She Met 500 Strangers. He Built an Audience of One | Carly Valancy & Spencer Kier on Real Networking

Описание: In this episode of Just Press Record, Matt brings together two strangers with very different backgrounds and a shared obsession with human connection. Carly Valancy and Spencer Kier explore how creativity, repetition, gratitude, and authenticity shape careers, relationships, and opportunities. What starts as a conversation about networking quickly becomes a deeper discussion about practice, compounding effort, breaking rules, and finding the kind of work that pulls you forward instead of burning you out.

Topics covered

Why creative people often follow rules that hold them back
The idea of practice as repetition, not optimization
Reaching out to people without asking for anything
Gratitude as a powerful and underrated networking tool
Building relationships for your future self, not immediate payoff
Creating artifacts instead of transactional asks
Authenticity, strangeness, and resisting social normalization
Compounding habits versus compounding burnout
Finding your edge through curiosity and compulsion
Applying artistic training to business and professional life
Long-term relationship building versus short-term outcomes

Timestamps
00:00 Introduction and why these two needed to meet
03:00 The Just Press Record format and guest introductions
06:20 Carly’s meet-a-person-a-day challenge
09:00 Spencer on podcasting as a tool for connection
13:00 Creating artifacts instead of asking for calls
15:00 Repetition, practice, and the power of doing simple things daily
18:30 Art, training, and learning through repetition
22:00 Breaking rules in networking and communication
25:00 Finding your uniqueness and resisting normalization
28:30 Searching for your edge and living in multiple worlds
31:00 Losing an old identity and redefining what it means to be an artist
34:00 Bringing artistic training into networking and business
38:00 Empathy, awareness, and engaging the other person
44:00 Asking better questions and creating meaningful conversations
47:00 Authenticity, strangeness, and standing out
52:00 Saying the risky thing and embracing vulnerability
57:00 Gratitude as the starting point for connection
01:02:00 Playing the long game in relationships
01:05:00 Deciding when to follow up and when to wait
01:08:00 Closing reflections on connection, curiosity, and practice

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