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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Good morning.
This is Laura.
Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Today's tip is to send show notes for your life.
Give people resources to follow up on interesting tidbits and you can extend the fun of gatherings well into the future.
Today's tip comes from a New York Times Good List by Melissa Kirsch.
Just as show notes are often published right after a podcast airs, she passes along her friend's suggestion of sending show notes after social get-togethers.
As she explains, the impulse is the same as with a podcast.
There are so many interesting things I want to follow up on.
After your monthly brunch with your college friends?
After a family gathering?
After a happy hour with your colleagues from your old job?
After a particularly lively sideline chat with other parents during your kid's softball game?
Send an email or text with show notes from the time together.
Like show notes for a podcast.
This would include annotated links to the various topics that came up that you promised to send each other more information about.
The tinted moisturizer that you swear by.
Everyone's favorite crockpot meals that you all mentioned when you were lamenting how sports practices make dinner prep hard.
A link to the poem about the child learning to swim that your friend mentioned in conversation.
The novel your colleague recommended that was based on the author's experience of growing up visiting her mom in prison.
You can compile all the show notes and email or text them out.
Or you can introduce the idea of sending show notes with a playful tone and offer a few entries for the show notes yourself and invite everybody else to reply all and send theirs.
This is especially helpful when you may not be able to find all the links yourself, like everyone's recipes.
If you send a link to the recipe you suggested, other people can then send links to theirs.
I see a few benefits to sending show notes for your social gatherings.
First, you can follow through on each other's recommendations.
When you are planning meals for the next week, you don't aimlessly hunt for the recipe your friend mentioned.
Instead, you look in the text chain.
When you are placing library holds the show notes from your work.
Happy hour, remind you that you want to read Harriet Clark's The Hill.
Sending show notes for gatherings also helps you extend the experience of gathering.
You can look back on specific moments from your time together, which pushes some of the fun into the future.
If you send show notes to a group of people a few times, it may become a routine.
Now, to point out the obvious, it's not necessary to do this.
Sending show notes does not need to go on your to-do list and it doesn't need to hang over your head making you feel guilty until you get it done.
Not having time to send show notes afterwards shouldn't stop you from gathering.
Just gather.
Even if there aren't show notes, the gathering still happened.
It was probably meaningful for everyone.
But if sending show notes would be fun for you and if you think receiving show notes would be fun for everyone else, then send them.
Show notes for life can be a great way of extending the enjoyment of connection.
And I think we would all appreciate a little more connection in life.
If you try sending show notes after your next get together, let me know how it goes.
You can reach me at laura at lauravandercam.com.
In the meantime, this is Laura.
Thanks for listening.
And here's to making the most of our time.
Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.
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