Ep. 10 - Angelina Bishop on Reinventing Networking Through Play and Real Connection

What if networking didn't feel like work?

This week, the PB&J crew sits down with Angelina Bishop, founder of The Social Arcade, to talk about why traditional networking events often fall flat—and how a little friendly competition can completely change the way people build relationships. From trivia and Shark Tank-style challenges to team games that force strangers to collaborate, Angelina shares how she's creating experiences where meaningful business connections happen naturally.

The conversation goes well beyond networking. The hosts dive into generational differences, social skills in the digital age, why face-to-face conversations still matter, the rise of mastermind groups, entrepreneurship at a young age, and why curiosity is one of the most valuable skills any business owner can have. Along the way, they somehow find time to debate octopus intelligence, hugs, pagers, dolphins, and why some of the best business conversations happen over a glass of sangria.

Whether you're an entrepreneur, business owner, or someone looking to make stronger professional connections, this episode is packed with honest conversation, practical insights, and a fresh perspective on building community.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

And just like that, you're here. Welcome to the PB and J podcast, where things get a little messy, a little bold, and definitely not fucking boring.

SPEAKER_03 0:09

We're serving up some real talk, some hot takes, conversations you probably shouldn't have, but we're having them anyway.

SPEAKER_00 0:16

So settle in. This is PBJ. Help us save the whale. Good morning. Welcome to the Resistance. Uh we are here, and so at the end we got Angelina Plus. What's your octopus's name?

SPEAKER_02 0:31

Uh Fred. I'll just say that.

SPEAKER_00 0:32

Fred, Fred the Octopus.

SPEAKER_01 0:34

Who can literally hold its breath out of water for a very long time.

SPEAKER_03 0:38

They're fascinating creatures, those little octopiers. They're plural.

SPEAKER_00 0:42

But they've taken them and they've they like like a glass jar or whatever, and they like, all right, octopus, we put you in a glass jar and they screw the cap clothes and it's like you're fucked. And it like unscrews it from the inside.

SPEAKER_01 0:52

They're really smart. Some people like will refuse to eat them because of how intelligent they really are.

SPEAKER_03 0:58

They survived the ice age. They've survived like every natural disaster. They're 450, like, aren't they billion years old? Like they're like the oldest.

SPEAKER_00 1:08

So a lot of the things that like wiped out life on the surface didn't affect the stuff in the ocean like that that much. Because a lot of it was like, you know, sh like when the media came, like the oceans didn't change that much.

SPEAKER_03 1:19

That's right.

SPEAKER_01 1:20

I'm not sure I wasn't there, but it sounds pretty good.

SPEAKER_03 1:22

So tell me about this wine fest that I missed, unfortunately, that I can't wait to go to.

SPEAKER_00 1:26

You abandoned us, which is fine. I'm so sorry. We're used to it. Um sorry. So we had uh, okay, so you remember we had the 555 international event success. That was dope as hell. So when we were there, the realtor who had us, and well, you know Amy, right? You know Amy, you know Amy before I knew Amy. Yeah, um, we had all this wine. So we uh uh you were there, you were there, right? No, you were there.

SPEAKER_02 1:48

I I'm not 21.

SPEAKER_00 1:50

I don't remember who was there. Well, not everyone I don't drink, and I'm over 21. So it wasn't like uh you were nobody was like forced to drink. We weren't like holding people down, like waterboarding them with with wine. Oh okay. I didn't get to go back there. I was out front. Um we had all this wine, but when we got there, because the furniture was white, or I'm yeah, because the furniture was white, the realtor was like, no red wine. 90% of the wine we had gotten was red. So I had this like sarcophagus of like 30 bottles of red wine that had just been sitting in my kitchen. I know it's the worst thing in the world.

SPEAKER_01 2:24

And the Maldec from Argentina was on point. So delicious.

SPEAKER_00 2:29

And I got tired of this shit just sitting in my kitchen because I don't drink. And I was like, and I don't remember what happened. I just posted a picture of it, and and I can't remember who suggests like we should have a thing to just like consume the wine. And I was like, sweet, yeah, like spontaneous party next Saturday at my house. We're gonna crush this wine. We went through like three of the 30 bottles because the saying was so stupid.

SPEAKER_01 2:48

Yeah, I was gonna say you had all those bottles lined up, and there was like I saw the video. There was like three bottles. There was like, I don't know, but anyways, the sangri was was it was good. Okay. I think as time went by, it got more sweeter than it needed to be, and then I was like adding more wine to mine. But the initial one was uh delicious.

