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Real Talk 2020: The power of generosity & surprise
This week we’re having some real talk with one of NaSHEville’s favorite gals, Lexy Burke. Her list of credentials runs long, but where we love to see her fingerprints is in her work as videography as well as her self-appointed role as a “serial tipper.” Among other things we talk all about embracing life’s propensity for surprise and new opportunities as well as living from a place of generosity and how powerful the simple act of random giving can be.
This woman’s energy and why-not approach to life began with a “failed” acting career in her early twenties, a disappointment that ended up leading her to an unexpected passion for, degree in, and career in videography.
“Letting go of an old dream in order to pursue something new can be the coolest thing ever,” she tells us. “It’s totally okay to have multiple dreams.”
Haven’t we all lived this at some point? Especially in a year of such uncertainty and change. What has stalled you or felt like a failure this year that could be leading you into a new place in life? Step into it, sister!
Lexy also shares about launching a brand-new business venture, The Pink House, immediately preceding the COVID shutdown and how this year’s top social platform, TikTok, brought her business back to life. This place is truly the NaSHEville dream house and the most perfect place to visit and continue supporting our city.
But one of the highlights of quarantine for me has been following @Lexylately and her TikTok Venmo challenge. With past experience in the hospitality industry, she has worried, as many of us have, for those whose incomes rely primarily on tips. She remembered a generous $1,000 tip she’d been given as a server years before and committed to pay that forward for those struggling during COVID. In May she began leveraging her social media platform and has since raised over $95,000 – 100% of which has been given to individuals in different facets of the service industry. She and her husband are still using their now 1.1 million follower community to generously give to real people in the real workplace here in Nashville. We are so inspired, grateful, and truly blown away by Lexy and her serial tipping in the midst of this uncertain pandemic season.
The cherry on top of this outrageously generous campaign? Anyone and everyone can contribute to this serial goodness. What’s Lexy’s average Venmo donation amount? $0.50-$1.50. Even in a tough financial season, there are thousands of lives ready and needing to be blessed, and it takes so little from us. Her work has absolutely renewed my hope in the random goodness of people and the power we have, even as younger generations, to help in small, simple ways. It certainly doesn’t take much, but as her 70-plus, $1,000 tip recipients will attest, it means the world.
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This week we’re having some real talk with one of NaSHEville’s favorite gals, Lexy Burke. Her list of credentials runs long, but where we love to see her fingerprints is in her work as videography as well as her self-appointed role as a “serial tipper.” Among other things we talk all about embracing life’s propensity for surprise and new opportunities as well as living from a place of generosity and how powerful the simple act of random giving can be.
This woman’s energy and why-not approach to life began with a “failed” acting career in her early twenties, a disappointment that ended up leading her to an unexpected passion for, degree in, and career in videography.
“Letting go of an old dream in order to pursue something new can be the coolest thing ever,” she tells us. “It’s totally okay to have multiple dreams.”
Haven’t we all lived this at some point? Especially in a year of such uncertainty and change. What has stalled you or felt like a failure this year that could be leading you into a new place in life? Step into it, sister!
Lexy also shares about launching a brand-new business venture, The Pink House, immediately preceding the COVID shutdown and how this year’s top social platform, TikTok, brought her business back to life. This place is truly the NaSHEville dream house and the most perfect place to visit and continue supporting our city.
But one of the highlights of quarantine for me has been following @Lexylately and her TikTok Venmo challenge. With past experience in the hospitality industry, she has worried, as many of us have, for those whose incomes rely primarily on tips. She remembered a generous $1,000 tip she’d been given as a server years before and committed to pay that forward for those struggling during COVID. In May she began leveraging her social media platform and has since raised over $95,000 – 100% of which has been given to individuals in different facets of the service industry. She and her husband are still using their now 1.1 million follower community to generously give to real people in the real workplace here in Nashville. We are so inspired, grateful, and truly blown away by Lexy and her serial tipping in the midst of this uncertain pandemic season.
The cherry on top of this outrageously generous campaign? Anyone and everyone can contribute to this serial goodness. What’s Lexy’s average Venmo donation amount? $0.50-$1.50. Even in a tough financial season, there are thousands of lives ready and needing to be blessed, and it takes so little from us. Her work has absolutely renewed my hope in the random goodness of people and the power we have, even as younger generations, to help in small, simple ways. It certainly doesn’t take much, but as her 70-plus, $1,000 tip recipients will attest, it means the world.