Making Connections with Susan McPherson

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

We’ve all heard the age-old phrase, “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” While being knowledgeable can keep you in a great role, your network can open doors to your next opportunity. Today’s guest, Susan McPherson, is regarded as one of the best-connected people in the social good world. She’s sat on the board of organizations like the UN Refugee Agency and the The Lower Eastside Girls Club. Her book, The Lost Art of Connecting, is a guide to building and maintaining great relationships, and how the first step might be taking yourself out of the equation. Follow Susan McPherson on LinkedIn and learn more about her work. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir. Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET. To continue the conversation this week and every week, join our free LinkedIn group for Hello Monday listeners https://lnkd.in/hellomondaygroup

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0:00.0	At Atlassian, we believe impossible things are only impossible alone.
0:04.4	Just ask the 75% of Fortune 500 companies that use Atlassian products like Jira, Confluence,
0:10.0	and Trello to tackle their biggest challenges.
0:12.2	Atlassian, for projects Impossible Alone.
0:15.0	LinkedIn News
0:20.3	From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jessie Hempel and this is Hello Monday.
0:24.8	The best career advice I ever received came from my friend Nicolette.
0:31.6	She was an older mentor and at the time she was actually also my boss.
0:36.5	I was 25 and I was failing at this administrative job I had.
0:40.6	I wasn't all that good at it and my deficits were beginning to catch up with me.
0:44.8	I wasn't really sure the job was going to work out and I think Nicolette wasn't so sure either.
0:50.8	But she was very sure of me.
0:53.2	Nicolette had lots of jobs in her life.
0:55.6	She told me that there are three types of capital.
0:58.8	There's social capital.
1:00.7	There's educational capital and there's economic capital.
1:04.8	Nicolette told me that the money piece was the piece that people would worry about the most
1:10.2	and they shouldn't.
1:11.4	That's the thing that will probably change the most.
1:13.5	It will go up, it will go down.
1:16.0	Educational capital is what I got when I landed my college degree.
1:20.1	Once you have it, it's yours.
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