As anyone who has a “contact me” link on their website knows, you can get a wide range of excellent queries but also an incredibly high number of SEO offers and spam. Because of that, it can become just one more channel to check in a host of emails, texts, social media accounts and more.
But a couple of weeks ago I opened my “contact me” email only to find something much better than an SEO offer: someone had reached out from Norway and was interested in putting in the work to translate the VBIP program into Norwegian to make it available to people there.
I was very excited – for lots of reasons. First of all, because I always love to hear that the VBIP has made a difference in people’s lives. Secondly, because it’s incredibly exciting to think of the program being translated into another language and made available to folks who can’t access it in English (I certainly can’t translate it myself!)
But the coolest thing about it is that my great-grandfather came from Norway, more than 100 years ago. I mentioned this to the individual who contacted me and as we exchanged emails back and forth, it turns out that not only does he know the tiny hamlet where my great-grandfather came from, his work actually takes him there on a semi-regular basis!
So now – more than 100 years after my family left – the work that I’ve done here in Canada gets to benefit people who may include my extended family.
What an incredible opportunity!
He’s going to be at the next VBIP training on April 19-20 … will you be joining us, too? There’s still time to register! Where could you take this work?


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