SPEAKER_00 3:13

Well well, we didn't we were like playing it by ear, not like we weren't measuring proportions, which is maybe what we should have done.

SPEAKER_01 3:22

That's fine. My dad makes really good um sungrier, he put cinnamon in it.

SPEAKER_03 3:26

Yes, that's like bad phenomenal.

SPEAKER_01 3:31

I mean, it's still good. I mean, regardless. I knew I was feeling itchy for some weird reasons.

SPEAKER_00 3:42

We do not force people to take fentanyl yet.

SPEAKER_01 3:45

So it's optional.

SPEAKER_02 3:46

What kind of parties are you guys hosting over there? Uh really fun ones.

SPEAKER_01 3:50

Uh wine tasting uh fentanyl parties.

SPEAKER_00 3:53

So no, but so the good thing about every so like I wouldn't have been very big on the pandas getting to you then just like hanging out, right? I'm not I don't want to do business, whatever business happens on the hackers. I want to just chill in.

SPEAKER_01 4:02

Even though there was business being done.

SPEAKER_00 4:04

Yeah, there was gonna happen if you get a group of entrepreneurs. We're all like business people. It's about to come out, you know? But like that's what I love about it happens organically versus like the transition.

SPEAKER_01 4:13

And within friends, yeah. And within friends, too.

SPEAKER_00 4:16

Yeah. Well, it's like if you like, like if you like someone you want to help, you know, if we can benefit together, like we all grew up to, we grow together, right? So it makes sense. But I've always liked people just hanging out. What's interesting when we get people together and they have a bit of sangria, people open up a bit. And one of the conversations that came out of it, which was like really interesting because it was like it was like a house divided, not in a bad way. We had like half of the people talking were very like super affectionate people, and then the other half are very affection verse because maybe they didn't grow up with affection or whatever. And it was so interesting seeing like the oh, you're talking about the hugs, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:50

The hugs huggers. So like when Ashley. Some people like don't like to be hugged.

SPEAKER_02 5:08

That's weird.

SPEAKER_01 5:09

And some and some people don't mind it. Exactly. No, but like some people literally like you can tell, yeah, some Spanish people are like that. I was like, you're Latinos, you don't like it. All Latinos are are affectionate. Like some people have Latino parents who are very rely on our shit. We're very strict and like, you know, it's it's I think it doesn't matter if you're Latino or not Latino, it just depends on how you were brought up, right? And whether you're not getting like affection directly from your family could translate into you being like, This is fucking weird. Why is someone trying to touch me? Why is trying to someone trying to like hug me? So like that's a thing. So like Ashley was saying, like, um she like met some person at I don't know if it was like a business event or somewhere like that, but it was like this older guy, and he like felt very uncomfortable when she went to go like hug him, yeah, right? So now she's like, should I hug people? Should I not hug people? So now, like before she hugs people, she's like, I'm gonna hug you, right? To see like what kind of reaction they're gonna get. But I mean, also, like, maybe sometimes you may not want to hug someone, so it could work both ways, you know.

SPEAKER_00 6:13

I don't think there's ever been a time in my life that I've not wanted to be touched. I genuinely don't think it's ever happened, like in the sense that like I experience the world through sound and touch much more than I do through sight.

SPEAKER_03 6:27

What is that sound?

SPEAKER_00 6:28

Is that the fire alarm?

SPEAKER_03 6:31

That's very interesting. That's the hug alarm. Let's all hug.

SPEAKER_00 6:34

Let's hug alarm. We've been needing one of those.

SPEAKER_03 6:37

Um very interesting.

SPEAKER_00 6:39

Um is the mic catching that? I hope.

SPEAKER_01 6:41

I know what's catching that. Okay. Is that my pager? Do you guys remember when we used to have pagers back in the day? I love pagers. Did you not have a pager? You don't even know what a pager is.

SPEAKER_03 6:51

No. What year were you born? Oh five.

SPEAKER_01 6:53

Holy smokes. I graduated in 2001.

SPEAKER_00 6:57

Do you know what a floppy disc is?

SPEAKER_02 6:59

No.

SPEAKER_00 6:59

It's like a whole What about Oregon Trail?

SPEAKER_03 7:02

Oh, I do know what that's. You know what Oregon Trail is. So again, 2005, you were born in 2005. I graduated college in 2004. Oh, nice. Yeah. So I'm a little bit older than you. Like just a little bit. Just I couldn't tell. She could have birthed it. So yeah, I could have birthed it. I could have.

SPEAKER_01 7:22

But that's one of the cool things that I like about Angelina is that she is a young entrepreneur, right? We need so much more of that. And the reason I I thought it would be cool to have her on here is to um kind of emphasize that because and she also has like social skills.

