Are you confident about what you want to achieve in life with the nine-to-five job you have right now? It’s time for you to explore life’s possibilities. Upgrade your lifestyle! Stephen Jaye sits down for a conversation with Emily Drost on the future of networking. Emily discusses the corporate world and why it’s crucial to consider contract employment because it provides more flexibility. Emily is the founder of eNTWKS, and she believes in the power of networks and connections between people for an exceptional business. Learn how you could establish a network of power partners, enrich your life more, and be happy while earning money. Set yourself up for success and tune into this episode!
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The World Of Corporate Work, Mindset Shift, And The Future Of Networking With Emily Drost
One of the most frustrating processes I've ever been in is finding jobs in general. I've also witnessed a lot of other people in the same process. It confuses and frustrates me how we can still have such an archaic process. It seems logical that we'll be looking to upgrade this but also, the nature of work is changing quite a bit. Not everyone's necessarily looking for the standard full-time job and getting your business, livelihood or career intact requires networking with people, meeting a lot of people and being connected. It’s essentially connecting your service or product to the person or people that need it the most. I've discovered where the answer is going to come from.

My guest, Emily Drost, is in the process of building a networking platform that is going to make that connection between the product and service you're offering and the people who need it in a way more seamless fashion than what we do which is so much stress. I would like to welcome you to the show, Emily Drost.

Thank you for having me.

Thank you so much. How are you doing?

I'm doing splendidly. Thank you.

Thank you so much for joining and for being willing to come on and talk about this because I'm a futurist at heart. Imagining a future where things are better than certain frustrating experiences nowadays is one of the best ways a lot of people can cope with some things that they're going through. In eNTWKS, I see a little bit of this possibility coming forward. Tell me a little bit about your process. What got you interested in designing this and what you're trying to do with eNTWKS?

My background is in Psychology. I studied Industrial-Organizational Psychology. Primarily what that means is we were studying the motivation of employees and people in the workplace. I did that for quite a bit of time, and then I parlayed that experience into an advertising career where I was still continuing to study motivations for people and consumers.

Over time, what I started to find was that we're in the middle of this shift and people are starting to get frustrated with this idea of the 9:00 to 5:00 work. What's happening is they're starting to seek and figure out how to apply their expertise to the workforce but being able to focus on their expertise. My expertise happens to be understanding how employees are motivated and what they like to do. Also, my expertise happens to be in understanding consumer motivation. Those two come together and I said, "I'm seeing this shift in the marketplace. I'm seeing this shift in the workplace, and I want to be able to support that." I happen to have the technology, experience and background, so I can build that.

The idea started coming together in 2019 for this workplace platform that is based on business networking at its most basic. The idea is that we all have a certain sphere of influence.