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Why Networking Events Are the Key to Success| Natalie Dawson DSH #1289
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🌟 Why are networking events the ultimate game-changer for success? 🌟 Tune in now to the Digital Social Hour Podcast with Sean Kelly to discover how attending events like 10X Growth Con can transform your career and life! In this episode, Natalie Dawson, co-founder of Cardone Ventures, shares her incredible journey from attending a life-changing networking event to partnering with Grant Cardone and building a multimillion-dollar empire. 💼🚀 Natalie opens up about the power of showing up, being present, and investing in yourself to stand out in a crowd of thousands. From overcoming public speaking fears to mastering confidence, this episode is packed with valuable insights for anyone looking to level up. 🙌💡 Whether you're an entrepreneur, a professional, or someone seeking inspiration, this conversation dives into the secrets of building meaningful partnerships, taking bold steps, and creating a lasting impact. Don’t miss out! Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚀✨ CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:25 - Natalie Dawson 01:50 - Partnering with Grant Cardone 04:11 - Overcoming Public Speaking Fear 07:09 - Natalie's Current Projects 09:58 - Donald Trump's Attention to Detail 14:35 - Paying for Access to Opportunities 16:40 - Getting Backstage at Events 18:05 - Natalie and Brandon's Partnership with Grant Cardone 20:35 - Preparing to Meet Grant Cardone 24:44 - Natalie and Brandon's Relationship Dynamics 26:59 - Age Gap Relationship Stigma 30:15 - Micromanagement in Business 33:53 - Handling Negativity Effectively 34:36 - Coping with Negativity 37:15 - Defining Your Goals 41:40 - Listening to the Right Voices 42:40 - Attracting the Right People 45:14 - Keys to a Successful Marriage 48:12 - Staying Positive on Social Media 51:10 - Understanding the Red Pill Movement 56:32 - Closing RemarksAPPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Natalie Dawson https://www.instagram.com/nataliedawson SPONSORS: RXSUGAR: https://rxsugar.com/ LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ #Networking #DigitalSocialHour #SeanKelly #Podcast #NatalieDawson #CardoneVentures #10XGrowthCon #SuccessTips #Entrepreneurship #NetworkingEvents #BusinessGrowth #10xincome #businessautomation #changemanagement #10xrule #grantcardone
Chapter 1: Who is Natalie Dawson and what is her connection to Grant Cardone?
Okay, guys, Natalie Dawson here today, co-founder of Cardone Ventures here in Vegas for 10X Growth Con, right? Sure am. You about to speak? We'll see. We never released the list at a time. He keeps it as a surprise. It is a surprise. We got some big ones. Controversial people, some interesting people. It's going to be good. That's cool. Have you been to the last few 10X Growth Cons?
Chapter 2: How did attending 10X Growth Con change Natalie's life?
I have. So when we partnered with Grant Cardone because my husband and I went to a growth con in 2019. So he got me tickets for Christmas because I was like, this Grant Cardone guy is going to change our life and I think we should be business partners with him. And I forced him to read a bunch of Grant's books.
and decided for Christmas that year, he bought me GrowthCon diamond front row, GrowthCon tickets. Wow. Went to the event, 35,000 people in arena. Those four days changed my life. And we went up to Grant afterwards and said, are you interested in adding another billion to your net worth? What an offer.
Looked a little funny. People make that offer to him all the time. Like people just bullshit their way through all sorts of, you know, I'm going to 10X this. I'm going to do this for you. And he doesn't take the bait very often. And he didn't take our bait initially either, but we invested in his funds and we showed up as competent people around him.
And three months later, we had a joint business called Cardo Ventures. Wow. We've been running that for the last six years. Within three months. That's impressive. So you convinced him. We did.
Yeah. I told him when he just came on, he changed my life. I went to his second ever growth con. No way. And that was my first conference ever. Which one was it? It was the one in Vegas at the Luxor, I think. Okay. Or no, it might've been Mandalay. Mandalay, yeah. Yeah. But I stayed at the Luxor. Dang. And I was just like, oh my gosh, I need to step it up. Amazing.
Yeah. When you see that crowd, like you said, like 20, 30,000 people, it makes you want to just work your way up to that stage.
I feel like the 10X community, what it's done for me is just made me feel okay with being disappointed in myself. And it was the first time that I joined a group of people who were all just like high performers and not saying like, oh, it's okay, Natalie. You just, you're doing okay. You're doing well. They were like, yeah, you haven't done anything. What have you created in life?
What impact have you made? And if you were to go up on that stage, what would you talk about? If you had the opportunity to speak in front of 35,000 people, what's the thing that you've done or you've created or the impact that that would be interesting. Like, could you even talk? Back then, six years ago, when I went to that event, I could not have spoken. I couldn't either back then.
