Sometimes, you run across people that get you very inspired and fired up for action. They make you want to run through a wall to get started NOW. This episode features two such people. I challenge you not to be energized and excited to do something good for your own community.

Bernice Radle is the CEO and Founder of Buffalove Development. She started the company in 2012, and focuses exclusively on the west side of Buffalo.

Monte Anderson founded Options Real Estate in 1991 in south Dallas, Texas. He’s one of the founders of the Incremental Development Alliance, and has been an active community-oriented developer for over thirty years.

Bernice and Monte have started a consulting service for communities looking to ramp up their local developer ecosystem called Neighborhood Evolution.

In this episode we explore their own paths to becoming developers, their philosophy on doing locally-oriented development, some of the challenges and the opportunities for others, and how to get over yourself and get started today.

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Music notes: all songs by low standards, ca. 2010. Videos here. If you’d like a CD for low standards, message me and you can have one for only $5.

Intro: “Why Be Friends”

Outro: “Fairweather Friend”