Bare Knuckles and Brass Tacks

Why your network is shallower than you think, and how to change it

Bare Knuckles and Brass Tacks

Show Notes

What if the reason most people struggle to build meaningful professional relationships isn't effort — it's that they've mistaken a transaction for a foundation?

David Homan [https://orchestratedconnecting.com/about/] has spent thirteen years building the largest private network of super connectors on the planet. Not by being the most impressive person in the room, but by being the most useful one — long before anyone asked. His thesis is that trust operates on a time horizon most people aren't patient enough to respect. That the introductions that change lives rarely pay off in weeks. They pay off in years, through chains of three to five people that no existing technology has ever been able to track — until now.

In this episode, David walks us through the architecture of real community: why action is the only currency that matters, what it actually means to honor a chain of connections, and how a moment of genuine vulnerability can outperform a hundred polished elevator pitches. He also makes a case that most of us have at least two phone calls we should have made by now — and haven't.

Learn more about David's work:

* Orchestrating Connection [https://orchestratingconnection.com/] * SOAR Connect [https://soarconnect.ai/]

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