Creating connection, empathy and awareness through meeting 10K friends with Rob Lawless

This week on Unpacked we are chatting with guest Rob Lawless, founder of @Robs10Kfriends. Rob chats with about his mission to meet 10,000 people one one one for 1 hour at a time. Rob graduated summa cum laude from Penn State University with a degree in Finance and minors in Accounting & Entrepreneurship. After graduation, he had a career with Deloitte Consulting as a Business Analyst in Strategy & Operations. After 1.5 years into it, he pulled what he calls a Millennial move – took a large pay cut and left it all. Shortly after starting Rob's 10K friends. We chat about Rob's passion for the project, where his  genuine curiosity in hearing people's stories comes from.  We talk about the challenges to share a dream and a vision that people don't understand and the experiences of failures and successes as an entrepreneur. He shares his learnings from meeting over 5200 people for agenda-less conversations. The overwhelming theme to him is how every human interaction has the potential to change your life. Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!LINKS-Meet Rob -Robs 10K Friends Support the showUnpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, and storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!Instagram:@theunpackedpodFacebook: @theunpackedpodunpackedpod.caSupport the show*music by Bensound