💼🤝E5: Networking! Networking! Networking!

7 min readMay 2, 2025

This episode dives into the Art and Mindset of Meaningful Connection✨

Congratulations! You’ve reached the Fifth Pillar of Success

Whether you’re introverted, extroverted, or somewhere in between — your network is your momentum. With this episode, learn how to grow it with purpose, presence, and strategy.

DYD: Where “Who You Know Runs the World” and “Who knows you decides your future.” 👑🌎

(Spoiler: Networking isn’t about collecting contacts — it’s nurturing the connection.)

So far Rio Rocket and Rosann Santos gave you:

Pillar 1: Strengths

Pillar 2: Executive Presence

Pillar 3: Adaptability

Pillar 4: Passion and Authenticity

and now The Fifth Pillar of Success: Networking

We’re serving up a lesson in energy, engagement and retention to build your networking in a giant interconnected superweb of resources and people you can trust and trust you in return. Get plugged in. Get connected. With these five pillars you’re now unstoppable.

You’re welcome.

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• Graduates and Professionals interviewing for new employment

• New professionals: 5 years or less employed at current job

• Middle Management: 5–10 years employed

• Professionals in creative fields, media and entertainment

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The Networker by Cedwick Edgefield does all your networking for YOU

🎭 Pre-roll Skit:

Hello Sharks, My name is Cedwick Edgefield, I’m seeking 5% of my company for $4 million and my product is the Networker. The networker is automated autonomous cybernetic robotic humanoid…um thingmajig, that goes out does all your networking for you.

Kevin: It’s a dog

Laurie: Whaaatt the ffff***

Damon: I’m out.

Robert: Listen Cedwick, you seem like a nice guy and I really appreciate your entrepreneurial spirit

Cedwick: You’ve always wanted to clone yourself right? Think of how much you can get done with the networker

Robert: I’m out

Kevin: Take it out to the back and shoot it.

Cedwick: Wait, hear me out

Kevin: You’re dead to me

Cedwick: C’mon guys,

Damon: Your valuation is insane…as are you.

Cedwick: Who’s left…just one shark?

Laurie: Listen Cedwick there are heroes and there are zeroes and this my friend…is a ZERO.

Cedwick: But

Laurie: Cedwick honey, honey baby you have to understand…the one thing about Networking, is that you have to go out and do it yourself, face-to-face, in-person.

Cedwick: But…but..but.bbbut

Laurie: I’m sorry…but I’m out.

Today’s episode is all about networking…and how to do the damn thing!

🎙️ The Broken Record That Pays Off

You’ve heard it before — network, network, network. And guess what? You’ll keep hearing it until it sinks in. Because it works. Over 70% of people who land new positions already knew someone at the company. At the C-suite level? That number jumps to 92%. Those are cheat-code numbers. That’s leverage.

🔁 It’s Not About Being the Loudest in the Room

This episode isn’t just for smooth talkers or extroverts who collect business cards like infinity stones. Even if you’re introverted or unsure where to start, you can become a master networker. Find the platforms and opportunities that fit you, not the other way around. Build habits. Build momentum. Build authentic action.

🧠 Your Five Pillars Want a Word

The reason this whole podcast exists? These five pillars don’t work alone. You need authenticity to show up as you. Executive presence to own the space. Adaptability to move with the moment. Passion to fuel the whole engine. And networking? It’s the web that ties them all together.

🪪Top 5 tips to instantly enhance your LinkedIn

Photo
Headline
Description
Current Role
Recommendations

Update your photo in your head shot.

It’s 2025; No more selfies.

Update your headline/title:

Those words just underneath the head shot.

Don’t put your job title.

Put something catchy that really describes what your essence is.

Master communicator, marketing guru, award-winning artist, something irresistibly interesting to make someone want to network with you. By now you should have a compelling short bio or description of what you do, your strengths and expertise and how to get in contact with you.

