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This Year, I Walk Alone…

I walk alone.

I try to be a beacon of light.
I try to be a beacon of hope.
I try to be a beacon of positivity.
I try to be a beacon of valuable business information.
I try to be a decoder of the future for business leaders.

Over the years, I also post pictures of my morning walks through the streets of Westmount.
I like it when the sun makes a cameo.
Every year, I do a special walk for a special cause.

It’s called Light The Night.

It started over ten years ago.
When my best friend’s daughter was diagnosed.
Leukemia.
Thankfully, she has been in remission for a long while.
She leads a happy and healthy life.
Many are not so lucky.

Too many kids get AML and don’t make it.
Too many adults get AML and don’t make it.
Today, we’re all worried and focused on Covid 19.
Imagine leukemia.
It’s a cruel blood cancer.

Please support me this year.

There is no grand walk.
There is no grand event.
It’s all on Zoom (like everything else).

I will still walk.

I will always walk.
I will walk alone.
I will commit to 12 km over two days.
This coming Saturday and Sunday.
I hope that you can commit to helping me out with a kind donation.

I am asking you to support me.
I am asking you to support these kids.
I am asking you to support this cause.

Please help.

This year is different.
This year is difficult.
For all of us.
I set a goal of $5000 to raise from family and friends.
If my content has ever struck a chord with you.
If my content has ever made you smile.
If my content has ever made your business thinking sharper.
Please consider this the official “tip jar.”

If you can find it in your heart to please give…

Please do.
Over to you.
Thank you.

Please donate right here: Light The Night 2020.

*My commitment: I will match every donation – dollar for dollar – until I hit my goal.

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.