OTS 316: Over the Top - Julie Brown

Today’s guest can help you network your way to more friends, more adventures, and way more success. She knows two key things–the people you meet will change your life and networking is how you meet those people. She is a motivating, high-energy speaker, teaching the importance of networking, and why you are your best business development tool.  She is the author of “This Sh!t Works: A No-Nonsense Guide to Networking Your Way to More Friends, More Adventures, and More Success”, a book dedicated to making networking easy, accessible, and fun, as well as the host of This Sh!t Works a podcast dedicated to all things business development. Please join me in welcoming Julie Brown.  In this episode we discuss: her thoughts on leadership: “Leadership is up to each person to define. Anyone can be a leader. It’s not a title or years of experience. You can be a leader every day by influencing others, empowering others, and taking risks.” Her dream job of being in GLOW - Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. Her desire to be seen, heard, and respected. Her college experience was wanting to be a lawyer, she got a degree in science with a minor in business. How the world led her to architecture and business development. How she met her classically trained architect husband, I promise it’s not what you think! When she decided to be in charge of her employment after losing a job and an impending pandemic. How she discovered the parts of entrepreneurship that she enjoyed. The ability for a business to change. “Just because you’re doing this now doesn’t mean you have to keep doing this forever. Your business can change.” How she found the National Speakers Association. The challenges she faced trying to speak on stages. Why she invested in a videographer to record her initial speeches to learn from them. Why she encourages others to make mistakes, “That’s how you learn from them.” How she nurtures her network. Listen, subscribe and read show notes at www.OnTheSchmooze.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices