Hi, systems for success family, welcome to another episode!   Our family is launching an experiment called Fulcrum, a business that we think will make a difference in our city. We thought we'd share a bit about it with you and most importantly give you an inside scoop into the process as we will be on a learning curve and we hope that this will encourage some of you either as individuals, as families or a group of friends to dream great dreams that you think will make a difference in your world, your community and your city and take action to start pursuing those dreams.   Fulcrum is a movement in the city of Yakima that we hope will bring creative people together to live, to work, to learn, play and build innovative solutions that will benefit our city and our county and ultimately the world. This idea came out of a discussion we had about a year ago about a brain drain trend we noticed especially within the younger people of our city who we found were wanting to get out off our city as soon as possible. By the time they turned 18 the first thing they wanted to do was leave because they realized that Yakima didn’t hold much economic opportunity our vision is to change that. Right now there isn’t a lot happening in town because the members of community who could bring the economic growth back are facing outwards, our goal with Fulcrum is to hold hands as a community, young and old alike, face inwards and make our city and economic hub, where people can activate their potential and unleash the collective creativity of the city. Fulcrum will be a physical space to house and cultivate this new innovative mentality and economic success for the city.   When we had our first gathering in the Fulcrum building, our goal was to open up the conversation with the community about what we are creating and how we will all have a part in it. We spent a the better part of two hours hearing people’s stories and their passion for our city and the differences they’d like to see. We had a turn to share our vision for this space and were reinspired but that start of the communal effort it will take to create and sustain waves of change. This is a community project and we hope that a lot of people will be getting involved over time and will engage the best and brightest minds and the people who are dreamers and Yakima to come alongside and help foster great things to happen in our city.   As you've been listening to this podcast, you know that we're big on the value of developing businesses and the value that can bring to the world. It was the last episode I did, which caused a bit of a controversy about the value of the free enterprise system in America and my concern that not everybody is appreciating that and what it does for the world and for society as much as I'd love to see the world appreciating the value of capitalism and free enterprise system. You can go back and listen to that episode if you'd like.   What we're doing in Yakima is a bit of a case study, illustration of the expression of what a lot of us care about. We'd like to foster some startup businesses that have creative ideas, innovations that we think could make our city and ultimately our world better. So that's what we're setting out to do here. With that background, we thought we'd just have an open round table discussion all nine of us here.   Seeing A Need   All great endeavors start with some idea to bring value somewhere and usually that value you want to bring aligns with your passions or skills or personal interests. So think of something that you'd love to do, that you're passionate about, that could add value to your world and then find a specific need that's related to that and dream of how you could potentially fill that need.   Creating A Vision and Researching   Last year in January Chelann and I had a conversation at this very