# Sam Pressler

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Sam Pressler: Building a Healthy Community Through Civic Renewal, Spirituality, and Local Business

Guest: Sam PresslerHost: Aram DiGennaro In this episode of the Coherent Business Podcast, Aram sits down with Sam Pressler to discuss the complex journey to building a holistic society through the facilitation of healthy civic life, small business, and the need for economic democracy to empower com…

How boys & men seek and sustain social connection

The myth of male loneliness? Over the past few months, we’ve seen a useful correction to the discourse about the so-called male loneliness epidemic. My colleagues Isaac Bledsoe and Ben Smith found that social isolation has increased among both men and women. In most surveys, young women actually re…

Goodpain Podcast Season 02 Episode 017: Sam Pressler & Soren Duggan of Nobody to Call – Men Without College Degrees & the Yearning to Connect

IN THIS EPISODE What the Disconnected survey (2024) established about the college degree as the dividing line in American civic life Why the male loneliness narrative misreads the real crisis – and what "left alone by society" means instead The friendship cliff: why connections collapse afte…

Craving to Be Called In

You may be one of the six million viewers on YouTube who watched the Saturday Night Live skit about the “Man Park,” where the lonely boyfriends of successful Manhattan women are taken to make friends. It’s funny because it captures something real: many men do struggle to make and maintain friendshi…

When There’s No One to Call with Sam Pressler

Many men without college degrees have nearly nonexistent social support, and are often one point of failure away from living in isolation, according to a new research report, Nobody to Call. Their lives are perilous: moving to a new town, losing a job, or the death of a friend could leave them full…

Season 2 - Episode 1 - The Architecture of Belonging

What if belonging isn't something we find, but something we can intentionally create? In the Season 2 premiere of Reimagining Us, hosts Nichole Argo and Scott Hutcheson shift the conversation from what's pulling us apart to what we can build together. Drawing on insights from social psychology, co…

Sam Pressler - The Need to Be Needed

What happens when people have something to offer but nowhere to offer it? In this episode, Daniel Yudkin talks with Sam Pressler about his research on friendship, isolation, and purpose among men without college degrees, many of whom feel disconnected from their communities and unsure of where they…

The Beacon Project Podcast Episode 1: Sam Pressler - The Need to Be Needed

For years, the Common Good Podcast has explored the significance of place, the structures of belonging, and the gifts that emerge when people are invited to contribute to their communities. Today, we're introducing a new podcast that shares many of those same interests. Daniel Yudkin is a social ps…

Old Man Walking Club...A Case Study in Human Connection

During COVID, six childhood friends from West Roxbury tried to reconnect on Zoom. It was a disaster, so they went for a walk instead. Seven years later, they’re still walking five miles every Sunday, and one of them made a documentary about it. Shaun and Chris talk with four members of the Old Man …

Season 2 - Episode 3 - What Makes Civic Life Sacred?

What makes a group of strangers become the kind of people who visit one another in the hospital, check on an elderly neighbor, or come together when their community is in crisis? In this episode of Reimagining Us, Dr. Nichole Argo and Scott Hutcheson explore what makes civic life feel not merely o…