How Loneliness Became a Business Opportunity | UBQT | Ep. 62
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The episode explores the paradox of increasing loneliness despite digital connectivity, featuring insights from Lara Varjabedian on social wellness and real-world connections.
We have more ways to reach people than ever, and somehow feel more disconnected than ever. In this episode of Productive Passions, host Christy Tagye sits down with Lara Varjabedian, co-founder of UBQT, the AI-powered platform built to put face-to-face connection first. Lara and Christy dig into why loneliness keeps climbing even as digital connectivity climbs alongside it, what "social wellness" means as a category alongside physical and mental health, and how organizations, teams, alumni networks, and events are using real-world connection to rebuild the kind of belonging a like button was never going to provide. This episode also includes an excerpt from a previous conversation Lara had with renowned Oxford psychologist Robin Dunbar, whose research on human relationships, including his well-known concept of "Dunbar's Number," explains exactly why it's become so easy to lose touch with people we never meant to lose touch with. If you hear an unfamiliar voice partway through, that's him. In this episode: Why social isolation persists despite record levels of digital connectivity What social wellness means and why it deserves the same attention as physical and mental health How…
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