How To Find Your People

How To!

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Business, Education, How To, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Katie was ready to graduate from college when the pandemic interrupted everything. Unceremoniously cut-off from her group of friends, she’s now in a new chapter of her life but struggling more than ever to find her people. Katie’s friendships at work feel surface-level and she’s anxious about opening up too much for fear of rejection. On this episode of How To!, host Carvell Wallace brings in friendship coach Danielle Bayard Jackson. Don’t worry about finding your next BFF, Jackson says. Instead if we focus on making deeper, more lasting human connections with those around us, genuine friendships will naturally occur. If you liked this episode, check out: How To Make Friends as an Adult Do you have a question we can help you solve? Send us a note at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Subscribe for free on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen. Podcast production by Derek John, Rosemary Belson, Kevin Bendis, and Jabari Butler. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on How To!. Sign up now at slate.com/howtoplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, how-to listeners. Before we start this show, I'm going to let you know about
0:04.5	a story coming up a little later. It's from one of our partners, SAP. Is your business
0:10.0	reaching an exciting turning point? Are you ready to seize the moment for growth? Well,
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0:26.5	of an eSports league seized the moment.
0:56.5	I'd like to meet people who can make me laugh. Please subscribe. No.
1:03.5	Hello. You are my person. You will always be my person.
1:12.5	I really want to find my person like Christina Yang says in Grey's Anatomy, or a good crew
1:19.1	like in Friends. The one thing I feel that I am missing is strong glotonic relationships
1:26.9	and friendships. Welcome to How-To. I'm Carva Wallace. Have you ever stopped and asked
1:39.0	yourself, Hey, what happened to all my good friends? As we grow older, it's hard to
1:44.7	meet new people and create actual relationships with them, ones that are deeper than surface
1:50.0	level acquaintances. Finding friends feels so easy as kids, or at least it does standing
1:56.3	from where we are now. So why is it so awkward to form new connections as an adult? Well,
2:01.8	this week's listener is wondering just that. My name is Katie. I work at a school in
2:08.8	the West Side of Chicago. Katie is one of the many young adults who were part way through
2:13.2	college during the normal times, and then you guessed it, the pandemic hit. At first,
2:21.8	we thought we were getting an extra long spring break, which I really needed. I was feeling
2:26.5	burned out. So the first couple, you know, weeks of the pandemic, I was really enjoying
2:34.6	myself. I was reconnecting with my family. But then came the longer lockdowns and isolation,
2:41.3	the new reality was harder to stomach. Obviously, you didn't have the graduation. My
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