Built on Relationships with Mindy East

business, entrepreneurship, society, culture, relationships, education · EN-US

Built on Relationships with Mindy East is your source of strategies for growing your business through the relationships you build. Join me every Wednesday for honest conversations about networking, visibility, and the connections that move a business forward. I spent 30 years in HR leadership at Disney, McDonald's, Gap and Old Navy, and two global nonprofits, and I learned the same thing in every one of them. Nothing moves without relationships. Today I run a business that comes 98% from referrals. Not because I got lucky, and not because I'm the loudest person in the room. Because I stopped leaving my relationships to chance. Here's the thing. Most of us were never taught how to do this well. We were told to show up, hand out cards, and hope something came of it. That's why networking feels like a waste of time to so many capable people. Each week we get into what actually works. How to walk into a room and