Grow Your Business Through Authentic Connection—with Virginia Muzquiz - 124

People do business with people when they connect. Get in sync with your customers, and they will go to the ends of the earth for you. But how do we dismantle our conditioning and create those authentic connections? And then how do we leverage that social capital to grow a successful business? Virginia Muzquiz is the Founder and Chief Connection Officer at Master Connectors, a practice that helps six-figure solopreneurs build businesses that fuel their passions, fund their dreams and have massive impact on their communities. Known as the Referral Diva, she has 30 years of experience demonstrating that social capital is the fastest path to profitability for the small business owner. Virginia has coached 1,400-plus entrepreneurs on how to build a business through word of mouth and shares her expertise on the Business by Referral Podcast. On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Virginia joins Anjel to explain how her own desire for connection informs her work and why it’s crucial for the interconnectedness of humanity to permeate business. She shares her take on the relationship between social capital and personal wellbeing, describing what it looks like to give in reciprocity and how to express what you need from a place of strength. Listen in for Virginia’s insight on what it looks like to build a business in service to your higher purpose in this life!  What You Will Learn   How Virginia’s business was born out of her own desire for connection Virginia’s gift for making room for ‘the weirdos at the lunch table’ The death-of-the-protected-self moment when authenticity became possible for Virginia Why the interconnectedness of humanity needs to permeate business Virginia’s take on the relationship between social capital and personal wellbeing What it looks like to give in reciprocity (from the saucer, not the cup) How to express what you need from a place of authentic strength Virginia’s calling to proliferate prosperity around the globe The benefit of building a business in service to your higher purpose  Connect with Virginia Muzquiz Master Connectors Resources Business Network International Barrett Academy New Media Summit Paulina Tenner’s Great F*ck-Up Summit Callan Rush Wilbert Alix on Trance Dance Lisa Nichols Bad Girls on Business eWomen Network Ivan Misner Infinite Giving: The 7 Principles of Givers Gain by Ivan Misner, PhD, Greg Davies and Julian Lewis Ten by Three Connect with Anjel B. Hartwell Wickedly Smart Women Wickedly Smart Women Facebook Community Wickedly Smart Women on TeePublic The Wealthy Life Mentor The Wealthy Life Mentor on Facebook Anjel on Twitter Anjel on Instagram Email [email protected]  Leave Us A Message On Our listener line:   540-402-0043 x4343