SPEAKER_03 7:41

Ooh, tell us about yourself.

SPEAKER_01 7:43

She'll go to networking events and actually talk to people versus like people her age who are like scared to talk to people and just like continue to look into their phone for like approval or whatever, you know?

unknown 7:54

For like approval.

SPEAKER_01 7:56

Phone, do you approve of me?

SPEAKER_02 7:57

It's such a waste of time, you know. You show up to these events, you drive half an hour, and you gotta get something out of it, you know. These people, like, I don't understand just sitting on your phone and going to a business event. How are you gonna get business like that? You know, you gotta get over it. Get over it. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 8:13

And it's true. And I was reading this article that like the event industry is going to like explode even more like into the trillions because um there's a need for social interaction, right? There's a there's nothing will replace face-to-face relationships that are built, and like the strength that you build with that and the business that you can get out of it, versus like just being on your phone or getting leads online, like you lose something. So, like businesses are investing in events, they're in in retreats and ways to get people more engaged with one another, not with their phone, right? And actually have conversations and like grow mentally as a human being.

SPEAKER_00 9:01

The pendulum is definitely swinging back the other way. I was listening to this thing where they were talking about in the 90s, or maybe the well, I wasn't dating in the 80s, nor in the 90s really, um, people would meet people in person, or someone might approach someone at the store or something and be like, I think you're attractive, blah blah blah blah, right? And then the 2000s came where everyone's like, What the fuck is that? Like, talk to me on an app or like add me on Instagram, blah blah blah, right? But and so that not became that became like not a thing that someone, in fact, to the point that like men were like not men were not willing to approach women out and about to if they were interested in them because they're like this is like not cool anymore, that's not acceptable. But now it's swung back that like they were interviewing these women were like, oh, it's so actually refreshing today when somebody approaches me because like that's been dead for so long that like it's it's nice.

SPEAKER_01 9:51

Or or you could actually see people feel like something bad may happen if you like talk to them. Like just looking at like their reactions, like, oh my god, like someone's actually interacting with me. It's like not social, it seems almost seems like it's not social norm anymore to even have like a random conversation with a stranger. Like I learned from my dad, my dad talks to anybody, he'll just walk up and like talk to anybody, and that's kind of like how I am. Like, if I have something to say, I'll say it to the person, a random stranger, like in the street if I want to. Or like if I'm at a store and I'm looking at something, I'll be like, oh my god, I really like this thing, and I'll be like, You should totally buy this thing, right? And like some people like will interact, a lot of people will interact with you, but there's always like this select few of people who are like almost stunned by the fact that somebody like randomly talked to them.

SPEAKER_00 10:42

I will actually so I'm uh I tend to study phenomena because I have a lot of time and I'm I like to learn things. I will tell you what I believe actually caused it 9-11. Because I'll I know this is interesting. I'll tell you why is because America, if you think of back like the 90s where like people went to Toys R Us, you and your you'd go to Burger King and your kids would play with other kids in like the ball pit, right? And all this, like there was a lot of like you you'd meet, you know, you just meet someone on and about a lot of jerk, whatever, but like people met people, right? You know what I'm saying? People were meeting people that happened in America transitioned to a fear mentality of you can't trust your neighbor, you don't know what they're into, you can't trust the person you don't know.

SPEAKER_01 11:21

Or or like I remember back in the day, I used to like go out and go play out in the out in the street, like, and then come back later like that night, and it'd be okay, right? But like what's really weird is like if I had kids right now, I probably wouldn't let them go out and play. And I'm trying to understand that's that's where it starts.

SPEAKER_00 11:44

America transitioned to a fear-first culture.

SPEAKER_01 11:47

Yeah, I mean it's kind of it's kind of shitty that you or like if someone does let their kids go out and play, the cops will find the kids and then they'll come back and get the parents in trouble. That's crazy, right?

SPEAKER_00 12:02

America's police militia forces has not helped anything, but a lot of it is like America just became a fear culture, which is you know, if you and I know I talk about this a lot, but like why Europe is just better in every single way. But um in Europe, I think it's because you have so many countries that are like meshed together that have spent like since the fall of Rome fighting each other, and then after the 40s, they were like, we gotta figure out a way to get along. We can't like just keep like destroying each other's infrastructure all the time. Like it if you grew up in Europe, they make it very, very easy and very, very cheap that if you live in one country to go to the other countries, and it's heavily advised. In fact, you almost push, like if you live in Germany, like go to France, go see Switzerland, and vice versa, all over the place. And I think that heavy mixing of culture and seeing like holy shit, like there's not that much different between us. Like that culturally leads to like people being willing to embrace other people because like the the thought going is is not you're gonna reject me or it's gonna be problems. Like, we probably have a lot in common, so we probably we should get to know each other. We have value to offer each other.

