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David Homan has a background so sprawling that introducing him almost broke the show: composer with seven albums and now the person who quietly runs what may be the largest private network of "connectors" on the planet—2,800 of them and counting.
His book,
Orchestrating Connection, co-written with UC Irvine professor Noah Askin, landed at #2 on the
USA Today bestseller list for business books the week it launched. But the real story isn't the list placement—it's the decade of networking philosophy that got him there.
What I loved most about this conversation is how unflinching David is about the parts nobody tells you about publishing: the friends who promise to show up and don't, the launch-day silence from people you'd bet on, and the eight-year-old sending WhatsApp videos threatening a family friend into buying the book. We also got into his new startup,
SOAR Connect, which is trying to solve relationship intelligence without doing what every other tech company does with your data.
In this episode:
- David's five-principle system for "orchestrating connection"—curiosity, vulnerability and diversity as strategic tools, not soft skills, for building real relationship value
- Why he built a private, no-membership network of 2,800 connectors around one hard rule: you can only stay if you ask for what you need
- The book as catalyst, not finish line—how it changed his credibility and fundraising even though everything he was doing was already true three years earlier
- The hard truth about launches: for every 1,000 people who actually showed up, roughly 2,000 who promised to didn't—and why that's the real lesson for authors
- What SOAR Connect is building—a relationship intelligence platform based on trust scores, designed so your data stays yours instead of being harvested like everywhere else
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