How To Find Your People
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2023
⏱️ 39 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.
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| 0:23.7 | Coming to headphones near you on can agree not our best work. We'll be hosting thoughtful conversations with culture's most important figures. |
| 0:21.8 | Talk about genius. |
| 0:22.6 | Talk about generational talent. |
| 0:23.7 | Coming to headphones near you on April 17th |
| 0:25.9 | with a first guest you won't want to miss. |
| 0:27.8 | Available wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:31.3 | Hello? |
| 0:32.9 | You are my person. |
| 0:34.5 | You will always be my person. |
| 0:42.7 | I really want to find my person. You will always be my person. I really want to find my person, like Christina Yang says in Grace Anatomy, or a good crew like in friends. The one thing I feel that I am missing |
| 0:51.3 | is strong platonic relationships and friendships. |
| 1:01.0 | Welcome to how to. I'm Carval Wallace. Have you ever stopped and asked yourself, hey, what happened to all my good |
| 1:08.5 | friends? As we grow older, it's hard to meet new people and create |
| 1:13.6 | actual relationships with them, ones that are deeper than surface level acquaintances. Finding friends |
| 1:19.7 | feels so easy as kids, or at least it does standing from where we are now. So why is it so |
| 1:25.9 | awkward to form new connections as an adult? |
| 1:28.9 | Well, this week's listener is wondering just that. |
| 1:32.5 | My name's Katie. |
| 1:33.8 | I work at a school in the west side of Chicago. |
| 1:37.8 | Katie is one of the many young adults who were partway through college during the normal times. |
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