Chris Schembra 🍝

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We host dinners. Free. Always. No exceptions. It started on July 15, 2015, with 15 strangers, a pot of pasta sauce, and one question: "If you could give credit or thanks to one person in your life that you've never thanked, who would that be?" 820+ dinners later, I've learned something the efficiency economy won't teach you: the opposite of loneliness isn't addiction, it's connection. And connection can't be optimized. It has to be earned. Earned Connection:-) I'm a speaker, author (Wall Street Journal bestseller Gratitude Through Hard Times), facilitator, and founder of 7:47, a gratitude-based leadership development company working with 400 major organizations including Google, Microsoft, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Dell, and branches of the U.S. military. We've facilitated hundreds of transformational experiences across six continents. We've set tables in Times Square, under the Tower Bridge in London, in boardrooms worldwide. We led marketing on "Just a Common Soldier" (20M+ views, 2 Emmy Awards, more shares than "likes"). We launched Gratitude in the City™, transforming 4,000+ NYC screens 2x years in a row into calls for connection for millions. But the real work happens at the din

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