Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love, number 310. I'm creator and host,

Don Hutchison. Every day, I interview someone around the world who has discovered her

talents to do work she loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. Once a

week, I interview a well-known expert from the fields of personal or business development who

shares experiences, tools, and insights to help our listeners along their journeys. Today, I'm delighted

to bring you our featured expert, Deborah Goldstein. Welcome, Deborah. Thank you, Don.

All righty, a little bit about Deborah. She's founded two companies to help professionals

maximize their careers. Goldies Table Matters. Matters. I always get that wrong, Goldies Table Matters, GTM,

enables professionals to maximize networking opportunities and business development.

Driven professionals, driven, provides businesses the opportunity to increase employee retention

and productivity in the modern workplace environment.

Driven addresses professionals holistically by offering a three-part development cycle,

professional, business, and personal development. Deborah is Driven's own best student,

constantly learning and sharing life's best practices and integrating work and personal life.

Well, Deborah, today's topic is right out of your bio,

maximizing networking opportunities with strategic dining.

And I am just on fire excited about this topic because I think it's a brilliant insight

from years of your experience and you've got some really brilliant

tactics and strategies to share with listeners.

So take it away.

Okay.

I suppose I should start by telling you that strategic dining has been summed up as Peter Drucker meets Anthony Bourdain meets mismanors.

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