The benefits of having a mentor, a team, a network – and of socialization in general – are immense, say experts like Joleen Jaworski, founder of Business Clubs of America.
“Sports teams, fraternities, sororities, all of them lead to higher happiness rates and less depression,” Jaworski says. “The health benefits are there.”
She believes in the “slow” school of building a community. Unlike other groups, Jaworski’s Business Clubs of America was founded in 2005 to “create long-term relationships. We think of the word networking as a curse word. Relationships don’t happen overnight.”
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