Kat Vellos: The Doorway to Connection

Kat Vellos: The Doorway to Connection

Spending time with friends IRL feels more important (and more high-stakes) than ever. I sit down with designer and community builder Kat Vellos — the author of We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships — to talk about how the past 18 months...
Priya Parker: Discerning the Need

Priya Parker: Discerning the Need

Priya Parker holds an incredible wealth of knowledge about creating transformative gatherings as well as working through conflict. In 2018, she wrote her excellent book The Art of Gathering, and during the pandemic she continued her work as a conflict mediator on Zoom...
Courtney E. Martin: Asking Better Questions

Courtney E. Martin: Asking Better Questions

As Chani Nicholas said on a recent podcast episode, “Questions help orient you toward your own inner wisdom.” In this episode, I go deep on the value of questions with journalist Courtney E. Martin, an ardent believer in the idea that the unexamined life is not worth...