Podcast
Honest conversations about connecting with people: making friends, dating, building confidence, and the everyday social skills that bring us together.
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About the show
The Social Connection Chronicles is a conversation between two friends about the skill almost nobody teaches: how to connect with other people.
Each episode, social skills coach John Bush and co-host Robert Richardson get into the real mechanics of connection: starting conversations, making friends as an adult, navigating dating and relationships, reading a room, and building the confidence to show up as yourself.
You won't find pickup lines or manipulation tactics here. It's honest, practical, and often funny talk about becoming someone people feel good being around.
Your hosts
Social skills coach
John has spent more than a decade, and over 10,000 hours, helping people build real confidence and connection. A UC Santa Barbara graduate, he runs the coaching practice Coach John Bush and founded The SIEL Project, a nonprofit that brings social skills training to young people. His approach is warm, practical, and firmly anti-pickup-artist. Real connection, never tactics.
coachjohnbush.com
Co-host
Where John brings the coaching experience, Robert brings the questions. He's John's longtime friend and the show's resident everyman: the one who pushes back, asks the thing everyone's quietly wondering, and makes sure the advice survives contact with real life.
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Want to come on the show, or have a topic idea? Email hello@thesocialconnectionchronicles.com