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Lunch with 100 strangers could change your life
Lunch with 100 strangers could change your life
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25 minutes
Released:
Feb 24, 2020
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Podcast episode
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Lunching with 100 strangers helped Kaley Chu find her voice.Kaley works in finance and as a business development manager, dealing with people was a big part of her job. But Kaley was afraid of talking to new people and it was hampering her career. So she decided to attack it head on.She launched a personal experiment, to ring strangers and invite them out to lunch. 100 lunches with 100 strangers in one year.Over lunch, we explore what drove her to embark on the 100 lunches, how it transformed all aspects of her life and work - and what she learnt along the way. (Her book is 100 Lunches With Strangers.)We then dive deeper into the power of networking and chat with careers coach Leah Lambart (founder of Relaunch me) and executive recruitment specialist Sinead Hourigan (Queensland director Robert Walters) to find out what are the big changes to networking - does it still involve boozy cocktail parties and business cards?
Released:
Feb 24, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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