friendship and community aren't the same thing

Grownkid

Grownkid & Joy Coalition

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.8 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

the new buzzword everyone seems to be talking about is “community.” and though we keep hearing about the importance of community and how we have to create it, nobody really talks about what it actually is. is it friendship? is it a support system? a social circle? though the line of friendship and community blur, in this episode, we talk about how we differentiate the two, the steps we’ve taken to build both, and why everyone seems to be inconvenienced by them. Resources available: - Youth Mental Health Corps (youthmentalhealthcorps.org) - created by the Schultz Family Foundation and Pinterest - is a first-of-its-kind program that trains and places young adults as near-peer mental health navigators in schools and community organizations. These members expand access to care while building their own careers in the behavioral health field. Schools where they serve have seen fewer behavioral incidents, better attendance, and more students reaching out for support. The Youth Mental Health Corps is now in 11 states and growing. Learn more about the movement and how to get involved at youthmentalhealthcorps.org - The Broken Marketplace (https://www.brokenmarketplace.org/) - Highlights research to explore why the pathways from school to career are broken, leaving students and job seekers unprepared and unsupported. Explores some of the ways the system can change. follow us: @grownkld @gaelaitor @_kaylasuarez join our social club: https://form.typeform.com/to/eBSho4lE overshare with us: grownkid.com About our Partners: GrownKid is made in partnership with Joy Coalition where purpose driven content meets powerful storytelling. From 13 Reasons Why to Unprisoned, Joy Coalition projects are made to bridge generations and drive groundbreaking conversations. This episode is sponsored by the Schultz Family Foundation, whose mission is to create greater opportunity accessible to all. The Foundation supports young adults across the country, whether that’s building stronger career pathways, or investing in AI tools that make the job search more accessible and transparent - ensuring everyone gets a fair shot at success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. Welcome back to Ground Kid. I'm Gail. And I'm Kayla. And the age-old question on Twitter right now.
0:22.8	Is inconvenience the price of community?
0:27.2	Or is inconvenience the price of connection, of friendship,
0:32.6	or basically anything that is actually good for you?
0:37.2	Seems to be a little inconvenient and i felt like
0:41.7	we wanted to do this episode because you all know like the biggest buzzword right now is community
0:48.2	and everyone is talking about it everybody wants to know like what is community how do you build
0:53.5	it like oh my god we have to be in community, it's like a peeve of mind when people are like,
0:58.7	oh, we need to be like in community, in community. And it's like, what the fuck does that mean?
1:03.7	What does it mean to be in community? You know, I don't get it. I really don't get it.
1:09.4	And so I thought that Kayla and I would sit down and chat a little bit about everything we've learned about making friends, connections, and essentially building what is, theoretically, community and our own lives from high school, college, and now to where we are today,
1:33.9	which is in New York, having just moved here.
1:36.7	Because I know for me, if you ask me, like, what is community as a kid, as like a elementary school kid?
1:42.9	I probably would have said, like, oh, it's all the other
1:45.7	kids that are running around in my apartment with me. Like, that was my community back then,
1:50.9	you know? Yeah. Like, those were my people. I knew they were going to be out at 5 p.m. every
1:56.3	single day playing Bay Blades, playing Pokemon, playing Nintendo Diaz. Like, to me, that was to be in community.
2:03.7	But now what the fuck does that look like as an adult? I was reflecting on if I even knew what
2:08.5	community meant when I was like five or in elementary school. And if I had to assume it would,
2:14.6	yeah, like you said, like be the kids around me and I think in that way I am so
2:19.4	grateful to have grown up in an apartment I feel like there's no experience quite like it and like
2:26.6	you said it's like oh yeah every every day at five everybody's going to be outside running around
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