Sep 21, 2026 · 1 hr · 10 segments
In this episode of the **Systems & Power Podcast**, host Moses Parente speaks with **Asli Erem** about her unconventional journey from studying anthropology to becoming a competitive powerlifter and…
Knowing how to present yourself, knowing how to network and essentially market yourself.
Yes, I think that's really important in the sense of networking and marketing because at the end of the day, you have to attract the consumer, the client, to be like, oh, what is this? I want to learn more about it, right? And essentially, you're also demonstrating and saying, hey, this is me.
This is what I do, right? And with networking, I've read a couple of sales books and stuff.
She was in law school, but she said it's good to apply it outside of things, too.
And when you're networking, it's really not... objectively going to the client and trying to extract what you want it's more of a relationship building process right you want to build a connection build a network and from there like over time you know you can it's first offering and then asking for something i had this cool experience He has a restaurant in Pakistan.
it has specific herbs from my country and blah blah blah he's like can you try it and from there it really impressed me and i tried the the hot sauce and i was like wow like this is something i would actually purchase because i have high spice tolerance and it really made me think like how we if we want to not sell or like how we pitch it or how we talk about our product or our company or startup it just it really opened my eyes on how we network as well
no i i like that story it's um it's i don't know if you've probably heard me say say this before but one of the things i always i always say is um it's not about who you know it's about who knows you and it's you can have a bunch of different connections you can have You can know a whole bunch of people in all these different circles, spaces, and fields.
But if no one is willing to bat for you or actually establish a relationship with you, then none of those mean anything.
And a lot of people, they like to get out when they network and just be very transactional.
And what they largely forget is about you have to... focus on building the relationship first and then essentially keep the connections going.
Knowing how to present yourself, knowing how to network and essentially market yourself.
Yes, I think that's really important in the sense of networking and marketing because at the end of the day, you have to attract the consumer, the client, to be like, oh, what is this? I want to learn more about it, right? And essentially, you're also demonstrating and saying, hey, this is me.
This is what I do, right? And with networking, I've read a couple of sales books and stuff.
She was in law school, but she said it's good to apply it outside of things, too.
And when you're networking, it's really not... objectively going to the client and trying to extract what you want it's more of a relationship building process right you want to build a connection build a network and from there like over time you know you can it's first offering and then asking for something i had this cool experience He has a restaurant in Pakistan.
it has specific herbs from my country and blah blah blah he's like can you try it and from there it really impressed me and i tried the the hot sauce and i was like wow like this is something i would actually purchase because i have high spice tolerance and it really made me think like how we if we want to not sell or like how we pitch it or how we talk about our product or our company or startup it just it really opened my eyes on how we network as well
no i i like that story it's um it's i don't know if you've probably heard me say say this before but one of the things i always i always say is um it's not about who you know it's about who knows you and it's you can have a bunch of different connections you can have You can know a whole bunch of people in all these different circles, spaces, and fields.
But if no one is willing to bat for you or actually establish a relationship with you, then none of those mean anything.
And a lot of people, they like to get out when they network and just be very transactional.
And what they largely forget is about you have to... focus on building the relationship first and then essentially keep the connections going.
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