SPEAKER_03 13:02

I love that. And and going back to networking, there's so many people to your points that are intimidated completely when they walk into a room with people they don't know, they're trying to strike up a conversation, there's an art to it. There's a lot of people that get coached on actually how to do that because they might need to get out of their way and they might need some help with that. But what are your best practices? So you go into a networking event and you actually talk to people like Gabe was saying. So what's your intention? Who are you trying to meet? And what is your business?

SPEAKER_02 13:37

Well, my business is a social arcade. Since starting the social arcade, anyone that networks is basically can be a client or an attendee for one of my events. And I would say the biggest thing is just knowing some questions in the back of your mind, I'm gonna say, not really what are you, what do you do, or like what are your goals this year? I want something you're looking forward to next month, you know. How do you feel about working at your company? I feel like people aren't honest, like, oh, I love my job. That's probably not true. Or sometimes they're struggling in their business and they don't want to open up about that. They don't need to seem like everything is fine in their business. You know, you're here to network, you can ask for help. That's okay.

SPEAKER_01 14:16

Right. And I and that's and I think you have a point because I think a lot of people will go to a networking event and have maybe the facade that they already have the answer to everything when in when in reality they they may not. So using the opportunity of being in a room full of different people, different business owners, different industries, why don't you take that opportunity to ask questions and be like, hey, what do you guys do for marketing? Right? Or hey, like, um do you have a good like accountant? Or like uh or you know, just different things about your business that you know you're having difficulties with, go around and survey the room.

SPEAKER_03 14:59

And to your point, that's why there are so, and I'm only speaking of women's groups, but there are tons of women's masterminds popping up left and right for that reason. I'm in one, so I know. And every time we get on a call, it's a strategic call. What websites are you going to to get templates for your social media? What websites are you going to to be published or to be featured in a top magazine like Martha Stewart Living or Forbes? What's a best practice for X, Y, and Z? And I think a lot of people don't know. So that's why these masterminds keep popping up all over the place because it's it's helpful, right?

SPEAKER_02 15:41

And people don't teach people how to network either. You know, they kind of get thrown out there from their companies.

SPEAKER_00 15:46

So there's a science to it. In fact, I've I've had very easy success with networking. Not because I'm a genius, but because we talked about being a genius last time. Um or maybe that was this time, I can't remember. But there's a science that my mentor literally gave me like a 45-minute audio. I and I was like, I was so like, this is you think 45 minutes is gonna wave a magic wand. And it's like, no, there was like this is what this is where you go, this is what you say when you're there, blah blah. This is how you behave. And if you mimic this, you'll make six figures with your eyes closed. And I was like, bullshit, and I was like, and then I was like, holy crap, like that there is an actual, like, there's you can put metrics, you can like there's there's there's steps to the stands, and if you do them, you get the results you want. Have you uh have you found that in your well, first of all, social arcade is an interesting name because most of my great core memories as a kid was at the arcade. So what is your event like that is different than the traditional event? The experience.

SPEAKER_02 16:43

Yeah, it's the experience. Um, Richard and Gabe have been to my event, so they can also vouch for me. I would just say how people connect, and we're trying a new game next event, so you should be there for that one.

SPEAKER_04 16:54

All right.

SPEAKER_02 16:54

Um, it's just you can't sit in a corner when you come to my event. Like it's not allowed. Like you have to play games to other people to connect with other people there. And you get to meet almost everyone in the room, which is also a way I can advertise it for people to come.

SPEAKER_03 17:08

Tell me, tell me, like, I I'm not familiar with your happening at all. So to the audience who's probably not as well, take me through what you do and the structure of like the events, how they're structured.

SPEAKER_02 17:21

So you show up, you get a name tag, and it has a color on it. So you play with your colored table at first, and then you play trivia. Trivia is typically the first game that we start with. It was really it's super competitive. So then we switch to another game. We do um Hot Potato Icebreaker is what we do next, and then you get a number and then you play with those people. So it's like organized rotations during the game. So you're playing with different people and also competing as well to win front.

SPEAKER_03 17:49

So it's called social arcade, so how do you advertise and is there a membership fee? And like how does that whole construct work?

SPEAKER_02 17:55

Yeah, so I do tickets, so you get a ticket through Eventbrite. I don't have a membership just yet. I definitely want to down the road since we're growing in South Florida.

