314. Adults Need Parties Too: Tips for Hosting a Simple Yet Effective Cocktail Party. Nick Gray

You can build big relationships by hosting small gatherings! All new relationships start in the acquaintance phase. How could life be different if we had different friends and did different things? We need more friends as adults not less! We get into our habits instead we need to get a sitter! Switch things up! Nick Gray knows about father/son bonding he learned sales from a young age from his dad. Let's see what my dad says about partying! Better Call Daddy: The Safe Space For Controversy. On this episode of Better Call Daddy, the guest Nick Gray shares his insights on how to host a party with kids. He believes that it is essential to create adult relationships as we get older and suggests ideas to host a separate kids' party while adults socialize without using children as conversational crutches. Nick also discusses his experience as a museum tour guide and how he practiced and improved his skills by reading survey forms and getting feedback from guests. He offers tips on hosting a successful party, including small invitations and not overthinking the guest list. The episode also covers icebreaker questions for introverts, cutting people off, and how to judge character for social events. Additionally, Nick shares his experience working with his parents after college, helping his dad's newly established company that he started in the basement of their house. Nick Gray is an entrepreneur and author living in Austin, Texas. He started and sold two successful companies: Flight Display Systems and Museum Hack. Nick is the author of The 2-Hour Cocktail Party , a step-by-step handbook that teaches you how to build big relationships by hosting small gatherings. Over 75,000 people have watched his TEDx talk about why he hates most museums. He’s been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and New York Magazine called him a host of “culturally significant parties.” Visit his websites at www.nickgray.net and www.party.pro or find him on Twitter , Instagram , and TikTok. Helpful links: Partiful Event Platform: Review and Comparison (2023) 32 Funny Ideas for Anything but a Cup Party 18 Color Theme Party Ideas for 2023 Icebreaker Card Games: Questions & Review of 5 Popular 2023 Decks How to Host a Party in a Small Apartment 31 Summer Camp Activities for Adults Icebreakers: The Ultimate Guide for 2023 Connect with Nick https://nickgray.net/ Nick's book The 2-Hour Cocktail Party: How to Build Big Relationships with Small Gatherings Nick's business https://tripeak.com/ Connect with Reena bettercalldaddy.com linkedin.com/in/reenafriedmanwatts instagram.com/reenafriedmanwatts instagram.com/bettercalldaddypodcast twitter.com/reenareena Me and my dad would love to hear from you, drop us a review, reviews help more people find the show, and let us know what you like and what you'd like us to change, please share the show with one friend who you think would be helped by the show ratethispodcast.com/bettercalldaddy podchaser.com/bettercalldaddy Are you a popular podcaster or a rising influencer? Or do you have a great idea for an online business? Then you should know that every great website starts with an awesome domain name. Namecheap offers hundreds of domain extensions, from the traditional dot com to creative extensions for podcasters like dot fm, dot live, or dot space. Namecheap is the world’s 2nd largest domain registrar, with nearly 17 million domains under management and a top web service provider for everything you need to launch an amazing website. Namecheap offers hundreds of domain extensions from the traditional .com to creative extensions like .fm, .live or .space Namecheap is offering Better Call Daddy listeners 20% off any non-premium domain name for its first year of registration with the code REENA20. The offer cannot be combined with any existing sales but can override any current sale if its discount is less than 20%. The code is valid for all new and existing Namecheap customers. You can register up to 10 domains per account with this code. To get a domain name with a 20% discount (including .com and 455 other extensions). Go to namecheap.com , search for your desired domain, and use the code REENA20 at checkout. Castmagic is the ai tool I use for show notes and podcast title ideas, it has helped save me tons of time. I talked about it in this episode. Please use my affiliate link if you sign up. https://www.castmagic.io/?via=reena