Produced by People & Company
Hosted by Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, Whitney Ogutu, Mia Quagliarello, Maggie Zhang, Marjorie Anderson & Kai Elmer Sotto
An interview hosted by Bailey and Kevin with Steve Garguilo, partner at Cultivate, which helps organizations unlock their full potential and bring their culture to life.
We talked with Steve about his early career at Johnson & Johnson and his work now at Cultivate, sparking company culture shifts from the ground up.
Read MoreAn interview hosted by Bailey and Kevin with Kibi Anderson who empowered the viewers of “Red Table Talk” to have raw, honest conversations like on the show in their own lives.
We talked with Kibi about why the show sparked a community as well as the tools and support her team offered their community's leaders.
Read MoreAn interview hosted by Maggie and Bailey with Charlie Todd who formed Improv Everywhere, a comedic performance art group based in New York City. They aim to delight strangers through positive pranks.
We talked with Charlie about why people participate in these weird, wonderful prank missions and what has kept him energized over 19 years running Improv Everywhere.
Read MoreAn interview hosted by Bailey and Maggie with Joe Robinson, founder of Designers + Geeks which is a mashup of his personal interests--design, art, and technology.
We talked with Joe about the nuts and bolts of creating an ongoing event series, making divisions like paid vs. free events, formatting, and cadence.
Read MoreAn interview hosted by Bailey and Kevin with Nate Nichols and Steffi Behringer of Allyship & Action. Over the past year, their creative production house, Palette Group, has met uncertainty with community building—creating the Freelancers Cyber Summit to make sense of the ad industry during the pandemic and Allyship & Action in response to George Floyd’s death.
We talked with Nate and Steffi about the role of storytelling, brand, and live events in bringing people together for collective action.
Read MoreAn interview hosted by Bailey and Maggie with Jonathan Carey, Associate Places Editor and Community Headmaster at Atlas Obscura which garners travel tips, articles, strange facts and unique events shared by travel enthusiasts around the world.
We talked with Jonathan about Atlas Obscura’s processes to capture and supercharge contributors on the platform.
Read MoreAn interview hosted by Bailey and Kevin with Isis Miller, Community and Events Manager at Black Girls CODE, a nonprofit organization that provides young Black girls a tech education and access to peers who share their passions.
We talked with Isis about what this work means for her personally, as well as how the organization has gone virtual with online workshops and panels this year, and finally, what a meaningful partnership with Black Girls CODE looks like.
Read MoreAn interview hosted by Bailey and Kevin with Laura Nestler, builder of the early Yelp community and current VP of Community at Duolingo.
We talked with Laura about why she’s stuck with community work for 15 years, the community playbook she developed and implemented around the world while at Yelp, and ruthlessly testing shared activities on all variables--location, timing, size, and qualifications for the leader.
Read MoreAn interview hosted by Bailey and Kevin with Fiona Monga, Head of Writer Partnerships, and Nadia Eghbal, Writer Experience, at Substack.
We talked with Fiona and Nadia about connecting writers and how they notice, validate, and codify what works on the platform to help writers succeed.
Read MoreAn interview hosted by Maggie and Bailey with Cindy Au. Cindy built the early communities at Kickstarter, Zagat, and now, Brainly, the world's largest peer-to-peer learning community.
With over a decade of experience, Cindy shared how she learned by walking in the shoes of users, and how she fostered a team of niche experts that served sub-communities.
Read MoreAn interview hosted by Bailey and Maggie with Shana Sumers, Head of Community at HER social app, the largest community and dating app for LGBTQ+ womxn and queer people.
We talked with Shana about how the HER community has pushed Shana as a moderator, role model and leader, and how she supports superusers to take on moderation roles in the community.
Read MoreAn interview hosted by Bailey and Kevin with "financial hype woman" Berna Anat. Berna leads Hella Helpful, a free workshop that sparked a community of BIPOC and first-gen children of immigrants who talk finance.
We talked with Berna about leading with transparency and role modeling how you want community members to show up.
Read MoreAn interview hosted by Bailey and Kevin with Bree Nguyen, a Mariah Carey superfan turned “Lamb” community cultivator.
In this episode, we sit back, listen, and laugh, as Bree’s shares her bonkers story. Bree went from a 16-year-old Mariah Carey superfan to working for her idol overnight, rallying “Lamb” fans online who supercharged the superstar's career. Bree shares what she learned cultivating fan communities around Mariah and later Michelle Branch, Lincoln Park, and more as Head of Partnerships at Facebook.
Read MoreAn interview hosted by Bailey and Kevin with Kat Vellos, author of “We Should Get Together” and founder of Bay Area Black Designers.
We talked with Kat about cultivating deep friendships in a sea of busy, mobile people and sparking community in otherwise isolating situations.
Read MoreAn interview hosted by Bailey and Kevin with Lindsay Russell who led Facebook's investments in some of the platform's most active and important users: Group Power Admins.
We sat down with Lindsay to learn more about her experience spearheading Facebook’s big pivot towards supporting admins who were cultivating communities.
Read MoreAn interview hosted by Bailey and Maggie with Elena Favilli, the founder and CCO of Rebel Girls, a media company dedicated to inspiring the next generation of brave and confident girls.
We’ll talk with Elena about testing ideas with her audience at scale, curating stories that inspire change, and launching a Kickstarter campaign to build community, not just raise funds.
Read MoreAn interview with Ivan Cash, an interactive artist, filmmaker, and director of “A Social Distance” hosted by Bailey and Maggie. Ivan Cash’s people-driven art projects—emails transcribed by hand, conversations with strangers on the street, a collection of home videos during a pandemic—break a social code and take us below the surface-level.
We talk with Ivan about how personal pain points can transform into superpowers, how he turns ideas into action, and how to craft a collaborative project so that it is exciting to participants and press.
Read MoreAn interview with Justin Connelly and Emily McNeil of Tempestry Project hosted by Mia Quagliarello. “Tempestries” are temperature data visualized in scarves, wall hangings and other items. The colors and patterns are not random but a shared code among “craftivists.”
We spoke with Justin and Emily about the intergenerational community of people that formed around their colorful, knitting framework for climate change.
Read MoreAn interview with Hema Karunakaram & Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, two of the volunteers behind Letters for Black Lives.
In the weeks following George Floyd’s death, Hema Karunakaram and Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani joined hundreds of first generation Americans and Canadians to draft templates for conversations with elders around anti-blackness and racism. In this interview, Hema and Adrienne share how people from all over are working together with peers and elders to provide translated blueprints for these conversations.
Read MoreIn his senior year of college, Ankit Shah founded Tea With Strangers to meet people he'd never gotten the chance to. Today, it's a global community organization. Hundreds of hosts who have brought more than 50,000 people in 25 cities together in real life for small, meaningful group conversations.
In his personal and professional life at Airbnb and now Facebook, “social courage” is the driving force in everything Ankit does. From neighborhood gatherings to global tea times, we talk with Ankit about facilitating connection and leading organizations that increase our sense of belonging.
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