SPEAKER_03 18:03

And where are you hosting these events? So they buy a ticket on Eventbrite to go where.

SPEAKER_02 18:08

So I have them in Boca Rotone and Plantation, and I'm working on Miami right now.

SPEAKER_03 18:13

But where?

SPEAKER_02 18:14

Oh, um, Quest Workspaces. So they're only at Quest Workspaces right now. I have like partnership with them.

SPEAKER_00 18:20

But those are really I love like that venue you had at Boca. I was like, this is awesome.

SPEAKER_01 18:24

So I'll I'll tell you my experience because I've been to a lot of events, and I feel like you kind of figured out a good way to take away that initial barrier that people create when they're going into a social gathering, and it eliminates it by way of game, right? Like I almost felt well, I was at a house party and it was just a house party full of like business owners, right? That's a good way to put it, and I was able to interact with them on a completely different level where I got to know who they were, but more importantly, I was able to collaborate with them to try to win.

SPEAKER_03 19:12

I love this, it's like an adult game night. It was pretty cool, it is an adult game night. That's exactly where it is. It is so cool.

SPEAKER_01 19:20

Um, so that's what I got from it. Um, the cool one, the game that I really enjoyed was the um Shark Tank game. Oh, yes, where we had to create like our own uh business pitch and I mean I thought that was really cool because it put everybody's mind to work on a business level that was interactive but also fun all at the same time.

SPEAKER_03 19:46

I love this. I think you should host an event here. How many people typically come to these events? So right now we're averaging about 20 to 25. That's perfect. Okay. I was gonna actually ask you out. Yeah, 100%. So that's so cool.

SPEAKER_00 20:00

So you serendipity.

SPEAKER_03 20:02

Yeah, you're hosting these events, and which is cool in this space too, because people have all these different little sets that they can like be at. Like they can almost do like a round robin, you know, if they're playing a trivia game. But that is so cool. And you get to know each other, you get to team up, you're building camaraderie, you're building trust. And then at the end of it, I'm sure you're more likely to actually call that person or take the next step to actually connect with them. Yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_02 20:29

I'd someone reach out to and be like, Yeah, I still talk to two people from your February event. I'm like, oh, proof of concept. I know it works. Wow.

SPEAKER_00 20:35

Anytime you can gamify something successfully, you you kill bear resistance. You kill any bearer of resistance, and you've done a great job with that. I will say this though. I got humbled, and I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why, right? This doesn't happen to me often. Um, I am the self-styled god of trivia. And whenever there's trivia, I'm like, be on my team if you want to win. Everyone else was like, expect you're not gonna win. I got zero of your trivia questions right here. Really? I got they were that hard. No, they weren't even that hard. I was just like, I was just like, I couldn't hit shit.

SPEAKER_01 21:12

I got a bunch, I mean we didn't win, but we got a bunch of them, a bunch of them right. But also there was like a logistics like situation, right? Because like the person who had the answer had to like run up, and like some people were closer to like the table, just saying, you know, constructive criticism.

SPEAKER_00 21:28

Well, you did the we did the we did the slap the buzzer one is or the buzzer on the phone.

SPEAKER_02 21:31

Yeah, we changed that.

SPEAKER_01 21:33

Oh, is that was that my yeah, didn't I say something to you? Did you change that? Okay, cool. She was improving it. I was like, yeah, so I like to like analyze like situations and then give constructive criticism and then and then figure out a way to to create maximum efficiency.

SPEAKER_02 21:49

I love this issue we were having. People were cheating. We saw this girl pull up her phone right.

SPEAKER_01 21:54

Oh my god, I would have like chat GPT open and like listening, and then it would give me the answer. Oh my god. I mean I didn't do it, but it's a good thing.

SPEAKER_00 22:01

This is one of those like cattle prods where you shock somebody if they mean we won, but like we should throw a live octopus at them.

SPEAKER_03 22:10

Yeah. What is this?

SPEAKER_02 22:11

I want to know all about this. Yeah, he's cool. So yeah, I got him at SeaWorld and I was at SeaWorld with my boyfriend. I was like, oh, I should get it. It's just better networking with something, you know, like random to talk about.

SPEAKER_00 22:22

Is there anything left at SeaWorld?

SPEAKER_02 22:24

I mean, there's some fun rides. I don't really go for the animals. No orcas, they're not.

SPEAKER_00 22:28

I know that they've gotten rid of a lot of the I've not been there since I was. I mean, like, the dolphins and the wheels are gone completely.

SPEAKER_02 22:36

Dolphins are still there. They got rid of the orcas. I'm pretty sure that was a big thing. It was.

