It’s OK to Get Help With Making Friends (Especially After College!)

Imagine you’re fresh out of college and just moved back to your hometown. Suddenly, making plans with your friends feels hard.

Instead of meeting them in the apartment next door or in the dining hall, you’re texting back and forth, trying to get together – but much of the time, it doesn’t pan out, or it’s just not the same. This story is a reality for so many people, including today’s guest.

Jason Edmonds is a Seattle resident who decided to make his own solution: Six Degrees, an event-based social experience that matches people through personality quizzes and groups them into activities, helping people in Seattle find their people. 

In this interview, we talk about vulnerability. We talk about Six Degrees. We talk about the stigma of getting help to find friends. Most of all, we talk about how common this whole experience is. Transitioning from college to adult friendships is hard, and many of us could use a little extra help.

In this episode you’ll hear about:

• The common experience of post-college friendship struggles: in college, socializing was so easy, but as adults it’s more complex
• Six Degrees, an event-based social experience designed to help people find new friends through intentional activities and personality quizzes
• The difference between college and adult friendships and the importance of vulnerability and intentionality in friendships
• Using social media and technology as a bridge when you meet someone at a meet-up like Six Degrees

Resources & Links

Follow Six Degrees on Instagram.

Listen to Episode 21, which is about that shift in friendship during our mid- to late-20s; Episode 41, about the Liking Gap; Episode 123, about maintaining friendships without proximity; and Episode 145, about reframing rejection. 

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Want to take this conversation a step further? Send this episode to a friend. Tell them you found it interesting and use what we just talked about as a conversation starter the next time you and your friend hang out!