695: Kat Vellos: Secrets to Cultivating Better Friendships

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Self-improvement, How To, Business, Management, Education

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Kat Vellos is a trusted expert on the power of cultivating healthy teams and meaningful friendships in adulthood. Formerly a UX designer at Slack, Pandora, and multiple startups, her work today focuses on helping people design belonging into their lives and workplaces. She is the author of We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, TED Talks, Forbes, Real Simple, Communication Arts, SF Design Week, Lesbians Who Tech, and many more. The hard truth is that it’s hard to make new friends as an adult. Sometimes it’s even hard keeping the friends we have. Friendship is just not as easy as it was when we had time to play with each other at recess everyday in our school days. But hope is not lost. Friendships are essential for our health and well being and there are some simple things you can do to establish and grow incredible friendships right now! Listen in to hear Kat share: The difference between meeting people and actually making friends The 4 reasons it gets harder to make friends as we age The specific challenges for moms in making friends How our relationships evolve (for better or worse) as our various identities evolve The significance of reciprocity in healthy adult friendships The important role of curiosity in friendship How to maintain strong friendships even when you’re on separate life paths Steps to take to invest in a new friendship Specific steps we can take to invest in the relationships we want to grow and preserve Links mentioned: Connect with Kat: weshouldgettogether.com Get Kat’s Book: We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships Kat on IG Kat on Twitter Sponsor info and promo codes: Please find our sponsor information here: shamelessmom.com/sponsor/ Interested in becoming a sponsor of the Shameless Mom Academy? Email our sales team at sales@adalystmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Toy car to Danny from me.
0:02.3	Fluffy slippers to Emma from me?
0:04.6	The Cheesy McChrispy.
0:06.0	To me from me.
0:07.7	Treat yourself to the new Cheesy McChisby from McDonald's
0:10.1	with the delicious cheese sauce, cheese slices and crispy onions.
0:13.2	Go on, you've earned it.
0:15.9	Available until the 5th of Jan, served from 11am,
0:18.0	participating in restaurants only.
0:19.1	Subject to availability.
0:20.4	This is the Shameless Mom Academy, episode 695, with Kat Velos.
0:25.8	Show notes for this episode, including any links mentioned in the episode, can be found by going to
0:29.7	shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 695.
0:43.5	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean. I'm here to give you and other passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead
0:49.6	more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day. One of the best things about the
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0:59.7	to connect with other shameless moms just like you. You can find us over at shamelessmom.com
1:05.4	forward slash Facebook. All right. Let's dive into today's episode.
1:14.1	Katvello. All right, let's dive into today's episode. Kat Velos is a trusted expert on the power of cultivating healthy teams and meaningful
1:18.7	relationships in adulthood.
1:20.6	Formerly a UX designer at Slack, Pandora, and multiple startups, her work today focuses on
1:26.1	helping people design belonging into their
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