Episode 110: Why Your Networking Strategy Is Sabotaging Your Success: THE PENELOPE PARADOX

Your networking isn’t accelerating your success… it’s quietly sabotaging it. In this new episode of THE BEST VERSION OF YOURSELF  we explore something uncomfortable—but transformational: The Penelope Paradox. For years, we’ve been taught to build networks from urgency, scarcity, and speed… more contacts, more meetings, more “opportunities.” But here’s the truth: many connections are built for context, not for connection. And when the context disappears… so do they. This is where everything shifts. Because it’s not about collecting contacts. It’s about cultivating relationships that remain when there is no title, no position, no immediate need. I’ll say it clearly: I would rather have a friend than a client. And when a client becomes a friend, that’s not luck… that’s strategy. In this episode, I invite you to stop building like Ulysses—fast, restless, conquering— and start building like Penelope—with intention, patience, and elegance. Less urgency. More truth. Less transaction. More connection. Because real success is not your network… it’s the quality of the relationships that sustain your path.