Kat Vellos is on the podcast today, and we're talking about creating and maintaining thriving adult friendships. I'm so grateful that I met Kat through a mutual friend - I actually fangirled prettyyyy hard when I met her because I had heard about her work and book and knew who she was.
Kat Vellos is a user experience designer, speaker, and facilitator with a passion for helping people connect authentically. She’s researched, designed, and advised on the user experience of countless flows in digital products serving millions of people at companies like Slack and Pandora, and created community for hundreds more as a facilitator. With her debut book, We Should Get Together, she’s turned her expertise in user research and experience design towards helping people live healthier lives through the cultivation of deeper, more fulfilling friendships.
In this episode, we cover: Our current overwhelm of Zoom meetings, how introverts are expected to adapt in an extroverted world, the challenges of friendship as an adult, how flakiness and other social characteristics can be analyzed through our geographical location, why having friends is not the same as feeling connected and why social connections will not always prevent loneliness, what is still possible through virtual connection, and how businesses can and must adapt to creating spaces of connection for their work teams.
www.weshouldgettogether.com
