How to Build Real Relationships (Not Just Network) - Nida Leardprasopsuk

<p>If you&#39;ve ever collected 5,000 LinkedIn connections and still couldn&#39;t think of who to call at 2 a.m. in a crisis, this episode on how to build real relationships is for you.</p><p>Nida Leardprasopsuk spent years in corporate roles at L&#39;Oréal, Unilever, Reckitt, and Coach before leaving to become a certified executive and business coach, a Gottman-trained couples therapist, and a medical-school-trained sex therapist - an unusual combination she says all comes down to the same underlying subject: Human psychology. </p><p>In this episode, she sits down with John to break down how to build real relationships in a world that&#39;s made us busier, more &quot;connected,&quot; and lonelier than ever, and shares the practical framework she uses to audit, grade, and intentionally grow her own relationship portfolio.</p><p><strong>Key Topics:</strong></p><ul><li>The real difference between networking and relationship building, and why the digital world has made us worse at the latter.</li></ul><ul><li>Why the average human can only meaningfully maintain 150 - 250 relationships, and how that number holds up (or doesn&#39;t) in the age of social media.</li></ul><ul><li>Nida&#39;s relationship &quot;grading system&quot;, from A&#39;s (your closest people) to G&#39;s (general acquaintances), and why misclassifying people creates unnecessary hurt and wasted energy.</li></ul><ul><li>How to do your own relationship audit, and what a healthy relationship portfolio actually looks like.</li></ul><ul><li>Why &quot;how you do anything is how you do everything&quot;, and what her dual work as an executive coach and sex therapist taught her about the same underlying human patterns.</li></ul><ul><li>The surprising link between trauma and high achievement, and why so many successful people privately feel unfulfilled.</li></ul><ul><li>What Harvard&#39;s longest-running study on adult development found is the #1 predictor of a long, happy, healthy life (it&#39;s not diet or exercise).</li></ul><ul><li>How to &quot;make new old friends&quot; as an adult, including Nida&#39;s simple, repeatable dinner-hosting strategy.</li></ul><ul><li>Why she believes being an initiator is one of the most underrated skills in business and life.</li></ul><ul><li>What IRL is, the app Nida built to help people turn digital connections into real relationships, using AI to make the introductions humans rarely make for each other.</li></ul><p><strong>Connect with Nida Leardprasopsuk:</strong>