Produced by People & Company
Hosted by Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, Whitney Ogutu, Mia Quagliarello, Maggie Zhang, Marjorie Anderson & Kai Elmer Sotto
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 have a single psychiatrist.
Friendship Bench is beautiful community-sourced effort to close that gap. Grandmothers give their time to sit at benches and listen to people facing mental health challenges.
Today we are talking to Jamie Allen and Sally Parham, two of the folks behind The Squirrel Census.
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.
Read MoreGirls' 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.
How did Alisha get “GNI” off the ground? What made the early newsletter so popular? How has she transformed the media company into a community, and how does she think about the business side? Tune in to find out.
Read MoreAugust 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.
Because y’all are our loyal podcast listeners, we thought we’d share a sneak peek with you. So instead of an interview in this episode, we’re going to share the first chapter of our audiobook. We hope you enjoy it.
Read MoreToday I'm interviewing our very own Kevin Christopher Huynh, my co-host and business partner at People & Company, about his inspiring community coaching.
Read MoreCassandra and Karen Mok started The Cosmos with a simple question: what does it mean for Asian women and gender non-binary people to not just assimilate, but to carve their own paths?
Read MoreToday 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.
Read MoreToday we're talking to Courtland Allen, the founder of Indie Hackers, a primarily online community for independent entrepreneurs. By “independent” I mean these are people who are building businesses that make their money from customers. (They're not backed by investors.)
We sat down to talk to Courtland about getting his community off the ground, why they are open and explicit about revenue numbers with one another, and how he’s approached building a business with Indie Hackers.
Read MoreSince the very first CreativeMornings event in Brooklyn over ten years ago, the grassroots events have spread to more than 200 chapters around the world—everywhere from Louisville to Tehran.
Our very own Kevin Huynh, employee #1 at CreativeMornings, sat down with current Chief Community Officer Kyle Baptista and Head of Community Lisa Cifuentes to learn more.
Read MoreInstant Pot, the multipurpose pressure cooker, is so remarkable that it has spurred an outpouring of enthusiasm from a community of fans around the world. Some Potheads name their Pots, while others knit sweaters for the appliances.
We talk to Instant Pot's founder Robert Wang in this episode about how this community sparked and grew, and how they've approached their Facebook group as it's grown.
Read MoreOn today’s show we interview Liz Alpern, one of the founders of Queer Soup Night, groups of folks across the country who host LBGTQ+ parties to raise funds for local non-profit organizations doing the frontline work to resist the current administration.
Why soup? Why a party with a charity? Why launch chapters? We'll get into the whole story with Liz today on the podcast.
Read MoreAlmost five years ago, Carly Ayres started a community in Slack called "100s Under 100," a play on the Forbes "30 Under 30" list and other similar awards. The group brings together a vetted collection of designers, everyone from senior creative leads at big companies like Dropbox to high school students looking for feedback on their college applications.
We get questions about community "watering holes" all the time. People want to know what platform they should use to bring their people together, or what they can do to actually make a digital space engaging. Carly has figured all of this out and more.
Read MoreIn this episode we talk to Aria McManus, an artist and creative director who started Downtown Girls Basketball in 2013. The team for women and people who don't identify as male "who are specifically bad at basketball,” started as a wild idea when Aria got 30 of her artist and designer friends out to play together.
In the six years since, that core group has ballooned to a rotating crew of 400+ of women. Every week they come together to get exercise, relive their love for basketball, and, most importantly, goof off with other creative, fun-loving women. We sat down with Aria in the Lower East Side to learn more.
Read MoreOn July 24, 2010, thousands of people around the world uploaded videos of their lives to YouTube to create Life in a Day, a cinematic experiment to document a single day on earth. All in all, 80,000 submissions containing over 4,500 hours of footage from 192 nations were edited into one 90-minute film of raw, first-person scenes from real people around the globe, echoing the experience of YouTube itself.
In this episode we talk to YouTube's first film community manager, Sara Pollack, to learn more about a film YouTube made called "Life in a Day."
Read MoreTen years ago, Nobu Adilman, Daveed Goldman and their friend Amanda Burt hosted a choir at a surprise birthday party. Today, that choir has evolved into a community, meeting weekly to sing in Toronto's most iconic music venues and beyond. Many of their songs have gone viral, from Prince and David Bowie tributes, to sing-alongs led by famous musicians like David Byrne, Rufus Wainwright, and Patti Smith.
Read MoreLast year, the World AeroPress Championship (W.A.C.) season brought together more than 3,000 competitors at 120 events in over 60 countries. But the idea started with much humbler beginnings—three coffee geeks and a cake in a small room in Norway.
We interview the CEO, Tim Williams to learn more about what makes the competition special and what structure he and his team offer organizers from HQ.
Read MoreWe speak with Dr. Chad Nelsen, the CEO of Surfrider about how Surfrider got started in Malibu, California, and what they’ve done to expand the organization and its impact around the globe. Chad started working at Surfrider when he was 28 years-old and fresh out of grad school. At that time the foundation had just six employees and 20 chapters. Today, there are 190 Surfrider chapters and clubs and over 500,000 activists and supporters worldwide.
Read MoreIn this episode, we interview Hector Espinal, co-founder of WRU Crew, an exceptional run club in New York City. As many as 100 diverse runners gather at the same spot on Mondays at 7:00 pm then take to the streets to hoots and hollers of support from folks in the neighborhood.
How did Hector build something so special? We sat down with him in Central Park to learn more.
Read MoreTo learn more about how Little Free Library grew from one man in Wisconsin to 80,000 stewards worldwide, we caught up with Margret Aldrich, who leads Marketing & Communication for Little Free Library and wrote "The Little Free Library Book."
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