Scarcity Mindset

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Generosity Over Competition: What Appalachia Already Knows | Jordan Bailey | TEDxJohnsonCity
TEDx Talks· 2025-06-13 15:55
Hurricane Helen hit Appalachia in September 2024 with an indifferent violence. Fields drowned before harvest. Roads became rivers.And lives were dismantled mid-sentence. But through the chaos, people waited in. Neighbors and volunteers trudged through the sledge to bring food, fuel, and clean water.Not because they had extra, but because they had none. Others had none. And in a region seen so often through a lens of scarcity, it was the Appalachins that said looked devastation in the eye and said, "Hold my ...