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028: How to Build Valuable Personal and Professional Relationships with Jason Treu

If you’ve been listening to the show for a while you’ve heard me mention at some point that 2016 for me is a year of connection and expanding my social network. Sure it has it’s implications in building a profitable business, BUT my true motive in increasing my social capital is for all those feel good hormones and benefits associated with personal connection.

To build on the topic of increasing your network, my guest today, Jason Treu is the author of Social Wealth – the how-to-guide on building personal and professional relationships.

Jason Treu is a top business and executive coach and sales leadership trainer. He’s a leading expert on leadership, culture, influence, and relationship building.

He helps his clients get unstuck and find their purpose, put the passion back in their lives, create additional wealth, and build key skill sets to take their business and career to the highest levels.

He’s worked with well-known CEOs such as Steve Jobs, Mark Hurd at Hewlett Packard, and many others. He’s helped his clients meet influencers such as Tim Cook, Bill Gates, Richard Branson and many others.

At the heart of his strategy is the understanding that people and relationships are your true “wealth.” Everything we accomplish in life is with or through other people.

Jason’s bestselling book, Social Wealth – the how-to-guide on building personal and professional relationships, has sold more than 36,000 copies and has been #1 in four business and self-help categories.

Jason has his law degree and masters in communications from Syracuse University. He currently lives in Dallas, Texas.

We dive into topics like

  • What Jason found out when he asked people in his law school class if they were happy
  • How he followed his next passion in technology
  • Building a business around coaching and content
  • The winding road of entrepreneurial adventures and making tough decisions
  • Why Jason stayed in business partnerships and corporate America “too long” and his realization of believing in himself
  • Overcoming the voices in our head
  • What really is social capital and social wealth
  • Being interested instead of interesting
  • Focusing on the spirit of service and lead with giving
  • Nonverbal communication and micro-expressions
  • Everything in life is from the inside out, being authentic is key
  • When you try to get instead of give, you will always come up short
  • Social, emotional, and communication skills are all learned behaviors
  • Attaching to an outcome can increase social anxiety
  • Being in the right room (this is one of the most important things!)
  • What to have ready for social interactions and networking
  • Some effective ways to wrap up a conversation

Click to Tweet Jason’s quote

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

~ Maya Angelou

Connect with Jason on social media

Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website

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