Ep.5 How To End Your Adult Loneliness with William Gan

William Gan joins me for episode #5 of the All You Can Friend podcast.

 

🎤We discuss

• Will realising as an adult that he had been lonely most of his life
• Navigating social opportunities
• Building successful friendships
• Making friends in new places
• How to heal personal wounds and the power of doing so
• Relational techniques to deepen connection

Find William here -- https://www.instagram.com/william.mindbody/

 

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0:00 -- Intro

01:30 -- The experience of loneliness aged 10 to 23

03:10 -- Finding the question of connection and community

04:05 -- Noticing one's loneliness

06:25 -- Connection in corporate life

10:05 -- Taking opportunities

11:30 -- Social fear (rejection, perfectionism)

13:20 -- Are connections transactions?

15:00 -- Pillars of a relationship

18:30 -- The Big Turning Point

19:50 -- First time full presence

21:30 -- Simmo's friendship trajectory

23:40 -- How to coliving

26:45 -- Overcoming loneliness as a nomad

33:00 -- How to choose the right events

36:05 -- How to have social energy

39:50 -- Navigating social discomfort

43:50 -- Healing the inner wounds

45:00 -- Compassion

47:00 -- Curiosity as the key

49:25 -- Staying one place Vs nomading

52:00 -- Events for connection

53:55 -- Retreats are maximally connective

55:45 -- Friends lead to more friends

57:45 -- Scales of community, friendship, connection

1:03:40 -- The practice & the hunt of busy events\

1:06:20 -- Putting yourself out there more

1:07:25 -- Using Relational practices IRL is tough!

1:09:25 -- Reflecting and share impact

1:14:15 -- Advice for finding connection

1:17:30 -- Where to find William

 

🤝Let's Connect!😁

https://www.instagram.com/MrSimmoSimpson/

https://twitter.com/MrSimmoSimpson

 

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Unlock the friend zone: find your social powers and start making more epic friendships today! #loneliness #friendship #community

 

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