Welcome guys and gals to the Mantox podcast. I'm Connor Beaton, the host and founder of

Mantox. This podcast brings together some of the best thought leaders, teachers, and

extraordinary individuals to help

teach and mentor you on how to be a top performer in life, love, and business.

Joining me today is Mr. David Burkis, who is a best-selling author, an associate professor

of leadership and innovation at Oral Roberts University.

His upcoming book, Friend of a Friend of a Friend

Offers a New Perspective on how to grow their networks and build key connections, one based

on the science of human behavior, not wrote networking advice, which I'm sure none of us

wanted to listen to. So I'm glad we're not going to be talking about that. He's delivered

keynotes to the leaders of Fortune 500 companies and the future leaders of the United States Naval Academy.

His TED Talk has been viewed over two of nine times and he is a regular contributor to Harvard

Business Review. So today we're going to dive into a whole bunch of topics, but all

surrounding your community, your social capital and social currency, and we are going to

unpack a good amount about networks. So because David is really an expert and an influencer

when it comes to networks, when it comes to human behavior,

and when it comes specifically to social psychology, we are going to talk about how you can

start to utilize the network that you already have, start to give back to it, start to invest

in the social capital within your current network network and how to develop and how to reach

outside of the network that you already have into new and exciting networks. So this is a

really cool topic and is actually something that I've been wanting to address and talk about for a while.

We also dive into the impact of social networks. So platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn,

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