SPEAKER_01 22:41

And then they have well orcas are pretty big, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:44

Yeah. I know. They still have some other animals. Yeah, I've seen it. Or they can kill the trainer.

SPEAKER_01 22:50

I saw this cool thing of an orca, like at one of these uh places, and they would take their like uh fish that they would give them to eat, like one of those little fish, and they would put it like by the edge of the water, and there would be a bunch of birds there, and they would wait for the bird to come and grab the little fish, and then that fucking orca would just consume the fuck out of it.

SPEAKER_00 23:11

Because they knew you had the fish and the bird. I was like, that's so smart. Well, orcas are talk about turning like lemons into lemonade, nobody can make an argument that humans are realistically, wills are probably far more intelligent as far as the ability to problem solve and process than humans are because they have bigger brains, they're bigger animals, right? Yeah, they just don't have thumbs and they live in the water, so like they don't like hold tools and like build cities.

SPEAKER_01 23:40

No, but they're they're smart, but they're but I mean they also have like a darker side. Like, I'm not gonna even gonna go into dolphins right now. I read too much about dolphins. They've got like they're like hor like smart animals, but horrible. Some of the the things they do. Well, they don't have morality, they have stay alive, right? Well, I mean, maybe that's why they're yeah, whatever. Anyways, they're crazy. So um back to networking. Um, when's your next event?

SPEAKER_02 24:05

My next event is June 25th from 6 to 9.

SPEAKER_01 24:09

Okay, and in what location?

SPEAKER_02 24:12

It's in that one's in Boca Raton. It's on Dixie and Federal Highway.

SPEAKER_00 24:16

The same place as last time?

SPEAKER_02 24:17

Yeah, I do the same place as last time. No, yeah, it's a beautiful place.

SPEAKER_00 24:21

Gorgeous.

SPEAKER_01 24:22

And also, Angelina's uh she and I are working on a concept called RY Power Groups, and it's kind of like a it is a close networking group where there's only one per category, but she's the first president of our boca chapter called the Boca Beasts. And uh, when's our first meeting that when when are we gonna meet there?

SPEAKER_02 24:44

Yeah, so our first meeting is gonna be June 30th from 8:30 to 10.

SPEAKER_01 24:48

So it's 8:30 a.m. Yeah, it's a morning meeting, it's an introductory meeting, so pretty much anybody can come and hang out and get to know each other. Wow. Um, I had suggested that what she does in a closed networking group have such great synergy because you're building that fun atmosphere between a group of people. Um, so I'm really looking forward to that, to seeing how that grows and expands. Um, but I think you're a really great person to kind of take that and and and and grow with it. Absolutely. It's gonna be a benefit to everybody at the end of the day.

SPEAKER_02 25:21

Yeah, I appreciate the opportunity. No, I know it's gonna be an awesome, awesome event that we're gonna host that day. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 25:27

Are the games like are they the same games or do you like incorporate new games? Now I'm all excited about it. It's a mix.

SPEAKER_01 25:33

I don't like I honestly had fun. Like I had fun. I don't go to I really don't go to any other events. You really don't? I because I have my own, right? You know what I mean? So I just go to my own. But like I was like, yeah, I'm gonna check this out. And I was like, and I was like, you know what? When I was done, I was like, that was fun. And I was like, that was really different, and I really enjoyed that. So um that's why I said come out, hang out with us. Um, let's try to do something together. Like, let's make let's help you grow your business. Let's try to grow different parts of the networking beast while helping you grow at the same time. I think it's just a benefit all the way around.

SPEAKER_00 26:11

That's a huge compliment from him to the point that afterward he hit me up for the next one. He's like, You need to go see. You should go check it out.

SPEAKER_02 26:16

No, yeah, I gave definitely brought a lot of people there. So I'm also very appreciative of that. And also the shout-out. So thank you. Of course. I know it's like not hard, but like believing in like a 20-year-old can be like a lot, but I'm glad to have that opportunity that someone sees me past my age and more for like my skill set.

SPEAKER_00 26:35

That is always the weirdest shit to me in the world. I don't know who invented that. It needs to like die until death.

SPEAKER_04 26:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:43

The idea that like young people are like inherently more stupid or couldn't have the answer to solutions. I've always been of the opposite side. Like, you're supposed to have better ideas than I had. That's that's how like society progresses. That's right. Like you're supposed to beat me in everything eventually. Like, that should my expectation is that my idea should be worse than yours, not like Wokashino. Like, you have the benefit of seeing something with fresh eyes. If anything, the the older generation's polluted by like the the the tendencies that they stick to that are no longer applicable.

