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Let's get ready for pushback.

Here's your host and my dad, Nick Fialca.

Hey, pilot, what's up? It's Nick. We are ready to chat again on another solo episode. And I got

this email from my man Tyson. He says, thanks for the work that you've put into the podcast. I've

learned a ton so far and will soon be a full up member of the Spitfire team. Tyson, way to go.

And here's his recommendation. He says, based on recommendations from one of your earlier episodes,

I created a LinkedIn account. While you've

offered occasional tips on how to navigate the LinkedIn landscape, I thought an episode on how

to handle some of the more unique encounters might be helpful to the pilot community.

Keeping in mind that every interaction is very important, how do you deal

with the sales pitches to invest in blah, blah, blah, or some other at-home business, or the

connections from individuals who are on foreign shores and might be fishing for information from

service members that are still on

active duty. I think hearing these tips on how to deal with this side of LinkedIn might be

helpful. Thanks for the consideration regards Tyson. All right, Tyson, this episode is for you. And I

really appreciate that. I've been thinking a lot about this. And there's a lot of

different things about LinkedIn. And so the first thing I want to do is talk to a person that has

a general idea, uses LinkedIn on a basic level. There's LinkedIn premium and then there's

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