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EPISODE · Jul 24, 2025 · 58 MIN

Be More Lobster: Networking, Self-Knowledge & Why Confidence Is Just Chemistry with Jenny Smith

from B. with Anna Brand · host Anna Brand

Jenny Smith invented a job going to networking events full time, started a business on maternity leave the day lockdown began, and accidentally enrolled in a PhD at Durham. She also once spent a night signing gossip across an A&E waiting room with strangers. This is that kind of episode.In this episode:•       The lobster list — why gangster lobsters hold the secret to chemical confidence•       Why free networking events are a waste of your time if you want the right people in the room•       Extroverts think by speaking, introverts think before speaking — and why that changes everything about how you network•       Networking your kids — and why sports kids are consistently the most confident in the room•       Accidentally starting a PhD researching networking ecosystems•       The three chairs — and why you have to start with one before you can have any of the othersStill trying to connect with everyone before you know yourself?

Jenny Smith invented a job going to networking events full time, started a business on maternity leave the day lockdown began, and accidentally enrolled in a PhD at Durham. She also once spent a night signing gossip across an A&E waiting room with strangers. This is that kind of episode.In this episode:•       The lobster list — why gangster lobsters hold the secret to chemical confidence•       Why free networking events are a waste of your time if you want the right people in the room•       Extroverts think by speaking, introverts think before speaking — and why that changes everything about how you network•       Networking your kids — and why sports kids are consistently the most confident in the room•       Accidentally starting a PhD researching networking ecosystems•       The three chairs — and why you have to start with one before you can have any of the othersStill trying to connect with everyone before you know yourself?

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