiding, indications were that the spread of COVID-19 would continue to significantly decline, mask mandates were being dropped, and many aspects of life that many of us took for granted were returning to “normal.”