Get Together

“This is about everyday people coming together with their friends, with their families, with their community, with their colleagues and saying that they have a voice and that they want to use it in a constructive and powerful way in their communities. It just happens to be that we're dealing in philanthropy.” - Joelle Berman In this episode, we sit down with two bad**s women for a conversation on...

“Meet people where they are, not where you wish them to be.” - Kuik Shiao-Yin Kuik Shiao-Yin has been called “the Singaporean voice of youth.” While serving two stints as a nominated Parliamentarian, Shiao-Yin delivered clear, passionate speeches that went viral.  Beyond her work in government, she has committed herself to developing the "social and emotional capital" of the young nation. Shiao-Yi...

“Treat people like they're part of the brand, because they are the brand.” - Aundy Crenshaw Where do you find the funkiest, dirtiest, most addictive house music around? Look no further than Dirtybird Records .   Aundy Crenshaw and her husband, Barclay Macbride Crenshaw (better known as DJ Claude VonStroke) , have translated this style and sound into a community vibe that comes alive at their event...

If you're passionate about how the world builds meaningful communities, you likely know Casper ter Kuile . After an early career in grassroots climate organizing, Casper earned masters degrees in Divinity and Public Policy from Harvard. While there, he started a reading community around the Harry Potter texts , that has grown to more than 70 chapters and millions of podcast listeners around the wo...

Tim Courtney was a key part of a monumental shift at LEGO. For seven years, Tim was the steward behind LEGO IDEAS , a crowdsourcing platform that allows superfans to submit and vote on new ideas they want LEGO to bring to market. If you've ever played with a Minecraft LEGO set, a Big Bang-themed kit, or a collection of women of NASA, you have the LEGO IDEAS community to thank.  Today the LEGO comm...

Today we're interviewing Dr. Gbemisola Boyede, the founder of " Ask The Paediatricians ," an online medical education community that can offer all of us some much-needed inspiration in the time of COVID-19. In Dr. Gbemi's home country of Nigeria, the child mortality rates are high. But what causes these deaths isn't a lack of cost-effective treatments for common diseases. It's a geographic and inf...

In the time of Coronavirus and self-isolation, how do we find meaningful community online? We checkin today with Carly Ayres of the Slack group "100s Under 100," and revisit our stellar conversation with her from almost a year ago.  // If you're on the internet or if you're working in design today, you may have heard of Carly Ayres (@ carlyayres ). She's full of personality, sharp ideas, and has a...

In each episode of this podcast we interview everyday people who have built extraordinary communities about just how they did it. How did they get the first people to show up? How did they grow to hundreds more members? Today we're interviewing Kelsa Trom , the Head of Programming at NEW INC . NEW INC is the first museum-led "cultural incubator." The New Museum here in New York City opened the pro...

In each episode of this podcast we interview everyday people who have built extraordinary communities about just how they did it. How did they get the first people to show up? How did they grow to hundreds more members? Today we’re talking to Nitika Chopra , organizer of Chronicon, a conference that brings together hundreds of people with chronic illnesses. Nitika has been living with severe psori...

In each episode of this podcast we interview everyday people who have built extraordinary communities about just how they did it. How did they get the first people to show up? How did they grow to hundreds more members? Today we’re talking to Scott Amenta , co-founder of the COS Tech Network, a community of people working as Chiefs of Staff in companies around the world. The COS Tech Network start...

Today we’re talking to Erin Wayne, or @ Aureylian as she’s known on the internet.  Six years ago, Erin was brought on as the first pure community hire at Twitch, a company that we cite often and respect for how transparent and collaborative they are with their community.  If you know Twitch, you’re likely obsessed with it. The statistics are bonkers. More than a million people are on the site at a...

Today we’re talking to Catt Small, a product designer, game maker, developer and–most importantly for today’s podcast–one of the organizers of the Game Developers of Color Expo (GDOC). GDOC is an annual event that aims to create a new normal in games by putting creators of color at the forefront–showing off their projects, holding space for new conversations, and pushing games forward as an artfor...

We're interrupting our regular broadcast for a holiday spectacular!  We'll get zany and share some behind-the-scenes snapshots from how our business (People & Company) has grown and changed this last year.  // To learn more about our company, head to https://people-and.com/ Grab your copy of GET TOGETHER—our handbook on community-building 🔥: bit.ly/gettogetherbook Learn more about the podcast: ht...

