Leigh Thomas Brown explains how to rebuild your network after moving or major life changes. Find where local people naturally gather—a bar, church, theater, volunteer group—and show up regularly. Real connections and business opportunities follow from becoming part of those communities.
How do you rebuild when you don't have that set of family or people you graduated high school with or former coworkers to pull from? It's you. Woo-hoo! You're a new island. Well, wherever you are, whether it's rural or urban, suburban, exurban, doesn't really matter. You've got to find out where people are. Now, if you moved here to the Concord area, you will find people in the places where they spend time. And if you're wondering what that means, well, If you like to drink a beer with people after work, you might go to Little Robertson downtown. If you're the person who likes to play handbells, you'll go join First Presbyterian. If you want to get involved with the art scene, you can go to the Old Courthouse Theater, or maybe you want to volunteer with the Cabarrus Victims Assistance Network and help battered women. There's all these different places where people are, and it goes back to what they enjoy, where their hearts are, where their passions are, and that's where you'll actually find people with whom you connect to. That's how you rebuild a real estate business. It's all about rebuilding conversations. And for those of y'all that haven't even moved, but you feel like life is completely different because you've lost a spouse or your kids have left the house, this applies to you too.
