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UNSCENE Festival Debrief

We just walked off stage at UN//SCENE Festival where we spoke about networking and building community: how each of us actually does it, from treating your inbox as a database to the small personal touches that make people remember you. The room was packed, hot and full of questions we didn't have time to answer. So we grabbed the camera outside and unpacked it.

Here's the honest debrief:

  • What the room kept asking: "how do I activate my network without selling to people?"
  • The question that stumped us: "I do so many different things, how do I not confuse people?"
  • Does there really have to be one theme that runs through everything you do? (I don't have one, bro.)
  • Kian's answer to what my theme actually is
  • What the crowd taught us, including two people who rediscovered horse riding and netball
  • What we'd do differently next time and a little manifesting for SXSW London

If you were in the room, drop your biggest takeaway in the comments. And if you weren't, tell us which of these questions we should go deeper on in a future episode.

Full episodes

  1. EP #003Taking the Leap (and What Nobody Tells You)
  2. EP #002How to Land Your First Sale (and Build Traction)
  3. EP #001“Builder” vs “Manager”