The Power of Networking: How New Connections Fuel Personal and Professional Growth

If you aren’t networking with new people and putting yourself out there… You are missing out on incredible conversations.

My energy level isn’t it’s normal, 12 out of 10 in calls this week. This week has me tired, it’s been personally sad, busy with so many amazing meetings, calls, clients, and potential clients, shorter camp schedule, etc.

But yesterday, I was trading stories (my fave part of networking with a new friend!) and I asked Liliana Santizo, MBA Strategic Leadership how she rides the waves of energy and she had the best response and some great ideas about how to document and use data about your own cycles of energy to trying to plan your quiet times for when you can predict things will be in a low. Then, when you are hit with the things you can’t predict, you are in a better place. I think we need more conversations like this.

Vulnerability, honesty, listening to people, and offering your own insights when you can.

My unsolicited advice: find at least 1 new person to connect with a week (it’s like 5 for me, but I love this stuff, feel free to start small, time is precious) and then vow to never leave a conversation without giving something to the other person they didn’t have before. An idea, some praise, support for something they are struggling with, a new connection for them to meet, unsticking them from something in their business, or answering a question. You name it, you can bring something to the table.

I think it’s the era of “I haven’t got it all figured out, and that’s ok” but every person we talk to gets us closer.

If you’re looking to build meaningful connections and create opportunities for growth, book a 1:1 session with me. Together, we’ll focus on how to make authentic connections, offer valuable support, and grow both personally and professionally.