Weekly Live Show Recap - Ep. 17 - Being The Greater Person - Ft. Ari Sohn

Introduction:

In the next three episodes, we will discuss the key differences between being a “Greater” person vs the “Better” person.  

In this discussion, we are exploring everything to do with being the greater person and what that entails. How is that different than being the “better” person? Why should I be a greater person? What benefits are there in being the “greater” person? And what does it take to be this “greater person”? 

 
In case you missed the podcast, Wednesday Live Show, and Thursday Night Clubhouse discussions - please check out the following links: 

Wednesday Evening Live Show 

Thursday Night Clubhouse Discussion

Introduction - Where is Grandma? 

• Story of how Boruch met Ari at an EdTech event in NY and “Where’s Grandma”
• Learn to be comfortable going into a crowd “by yourself as yourself” and attract positive attention.

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Who is Ari Sohn? 

• Left marketing job in 2017 to run a Jewish Community Center in Medellin, Colombia. 
• Returned to Albany, NY in 2018 and worked for his Uncle to help Digitize the graves of 140 year old Jewish cemetery. 
• Was quiet and secretive about his Cemetary work as he was “embarrassed” by it until his moving experience with the stone for “baby Jacobson”
• Fixed and cleaned all 5,000 graves in the first Cemetary and then began breaking into other cemeteries to repair them too. 
• Found that restoring gravestones was a way to show Jewish pride and support. 
• Ended up partnering up with a Lawyer from England who quit his job to partner with Ari in PreservUs.

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Being the Greater Person:

• You attract the energy that you emit. 
• Share the good work you do as it’ll inspire others to do the same. 
• You have an obligation to share the good you do if it is coming from a good place because it’ll inspire countless dozens of others to do good as well. 
• Don’t be ashamed to share. 
• Get addicted to something greater than yourself. 

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Living by a Moral Code: 

• Give people a fair chance for respect. 
• When you live by a high standard of morals and ethics it gives you a level of dignity in what you do. 
• Lead with morals…not just actions. That way if you’ve accomplished nothing at the rest of the day at least you can rest soundly knowing you acted morally and ethically correct.

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Personal Mission & Vision Statement: 

• Not all the things we are meant to do are we taught to do. We have to take personal responsibility for the things we see that need to be fixed or done. 
• You don’t have to be special to make a difference. 
• Use the tools you have available and start making changes. 
• Work for something more than yourself.  
• How PreservUs Works

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Life Gets Tough - Move Forward:

Three things to get rooted in when life gets tough:

1) Look for something with meaning - for your own selfish purposes. This inspires action

2) Start Small - making a small difference will lead to making a large difference. It’s okay to want to make a big impact, but you need to start with one small act. 

3) Combine your Motivation & small action and use it for someone else this will change your life. This allows you to prove to yourself that you have something that others can benefit from for you to share. 

• You don’t become happy overnight. It’s a muscle you have to develop. 
• Publicize your acts of kindness. 

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The Bottom Line: 

The 3 main takeaway points were: 

• Being the greater person means establishing a deep inner core where the foundation is solid 
• We do things because they are right - not for the recognition
• It is important to let people know what you are doing in order to potentially inspire others to take accountability for their lives as well. 

Contributors to this article include:

Ari Sohn - Ari Sohn has over ten years of marketing, community building, and startup experience and is currently the director of marketing at Radial Creations, a digital ad agency in NJ. Additionally, he is the founder of a cemetery digitization tech startup called PreservUs. Alongside PreservUs, Ari started an international not for profit volunteer agency called the UACD, United Agency for Cemetery Dignity, in which he has cleaned and restored over 15,000 graves and headstones. Ari has an extensive appreciation for the Spanish language in Latin America. In 2018, he lived and worked in Medellin, Colombia as the first director of the Medellin JCC. 

You can learn more about Ari and connect with him at www.preservus.com, and by following him on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. 

Boruch DuBrow - Boruch is an Exceptional Development Coach with over 13 years of experience as an educator. Boruch has helped hundreds of people feeling lost in life to discover their path and reach their potential. Today, Boruch educates and empowers individuals and organizations to discover their path, define their purpose, and create an “Exceptional” future for themselves, their families, and their organizations.

To learn more about Boruch DuBrow feel free to follow him on LinkedIn, or Instagram, You can also reach Boruch by emailing him at [email protected]

Yermi Kurkus - Yermi has spent most of his career helping people at their lowest find meaning and purpose through proven methods that are built from psychology, philosophy, and mystical teachings. Yermi's approach is pragmatic and down to earth, thus coining the term Practical Mindfulness. 

Today, Yermi partners up with business owners, professionals, and individuals that want to become more "irresistible" in their personal and professional lives, as well as helping founders build "irresistible" systems in their businesses.

To learn more about Yermi Kurkus feel free to follow him on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube. You can also reach Yermi by emailing him at [email protected]