Choosing Discomfort to Find Connection with D’Art Strickland

Choosing Discomfort to Find Connection with D’Art Strickland

March 3, 2026 · 54 min · Season 3 · Episode 15

About this episode

D’Art Strickland discusses the challenges of making friends as an adult and shares his journey of pursuing connection through discomfort.

Send us Fan Mail Everybody wants more friends, but nobody knows how to make them. This week, we’re joined by D’Art Strickland, Senior Solutions Marketing Manager at BigID, to talk about something most of us feel but rarely admit: it’s hard to make friends as a grown-up. After a major life shift left him sitting on the couch wondering what changed, D’Art decided to get uncomfortable. From “Dinner with Strangers” to driving Uber for human conversation, he began intentionally pursuing connection...

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