Sep 3, 2026 · 13 min · 8 segments
We’re told that our networks are our most valuable resource. But that’s a lot of pressure! You might worry: *Do I know the right people? How can I meet more of them?* Today, Jason offers a different…
Jason PfeifferHost
Nicole LapinHost
For me, this subject began with an email that I got from a newsletter reader of mine named Caitlin Condie.
She's writing a book about what she calls life teams and wanted to know how I built mine.
She The group of people who celebrate you when you're high, hold you close when you're low, and motivate you to be your best self, end quote.
And that's a lovely idea, right? But as I thought about it, I realized I, me, Jason, I have no singular fixed team.
And I think that that's a good thing, because when you stop worrying about who's on your team, your team suddenly gets a lot larger.
Here in this episode of Help Wanted is how to meet the most important people in your life, which I will tell you in two ideas.
You know, we love when people enter our lives and we often hate when they leave.
It makes us feel bad, as if we somehow failed, as if relationships are meant to be permanent, as if endings somehow devalue beginnings and middles.
But what if permanence isn't the point? What if people are not meant to be collected? What if everyone we know is actually just a visitor? And your job, our job, my job is to lower their barrier to entry.
It seems to come from an essay by a guy named Sam Lansky who either popularized it or just straight up invented it.
People come into your life for a limited amount of time, and then they go away.
For me, this subject began with an email that I got from a newsletter reader of mine named Caitlin Condie.
She's writing a book about what she calls life teams and wanted to know how I built mine.
She The group of people who celebrate you when you're high, hold you close when you're low, and motivate you to be your best self, end quote.
And that's a lovely idea, right? But as I thought about it, I realized I, me, Jason, I have no singular fixed team.
And I think that that's a good thing, because when you stop worrying about who's on your team, your team suddenly gets a lot larger.
Here in this episode of Help Wanted is how to meet the most important people in your life, which I will tell you in two ideas.
You know, we love when people enter our lives and we often hate when they leave.
It makes us feel bad, as if we somehow failed, as if relationships are meant to be permanent, as if endings somehow devalue beginnings and middles.
But what if permanence isn't the point? What if people are not meant to be collected? What if everyone we know is actually just a visitor? And your job, our job, my job is to lower their barrier to entry.
It seems to come from an essay by a guy named Sam Lansky who either popularized it or just straight up invented it.
People come into your life for a limited amount of time, and then they go away.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.
