Jillian Richardson on How to Become Unlonely
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Jillian Richardson is the founder of The Joy List, which is a newsletter with the mission of making New York City – and eventually the world – a less lonely place. She also hosts The Joy List Social, an event where you can show up by yourself and leave with a new friend.
In this episode, Jillian and Eric talk about her new book, Unlonely Planet: How Healthy Congregations Can Change the World.
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Jillian Richardson and I Discuss How to Become Unlonely and …
- Her book, Unlonely Planet: How Healthy Congregations Can Change the World
- Some of the barriers that get in the way of making friendships
- Some strategies we can use to make friendships
- Three relationship strengthening tactics
- How to know when vulnerability slides into neediness
- That looking for the “perfect” person or group of people can stump you in your search for meaningful connection
- When you might want to reflect on your relationship to the idea of groups
- Where to start when you’re lonely and want to connect with others
- How to meet people if you’re an introvert
- The importance of being kind to yourself in this process
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If you enjoyed this conversation with Jillian Richardson, you might also enjoy these other episodes:
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| 0:00.0 | So many people share this struggle and just don't necessarily realize that they don't have a tolerance for having any sort of uncomfortable conversation. |
| 0:17.4 | Welcome to the one you feed. |
| 0:19.4 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, |
| 0:24.0 | quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true, and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:33.9 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. |
| 0:38.6 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
| 0:41.5 | We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:45.0 | But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. |
| 0:48.4 | It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:53.2 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf. |
| 1:13.2 | My father was a flock star. |
| 1:15.0 | It was like Biddlemania. |
| 1:16.5 | But not here in America. |
| 1:18.0 | Dean Reed criticized the American government from behind the Iron Curtain. |
| 1:21.5 | He had lots of enemies. |
| 1:23.1 | He was calming us, think all. |
| 1:24.7 | He wanted to come back home and then think about what happened. |
| 1:28.4 | Dean Reed died. |
| 1:29.6 | Come with me, Ramona Reed, to learn more about the extraordinary life and mysterious death of revolutionary. |
| 1:36.0 | Listen to Red Elvis, a Curiosity Audio Network podcast on the iHeartGradio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:44.6 | This holiday season, 12 strangers, 12 tales. |
| 1:48.6 | Something was out there. |
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