HTLA Presents: How Not To Be Lonely: Part 8 - How Giving Back Can Make You Feel Less Alone

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🗓️ 29 June 2024

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Part 8: How Giving Back Can Make You Feel Less Alone

We're back with another installment of our How To Not Be Lonely In LA series.

Today, we're talking about volunteering your time to a cause, and how doing so can make you feel a lot less alone.

Call it selfish, but doing some community service is a really great way to create connections, broaden your perspective of life, and ultimately give you a greater sense of belonging.

Producer Megan Botel is at Growing Hope Gardens in Santa Monica to get her hands dirty in some soil and talk about the benefits of volunteering.

Guests: Carolyn Day, founder and executive director of Growing Hope Gardens; Eleu Navarro, garden and farm team coordinator; Cat Moore, director of belonging at USC.

Some places to volunteer around the city:

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0:31.5	wherever you get your podcast.
0:34.0	Hey all, we're back with another episode of How Not to be Lonely in LA series.
0:39.0	This is How to LA. I'm Brian de Los Santos.
0:42.0	Today we're talking about giving back to your community through volunteering.
0:46.0	With all of our super busy lives and schedules, especially in a fast-paced city like LA,
0:52.0	making the time to do community service might
0:55.0	honestly seem like the last thing on your priority list, but it turns out the
1:00.0	act of donating your time to a cause is a really great way to connect and meet people.
1:05.8	And giving back really helps address those feelings of isolation or loneliness that can creep up.
1:11.8	Producer Megan Motel will take it from here.
1:14.0	All right, I'm walking into growing Hope Gardens here in Santa Monica. It's behind this pretty big
1:25.8	apartment building. Kind of looks like you're just walking into a parking lot for
1:31.8	the building. Oh but here on the left there's this beautiful big green space.
1:37.4	Hi, I'm Megan from L.A.
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