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What and WHY is How to be Second?

Hey, it’s Nathan. This is the "Welcome" series for How to be Second, especially built for us that are "Seconds", this kind of person. If you signed up for the email list, you're probably already getting these! But of course, you can absorb them as fast as you'd like.

Here's the whole series:

Buying into Your Self (A Second?)

Introducing H2B2 and your Second's Community

OK, I’m a Second… now what?

  • Opportunity Development
  • Personal Development
  • Professional Development

Great, WHAT do I get?

H2B2 builds things specifically for SECONDS (this identity), that have incredible value because we understand the identity, that serve us (Seconds) on our journey. And, we also try to keep lists of the best possible resources built by other people that Seconds will need while on their journeys, and refer to those things.

Here’s some of what How to be Second has built/is building:

Community (Constantly growing)

Personal Development

Professional Development

Shows

And we REFER to the best things that don’t make sense for us to develop ourselves, but Seconds still NEED on their journey. Just a few examples would be Therapists or Spiritual Directors (some of whom ARE Seconds!) and things like Role Specific communities (like if you’re specifically a Chief of Staff or COO) or if you need particular skillset education (Like learning how bookkeeping works, or need your PMP, etc) or professional networking communities (Like Coalition 9 or EO or YPO).

That’s a lot, are you a TEAM of people?

It's absolutely a team - we have a regular rotation of people supporting everything I just mentioned. (And we’re ALWAYS looking for more help! If you’re inspired, you should get in touch with any of us and let us know!)

What are the Mission and Vision driving this?

The Mission is to help Seconds understand who they are, how that’s valuable, how to own that value for themselves, that it’s theirs to own their value, and connect them to resources to do so along their Second’s Journey.

And our Vision is to be the #1 place (in the world) that all Seconds, and people thinking about Seconds, think to go or point to, for a Second to take their next step personally or professionally, because we want Seconds to have:

  • Relationship with someone who inspires you
  • Recognition for your efforts (in your language)
  • Resources for yourself and those you care for
  • Work you feel good about bringing into the world
  • Belonging

That’s why we’ve built what we have, and operate how we do:

We believe that "Growing Together" is the mountaintop, and we guide Seconds along their Second’s Journey, through Growing Alone to Going Together to Growing together, both personally and professionally.

That was a lot - but we always like to ask what you’re ready for next: To grow alone, or go (and grow) together?

If you're ready to grow alone:

You could check out the next parts of this series (if you're on the email sequence, do nothing, it'll just show up)

If you'd like to listen to what it feels like to "Be this person", especially contrasted with a "Dreamer" type, the One Second podcast is for exactly that experience

If you're ready to stay on the pulse of H2B2 and the community, you can make sure you're set to get the weekly email

If you're ready to go (and grow) together:

You can register for the Monthly Meetup and come spend some time in community - or check out the main nav and touch base for what's interesting to you, and talk to a real person about that!