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Thank You Glen!

User Profile: Laura
Laura February 8th, 2016

Hello All -

I wanted to take a brief pause from my day to call attention to someone I admire. This person is our founder, @GlenM. Glen founded 7 Cups in 2013 and since then he has worked insanely hard to get 7 Cups moving in the right direction. As someone who has had a front row seat to this process for over 2 years, I can tell you, this is no easy feat. It is harder than you could imagine. It takes courage, guts, grit and perseverance. By all accounts, he has done an incredible job.

Glen has shown time and again his love and support of our community. As the founder of 7 Cups, he has and will continue to be the recipient of criticism. Unlike many founders, Glen has no problem diving in and engaging in difficult conversations with all of us. We are very lucky to have such a hands-on founder. If you have read any of his forum posts over the last 2 years or 7 Cups For The Searching Soul, it is easy to see how much he loves our vibrant community and how much he has personally sacrificed to make 7 Cups a reality. He is quick, smart and well spoken. It is his love for what we are doing that drives me, and all of us.

Like me, he believes firmly in creating a global mental health system that will change the world and that technology can be used to creatively solve problems. Whether you have interacted with him personally, read his forum posts, heard his voice on a call or you have never encountered him, I am here to tell you, he is a wonderful, authentic, hard working, dedicated person, who we are lucky to have.

He has taught me a great deal and supported me throughout my time at 7 Cups, which I have passed forward into the community, to all of you. I am incredibly thankful for his leadership, go-getter approach and his vision to create a loving support community.

I wanted to take some time out to say thank you to Glen for his work on 7 Cups. What we are doing is challenging, but with his leadership, I am confident we can become sustainable and reach our goals. The future is bright!


Please join me in giving our fearless leader a little love! He deserves it!

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User Profile: dazedandconfused22
dazedandconfused22 February 8th, 2016

Thank you so much for all your hard work and dedication. You have changed the lives of so many, including myself. We all need someone that inspires us to do better and you're indeed one of those!

Thank you again.

-Dazed

User Profile: lucy2
lucy2 February 8th, 2016

I wholeheartedly support this @Laura @GlenM

May your vision be with us always

Lucy2

User Profile: SandyCream
SandyCream February 8th, 2016

Yess , Thank you Glen!!laugh

User Profile: Pat
Pat February 8th, 2016

@Laura well said about Glen!

@GlenM I want to thank you for your courage and commitment to this website. You handle many things very gracefully and I think this shows a great deal of character! You have always been kind of courteous to me and I thank you for that. Keep on going and I hope you accomplish your dreams!

User Profile: convivialEyes9553
convivialEyes9553 February 8th, 2016

Well said Laura, Thank you so much Glen. I appreciate this site so much both receiving support from others also being able to offer others my support.

User Profile: TortueDesBois
TortueDesBois February 8th, 2016

@GlenM is the best and have created the best place ever. and changed the world.

User Profile: Annie
Annie February 8th, 2016

Dear Glen,

7 Cups of Tea is AN AMAZING CONTRIBUTION TO THE WORLD!
and YOU'RE AMAZING TO HAVE CREATED IT!

I haven't said this to you before because I'm a bit shy and old-fashioned, and praising the guy at the top seemed like ... apple-polishing. But, D'UH -- everybody needs appreciation!! How silly of me to hold myself back all this time! Jeez, I know how good it feels when I get a warm, appreciative shout out in the Forum.

In addition, I'd like to share something I posted in the Feed a few days ago:

" ' What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.' --By Carl Sagan, from The Cosmos.

"And it made me think of 7 Cups:

"How amazing 7 Cups of Tea is. On a screen, listeners see funny black squiggles. Upon reading thoughtfully and empathetically, they're inside the heart of another person, maybe somebody in India, Germany, New Zealand, or America. Across the world, two people talk, directly to each other. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant continents. Listening and talking and sharing--they can break the shackles of loneliness and despair.

"7 Cups of Tea is proof that humans are capable of working magic."

Thank you, thank you, Glen, for your vision and energy and courage and creativity and persevering spirit in creating and nurturing this amazing community.

You've changed the world. (And at the very least, you changed my life.) You rock! heart

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User Profile: MusicalMelody18
MusicalMelody18 February 8th, 2016

@Annie Amazing as always! Thank you. Thank you @GlenM

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User Profile: ih0pe
ih0pe February 8th, 2016

⭐ Thank You Glen ⭐

​Thank you so much for all your dedication and hard work Glen !
It's thanks to you and to this incredible site you've made that I've now found so much more meaning and purpose in my life . I am now surrounded by so many lovely people who really care and who've helped me overcome some of my biggest struggles . I feel I've learnt so much from the people here and that I've grown as a as person . Now I can also give some of that back to others in my role as a listener ! This is all thanks to you , through this amazing site you've created and I can never thank you enough for that ! ♥
Also I know you will always have to deal with some level of displeasure and frustration from the community , when things don't quite go as many of us on here would hope . But you're amazing for being so willing to answer your community's questions and for explaining your intentions and goals for this site so clearly . Also the way you're so willing get involved with the community and the fact that you actually care about your listeners and members on here , all these things make you incredible and an exceptional leader for all of us in this community !
Stay forever amazing !
User Profile: kindTouch
kindTouch February 8th, 2016

Thank you @GlenM.

User Profile: brilliantshoe
brilliantshoe February 8th, 2016

Thankyou so much for making this site possible! You're amazing:D