Like, I just would not. What would you have done? Would you like dry mouth? Is that your thing? I would have, yeah. I had terrible anxiety back then. Okay. Has that gone away? Mostly. Now it's situational. So it'll pop up here and there, but I'm aware of it. But back then I had no control over it. Yeah. I would get invited to talk and I'd say no.
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Chapter 3: What strategies does Natalie use to overcome public speaking fears?
Yeah. They're like, we just sat down. Like our coffee's still hot. What do you mean we can go to the bathroom? It was mortifying. And for four years, I couldn't speak in front of groups. If it was more than two or three people, like the words could not come out of my mouth. It was a very scarring experience for me. Dang, what got you through that? How'd you get over that hurdle?
going to GrowthCon. Really?
I sat there and watched Elena Cardone. I was like, I am so freaking inspired by what she's able to do. Her kids can write their own speech in front of 35,000 people. And Natalie is just too self-important to not figure out this fear, this mumbling that would happen in my head that would come out of my mouth. What am I even doing? So I hired a public speaking coach after that.
I took our own 10X stages. Again, at the time, we weren't partners with them. And I just started actually making speeches. Every day I'd make speech, whether it was a toast at dinner or I would just make up reasons to give talks. So reps. Same. Yeah. Public speaking is actually the number one fear in the world. It's horrendous. It's awful.
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A lot of people learn it from public school, honestly. Because I hated it because of public school. Why? You're presenting on topics you don't care about. And it makes you question yourself. But if I public speak about podcasting or whatever I'm good at, I don't get worried at all. I know I'm confident. I've done the work. As soon as I start speaking, it goes away.
I think that's the difference is when you've done the work, you don't feel like you're a fraud. Right. Or for me, and I don't know if you experienced this as a man, I think of this as like a male-female kind of thing. I wasn't working out. I had just kind of like let myself go a little bit. I was probably 15, 20 pounds heavier than I am.
Just like had no muscle mass, just ate whatever I wanted, but I never felt good in work clothes. And when I thought of public speaking, I always imagined I have to be in work clothes. So I'm going to go get up on stage, have all these lights on me, and I'm not going to feel confident.
In my body and then i'm not going to feel confident what i'm saying So it's just going to create this like cycle So I actually also got in the gym in order to be able to publicly speak helps your confidence, right?
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Chapter 4: Why is paying for access to opportunities important?
Well done. You got a plan. You executed. You have to have a plan before you show up. If you don't have a plan before you show up, what the frick are you doing? I'm the same way. When I see the speaker lineup, I have a plan for every single speaker. Yeah. If you had the chance to meet them, what would you say? What's interesting? What research can you do?
It's already prepared for me for each single person. And I leverage existing connections. So if I see them go on a podcast of someone I'm friends with, I'll bring up their name, establish reputation, and then I'll provide value to them.
Because the worst thing that you can do to somebody in Grant's position or anybody who's powerful is be like, oh, you know what? What advice would you give to be successful? You've written books on this. I watched every single YouTube video that Grant and Elena had put out, which was in the thousands before we were partners with them. I stopped hanging out with my friends. I read every book.
Because I wanted to be business partners. I knew that if they were real, which went to the event to actually figure that out, if this whole thing was real that we saw on Instagram and on YouTube, like these are the people in our lives that we are missing. We can help them. They can help us. And this could be the greatest business partnership that we could ever create.
And so I just went to town taking notes, watching everything, reading everything so that you don't ask the dumb questions. What would you say to your young self? If you were 20 years old, what would you tell yourself? I hate that one. the dumbest question. It's a question that somebody who doesn't know you would ask. Yeah.
It's just a layup. Instead, it's like, hey, I remember you mentioning that you were struggling with drugs when you were 20 years old and that your dad had left or he had died when you were eight years old and it was really hard for you and your mom when you were 20 to
what did you do to get yourself out of the position of being really impacted by the father figures that you had and the drug use that you're in? Like, that's a fricking good question. You only ask that question because you actually know the story and you did your research. Yeah. When you're referencing the ages of their life events, they get impressed.
Yeah. But like, you can't do it. Like, you can't be a super stalker. I was borderline a super stalker. Have you ever had super stalkers? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And that's borderline, but it's impressive the type of questions he comes up with. Like he made Dana White cry because he just knows a lot, you know? So there's a limit.
A lot of respect that's transferred through that. I'm sure you don't do that type of prep for everybody, but you do prep. I do prep, yeah. Can't do none. No, you can't do none. It's disrespectful to the guests if you're doing no prep. Everyone's wasting their time. Yeah. I also hate the one where it's like, can I pick your brain over coffee? No, you can't. Yeah. The answer is no. I hate that one.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of having a plan at networking events?
