Your Network Is Your NET Worth

How an investment in your community is the best thing you should be doing right now

My community has been built on years of hard work, hustle, and good people. I came up in the “Roaring Industry 90’s” music, fashion and advertising business and circled NYC to LA to London like it was your morning commute. “Back in my day” (OMG I just became that guy) was a time when you had to negotiate your expense account into your employment contract because being out and in restaurants and clubs is where the action happened and the action dictated your upward mobility. Justin’s (NYC, ATL), Mr. Chow’s (NYC), Shark Bar was “OUR Soho House” and in one night you could close several deals, meet tons of new people and walk out with multiple job offers. Pre-social media, your network was truly your “net-worth” and your reputation as the currency. I learned the “art of the room” in my 9-5 job at Columbia Records where your seating chart at the weekly 3 hours Sony Music label meeting dictated where you were in the pecking order. During my “night job” I mastered the art of being at severa…