To Be a Leader, Help Just One Person

Small actions can have an outsize impact

Amanda Hirsch
Forge
Published in
4 min readMar 30, 2020

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An adult woman on the phone looking at her laptop on the dining table while her son uses a digital tablet.
Photo: 10'000 Hours/DigitalVision/Getty Images

LLet’s face it: Things weren’t exactly feeling cheerful for most of us before the coronavirus hit, what with a fraught election, the climate crisis, and — well, you can choose whichever social issue currently troubles you most. There’s no shortage.

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Amanda Hirsch
Forge
Writer for

I write about raising women's voices, power, and motherhood.