Most people who reach out say the same thing.

"I'm just looking for some company."

But some of them have told me, looking back, that the company alone wasn't really the whole answer.

Because if it had been, they would've called a friend, and they didn't.

In this episode, I wanted to highlight a pattern I've noticed in a number of the people I've spent time with, and what starts to shift when someone spends real time in genuine presence.

More specifically, what some of them have told me months later, or sometimes longer, about what they thought they were actually looking for the night they first reached out.

There's a story in this one that I've thought about many times since it happened — about a question that costs nothing to ask, but changes e ...