Host Your Own Events

If you’re willing to take the lead on organizing an event, you can not only control the attendee list, but also structure the flow.

You might consider recruiting a co-host. Dividing responsibilities helps lighten the load. (You can invite three to four guests, and they can do the same.) It also ensures you have help in making the event run smoothly. (If you’re in the bathroom when the conversation lurches into controversial topics, your cohost can steer it back on track.) And of course, the primary benefit is that your co-host will be exposed to your network, and vice versa.