People Like Us

You know that feeling of being in a room, technically included, but still slightly off? Still a little self-conscious, still quietly wondering if everyone else got a memo you didn't? That's what this episode is about. Not the obvious kind of loneliness — the kind where you're surrounded by people and still can't quite exhale. I get into why feeling out of place isn't always a personal failure, why...

There's a version of growth that looks exciting from the outside and feels a lot more isolating when you're actually living it. In this episode I'm getting into the specific loneliness that comes with ambition: the gap between how fast you're growing internally and how slowly everything around you catches up. The guilt of feeling lonely when your life looks good on paper. The emotional weight that...

Making friends as an adult feels hard. But I don't think it's because we forgot how...I think it's because our lives just aren't set up for it anymore. In this first episode, I'm getting into why adult friendship is harder than anyone warned us, why it matters more than we tend to admit, and what the difference actually is between meeting people and building something real with them. Plus a bit ab...