I Learned to Put Myself Out There By Networking with Celebrities

If you’re motivated, you, too, can approach strangers and make small talk.

Author, center, with Tom Selleck and his wife, Jillie Mack, in 1994. Photo courtesy of the author.

When Tom Selleck leaned over to whisper something to me, I smelled the chocolate on his breath from the fancy desserts we had just finished. Not only did I sit next to him and his lovely wife, Jillie Mack, at lunch in a fancy hotel…