The Networker Podcast - Edition #85

This week on The Networker we look into:

• Three Joyful Connection Masterclass activities designed to move conversations past credentials and into the invisible chapters that actually shape people
• Why the creator economy's biggest winners are not the ones going viral but the ones building rooms, and what that means for how we think about influence
• Why your resume will not land you a job in 2026 but your network will, and four steps to start building one today
• What a journalist discovered when she tested a networking expert's tips at a third place in Singapore, and why good networking looks exactly like making friends
• Fifteen career mistakes that are easy to make in your first five years and genuinely hard to undo later, with one pattern running through most of them
• What the most successful solopreneurs have in common, from how they use AI to how they build the relationships that sustain a one-person business
• Ten conferences worth your time in 2026 and 2027, chosen for the quality of connection they generate rather than the size of the room
• Why Angela Duckworth's Grit argues that passion and perseverance matter more than talent, and what that means for the long game of building a career
• Why political scientist Eric Oliver says we are not the same person in every room we walk into, and how making peace with that contradiction changes everything.