Digital Social Hour
Unlock Social Currency: Networking Secrets That Work | Chip Hopper DSH #1232
Tue, 11 Mar 2025
Unlock the power of Social Currency and discover Networking Secrets That Work! 🌟 In this episode of the Digital Social Hour, Sean Kelly sits down with the incredible Chip Hopper to explore how building meaningful connections can transform your personal and professional life. 💼✨ Ever wondered how to leverage your network for success? Chip shares his insider tips on social currency, relationship capital, and why your next big opportunity might just be "one connection away." 🤝 Plus, they dive deep into creativity, the evolving role of AI, and how to stand out in a world shaped by alien intelligence. 🤖🌍 From ghostwriting stories that change lives to expanding networks in unique spaces like Sundance and Vegas, Chip’s journey is packed with valuable insights you don’t want to miss. 🚀 Whether you're a networking pro or just starting to build your connections, this episode is for you! 🎧 Tune in now and join the conversation! 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 00:35 - Networking Strategies 04:08 - Effective Book Selection Process 04:59 - Specialized Recruiting Group Insights 08:05 - AI Capabilities and Future Potential 12:35 - Understanding Alien Intelligence 14:42 - Seeking Recognition and Validation 18:10 - Your Son's Book Writing Journey 19:20 - Behind the Scenes Experiences 21:09 - Government Control and Creative Freedom 23:53 - Public School Impact on Creativity 26:05 - ADHD and Dyslexia as Superpowers 29:14 - Future Plans for Chip 29:50 - Finding Chip Online APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Chip Hopper https://www.instagram.com/chiphopper/ https://chiphopper.com/ SPONSORS: SPECIALIZED RECRUITING GROUP: https://www.srgpros.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/ Digital Social Hour works with participants in sponsored media and stays compliant with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations regarding sponsored media. #adventure #aitools #artsandculturenews #technologyimpactsinyourdailylife #machinelearning #aicollaboration #socialmediamarketing #howtonetwork #successsummit #networkingevent #selfimprovement
Chapter 1: What are the networking tips shared by Chip Hopper?
All right, guys, we got Chip Hopper here today out till 9 a.m. and joining me. So I appreciate you, you know, giving up some sleep to be here. Yeah, happy to do it. Is that a common thing for you to be out late?
No, no. It's either Sundance or Vegas. That's where I end up. Vegas will do that to you. Oh my gosh. What's your favorite? That's why I can't live in Vegas. What's your favorite activity in Vegas to do? Just going out to the clubs, you know, just hanging with friends. Good old XS, Zouk. Yep, yep. Vegas does have some good clubs, man. Yeah. Yeah. I love music. I love connecting with people.
So those are like my two favorite things. You've done a great job of building a network. Yeah. I love that. To me, networks are one of the most important things you can have connection and how you're connected and who you're connected with.
Right. They call it social currency these days, right? Yeah. Because even though you might not have a liquid amount, you can leverage your network to make that in a certain amount of time.
Right. It's all about currencies that you manage and that you grow and relationships and relationship capital or whatever you want to call it. Yeah.
I'm glad I came to Sundance because I've expanded my network in a new space that I'm not really familiar with between the film space and the biohacking space. And I've added more connections in those spaces. So it was worth it.
Yeah. That's my love-hate relationship with Sundance. It's like, I don't typically stay out till 8am, but when you're out and you're just with these amazing people that have come in from
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Chapter 2: How can social currency influence your success?
all over the world working on film creatives or you know others that are just everyone you meet knows people that you want to meet right so my belief is that for you to get to your next level you're one away right and that one away is most likely in your phone and then if they're not in your phone they're in the phone of somebody in your phone i love that that's a great way of thinking about it yeah but you're right i met people from colombia
Met a couple from Australia, all around the world, not just US. I love that. Because sometimes you get in this echo chamber of just our little local city or local county or even our local country.
Yeah, absolutely. And Tim Ferriss said this years ago that one of the best ways to... Well, I don't know if he put it exactly this way, but in essence, he was saying one of the best ways to gain empathy is to go to more than one country, right?
And the things you learn from living in a different space or even just being in that space, the different way you see the world is really significant in changing the way you... Yeah.
And I think someone in the creative space like you, who, by the way, for people watching this, you're a ghostwriter, traveling gives you important perspectives when you're writing, right?
Yeah, absolutely. To me, I tell people that if they want to improve their connection, the two main things they can do are read and travel, right? And obviously then, you know, talk with people as well. But putting yourself in someone else's shoes, one of the fastest ways to do that is through reading. And the second is travel, in my opinion. Yeah.
Reading or audio books or podcasts. Great ways to learn fast.
Just a little thing for me. I call it reading. Like if you're consuming the knowledge, I don't care if you're doing Audible. I don't care if you're sitting down with a print book. I don't care if it's a Kindle, right? Like to me, it's all learning and bringing that knowledge in. Yeah. Um, for me, reading is, is super valuable and what you read makes the difference.
Certain things are more curated, like podcasts, for example, are less curated often because they're just stream of consciousness. As you talk, uh, books are often more curated, not as much now, but the best books, um, are a lot of those authors have taken decades of knowledge and curated into a single book. So taking in knowledge is much easier and quicker when you have the consolidated content.
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Chapter 3: What is the recommended approach for selecting books?
Agreed.
What's your book selection process? Because there's so many books, right? And you only have a certain amount of time.
