How to Improve Your Life Through Networking with David Burkus
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Do you hate the idea of networking or do you see it as an opportunity to give to others? For some networking has a negative connotation, but our guest is here to set the record straight and tell you how to improve your life through networking.
David Burkus is a successful author who considers himself a writer first, and a speaker second. He's written several best-sellers including his latest book called Friend of a Friend., which is specifically about how to enjoy networking.
On today's edition of The Speaker Lab, we'll specifically talk about what most of us do wrong when networking, and what we should instead. David will tell us how to actually connect with other speakers, and do it in a way that fosters real connection, and he'll explain how to find out who you already know to help you find gigs. Buckle up and get ready to enjoy this episode of The Speaker Lab with David Burkus.
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:
- What are the biggest mistakes most people make when networking at an event?
- Why it helps to partner up when you're networking.
- What two questions should you ask when meeting others?
- What is the majority illusion and how does it work?
- How many introductions away from most of the people you want to meet?
- What is multiplexity?
- How can you develop a deeper relationship faster with someone you've just met?
- And so much more!
EPISODE RESOURCES
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- David Burkus on Twitter
- Friend of a Friend, by David Burkus
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| 0:50.3 | Hey, what's on my friends? Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the Speaka Lab podcast. I started to go into |
| 0:55.7 | Speaka Lab episode. I was looking at the episode number. It's episode 193. Let's just get that out of the way. And this is also a good example of where, you know, I could just push a button and I can start re-recording this, but it's a lot more fun. If you just let it roll, because that's the way speaking is, right? Sometimes you get on stage and you're like, oh man, I just had a brain |
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| 1:29.6 | oh man, I just had a brain fart, but I got the show must go on. So today, episode 193, this is a speaker lab podcast. We're glad you're here. Grant here, glad you're joining us. Hey, before we get into today's guests in today's conversation, we've got a good one for you. If you haven't checked out our free software tool my speakeragent.com, my speakeragent.com. It's a database with over a thousand different speaking engagement opportunities. |
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| 1:42.5 | We'd love for you to be a part of that. All right. So today we are |
| 1:45.8 | talking with David Burkis. And David is a successful speaker and author. He is a new book out |
| 1:51.3 | called Friend of a Friend. And so with David, we're going to be talking all about networking |
| 1:55.2 | specifically. And networking can oftentimes have this kind of negative connotation. So he kind of beats |
| 2:00.0 | that down. And then we |
| 2:01.2 | also talk about what most of us do wrong with networking, what you should be doing instead. We talk about |
| 2:05.8 | how to connect with other speakers. And then also just, who do you know in your world that can help |
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