SPEAKER_02 27:17

That's like I mean, I think that's a good point. You know, sometimes I go to these events and they're like, Oh, you're as old as my daughter. And I'm just like, what is that supposed to mean? Like, okay. Yeah, like I love that. Like, you don't want your daughter to be better than you. Why isn't she networking with you?

SPEAKER_01 27:31

You should be like, You're as old as my grandfather. Hit them back with it. That's what I would think.

SPEAKER_03 27:39

I mean, you could say a whole bunch of stuff to that. Yeah, definitely. Just try to walk away.

SPEAKER_01 27:44

I've always I've always had a neutral mind whenever speaking to anybody. I don't care what you look like, I don't care like what your political background is, I don't care what your age is, I don't care about any of that stuff. If I see something good in you, like I want to explore what that is, right? And I think that's the way most people sh should live their life, but unfortunately they don't. They're always like pre-judging situations, or they're not willing to change, or they're set in their ways, or my way is the only way, you know. So I think people should just be more open to learning from anybody and everybody, right? Um, the whole thing about like, you know, I'm older than you, you should respect me. No, like if you can't if you can't respect me, you're not gonna get no respect back. I don't care. You're a human just like me, just because you lived a little bit longer than I have, doesn't give you entitlement, right? Like, respect is always earned, no matter what age you are, and no matter who you are.

SPEAKER_03 28:51

That's always an argument I get into at publics.

SPEAKER_01 28:54

At publics.

SPEAKER_03 28:54

When they assume that they could just cut in line because they're older. Or like they can just like weasel their way in because they're older and I'm supposed to like honor my elders and just that's just never happening. Oh, I do. I I'm there's a line. Yeah, but I've never happened in a few.

SPEAKER_00 29:14

I've had people who are like, I have two things, you have a bunch of stuff, would you mind? And I'm like, Yeah, yeah, that's fine. Yeah, I've seen that. But like I've never had someone be like, I am in my golden years, I'm running out of time, I need to go first.

SPEAKER_03 29:25

Or in general, it may not be at Publix, but like anywhere you've never had that happen.

SPEAKER_00 29:29

Never happen to me.

unknown 29:30

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 29:30

I think they just know better innately. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 29:32

No, but uh, but I know like I know I can see how people who are older may use their age to their advantage, you know, and and that's fine, whatever. That's that's a a good a tactic that you can use for yourself if it's working out, you know. But when you start being disrespectful and rude and not really considerate, that's when like you should really put someone in their place. You should put them at the pasture. And and the reality is is someone who acts that way has probably act that way their whole entire life.

SPEAKER_04 30:04

Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_01 30:05

They're just really much better at it because they've aged more, right? So I call people out. I don't care how old you fucking are.

SPEAKER_00 30:14

I think it's partially because my mom's like a god and just has the answer to everything. But her thing was always just from when I was younger, she was like, by the time you're like 10 or 12, you should have or I should have imparted in you everything I've learned from my life so that you start way ahead of me. So your progress should like embar embarrass me almost, like to the point that you got so much further ahead. And then in theory, you should do the same thing for the next generation. Yeah. So our just coming up, our understanding was never my mom was never like I'm older than you, I know better. In fact, my mom's never disciplined me like really in her life. She's never been that way. It's just always like, if anything, she always wanted things to be collaborative, or she would ask me, like, what do you think should happen? Like, I've taught you, I've taught you everything I know. Now taking that info, what should you know? Because if I tell you what to do or how it should be done, you didn't learn anything.

SPEAKER_01 31:04

You have to learn on your own. But you know what? Like, older people they have wisdom, they have like years of experience, they've seen things that you haven't seen. Like, there is great value in engaging with people who are older than you, just like you would engage with someone who is younger with you, you will gain so much information and life experience and trials and tribulations and all that good stuff from people that are older than you.

SPEAKER_00 31:30

There's a friend of mine who she's in Spain right now, her name's Kat. She's talking about the kind of mastermind thing, she started something called the Women's Entrepreneurs Network. And her thing was they kind of like a mastermind, they get a bunch of women entrepreneurs together and like what are all the mistakes you've made? Yeah, what are the things that work for you? And like, so everybody like gets the collective hive mind learning of what everyone's been through. So everyone experiences like a hundred years and like an hour or two, and she's been going like around the world now versus to be like, all right, in other countries, like what have you learned? Because there's so much information out there, and I think it's like she's nomading around Europe, just doing it and helling these events, and it's like it's so cool. And I think which with the mastermind of stuff for women, like one of the things I used to get annoyed by when I started networking is I wasn't a woman. That was one of the things that really pissed me off. Do you feel excluded?

