Thoughts on the value of relationships and networking after Brian just recorded an upcoming podcast with Grants Pass local, Cat Bonney.

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How important is relationships?

Hi, I'm Brian Pombo. Welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

Today, I wanted to discuss the concept of relationships in business specifically. So it's all about being relationship reliant for me.

In fact, there are three pillars at BrianJPombo.com.

The first one I like talking about the most, right off the bat, at least, is being relationship reliant.

This is something that came later in life for me, even though I was surrounded by it, and the evidence was everywhere. It didn't occur to me that the relationships you have the strength of the relationships, but even the loose ties that you have out there in life, or that one of the most important things possible.

That all business is based off of people, you know, like and trust, it's based off of some form of relationship.

Now, sometimes you don't necessarily have a relationship with the person, most of the products and services you use, that you spend money on, you don't know the person behind it. But you have a relationship with that brand.

There is something there, someone has created something, put it forth, and you've taken it and exchanged it for money.

There's a relationship there even at the most crass you know, just financial interaction, you know, even just that there's still a relationship, and it goes on from there. The strongest relationship you have with someone the people that you paid the most amount of money on the most regular basis.

That's some of the most powerful stuff and it can tell you something about even the things that you pay a small amount for. It all has to do with the same thing. It all comes back to some form of relationship.

I was reminded of this today because I had a really good podcast interview.

So I have a podcast that's local. It's called Grants Pass VIP. And what it does is it covers basically stories of movers and shakers in Josephine County, Oregon. And Grants Pass is the largest town here.

It's named Grants Pass VIP, because that's where most of the people will relate to it. Up this past year, about Yeah, about a year about this past year, I've been working very closely with the Chamber of Commerce.

Even though a good portion of that year, we weren't even meeting in person. But meeting over over video chat. So I got to meet somebody that we had known each other kind of at a distance or name's Cat Bonney.

Cat, she's just a million different things in town. And she's one of these people that I finally got to sit down and have an interview with for my podcast, this will be coming up. Not available yet if you're watching this right away, but you'll see it soon over at GrantsPassVIP.com.

Cat is a very interesting person, her entire life has been built on the idea of getting out there and making a difference and encouraging other people to do the same thing. And having her hands and a whole lot of different items.

But all around this concept of really making a difference for people and in doing things that that stirs her soul, not just a way to pay the bills, you know, obviously, there's always that end of it, but you have to have things that really make a difference for you.

Even the short period of time we hung out today at the coffee shop,