The more people around the world are helping me, the more I can be helping people around the world.

I want to help people around the world and I’m finally realizing that to keep doing so, I need people around the world to help me.
And while I love to offer and give help, asking for help and receiving it can scare the hell out of me. Why? Because, as I talked about on the DailyJim, sometimes we feel harmed by many aspects of the helping process.
But for me, this is the essence of the work I’m trying to do: train myself and others how to deal with emotional combat…and not just in the classroom, but by publicly demonstrating these skills. I want the world to learn these skills and most people won’t sign up for a class or see a therapist. I want to meet people where they are, whether that’s a bar, a car, a dinner table, a workplace, a podcast player, a social media platform, or a remote village in Uganda.
I’d feel very grateful if you read below to learn how I’ve helped people around the world, how people around the world have helped me, and how you might be able to help me to help even more.

How I’ve helped people around the world

24 stories of how I've helped (updated Oct 6)
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How people around the world have helped me

How you can help me

I would feel very grateful if you helped me with any of the following things—with #1 being the type of things that would help me the most—so that I can help even more people:

  1. Unknown & hard to get by myself
  2. Known & hard to get by myself
  3. Known for another person & hard to get by myself
  4. Crowdemploy me

1. Unknown & hard to get by myself
Something I don’t know that I want but I actually want and it’s hard for me to obtain it by myself.

Past examples:

  • A warm introduction to an innovation consulting firm that I didn’t know existed and that led to me getting hired by them
  • A story about how a conversation with this person over 20 years ago helped them deeply reflect on their social anxiety
  • An offer to stay at a friend’s place when they knew I was in a low spot emotionally and financially and soon would have to move out of the apartment
  • An offer to use my friend’s car when I was visiting their location
  • A delicious meal and cocktails over an evening of conversation with an old college friend
  • A beautiful handmade leather wallet
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2. Known & hard to get by myself
Something I know that I want but it’s hard for me to obtain it by myself.

Current examples:

  • Stories, via video, voice, or text, about how you have been impacted by things, such as:
    • informal interactions with me
    • my podcast episodes
    • ESD workshops
    • It’s Up to Me or other Erasmus+ trainings
    • emōkō online drills
    • iFeelio
    • my travels
    • etc

  • Things with which you think I might be able to help you or someone in your life, such as:
    • A current conflict that you, your group, they, or their group is experiencing, whether in a romantic, professional, family, or other sense
    • An introduction to someone that may really help you or this person
    • Specific emotional skills that you, a group of yours, they, or a group of theirs might want to learn
    • Training in how to deal with specific types of emotional attacks, like rejection, guilt tripping, being ignored, complimented, etc.
    • etc

  • Warm introductions to someone (which may be you) that you think might
    • enjoy being a guest on my podcast
    • enjoy me being a guest on their podcast
    • really appreciate engaging with my work
    • be excited for me to speak or run a workshop at their organization/community
    • want to build apps with me
    • work in journalism and be interested in learning about/sharing some of my thoughts
  • Help in developing different things that I’m giving such as
    • ways to make the jimkleiber.com website or Jim & Friends forum more user friendly
    • ideas on how to develop a community around the Jim & Friends forum
    • ways to do podcast video creation in a very low-maintenance way while on the go, from lighting to background to recording, etc.
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3. Known for another person & hard to get by myself
Something I know that another person wants but it’s hard for me to obtain it by myself.

Current examples:

  • A job as a cabin crew in an airline out of Kenya for a friend who already has a cabin crew diploma from Kenya Aeronautical School and a IATA certificate
  • A sales or maybe digital job for a friend who is way too smart, educated, and charismatic to be working as a night-shift security guard
  • Fashion marketing/PR person who wants to work with a niche luxury leather goods brand
  • Sales channels in the US or customers to buy the homemade shea butter beauty products made by two Kenyan friends
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4. Crowdsupport me
Many of you support the work that I do with a small amount of money (or other forms of help) on a recurring basis.

You may have heard of crowd funding for tech startups but have you heard of crowd supporting for individuals doing public service?

I am hoping you will consider crowd supporting me to do the important work that I have been doing for the past 12 years. This will allow me to continue this work wherever it is needed.

