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Today’s guest is Patrick Ewers, CEO and Founder of Mindmaven.

Patrick Ewers is an executive coach and the founder of Mindmaven, a company that teaches professionals to generate more opportunities by introducing experience-based relationship management. In short, Mindmaven helps professionals drive growth by increasing the overall mindshare they enjoy within their professional network. The more you are “Top of Mind,” the higher their ability to connect you with the right opportunities.

Patrick was called “Silicon Valley’s Top Relationship Management Expert” by Forbes, and has had the privilege of working with some of the industry’s heaviest hitters such as First Round Capital, SGI, Fenwick and West, and Silicon Valley Bank. Patrick was also one of LinkedIn’s earliest team members, where he was responsible for launching and building LinkedIn’s affinity-based networking solution called “LinkedIn for Groups.”

Today’s guest is Teju Owoye, CEO and Founder of Sulte Group.

Teju Owoye is the Founder and CEO of Sulte Group, a digial strategy and marketing agency focused on leveraging brand ambassadors to help companies drive sales. She is also the Founder of Tusodo, the online destination for the adventurous, on-the-go woman. Tusodo connects women with products, travel tips, and insider recommendations.

Today’s guest is award-winning author and TEDx speaker Jared Kleinert.

Jared Kleinert runs Kleinert Ventures, the “go-to” entrepreneurial marketing consultancy for #1 NYT bestselling authors, founders of iconic brands, Olympians, internationally recognized keynote speakers, Fortune 500 C-suite execs, 7-figure business owners, VC-backed startup founders, record-setting crowdfunding campaigns, and others. Besides penning his bestselling books, Jared has also written for Forbes, TIME, and Thought Catalog. He has been featured in Fortune, HBR, Business Insider, FOX Business, Elite Daily, Owner’s Magazine, Inc, Mashable, and Fast Company.

Today’s guest is New York Times bestselling author A.J. Jacobs.

A.J. Jacobs is an author, journalist, lecturer and human guinea pig. He has written four New York Times bestsellers that combine memoir, science, humor and a dash of self-help. He is also editor at large at Esquire magazine, a commentator on NPR and a columnist for Mental Floss magazine. He is currently helping to build a family tree of the entire world and holding the biggest family reunion ever in 2015.

His first book – The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World – spent two months on the New York Times bestseller list. It was praised by Time magazine, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, USA Today, Janet Maslin in the New York Times, and A.J.’s uncle Henry on Amazon.com.

In addition to his books, A.J has written for The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, New York magazine and Dental Economics magazine, one of the top five magazines about the financial side of tooth care. He has appeared on Oprah, The Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, The Dr. Oz Show, Conan, and The Colbert Report. A.J. has given several TED talks, including ones about living biblically, creating a one-world family, and living healthily.

Today’s guest is Robbie Samuels, bestselling author of Croissants Versus Bagels: Strategic, Effective and Inclusive Networking At Conferences.

As an executive coach, speaker, author, and host of the On the Schmooze podcast, Robbie Samuels shows how to shift your mindset to become more strategic, effective, and inclusive, to help you build great relationships and to develop a more diverse and vibrant professional network.

After decades of attending events and conferences, Robbie came to realize that most people are wasting their time networking. They are attending events with no strategy, collecting business cards with no clear plan, and losing business or missing opportunities for greater engagement by failing to follow-up. Robbie takes care to break down the steps necessary to successfully manage the vibrant chaos of these networking opportunities.

One of the biggest challenges in building important relationships is getting people – especially those you thought you had a good rapport with – to get back to you. Luckily, we’ve spent a lot of time cracking this code. In today’s episode we reveal everything you need to know about mastering your communication so you can get the responses you want when you want them.

In today’s episode, we reveal why you should ditch the pitch and start getting people to buy into your ideas instead. During the conversation, we take a deeper look into how you can use your mission (and your why) to strengthen your point of view, show you how to master the “what do you do” conversation, reveal what you should do when your ideas don’t land well with others, and much more.

Today’s guest is Nicole Holland, podcasting wiz and host of The Business Building Rockstars Show.

Nicole Holland is the woman behind the scenes at interviewsthatconvert.com, and the host of The Business Building Rockstars Show, along with her new podcast, Get Guest Ready. Nicole helps successful business owners and CEOs increase their visibility through Podcast Guesting so they can make a greater impact, influence, and income. Nicole has been named in The Huffington Post as one of “50 Must-Follow Women Entrepreneurs in 2017” alongside powerhouses including Marie Forleo, Danielle LaPorte, Amy Porterfield, and Dorie Clark. With her focus on building relationships and being a great guest, Nicole brings a unique perspective to the podcasting community and inspires entrepreneurs all around the world.

We all know by now that going to networking events, mixers, and cocktail parties hoping for the universe to drop new business into our laps simply doesn’t work. In fact, sometimes things at live events can go wrong. Really wrong. In today’s episode, we explore what Michael Roderick calls the three biggest Party F-Ups, and reveal how you can avoid these pitfalls – and up your overall networking game – by building better awareness.

Today’s guest is Sarah Judd Welch, Founder and Head of Strategy at Loyal.

Sarah Judd Welch leads Loyal, a community agency with a very popular weekly, hand-crafted newsletter, Community.is. Sarah has worked with clients ranging from General Electric and National Geographic to Kik and Justworks. Her favorite projects are the ones that are hard and most challenging. Previously, Sarah worked for TaskRabbit and Catchafire, and in her prior career, she worked for Goldman Sachs and Hillary Clinton.

Her work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, PSFK, Mashable, Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, Recode, Fast Company, AdAge, The Verge, Business Insider, TechCrunch, American Express OPEN Forum, Swiss-Miss, Very Short List, FeverBee Podcast, This is Product Management , and more.