In this episode of Financial Planning for Canadian Business Owners, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, and writer, interviews Gil Petersil, a serial entrepreneur, public speaker, coach, and expert in editing and altering online and offline networks to make massive impacts on lives and businesses!
Episode Highlights:
- 1:19 – Gil Petersil introduces himself and what he does for a living.
- 2:26 – How did Gil get into this line of business?
- 5:24 – What is involved for clients who wish to work with Gil?
- 8:50 – Gil explains how he understands people using the network around them.
- 11:38 – Jason and Gil discuss the need to transform your network over time.
- 17:30 – Gil explains how inexperienced most people are with building networks around them.
- 18:58 – Jason and Gil talk about COVID has affected the network building abilities of different companies.
- 22:39 – What can financial planners do to fix their plateauing networks?
- 24:40 – Gil and Jason explain why all knowledge should be given away for free.
- 29:15 – Jason and Gil discuss how painful effective networking can be.
- 31:05 – What would Gil change in his industry as a whole?
- 32:11 – Gil explains the biggest challenge that he has faced getting to where he is today.
- 32:58 – What excites Gil the most about what he is working on today?
3 Key Points
- Through sharing and micro-learning sessions, Gil helps business leaders to innovate and adjust the strategy of the business by changing the way that they interact with their internal and external networks.
- It’s important to consistently evaluate your environment and network as your life and business change. Transformation is the only way to grow in a healthy manner.
- While advisors should charge those who want to spend time with them, knowledge should be given away for free. By providing value to those around you, value will always come back your way.
Tweetable Quotes:
- “I think that realizing that being a great student and needing to be a wonderful teacher for the world in the theme of human networking came to me with all these successful failures in business.” – Gil Petersil
- “I don’t know how to be a full–time parent and full–time business owner...I want to be great at both and if you want to be great at both, you need to be ready to ask for help.” – Gil Petersil
- “One way of doing it is to help people think differently, which is what a consultant can do...It always comes down to understanding the network around you.” – Gil Petersil
- “When you learn to connect and disconnect consciously in your network, incredible results come out in any size of life or business.” – Gil Petersil
- “Knowledge should be free...If someone wants to spend time with you, then you should be charging for that.” – Gil Petersil
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