So maybe on the journey to success and trying to be more, there are been times where you felt

maybe a little isolated, a little alone. Our guest this week, Liz Bohannon, kind of shared

some startling facts about the percentage of leaders and founders that report feeling isolated

and disconnected from their communities. And the thing that kind of floored me is that

at the moment that they took the survey, 70%, 7 out of 10 said that they felt lonely at that moment.

So if you've been through that period, maybe you're feeling it now, I do think there's a lot to offer

you in this episode. Liz is a serial entrepreneur. She started Seiko Designs, which is now part of Noonday

Collection. She's done this mission-based business to help change the world. She's also the

author of a great book called Beginners Pluck. But why you should listen to this episode is if you've

felt alone, if you've felt isolated, she gives some practical frameworks how we can increase our

connection, not just to

our family and our friends, but also to colleagues, how we mastermind and connect with people

to be better professionally, and connect more with the world. The line that is in here somewhere,

but I remember carrying forward is that the connection we seek lies on the other side of the fear of

rejection and how we bridge that gap is what matters and i think liz is going to give us some clues

i hope you'll enjoy this episode i'm j papazan and this is the one thing your weekly guide

to the simple steps that lead to extraordinary results.

All right, Liz, welcome to the One Think podcast.

Thank you so much for having me.

I'm so excited about this conversation. Me too. Me too. I've really enjoyed, I've been diving into your first work, beginners plug, fantastic and funny. So if people miss the footnotes, like you have footnotes, but it's not academic stuff. It just makes you laugh. So definitely, if you grab her book, definitely go there. But today we're going to talk about a lot of your work today is around building community. So where did you

become aware of how important building community is? And where does that start for you? Yeah, you know,

it starts in the same place that my entrepreneurial journey started, really, which was I had graduated from university with a master's degree in journalism.

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