Today, we welcome Elliott Bisnow. Elliott is co-founder of the highly popular Summit Series, which is a global company that has produced over 250 events over the last decade that has included speakers such as Jeff Bezos, Bill Clinton, John Legend and Brene Brown. The occasion for today's chat is Elliott's new book, Make No Small Plans: Lessons on Thinking Big, Chasing Dreams, and Building Community that he wrote with the other summit series founders. And I'm so excited to share this conversation with you and I think you're going to get a lot of value out of it.

We talk about how to turn problems into solutions, how to effectively take risks, achieving success by making the journey uniquely yours, how to keep people interested and show up in events, making a huge breakthrough in organizing events, and so much more!

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What to Listen For:

00:00 Intro
04:29 Taking risks that have very little downside
08:56 How can to make a problem the solution
12:41 Best networking practices
17:26 Make success uniquely your own style
20:23 This is the best way to be authentic
24:58 How it started for Summit
29:47 Dealing with rejection
33:46 The formula to keep people coming to events
37:32 Biggest breakthrough in organizing events
41:55 So many brilliant people are introverts
46:37 Being overly transactional is the biggest turnoff
52:30 Road trips and taking breaks

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Elliott Bisnow On Building Lasting Connections & How to Take Smart & Effective Risks