# Jeffrey Hall

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Curious About Friendship (and Shame Cheese)

What if your brain only has room for five close friends, and your spouse already takes up two of those seats? Evelina and Danny start with a Toy Story sing-along gone rogue and end up somewhere much more tender: why so many of us never learned how to actually be a good friend. Both Evelina and Dann…

80: How to Make and Sustain Friendships as an Adult

In this episode, Minaa B. addresses one of the hardest things about adulthood: making and sustaining friendships. She shares research on adult loneliness and how friendships naturally decline without proximity and intentional effort. Minaa explores the barriers to friendship, then breaks down con…

When Legends Turn Deadly: True Crime Meets Cryptid Folklore

When Legends Turn Deadly is a nearly five-hour Terrifying & True true crime and folklore marathon featuring eight stories about monsters, cultural memory, Spiritualism, murder, extremist violence, and fatal belief. The Hat Man, the Deer Woman, Djinn, the Melonheads, the Fox sisters, the Greenbrier …

Building Trust and Opportunities

What if the "big break" in your business isn't actually one big moment at all — but five, six, seven quiet little ones you almost didn't notice? Today I'm walking you through two real encounters from my own week — a coffee meeting that turned into a client proposal, and a networking introduction th…

How to Help People & Let Them Help You

Someone says "tell me how I can help" and you go completely blank. Not because you don't need help. You're drowning. But somebody just opened the door and you can't name a single thing to walk through it with. In this episode, Rachel argues that the blank stare isn't a character flaw. It's a prepa…

The Rest of the World Report | October 1, 2026 — Evening Edition

Weekday morning and evening editions. Saturdays once. Good news on Sundays. All sources labeled. I will never put the news behind a paywall. If you want to support keeping it free for everyone else, there’s a paid option. That’s all it is. THE THIRD CARRIER The United States is moving toward the l…

Making Close Friends

In a recent Journal of Social and Personal Relationships report, University of Kansas Professor, Jeffrey Hall, discovered that it takes roughly 50 hours of time together to move from mere acquaintance to casual friend, 90 hours to go from casual friend to “friend” status and more than 200 hours bef…

5 Reasons People Will Never Go Out of Style in the AI Era

While everyone zigs toward AI, Candice Mitchell, founder of Talent Collective and USA Today bestselling author of Choose You, is zagging toward people. In this episode of The Capability Edge, she shares five reasons people will never go out of style, and why Talent Development teams will be the glu…

Stop Doing Life Solo: Build Your Chosen Family

Why do so many capable, high-achieving adults look up and realize their inner circle feels thin? When we are battling workplace burnout, emotional exhaustion, and cynicism, our instinct is to pull back and self-isolate to "conserve energy." In reality, we are cutting off our greatest lifeline. In t…

Married, Kids, Zero Friends

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! "Male. Married with kids. Early forties. I don't have any friends. Am I the problem?" Ninety men answered that post, most of them saying the same thing: me too. Another man wrote that he has a g…