A Valentine’s Day gift to our whole community

February 13, 12:34 PMSF Boomers ExaminerSuzanna Stinnett

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What better gift can a community receive than an advocate for love? Annie Gleason is precisely that.

Get a love life
While Annie Gleason operates her business, “Get A Love Life,” as a dating coach, what she does for the community has a much broader scope. She describes the people she works with as having one of three broad sets of issues. They have trouble meeting people. Or, trouble moving from first dates into a relationship. Then there’s the familiar difficulty of moving into a relationship with the wrong person. Annie helps people change small pieces of behavior to bring forth more confidence and more self expression.

Did you catch all that? Changing behavior, becoming confident, expressing the self. Wow. How does she do that?

One of Annie’s tools has to do with better use of social media sites. Here’s the story for today.

Sweet success
Annie has a client in her 50s who had not had a date in many years. With Annie’s help, her client went online and posted an appropriate profile. (Profiles are tricky enough in themselves. This is an achievement.) While social media sites give you a gigantic scope as a playground, one the best uses of social media is to connect you in new ways to your local community. This is exactly what happened with her client. She began chatting online with men in her San Francisco neighborhood. In a couple of weeks, she had met a very compatible man who lives nearby. And now she is going on her first Valentine’s date in twenty years. How wonderful is that.

New skills reach beyond
Annie helps people “come out.” I mean, she brings people into connection with community, and that is where all the love really happens. Along with these happy successes come an appreciate for their own new communication skills. As a teacher of social media tools, I am in a position to deeply appreciate what that means to both the individual and to the world. Better communication means more confidence in all aspects of life. This is good.

I had the privilege of meeting Annie Gleason recently at a women’s business conference in San Francisco. It’s obvious to me why she is able to help so many people. She’s got that special combination of warmth and leadership and focused engagement that tends to make good things happen. She is a gift to our community.

Happy Valentine’s weekend to the whole Bay area. There is no shortage of love.

Hearts-aplenty,
Suzanna

Learn more about Annie Gleason and “Get A Love Life”

Learn more about using social media tools to build relationships of all kinds