Today we’re talking to Lennon Flowers and Carla Fernandez, co-founders of The Dinner Party , a worldwide community of 20- and 30-somethings who have each experienced the loss of a loved one. Using the age old practice of breaking bread, Dinner Partiers are transforming life after loss from an isolating experience into one marked by community support, candid conversation, and forward movement. Toda...

Today we’re talking to Jay Herratti, the Executive Director of TEDx. TEDx began as an experiment. Ten years ago, Chris Anderson, the CEO of TED, made a big decision. He took all the videos from the exclusive, private TED conference and put them up online for free. That decision had huge consequences for TED, and Chris recalls from that moment, TED “became obsessed with this idea of radical opennes...

Today we’re talking to Rafe Offer, CEO of Sofar Sounds (Sofar is an acronym for " Songs from a Room" ), a community-led global movement that’s bringing the magic back to live music.  Dissatisfied with a concert-going experience in 2009, Rafe and two friends decided to take action. They hosted an intimate concert in a flat in North London for eight people. At the event, music was the undeniable foc...

Today we’re talking to Camille Ricketts (@ camillericketts ), the superstar Head of Marketing for Notion. If you know what Notion is, you are likely obsessed with it. But if you don’t, here’s our best shot at explaining the software: Notion is an all-in-one workspace for note-taking, project management and task management. Most importantly, Notion is modular. People can remix and reuse the templat...

Are you ready for a good story about people power and the environment? Gravy because today we're talking to Jeff Kirschner who kickstarted a community of people around the world who are picking up the trash on our streets, parks, beaches, and more. They call themselves Litterati. Bailey met Jeff back in 2014, when she was still working at Instagram and Jeff’s Litterati hashtag was burgeoning on th...

Today we're talking to Ruth Verhey, a clinical psychologist who works for the Friendship Bench team in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is a country of over 16 million people, but there are just twelve practicing psychiatrists. Twelve! These statistics are the norm in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the ratio of psychiatrists and psychologists to citizens is one for every 1.5 million and some countries don’t even hav...

Today we're talking to Krystie Mak and Katerina Jeng, the founders of Slant'd , a collective that celebrates Asian American identity, one story at a time Back in 2017, a piece of advice from Eddie Huang inspired Krystie and Katerina: “If spaces don’t exist for you, kick the door down and create them.” Krystie and Kat didn’t see themselves in mainstream media. They wanted a place to share personal...

Today we are talking to Jamie Allen and Sally Parham, two of the folks behind The Squirrel Census . Yes, it is just what it sounds like. The Squirrel Census started in Atlanta in 2012 with a simple, somewhat inexplicable, wild idea: let's count squirrels and present our findings to the public. While they're certainly rigorous, what they're doing isn't dry science. The team is considerate, design-s...

Girls' Night In started as a simple but remarkable newsletter to 300 of Alisha Ramos' friends and family in 2017. It took off immediately. Now, there are more than 150,000 subscribers.  As the Girls' Night In audience has grown, it’s transformed into more than just a media company. As more passionate readers came into Alisha’s world, she activated them, turning women into local book club leaders,...

August 20th, 2019 is a momentous day for us. Our book " Get Together: How to build a community with your people " is now officially out in the world. This book is a handbook, and it's full of both clear steps and principles and inspiring stories. It’s the book Kevin and I wish we had back in the day when we were working at Instagram and CreativeMornings, but it just didn’t exist yet. If...

Today we're talking to Cassandra Lam, co-founder of The Cosmos . Cassandra and co-founder Karen Mok started The Cosmos with a simple question: what does it mean for Asian women and gender non-binary people to not just survive, but to thrive? To not merely assimilate, but to carve their own paths? For their first community event, 20 strangers from all around the country flew to Seattle to meet Cass...

Today we’re interviewing… ourselves! Bailey, Kevin and Kai, the voices behind the “Get Together” podcast and brains behind People & Company. Three years ago, we started People & Company to help more people bring their people together. We work with organizations to make smarter bets about investing in their communities. We also interview extraordinary people organizers on this podcast. And...