Small Block - US Chamber of Connection
Charlotte Massey
For more than four hundred years, Chambers of Commerce have helped businesses thrive by bringing people together around shared interests and common goals.
But what if we applied that same idea to human connection?
In this Small Block episode of The Sidewalk Ballet, Chip talks with Charlotte Massey of the U.S. Chamber of Connection, a growing movement that treats connection as something more than a personal responsibility—it treats it as civic infrastructure.
Together they explore the science of friendship, the role of third places, why connection takes more effort than we often realize, and the Chamber's "Six Points of Connection" framework.
Most importantly, they discuss a simple but powerful idea: that one of the best ways to find community may be helping to build it.
Because sometimes the shortest path to belonging is helping someone else belong first.