After losing $2M and learning that clarity filters your world (Episode 2: How Clarity Saves Your Business), and discovering how to build the right tribe (Episode 3: Your Tribe Will Make or Break You), Big G confronts the exhausting truth: He tried to be for everyone—and nearly lost himself in the process.
24 networking events in one month. Same recycled pitch. Same surface-level conversations. Same empty feeling driving home at 10 PM wondering why nobody texted back. Sound familiar?
Here's what nobody tells you about networking: Trying to serve everyone equally is a lie. You can't be Pokémon—"gotta catch 'em all" doesn't build a tribe, it builds a contact list full of strangers. Big G learned this the hard way, and in this episode, he and Scott Brandt break down why saying yes to everyone is actually saying no to your own value.
THE BRUTAL TRUTH:
Because here's what Big G learned the hard way: After the $2M loss, when the "friends" who broke bread and drank his whiskey disappeared, the people who stayed weren't the ones from the biggest networking rooms. They were the few who valued deep relationship capital over surface-level connections.
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro: "Saying yes to everyone is no to your own value"
0:35 - The trap: Why leaders think they need to serve everyone
2:40 - Big G's confession: 24 networking events in 30 days
4:15 - Meeting the same person 5 times in one day
5:28 - The math that changes everything: 800 views vs 60 people
7:12 - Surface level vs deep relationships: What actually moves the needle
9:45 - Losing yourself in the pitch: When "George does insurance" becomes your identity
11:55 - The 19-text experiment that crushed Big G's soul
14:05 - Clarity as protection: Your time, energy, and resources
16:22 - The empty cup syndrome: Why burnout is inevitable without boundaries
18:35 - How to know if you're spreading yourself too thin
20:15 - Finding people who are actually looking for YOU
22:05 - Wrap-up: The power of serving the right people with focus
THE REALITY CHECK:
Do you know that exhaustion you feel after attending networking events? That emptiness? That's not impostor syndrome—that's you trying to be for everyone instead of being everything to the right people. Big G tried it. He lost himself in the process. His personality that "walks in the room before he does" got watered down to "George does insurance." Don't make the same mistake.
Together We Are Stronger isn't just our name—it's the strategy. But strength comes from depth, not breadth. From tribe, not contact list. From relationship capital, you can actually count on.
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