How to Go From Cold Contact to Your Ideal Mentor In Seven Simple Steps

As a self-diagnosed “extreme introvert,” I’ve done my best to avoid as many mixers, social events, awards parties, and otherwise for the duration of my twenty-year career in Hollywood. Yet despite my intense distaste for chit-chat and random conversations, I’ve not only built a global network of hundreds of professional contacts, colleagues, and genuine friends but also several mentors who have helped me learn, grow, solve difficult problems, avoid horrible & embarrassing poor decisions, and ultimately make not one but four major (seemingly impossible) career transitions.

Whether you are an extreme introvert like me, or you’re the polar opposite and you love in-person networking and mixers (I’ll never understand you, btw), the playing field has been leveled globally where in-person networking is not an option, and reaching out and connecting with people virtually is the only game in town...

...In this article I’d like to take a much deeper dive down the rabbit hole to help you better understand the seven simple (not to be confused with easy) steps that can help you turn a cold contact into a connection, then a relationship, and potentially even your ideal mentor.

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