How To Throw a Party They'll Remember (Encore)
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
'Tis the season of gathering with friends and family. It's also a time where some of us yearn for a closer community, like this week's listener. Morgan is looking for a way to hang out with friends in a consistent, meaningful manner. On this episode of How To!, Priya Parker, author of The Art of Gathering, explains how to transform a lackluster hang-out where people just sit around drinking beer into a party with a purpose where guests want to come back. She tells us how to create an event that meets a need with the right rules and the right guest list. She even has tips for sprucing up your next holiday party.
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| 0:31.3 | Hey, how to listeners, it's Carvel. We're off this week. So we're going to bring you a holiday |
| 0:36.2 | favorite. How to throw a party they'll never forget. |
| 0:40.3 | This episode on The Art of Gathering People Together is just as relevant now as it was back in 2022. |
| 0:46.3 | It's filled with all kinds of practical advice, sure, but it also makes a case for why getting people together is important. |
| 0:53.8 | But don't take it from me. |
| 0:55.3 | Take it from the listener who was moved to call us after the recent election. |
| 0:59.1 | Her name is Julie, and she lives in Texas. |
| 1:01.7 | I cannot thank you enough for having that conversation. |
| 1:06.4 | I could so relate to the guests who was working for community and better ways to gather. It became a guide for me |
| 1:14.5 | in creating community where I live. I formed a book club, but it's for podcasts. And I invited a few |
| 1:24.9 | neighbors that I wanted to get to know better. They all were really excited about this idea. |
| 1:30.3 | And we have now formed up a group of six people. |
| 1:33.3 | This has been going on for almost two years. |
| 1:37.3 | We've had a pregnancy or a birth. |
| 1:40.3 | We've had hard times. |
| 1:41.3 | Parents, law, lost, a friend. |
| 1:45.6 | Her husband went into the hospital. |
| 1:52.8 | It has been a lifesaver, particularly this week to have the sister her of friendships. |
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