Latest Kai elmer sotto Podcast Episodes
Mastering the art of meetups 🤓 Joe Robinson, Designers + Geeks
Get Together - October 19, 2020 14:39 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings“I'm fairly introverted which I find a lot of people are surprised by given the number of events that I've run over the years. I don't actually like attending events where I don't have a fairly structured role to play. I think to some extent being the organizer of the event gave me a role and jo...
Rallying allies ✊🏾 Nate Nichols and Steffi Behringer, Allyship & Action
Get Together - October 12, 2020 15:28 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings“We need people to see the power they have in themselves to make a very small change that can compound over time.” - Nate Nichols Nate Nichols and Steffi Behringer are life and business partners and the founders of Allyship & Action. The Allyship & Action Summits took the advertising communit...
Crowdsourcing the world’s hidden wonders 🌎Jonathan Carey, Atlas Obscura
Get Together - October 05, 2020 16:17 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings“We really lean all the way in for our community so they can feel that they're working with somebody and not working for us.” - Jonathan Carey Atlas Obscura is one of the few community-driven travel platforms. The site focuses on the hard-to-find wonders and oddities of the world, from a chu...
Writers helping writers 📬 Fiona Monga & Nadia Eghbal, Substack
Get Together - September 28, 2020 13:56 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings“Community means there's a reason why these people are here, irrespective of the platform.” - Nadia Eghbal If you haven’t heard of Substack, you will soon. The company is just three years old and growing quickly. The co-founders came together to see if they could solve a problem: helping writ...
Training and connecting the coders of the future 👾 Isis Miller, Black Girls CODE
Get Together - September 21, 2020 14:39 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings“We know that there is a tomorrow and we want to be able to prepare our girls and our community for what that tomorrow looks like. Not only prepare them for it, but make sure that they have a hand in building it. ” - Isis Miller Throughout her biotech engineering career, Kimberly Bryant was oft...
“When you growth hack with incentives, you erode authenticity” 🗯 Laura Nestler, Duolingo & Yelp
Get Together - September 14, 2020 14:45 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings“Community is not transactional by nature. Humans seek to connect on a deeper level. They're looking for validation or for support or for something bigger than themselves. Now that community is such a buzzword. Everyone wants it and they want it quickly. We have more levers than ever, and they ...
Walking in the user's shoes🚶🏽♀️Cindy Au of Kickstarter, Zagat, and Brainly
Get Together - September 07, 2020 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings“When you work in community, you get to be the person who thinks about the customer all day long, who thinks about people, who thinks about how they connect.” - Cindy Au Cindy Au set out for a career in academia but soon found herself as employee #9 at Kickstarter. Back then, the community team...
Creating a radically safe, welcoming space online 🏳️🌈 Shana Sumers, HER
Get Together - August 31, 2020 14:59 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings“Ask your community: What they want to see out of the company to make them feel supported? I don't do anything until I talk to the community or reach out to them or say, ‘What do you want to see next? And then I make that a part of my plan.’” - Shana Sumers HER Social App is the largest social ...
Bringing humor & hype to personal finance 💸 Berna Anat, Hella Helpful
Get Together - August 24, 2020 15:34 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings“When you learn in community, your brain grows so much faster than it would on its own.” - Berna Anat Berna brings hype to an otherwise “hella male, hella stale, and hella pale” financial space. She creates videos, writing, and hosts talks that encourage, support and celebrate those of us who ...
BONUS! Bailey's interview with Dee Reddy of Inside Intercom
Get Together - August 21, 2020 13:47 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsIn this behind-the-scenes interview, Dee Reddy of Intercom asks Bailey why the team at People & Company focuses on communities and how the teams has shifted coaching organizations to harness the power of community in a time of pandemic. You can tune into the original episode on Intercom's webs...
The secret sauce behind Mariah Carey’s fan community 🌟 Bree Nguyen
Get Together - August 17, 2020 17:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 56 ratings“Hi, Bree, it’s Mariah. Mariah Carey...Please tell the fans thank you.” In 1999, 16-year-old Bree Nguyen was hired by her idol, Mariah Carey, to do something urgent: get Mariah on Total Request Live (TRL). Why hire a 16-year-old fan? Bree figured out one thing that music executives were uncle...
Making friendship more “user-friendly” 🤝 Kat Vellos, Author of We Should Get Together
Get Together - August 10, 2020 20:50 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings“We lack language for describing the ache when we crave for companionate emotional connection, for that friend bond. Whether it's an ache for a single close friend or a group of friends. I gave it is ‘platonic longing.’” - Kat Vellos Kat Vellos is a user experience designer who uses her trade ...
What makes a Facebook group “off the charts” active 👩🏻💻 Lindsay Russell, Facebook
Get Together - August 03, 2020 15:17 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings“Every party needs a host. Every team needs a coach. It's no different online than it is in our real world communities.” - Lindsay Russell At Facebook, Lindsay Russell was a part of the team that used data to identify, validate and supercharge the company’s biggest community building investment...
