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How To Throw a Party They'll Remember

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🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 42 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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0:00.0

Hello I'm Ian Stirling and I'm with one of McCain's farmers who grow their

0:04.0

petite hang on these are odd looking potatoes. That's kale Ian. You do know you need

0:09.0

potato to make chips right? Yes but we don't just grow potatoes we actually

0:13.8

rotate different crops to help keep the soil healthy. So we eat McCain chips I'm

0:17.7

helping do some good. Exactly yeah you're supporting the move to regenerative

0:21.8

farming. By the way I do know the difference between kale and potatoes. Of course

0:27.2

you do. McCain let's all check in. The best thing I got on Deepa. That's a good

0:33.2

question. This really nice 80s Adidas jumper. The quarter rates which I'm

0:37.4

wearing. This pink mini skirt. This Jessica Toa hoodie. Probably my unif choke boots.

0:42.0

This pair of jeans I wear them all the time. The main one I'm quite into the

0:45.4

moment is extreme layering. Ranch. White's okay. Relaxed grandpa. Part-time punk

0:51.0

part-time polypocket. I think co-cat is the word. Baggy relaxed and a bit out

0:55.3

there. Like I was thinking in my head welcome to modern life and I'm sorry. Welcome

1:11.7

to How To. I'm Amanda Ripley. Tis the season of gatherings. Dinners with friends

1:17.8

holiday parties at the office and of course family get together. It's a time to

1:23.1

reconnect at least in theory. It can also be a time when we realize how

1:28.7

disconnected we've become. When many of us yearn for a stronger sense of

1:34.4

community than we have. Which is why Morgan reached out to us. I'm 28 now so I've

1:42.4

always had a group of people around me whether it be through my summer team

1:46.0

growing up or through college and my master's program and being just an adult

1:53.4

with a normal job has kind of made it difficult for me to figure out how I

1:57.7

build my community again. Morgan's a public health researcher who lives in Atlanta

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