One Way Ticket with Jack Hopkins
Sep 19, 2026 · 24 min · 11 segments
**How to Network Like the Italian Mafia** Most men treat their circle like an accident, whoever showed up stays. The mafia never made that mistake. They built loyalty like infrastructure, ran…
Jack HopkinsHost
Today's episode, I want to teach you how to build a friendship circle, a network similar to the Italian Mafia.
I realised I wanted to talk about this because I had a phone call, two friends of mine, they're inside the new elite, my private brotherhood, over 350 entrepreneurs around the world that have become my quite close friends in some cases.
So really a kind of a passion project for me running that network and we have done so for three or four years now.
And we had a conversation just on the phone about 45 minutes soon as we woke up.
And we spent 45 minutes on the phone and we knew exactly what we needed to do for the day.
Not only that, but we were 10 times more inspired, me and Max, than when we woke up.
And we thought bigger and we thought of bigger possibilities because these guys are doing $600,000 a month.
sort of belief in yourself that anything is possible and that is one of the most important things you can have from the friends that are around you if you have good friends that believe in you and you believe in them there is very little on this earth that is not possible.
But I think a lot of people have friends around them that bring them down, but say the reasons why things aren't going to happen for them.
So I want to give you sort of my two cents on how you build a network, why it's so important, also some of the more strategic levels of networking.
that you can go into to improve your network and also your connections like having a powerful circle is very important if you ever get in trouble they can get you out of trouble you ever need a reservation you can get one at a restaurant you're well known well respected it improves your ability to walk through life so to begin How to vet your current circle.
Today's episode, I want to teach you how to build a friendship circle, a network similar to the Italian Mafia.
I realised I wanted to talk about this because I had a phone call, two friends of mine, they're inside the new elite, my private brotherhood, over 350 entrepreneurs around the world that have become my quite close friends in some cases.
So really a kind of a passion project for me running that network and we have done so for three or four years now.
And we had a conversation just on the phone about 45 minutes soon as we woke up.
And we spent 45 minutes on the phone and we knew exactly what we needed to do for the day.
Not only that, but we were 10 times more inspired, me and Max, than when we woke up.
And we thought bigger and we thought of bigger possibilities because these guys are doing $600,000 a month.
sort of belief in yourself that anything is possible and that is one of the most important things you can have from the friends that are around you if you have good friends that believe in you and you believe in them there is very little on this earth that is not possible.
But I think a lot of people have friends around them that bring them down, but say the reasons why things aren't going to happen for them.
So I want to give you sort of my two cents on how you build a network, why it's so important, also some of the more strategic levels of networking.
that you can go into to improve your network and also your connections like having a powerful circle is very important if you ever get in trouble they can get you out of trouble you ever need a reservation you can get one at a restaurant you're well known well respected it improves your ability to walk through life so to begin How to vet your current circle.
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