Omi Bell: Your Network Is the Most Underrated Form of Capital

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Open your free iHeartRadio app, search Earn Your Leisure and listen now. There's a quote I found from you where I loved it and I was like I want to start this conversation off from there. You said a billion-dollar network equals a multi-million-dollar company. And so I want you to talk about where you got that concept from

and how do you operationalize that concept into the decisions you make every day. Yeah. So my book, Originate, Motivate, Innovate, Seven Steps for Building a Billion Dollar Network and Get It on Amazon, Barnes and Noble,

Wherever You Buy Books, Every Book. Also the article that you listen to books and it is my voice. So here's the thing that I learned, right? I think when we start businesses, we focus so much on like,

oh, I need to like get the product right. I need to like, you know, figure out how this product works and customers and things like that. But when you hit a wall or when you are just stuck

in a place where you're trying to understand like how to move, you gotta have a network. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think like network also means like

two different things. Like you need to your business network of people that you can go ask questions of, but you also need to have your wellness network,

because if you want to get close to the guy, become an entrepreneur. That's a fact. That's a fact.

But I came up with, what that brought to mind, like coming up with that quote was, I realized the real moment that I started rocking and rolling as an entrepreneur, really, really bringing in impact,

and things like that is when I connected my network to the work that I'm doing, by thinking about how can I leverage it. You want to have, it's an asset.

Your network is an asset. Your ability to reach out and use a free space. Your ability to think about like, our connection to TikTok means that we can connect creators

to different things. We can also do things like figure out how to support even the platform. Sometimes the biggest thing you can do

is not asking for the thing that's right in front of you. It is thinking about what else do they have? What else can they offer? What else is available?

and how you're gonna grow your network. I think billion dollar network means you got enough people there where you can operate something as a multimillion dollar thing.

It's like you need that. You can get all the capital, but when you hit a wall, you need a person. Yeah, I put this on thread a couple of weeks ago.

It was like, I used to believe everybody should start a business. And I was like, I don't understand why anybody would go get a job.

And I don't believe that anymore. Cause like this doing this is like, it takes a special kind of person to wake up to just drama every day, stress every day.

You know, there's no guarantee paycheck on Friday. Like you gotta go hunt, you gotta go find that paycheck. And so like what kind of people do you, and I'm saying that, you're not saying that,

but I'm sure there's something in there you can probably relate to, but I wonder like what kind of people do you think are best suited for this?

Like what is the makeup of a person who is best suited for this journey? Oh my goodness, that's such a good question. But to your point around like insight on that I think that

Your people ask me all the time when should I quit my job? How do I know when my job? How do I know when I think I just jump off jump off the cliff and build you know, while I'm no absolutely not I jump off anybody's cliff. You're not trying to build any wings or None of that you are not a parachute expert do not do that

But what you should consider I always tell them I don't know how resilient you are I don't know if you get down to the wire if you willing to go donate blood Yeah, I don't know if you will like on everything in your house or what you believe here I don't know

You see them say like have you read my journal like good as gazes like My journal I I don't know what you're willing to do for this Mm-hmm So I think that you know, there's a lot of I've been seen a lot of podcasts commentary because I'm also one is practitioner