Publishing a book through crowdfunding 👩🎤Elena Favilli, Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls
Get Together - July 27, 2020 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings“It's important that people realize that extraordinary women are not just the heroes of the past, but they are around us every day today. They are already part of our communities. We just need to look a little deeper and more carefully, but they are already there.” - Elena Favilli Elena Favilli...
Publishing a book through crowdfunding 💪Elena Favilli, Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls
Get Together - July 27, 2020 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings“It's important that people realize that extraordinary women are not just the heroes of the past, but they are around us every day today. They are already part of our communities. We just need to look a little deeper and more carefully, but they are already there.” - Elena Favilli Elen...
Making art to connect strangers 🎨 Ivan Cash, Director of “A Social Distance”
Get Together - July 20, 2020 15:55 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings“I think that there's just some stubborn part of me that wants benevolence towards strangers to be more accepted and widespread. That's my underlying mission.” - Ivan Cash Ivan Cash is an interactive artist and filmmaker whose work celebrates and inspires connections among strangers. He has rec...
Knitters banding together for climate 🧶The Tempestry Project
Get Together - July 14, 2020 13:05 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings“Every piece that's knit is 20 to 30 hours of somebody thinking about climate. And then every person who sees that piece thinks about it and hopefully talks about it...It's activism, but sort of a cozy activism, a “craftivism,” that's not too threatening to people and permeates conversations and...
Helping families talk about race 💌
Get Together - July 06, 2020 19:04 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings“Mom, Dad, Uncle, Auntie, Grandfather, Grandmother: We need to talk.You may not have grown up around people who are Black, but I have. Black people are a fundamental part of my life: they are my friends, my classmates and teammates, my roommates, my family. Today, I’m scared for them.” ...
Helping families talk about anti-Blackness 💌Letters for Black Lives
Get Together - July 06, 2020 19:04 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings“Mom, Dad, Uncle, Auntie, Grandfather, Grandmother: We need to talk.You may not have grown up around people who are Black, but I have. Black people are a fundamental part of my life: they are my friends, my classmates and teammates, my roommates, my family. Today, I’m scared for them.” - Letters...
Helping families talk about anti-Blackness 💌
Get Together - July 06, 2020 19:04 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings“Mom, Dad, Uncle, Auntie, Grandfather, Grandmother: We need to talk.You may not have grown up around people who are Black, but I have. Black people are a fundamental part of my life: they are my friends, my classmates and teammates, my roommates, my family. Today, I’m scared for them.” ...
What a little "social courage" can do: Connecting strangers through tea time 🍵 Ankit Shah, Tea With Strangers
Get Together - June 30, 2020 01:20 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings“If you're going to lead an organization, it's likely that more of your time and energy is going into building an engine and less of your time and energy is going into facilitating connection between people. It's really important for community leaders to recognize if they want to lead an organiz...
A silent book club: how a “happy hour for introverts” spread around the world 📚Laura Gluhanich, Silent Book Club
Get Together - June 22, 2020 17:58 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings“It's not that introverts don't want to talk to people. They really value quality conversation over talking to big quantities of people. [Silent Book Clubs] appeal because you can get that little bit of conversation about something that you're interested in. You don't have to come up with small ...
How a Bay Area nonprofit is humanizing the food system through storytelling and generous listening 🍲 Pei-Ru Ko and Jovida Ross, Real Food Real Stories
Get Together - June 15, 2020 17:22 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings“I always believe that when you present yourself in that deeply vulnerable, authentic, personal place, almost always people meet you there.” - Pei-Ru Ko When Pei-Ru Ko was recovering from an autoimmune condition, she spent a lot of time at farmers markets in the Bay Area and grew close to loca...
Black Lives Matter. Here are some commitments our small team is making.
Get Together - June 13, 2020 12:21 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsThe excerpt below was originally sent out via our Get Together newsletter. You see the original post here, and sign up to receive the newsletter going forward here. Our small team is working on what long term changes we make to take a more anti-racist stance and start dismantling white supremac...
Guide to Giving Circles: Pooling resources to support change and build community 🤲 Joelle Berman and LiJia Gong
Get Together - June 08, 2020 20:26 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings“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 ...
How the “Singaporean voice of youth” found cognitive clarity as a community builder 🧠 Kuik Shiao-Yin, The Thought Collective
Get Together - May 19, 2020 17:49 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings“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...
The music label that feels like family 💽 Aundy Crenshaw of Dirtybird Records
Get Together - May 05, 2020 22:05 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings“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 Claud...
Ritual: Making the invisible, visible ✨ Casper ter Kuile, author of “The Power of Ritual”
Get Together - April 21, 2020 19:46 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsIf 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...
Casper ter Kuile, author of “The Power of Ritual” and co-host of "Harry Potter and the Sacred Text" 🧙
Get Together - April 21, 2020 19:46 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsToday we’re talking to Casper ter Kuile. If you're passionate about how the world builds meaningful communities, you likely know Casper's name. After an early career in grassroots climate organizing, Casper earned masters degrees in Divinity and Public Policy from Harvard. While there, ...
Ritual: Making the Invisible, Visible ✨ Casper ter Kuile, author of “The Power of Ritual”
Get Together - April 21, 2020 19:46 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsIf 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 ...
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