What a Coach Taught Me About People

Twelve thousand contacts. Nobody to sign the form.Beatriz Portela opens doors for half of Europe. She isforty-seven, she is excellent at her profession, and on themorning she needed one person to sign her hospital dischargepapers she made five phone calls, found no one, and hired astranger at seventy-five euros a shift.The stranger gave her a card with a name on it.What followed was twenty-two conversations of fifteen minuteseach — and one uncomfortable discovery: she did not have ascheduling problem, a distance problem, or a bad-luck problem.She had built this."e;Loneliness is almost never a lack of people.It's a lack of a table."e;HOLISTIC PROSPERITY — VOLUME 4