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She Met 500 Strangers. He Built an Audience of One | Carly Valancy & Spencer Kier on Real Networking

In this episode of Just Press Record, Matt brings together two strangers with very different backgrounds and a shared obsession with human connection. Carly Valancy and Spencer Kier explore how creativity, repetition, gratitude, and authenticity shape careers, relationships, and opportunities. What starts as a conversation about networking quickly becomes a deeper discussion about practice, compounding effort, breaking rules, and finding the kind of work that pulls you forward instead of burning you out. Topics covered Why creative people often follow rules that hold them back The idea of practice as repetition, not optimization Reaching out to people without asking for anything Gratitude as a powerful and underrated networking tool Building relationships for your future self, not immediate payoff Creating artifacts instead of transactional asks Authenticity, strangeness, and resisting social normalization Compounding habits versus compounding burnout Finding your edge through curiosity and compulsion Applying artistic training to business and professional life Long-term relationship building versus short-term outcomes Timestamps 00:00 Introduction and why these two needed to meet 03:00 The Just Press Record format and guest introductions 06:20 Carly’s meet-a-person-a-day challenge 09:00 Spencer on podcasting as a tool for connection 13:00 Creating artifacts instead of asking for calls 15:00 Repetition, practice, and the power of doing simple things daily 18:30 Art, training, and learning through repetition 22:00 Breaking rules in networking and communication 25:00 Finding your uniqueness and resisting normalization 28:30 Searching for your edge and living in multiple worlds 31:00 Losing an old identity and redefining what it means to be an artist 34:00 Bringing artistic training into networking and business 38:00 Empathy, awareness, and engaging the other person 44:00 Asking better questions and creating meaningful conversations 47:00 Authenticity, strangeness, and standing out 52:00 Saying the risky thing and embracing vulnerability 57:00 Gratitude as the starting point for connection 01:02:00 Playing the long game in relationships 01:05:00 Deciding when to follow up and when to wait 01:08:00 Closing reflections on connection, curiosity, and practice Watch every Just Press Record ever here:    • Just Press Record   Is your attention span too short for full episodes? Try some shorts here:    • Cultish Creative Shorts   And if the written word is more your thing, sign up for my mailing list and you can grow your network of ideas and people alongside me: https://cultishcreative.com/