WLP223: Discovering the Barriers to Connection

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Welcome to the second in our special series in association with ShieldGEO, with our guest host <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bree-caggiati-985538140/">Bree Cagiatti</a>, in discussion with an amazing panel of guests:</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode we explore how disconnection presents itself, and we started by talking to</span> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurel-farrer/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Laurel Farrer</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, remote work advocate and founder of Distribute Consulting.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Developer</span> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianrhea/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Brian Rhea</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">has identified this too, and is</span> <a href= "https://www.projectheadlamp.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">building an app to help</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">— in response to an enquiring tweet which blew up into a huge validation of the existence of a problem of loneliness for remote workers.</span></p> <p><a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/teresa-douglas-830bb839/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Teresa Douglas</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, author of Working Remotely, is presently researching psychological safety in remote teams. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tim Burgess,</span> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/burgesstim/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">ShieldGEO</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">co-founder, first experienced loneliness and disconnection in his first job, where he worked alone in an office in a new country — not remote then, but deeply isolated. </span></p> <p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/asiahundley/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Asia Hundley</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">(also from ShieldGEO) pointed out the way that excitement can mask such feelings at first in a new situation (in her case, a ne