I need somebody

Thank you so much.

For as long as I have been in the world of work, I have been obsessed with building communities and being in community with others.

I think that's partly because I've always found it odd that it's so easy to feel completely alone in this work, even when you're surrounded by people, even in rooms like this one, when your entire job is communications and

communicating.

Literally everyone here is in the business of connection, and yet feeling safe and centered enough to be truly open to real, vulnerable human moments is so hard.

So many of our relationships exist in systems that force us into transactional behaviors, even if that's not our intention.

So we become isolated from each other, and getting to a place of mutual trust and openness can feel impossible.