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

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! 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 Episode Resources: https://www.amazon.com/Elliott-Bisnow...   / elliott-bisnow-17b96a3     / bis   https://www.bisnow.com/tags/elliott-b... https://summit.co/ Follow me on Social Media:   / doug-bopst-9a83b244     / dougbopst     / dougbopst