Oh, you're getting married too? No. My anniversary is the 10th. Oh, nice. October 10th. Nice. Yeah. We wanted a fall wedding on the East Coast. Flowers and everything. Can't wait. Best decision ever. Yeah. They tell you it's a ball and chain. It's the greatest thing ever.
Got a lot of people trying to talk me out of it. Well, there's this... Have you heard of the red pill movement? No. Okay. So you isolate yourself pretty well on social media. Yeah. You're very targeted with what you consume. Yeah. If it's not positive and it's not business stuff, I'm not.
Well done. Not a lot of people operate that way on social media. They call it doom scrolling. They're just seeing all sorts of content. I see deaths on my Instagram, like people dying. I see like half-naked girls.
It's very turbulent. It sucks. No, it desensitizes you. I'm freaking confused. What am I doing right now? Am I watching somebody die? Am I watching this half-naked girl? Am I going and building this business? Am I going and helping people? Like I'm freaking confused.
it sucks yeah but for me i have to study viral content so i have to scroll you know or else i'll not get as many views i'll not have interesting guests i'm constantly looking for cool people to have on why this video is going viral so i'm studying the algorithm but yeah stuff like that will pop up it's super disturbing i'd like to be able to figure out how you can like do this without having this like interruption
Yeah, it'd be interesting to see. If I have any ideas on this, I will like, I'll be thinking about you for the next, for the next while until I figure out how I could, how you can do this in a different way. Cause that like, how do you stay freaking focused?
It's tough. And my attention span has gone down a lot. And they were doing studies on this now because of the scrolling. People's attention spans are shorter than a goldfish now. Isn't that crazy?
To think how capable human beings are. Think of how much potential we have. I mean, the ability to build empires, the ability to build Las Vegas or Dubai out of just sand. And to think that we're allowing ourselves to just get caught in this very silly trap. It's just a trap. It's a trap we created. Somebody's profiting off of this trap.
But like we have all of this capability and all of this potential to write books, to create poems, to fall in love. And like our attention span is now that of a goldfish because of a trap that we're like happily walking in. Yeah. Really interesting. Like why are we doing that? It is interesting. The people that invented the scrolling are like, I heard they're really upset.
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Chapter 6: How did Natalie and Brandon build a partnership with Grant Cardone?
No, I'm with you. There's no long-term data on it yet because it's a newer trend, I guess, but... Red pill. Red pill movement. What is the red pill? You like take a red pill? I guess it's like, have you seen The Matrix? No. Oh, you haven't seen The Matrix? No, no. Why? It's a classic. I'll add it.
There's a famous scene where it's like, take the red pill and leave The Matrix or take the blue pill and stay as NPC, like, you know. Oh.
Oh, so marriage is the matrix. Basically, yeah. And like we don't want to do the matrix. We want to like escape the matrix. Live life as men. Haven't men been able to like screw whoever they wanted and just like have fake marriages for a long time? Hasn't that been for a very long time? Like since the Donna time? Yeah. It's been a thing for a bit. Okay.
I'd love to see you on a podcast with a red pill movement guy. I would love to hear this. I would love to. Would you ever debate? I could set that up for you. Oh my gosh. Totally. Okay. We're going to have to do that next time. I don't know what the heck this has to do with business owners, but happy to have this conversation.
Let's do it. I could get you Myron Gaines or I could get you Rolo. They're both the faces of the movement. Oh, great. I'd love this. It'd be very interesting. I'd love to talk. So these men just like hook up with a bunch of women. Yeah, so they have multiple girlfriends. Cool. And the girlfriends come on the show too? They never have their girls on it. Oh, that makes sense.
What they'll do is they'll have on eight girls and he'll just roast them the whole episode. He'll roast them about marriage? About their lifestyle. Okay. Yeah, so he'll like... Married? Is belittle the right word? I don't know. He'll just talk down to them. Some of them are, some of them aren't. He's had 2,000 girls as guests, so it varies. Interesting. Yeah.
But see, I want... But for you, I would do a one-on-one debate with him. But the right way to debate with him is to bring the girls that he's casually hooking up with. Like, great. To question them. Yes. If we're going to talk about men's empowerment, let's talk about everybody else that's connected to the whole situation and see how well they're doing in life.
Let's do that. I'll have him bring his girls. You'll bring Brandon. You guys question each other. Sit down. I'm down. All right, cool. Let's get it scheduled. Well, stay tuned for that, guys. Natalie, anything else you want to close off with?
This has been awesome. I'm rooting for you. I hope you do a lot of cool things with a lot of cool people and just really excited to be on the show. And thank you for having me. Awesome. We'll link 10X Cardone Ventures below. Cool. Thanks for watching, guys. See you next time.
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