Specifically, I am asking you to consider signing up as a crowdsupporter and to contribute a small recurring monthly amount (or other help) so that I can better provide a public service that you think needs to be provided.

What is crowdsupporting?

Many of you may have heard of crowdfunding. I currently see there being two main types of crowdfunding:

  1. Crowd paying
  2. Crowd donating

In the crowd paying type, people come together to collectively pay someone and in exchange, receive a product or service. Often in crowd paying campaigns, you’ll see different reward levels for the things people will receive in exchange for their money. People mostly pay for products that have yet to be created, with the promise that once the product is created, it will be delivered to the buyer. They can choose which product they want based on which reward level.

In the crowd donating type, people come together to collectively donate money to someone without expectation of anything tangible in return. Rarely in campaigns like this will you see rewards being offered, because the suggestion of a direct exchange of value can make the giver feel bad. On GoFundMe, people mostly contribute to help people with one-off needs—medical emergencies, school fees, etc. People choose how much they want to contribute based on how much they want to help.

I also see those two types breaking down further:

  1. Crowd paying
    1. Crowd purchasing—people paying to receive a product—like Kickstarter and Indiegogo.
    2. Crowd employing—people paying to receive a service—like Patreon, for some.
  2. Crowd donating
    1. Crowd helping—people donating money to help a person/cause in a one-off manner—like GoFundMe.
    2. Crowd supporting—people donating money and other resources to help a cause/person on a recurring basis—like Patreon, for some.

How crowdsupporting stands out

Platforms like GoFundMe allow people to give help to a cause or an individual but on a one-time basis. This can be very helpful when people are in a pinch and need the help, but doesn’t allow people to support over the long term. Also, the platform focuses on financial help, not other types of help.

Crowdsupporting allows people to give help to a cause or an individual but on an ongoing basis. This can help people have the resources to continue to pursue their mission and deliver their service to the world. Also, when the contribution limit is zero, it allows people to sign up to a mailing list or forum, showing the ongoing support in other ways beyond financial.

The endeavor in which I am hoping you will crowdsupport me:

Emotional leadership

I want to change how human culture deals with emotions. I want humans to be aware of them, appreciate them, embrace them. Why? So we can live longer and love harder.

So many of our current political, business, and other leaders are changing how human culture deals with emotions, but tend to pull us in the other direction. Telling us we shouldn’t feel sad, we shouldn’t feel excited, we shouldn’t feel afraid, we shouldn’t feel proud, that we shouldn’t feel. That we live in a world where nobody cares about us and that we’re all alone.

I’m tired of this message. I’m tired of hearing it on television, I’m tired of hearing it on podcasts, I’m tired of hearing it in day-to-day conversations with so many people I meet. I’m tired of going to political rallies of presidential candidates and hearing them allow the crowd to chant hateful things. To demonize the enemy. To pull our society apart, creating more estrangement in our families.

But maybe that’s not their role. Maybe to be a politician is to cater to 51% of the population, not leading in a way that might challenge people to their core.

Changing how we deal with emotions can rock us to our foundation. And I believe someone has to have the courage, skills, and strength to continue to pull society in a direction of more love and openness. I believe I am one of those people.

If you believe that this is important work and you believe I have been doing this well and will continue to do this well, I hope you consider crowdsupporting me below.

Current services provided

  • Leading
    • One-to-many: Host The Jim Kleiber Show podcast
      • Record DailyJim episodes Mon-Thur each week
      • Find guests and record long-form guest episodes on TJKS
      • Promote the episodes on various social media platforms
    • One-to-few: Visit organizations/projects to challenge them to fight even more for love in their work, such as:
    • One-to-one: Have one-on-one conversations with people to help them gain the skills and endurance to keep fighting for love
      • Phone calls
      • Bar conversations
      • Over lunch
  • Training
    • Develop and train in a new martial art for emotional combat skills (emōkō)
      • Train myself on a daily basis
      • Train others in online and in-person classes
      • Develop and document techniques and drills
      • Experiment with scalable online drills
  • Developing
    • Build and develop the jimkleiber.com website and Jim & Friends forum
      • Automate the podcast upload, transcription, and distribution process
      • Update and maintain the website
      • Create new features
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