SPEAKER_01 32:20

I felt no- You make a really beautiful blonde.

SPEAKER_00 32:22

I appreciate it.

SPEAKER_01 32:23

Yeah, like super hot with like some stilettos and like a stick. And your uh your glasses 100% why don't we dress Richard up?

SPEAKER_00 32:35

No chance, 0% chance in drag, totally 0% chance. But I've been um I I uh I was annoyed I wasn't a woman because I felt like and I think so. In our I don't know if you know in our culture, we don't believe in gender equality, we believe women are superior to men, men are inferior to women. So for us, like you put enough women together in a room with their minds together, you can't stop them. Like you cannot beat a group of women who like come together and put their minds together for for something, like you're you're cooked. So I was always annoyed because I didn't get to partake in that. Like I just wished I could have been in there partaking in that. Like to the point, like all my mentors are women. Like, and and I have a few men that I've learned from, but I feel like women tend to be so much more insightful. Just when I started network, I was like, man, I wish I could fuck my dick. Like, I wish I could be there and learn from that and being a part of that. Like I wish I could get fuck your dick, I wish I could like get rid of it. God damn it, dick, you're costing me learning opportunities kind of thing.

SPEAKER_03 33:36

Is that a British term?

SPEAKER_00 33:37

I don't know. I've never heard of that. Like I was just like, curse my maleness. I wish I could be.

SPEAKER_01 33:48

Uh with that type of stuff. No, but thought about it. I think what you mean, you would like to bicuriously live through a uh woman's eyes to see what they've experienced and what they live through.

SPEAKER_03 34:01

Like a fly on the wall.

SPEAKER_01 34:02

And the type wasn't there a movie where like a guy woke up, it was like in the 80s or Smell Gibson.

SPEAKER_03 34:07

Yeah, and he woke up in the morning and he was like Yeah, and he woke up and he was like a woman. And he's a psychopath today. So what women want is not to be with a psychopath. I don't believe it's a coincidence.

SPEAKER_00 34:19

I don't know. I don't believe it's a coincidence that almost every golden age any society has ever had, a woman was the leader at the time. Hmm. Very good.

SPEAKER_02 34:29

I think Miami was the only city founded by a woman, I think, or something like that, like the 1830s or something. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:37

And it's like one of the cultural meccas of America. That's right.

SPEAKER_03 34:40

And becoming the tech mecca of America and the crypto mecca of America and all the things. Miami is really, really changing a lot in the last five years.

SPEAKER_01 34:50

I think it's South Florida. Um, you know, despite like what you what anybody says about South Florida, it's like it is becoming a place not is becoming, it is the place to do business. I mean, West Palm Beach is turning into a huge tech. You have um off your motto, right? You have that road right there. It's all these different tech companies that are over there. I the IBM IBM was had a huge I don't know if they were created there, but it was a corporate office. It was a gigantic corporate office. Um, I remember like um one of my neighbors was uh a guy that used to work there. They were like these Mormons and they had like all these kids that are like really cool people. Uh we'd go out on adventures together. But I just remember like just South Florida is just turning into like a huge place to just do business and business, and they're keep building more and more corporate offices and things of that nature.

SPEAKER_03 35:47

This was this was like so good.

SPEAKER_01 35:50

Very eclectic conversation. See, I told you it's like she was like, what do we talk about? Whatever the fuck you want. Basically, just led the river carry you. That's right.

SPEAKER_03 35:59

This is great.

SPEAKER_02 36:00

How can people find you or your events? Yeah, they can find me at the social arcade. It's a black, purple, pink logo. If you look up social arcade, I'm pretty sure. What's your domain? Uh I'd have to look at it on my phone, but from what I remember, my phone's.

SPEAKER_01 36:19

We'll put it, we'll put it up, but it's fine. And what's your website?

SPEAKER_02 36:22

My website is thesocialarcade.co C O.

SPEAKER_01 36:25

And what's a good number to reach out to you in case somebody wants to buy any tickets from you?

SPEAKER_02 36:30

Yeah, of course. A good number to reach out is 754-281-6118.

SPEAKER_01 36:35

Awesome. Well, another magical and fantastic event. We'll put all your social media information at the bottom of our stuff. Her handle is the social underscore arcade. Okay, that's right. Very nice. Very nice. So again, I am Gabe, the networking beast.

SPEAKER_02 36:54

And uh Janine Stella with Stellamix, and Julina Bishop, um, Social Arcade.

SPEAKER_01 37:01

See you guys on another one. Doodles.

SPEAKER_03 37:04

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