Samuel AndersonManaging Partner, BevAssets, LLC · Just Pick Up The Phone 📞 | Joy 🦋 | Empowering individuals through meaningful connections, one person at a time.

Have a conversation without an agenda. #humanity #conversation #networking

26 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief YouTube dialogue, two speakers discuss how to approach networking and relationship building by removing agendas from conversations. Speaker A suggests offering quick, low‑effort "5‑minute favors" and reaching out to ask, "What can I do for you?" Speaker B emphasizes the value of picking up the phone for appointments, noting that any interaction could lead to help or, at worst, a new friendship. Both stress that the ultimate goal should be genuine connection rather than extracting immediate transactional value, challenging the common mindset of evaluating contacts solely for personal gain.

Have conversations without an agenda. Oh, offer to help people. That's a good one. 5-minute favors. Just reach out to people and just say, what can I do for you that'll take me no time at all that might potentially change your life?
Yeah. And I'll, I would leave, just pick up the phone, take that appointment because you never know who that person is you're talking to on the other end of the line. They might be able to help you. Or worst case scenario, as you say, uh, Michael, to take, uh, some words outta your mouth is you might just become friends. That should be the, actually, that should be the goal.
Is, could you become friends with people? And is there something there that you didn't know about? Because a lot of people are out just like, what can I get out of this? They look at a profile, oh, this is not a person I want to talk to.