This content was created by The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. This content was uploaded by The Piano Pod with Yukimi Song. This is a YouTube episode titled "🎧 #TPPSeason5Rewind | Episode 7: Rebecca Hass" (published July 13, 2025). The excerpt is a spoken segment by Rebecca Hass in which she reflects on reframing networking as authentic curiosity, building community in ways that match personal capacity, attending local creative events, and deliberately scheduling recovery time after socially draining activities. The content appears to be part of a podcast/interview episode focused on community, creativity, and self-care.
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One thing that was a huge, uh, realization for me is I thought networking was gross and I didn't like the idea of it. It just gave me this like schmoozy vibe when I thought about going to networking events, and I, I didn't want to be this like fake schmoozy person. So as soon as I realized that networking could mean just being my authentic self and being curious about somebody else and like wanting to talk to cool people about what they do changed everything for me. So I find that really energizing actually, to have conversations with people, like say at a more creative-based networking event. I think I was thinking about like business events where I didn't have anything in common with anybody and that, that's not appealing and that's not the kind of networking events that anyone has to go to if they don't want to. But I think getting curious about what other people are doing. I know this word curiosity keeps coming up again and again, but it's so essential in everything. So I would, I would say building community in whatever way you feel like you have the capacity to is okay. And maybe you're gonna do it a little more slowly than someone who is out and about and doing all the things. But I would also say that oftentimes I have a really hard time getting out of the house to say, go to that show of that person that I kind of know in my community. And I pretty much never regret actually making myself go, even when I'm tired and I feel like social interaction is a lot. And yeah, just, just kind of like being a presence somewhere. I don't think you even have to be like all that talkative, just being like, hey, 'Hey, I came to your show and I really enjoyed it.' That's something. That's you being there in this, this like quiet, warm way. So I think that we can build community in a lot of different ways. And also just knowing what your capacity is for people time. Sometimes I really don't feel like performing. I don't feel like talking, and I have to shift into a different frame of mind to put myself in that place. And I have to know that I'll feel drained afterwards and that I need that rest period afterwards. So I actually like mark it on my calendar, cat and couch day, like literally put that as an all-day appointment in the calendar or, or a partial day if I can't do a full day. If I know there's some kind of performance where I'll be really drained, you know, you can plan for that and, and just know that maybe my capacity is a little bit limited and maybe I went past it at this moment, but that's okay because I really wanted to do this show and it was really exciting and fun for me to meet people and share music. So yeah, wonderful. Yeah.