Update your current role:

Remember to keep your LinkedIn profile current.

Just like your resume, you never know when you’re going to get tapped and you have to

have all of that information up-to-date.

Endorsements and Recommendations:

Give an endorsement to receive an endorsement, everyone needs a good recommendation.

The most powerful form of marketing out there, word of mouth.

You want to ask your supervisor, your colleague or someone you provided a service for to provide you with a recommendation on LinkedIn.

🌐 LinkedIn Isn’t a Resume Graveyard Anymore

Let’s kill the myth: LinkedIn isn’t just for job seekers. It’s a visibility engine. A personal branding platform. A career multiplier. And sometimes, your next opportunity finds you.

Your profile isn’t just about titles — it’s your story. Your values. Your vibe. Stop being the internet’s best-kept secret.

🚀 Mindset Blitz: The Networking Reset

This is where it gets real.

Know your value. Speak it. Walk in it.
Lead with strengths, not titles.
Be a storyteller — dreams, wins, failures, all of it.
Be the bridge. Introduce others. Create collisions.
Motion creates emotion. Move. Express. Be seen.

If you’re not being talked about in rooms you’re not in, you’re networking wrong.

💬 Connection Over Perfection

Want to build influence? Stop aiming to impress — aim to resonate.

Ask better questions.
Give richer answers.
Be sincere. Be weird. Be unforgettable. You don’t need to be the life of the party — just bring the party together.

💪🌿 Your Network Is Equity

Every relationship you build increases your value. Your social capital. Your trajectory. Double your energy, double your authenticity, and walk out with a network twice the size you had walking in.

📱 Virtual Networking Isn’t Plan B. It’s Now.

Zoom. DMs. Digital intros. These are real tools for real impact. Especially if you’re introverted, virtual space can enhance connection — not replace it.

Audit your online presence.
Google yourself.
Use your LinkedIn like a portfolio — not a placeholder.
And for the love of all that’s caffeinated — put yourself out there.

🦄 Be Yourself or Be By Yourself

Not a tongue-twister. A mantra. Your quirks are your currency. No one can out-you you. Lead with that. Own that. Brand that. That’s how you magnetize the room — whether it’s physical or digital.

💪🍎Health Tip of the Day:

Food expiration dates you should follow.

At what point does fresh become not so fresh? And when is the right time to throw something out?

Food manufacturers tend to be rather conservative with expiration dates. So let’s start with the things you don’t have to worry about:

Vinegar, honey, vanilla, sugar, salt, corn syrup, and molasses will last virtually forever with little change in quality.

Regular steel-cut or rolled oats last for a little more than a year before they start to go rancid. Fine white rice, for example, will last for years, while brown rice only lasts for months. Dried beans and lentils? They’re safe to eat for years after you buy them, but they become tougher and take longer to cook over time.

Spices last indefinitely.

What about canned and jarred goods? As a rule: metal lasts longer than glass, which lasts longer than plastic. As long as there’s no external or visible sign of spoilage when you open it, your canned fruits, vegetables, and meats remain as delicious and palatable as the day you bought them.

The little button on top of jarred goods will bulge if there’s significant bacterial activity inside. Depending on storage, that could take a year — or a decade. It varies.

Cans of soda will keep their fizz for years. Glass bottles: up to a year. Plastic bottles: only a few months.

Salad dressings will last over a year in the fridge, especially if they come in bottles with narrow squeeze openings. Mustard lasts forever. Ketchup will start to turn color as the year approaches, but still remains palatable.

Now, contrary to popular belief, mayonnaise — especially when it doesn’t contain fresh ingredients like lemon juice or garlic — has an exceptionally long shelf life.

They used to say, “Last one is a rotten egg,” but have you ever actually smelled one in your fridge? That’s because it takes a long time for eggs to go bad (up to 60 days).

And finally: oils stored in sealed cans are nearly indestructible.

NETWORKING! NETWORKING NETWORKING!

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