Do you miss big bear hugs from friends?
How about attending events in real life or dating if you’re single?
As a “super-connector” and community-builder, I wonder how the pandemic will impact our ability to build deep, meaningful relationships because there are no great substitutes for in-person interaction.
Thankfully, Christina Weber from DEEPEN shared some “best practices” with me around creating trust and intimacy via Zoom, that you can use today in a personal or professional fashion to improve the quality of your network and relationships.
Christina Weber is a serial entrepreneur with a background in sales, marketing, event production and community building — and a great career story of gaining 10+ years of NYC corporate experience before trusting her gut when she felt it was time to go.
After starting two companies, Gamelace (intimate apparel) and Feminine Weapon (an event series celebrating the power of women while raising money for charity), Christina found herself desiring a romantic relationship.
This intention lead Christina to a pivot in focus and the realization of a new purpose — to help people (including herself) attract, sustain, and achieve healthy, meaningful romantic relationships. This led Christina to create DEEPEN, filling the void in the dating space between the apps and private matchmakers, allowing for people to meet in real life, do things they love to do, and step outside of their comfort zone.
Click above to watch our interview, and visit https://wedeepen.com/ to learn more!
-Jared
Jared Kleinert is the founder of Meeting of the Minds (motm.co), as well as a TED speaker, 2x award-winning author, and USA Today's "Most Connected Millennial".
Meeting of the Minds curates "super-connectors" and subject matter experts as invite-only attendees to 3 day summits in places like Napa Valley, Bermuda, and elsewhere, as well as “deep dives” such as this Marketing and Biz Dev strategy & implementation workshop. Members of the MOTM network include CEOs of 7, 8, and 9-figure businesses, creators of globally-recognized brands and social movements, New York Times bestselling authors, founders of pre-IPO tech unicorns, c-suite execs from Fortune 500 companies, and others.
Jared's career began at 15 years old when he started his first company, and took off at 16 while working as the first intern, and then one of the first 10 employees, for an enterprise SaaS company called 15Five, which today has raised over $40M and has almost 2000 forward-thinking companies as monthly recurring clients.
Later, Jared would become a delegate to President Obama's 2013 Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Malaysia, write multiple books including the "#1 Entrepreneurship Book of 2015", and speak at TED@IBM the day before he turned 20.
As a highly-sought after keynote speaker and consultant, Jared’s clients range from organizations like Facebook, Samsung, Bacardi, Estee Lauder, IBM, Cornell, Berkeley, AdAge, and the National Speakers Association. His insights on entrepreneurship, networking, marketing, and business development have been featured in Forbes, TIME, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, NPR, Entrepreneur, Mashable, Fox Business and more.
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