Yeah, so I've read a book a week for over 25 years. Damn. And it's been an interesting journey, and it really shifts you. And as I've read, you realize more and more that just because it's information doesn't make it true and doesn't make it valuable. So I love your question of how do you find the best books. And one of the ways that I do it is I listen to those that I trust,
And I try and find people like Ray Dalio says, find people that you trust that don't agree with you because then you can balance your opinions with other people that you see as having studied and thought out answers. And for me, when I can find books that those people resonate with, that is where I start to pull those books together.
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and for me i'm always in the middle of reading four to five books at a time wow and i have a belief that if the book's not resonating with you you don't need to finish it some people pick up one book and they start to read it and they get stuck in it because it's either not resonating or whatever else they leave it on their shelf and they end up not reading for a couple months because they feel like they have to finish that one before they can start another one yeah
to me you're always in a different state of mind so pick up what's working with you right at that time whether you're listening or reading and if the book's no longer resonating or no longer serving you then put it down i love that there's a great site i forget the name but if you google anyone and then after their name type in book recommendations they'll show you what books they've recommended like all the top entrepreneurs and stuff
So I'll do that. I'll see what they recommended. I'll look at multiple intelligent people that recommended that book. And then I'll summarize that book on ChatGBT. If I like the summary, then I'll get the book on Audible 2x speed while I'm in the car. And that's my process.
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Chapter 4: How is AI reshaping the future of content creation?
So you can start to see, okay, maybe these books will resonate with me because they have... similar taste and ratings. That's cool. Years ago, I wanted to create an app that did that with movies where it's like, if you like this movie, you might like this movie because your friends also like this movie.
Because the funny part of it was you would have friends that you always were the inverse of, right? If they loved a movie, you knew you were not going to like it. So it's like if you can know what other people are liking and which ones think like you or resonate with you.
I mean, that's needed because let's be honest, movie critic reviews are so paid for. It's obvious. I can't trust those. So I'd rather have ordinary people give me their opinion on movies.
Yeah, absolutely. And people you know and people you trust. And that's probably one of the biggest concerns with...
the rise of ai right now is it i think it is degrading trust because you don't know if you're really speaking to a person or anymore or even listening to a person even with the videos that are coming out now uh they're getting better and better at you just not knowing they're so good they're almost to the point that they can fool me i i like physically pay attention to see if it's ai but to the average person i've seen joe rogan ai videos that those are definitely working on people
Yeah, absolutely. And people will send me, they're like, what do you think of what Joe Rogan said here? And I'm like, I don't think he said it.
Yeah, but it's going to get to the point where even we can't tell, right? I mean, I just made my digital twin the other day and it's pretty accurate.
Yeah. And one of the ways that they're still being able to distinguish right now is the iris print. Your eye print is hard to replicate. Wow, but eventually they'll probably figure that out, right? Yeah. To me, AI is going to be able to figure out anything that is able to be figured out, AI will be able to do it.
I'm already preparing for it because similar to writing, I think AI is going to take over podcasting. There's already AI podcast companies starting up. I've seen a Joe Rogan podcast where it's just him interviewing dead people with AI. Yeah. So it'd be like him and Steve Jobs, stuff like that.
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Chapter 5: Why does Chip Hopper refer to AI as alien intelligence?
And you have robots that do all the jobs. Where do you find meaning? Where do you find value? So I do see those things as questions we should be addressing. Absolutely. Where are you at on your journey of purpose and meaning? You know, that's a constant evolution, right? And I found that the people that learn or spend a lot of time continually trying to grow and learn,
have that movement and it's constantly evolving of where they are in that space. For me, one of the quotes that has always driven me as Thoreau said, most men lead lives of quiet desperation and die with their songs still inside. I've always felt this pull or this calling to help people sing their songs while they're still alive. I love that.
And that's part of why I help people go straight their stories. And Book Jedi, the name of my company, actually is an acronym. So Jedi stands for a book's journey of evolution, disruption, and impact.
what I found without exception is that when someone writes their story it changes them more than it changes anybody that reads it really it helps them find clarity in their life it helps them move their life in directions that they never would have done had they not taken on the the exercise of writing the book do you ever want the recognition from the success of the stories huh you know I
It's one of those interesting things, right? Like I often ask people, I'm like, if you're building your career, would you rather be Oz or Elvis? And what that means is Oz is behind the curtain making things happen, but he's still a big influence, right? Where Elvis is on stage and a big influence. So there's a lot of influence in both.
And when I was young, I very much made the conscious decision that I wanted no fame. I wanted to make a lot of money and have no fame because both of those things gave me freedom. The more fame I saw it as the more fame you had, the less freedom you had, right? Yeah, there's definitely a trade-off. Yeah, but I found... I've always had income and impact directly correlated, right?
The more income you make, the more impact you can have, the more impact you make, the more income you'll make. And I've realized over the last few years that I was holding myself back from helping more people because I was...
pulling back from that influence space which is kind of that third eye of bringing in that that recognition and that fame so you could actually move even more yeah right um i've been asked to be on some super big podcasts over the years and turn them down and and turn down other opportunities because i was like you know i'm cool being the guy doing the ghost in the background but
And a lot of me still loves part of that, right? There's a lot of freedom in going out and playing in that ghost space. And, you know, I've had many people that have written books for compare me to people like Michael Jordan and things like this. And it's, I'm the Michael Jordan of ghosts, right? And whatever else they say, right?
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