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How to Leverage Your Network: The 6 Ecosystems of Social Capital [Ep. 002] · The Social Capital Method

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  SPEAKER_00: If you are great at what you do, your reputation is solid, and your network is full of impressive names, but none of it is helping you get closer to your business goals or professional aspirations, you are in the right place.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Social Capital Method.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Sabine Gideon.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the show for the high-performing professional, founder-led business owner, or consultant ready for the referrals, revenue, and recognition your work deserves.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tune in each week for a breakdown of the strategies, systems, and identity level shifts behind sustainable relationship-driven growth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's get into it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so at this stage, your success is dependent less on how many people you know and more so around how you're able to leverage the right ecosystems when you need them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so what that means is looking at a percentage of that large number of the individuals that you actually connect with on a regular basis, or maybe you have mutual things in common, you're part of the same groups, and then identifying which ecosystem do they sit in.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so there are six core ecosystems that I teach that's friends and family, passions or interests, career professional, finance or professional services, community and politics.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so within the cultivating connections challenge, I go through what each one of these uh look like and who sits in them in detail.
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  SPEAKER_00: But for the sake of this video, the invitation here is to think about who are the top 20, 30 people that you engage with on a regular basis, and then identifying which ecosystem do those people actually sit in.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then once you can identify that, looking back at your your goals, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Whether it's a revenue goal, whether it's a launch goal, whatever that looks like for you, which ecosystem would support your goal right now?
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  SPEAKER_00: And then being intentional and deliberate, not reaching out to those individuals necessarily right off the bat to ask for anything, but to start to make deposits.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm a student of Stephen Covey, so his seven habits of highly effective people.
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  SPEAKER_00: He talks about deposits before withdrawals.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so, in identifying those three people who align with your goal, they sit in the right ecosystem.
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  SPEAKER_00: What touch points can you make this week or what deposits can you make this week to start to um prime the pump, so to speak?
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  SPEAKER_00: And then making sure that you have a system in place that allows you to do that on a regular basis.
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  SPEAKER_00: The thing that I get a lot from the individuals that have joined the challenge in the past or anything that I've done around social capital is that, you know, the system sounds easy and they're able to do it, but then life happens or things get busy.
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  SPEAKER_00: They let their network fall through the cracks.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so the goal here is not to have this large number of people that you're engaging with on a regular basis, but that you are intentional and consistent with who you're reaching out to and that you're doing it in alignment with an outcome that you want and an outcome that also serves that individual.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for tuning in to this week's episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: Before you go, I want to put something in your hands that will help you actually apply this work.
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  SPEAKER_00: Head over to SabineGideon.com forward slash playbook to download the Social Capital Playbook Guide.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a free relationship strategy assessment and action planner that walks you through the exact framework I teach inside my paid programs.
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  SPEAKER_00: In 15 minutes, you'll identify the relationships already in your network worth activating, the one area of your strategy that's leaking the most, leverage, and the single highest leverage next step that you can take this week.
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  SPEAKER_00: No fluff, no theory, just the assessment and the action plan.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course, connect with me on LinkedIn so that we can stay connected and stay in the conversation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have a great rest of the week and talk soon.