Bidding for connection with Jess Janz
About this episode
Jess Janz discusses the importance of platonic love and the challenges of connecting with strangers.
Jess Janz is a writer, community facilitator, and the founder of Dinner With Strangers - a project that has brought over a thousand people together for a meal with one rule: no one talks about what they do for work. Her book, The Table Where We Meet, is out July 14th. We set out to talk about platonic love and ended up somewhere more personal - about what it actually means to bid for connection with a stranger, what gets in the way of letting people in, and what happens when someone turns the big scary light on and decides to stay anyway. In this conversation: why we project entire futures onto people we've known for five minutes, the grief of nine years of building something and not knowing where you end and the project begins, why friend breakups are so hard to mourn, and the small everyday acts that are actually love stories - if only we'd name them. What We Cover 1. Why we are obsessed with romantic love over platonic love - and what that costs us 2. How Dinner With Strangers works, and why removing the agenda is what makes connection possible 3. Projection: narrating entire futures onto strangers in coffee shops before they have introduced themselves 4. Bidding for…
Topics covered
- platonic love
- connection
- identity
- friend breakups
- community
- projection
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