How to Make Friends as an ADULT in a big city (for both introverts & extroverts)
Update: 2024-11-16
Description
- Holly Cooke is the founder of 'The Lonely Girls Club', one of the UK’s largest communities for women. It started with 10 people in a Facebook group with 5 girls meeting at a pancake house in Covent Garden in November 2018.
6 years later, 'The Lonely Girls Club' is an organisation of over 100k community members. It runs weekly events across the country for members to attend solo, have fun, connect with others and leave having met an incredible group of people to start building friendships with.
⌚️TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
01:30 - The Lonely Girls Club
02:39 - Bumble BFF
06:28 - Not everyone is your person
08:02 - 50% of adults feel lonely
10:14 - Sense of community
11:13 - Member club of 100k women
13:12 - Japan as a collectivist society
14:20 - Connections across all ages
19:17 - Loneliness among older people
20:15 - Working from home & loneliness
22:07 - Self love vs seeking companionship
32:00 - The scariest thing I did
33:58 - People are kind
39:49- Symptoms of loneliness
44:07 - Friends have different priorities
47:16 - The 'How are you?' question
🔗 CONNECT WITH ME
🎙Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/show/5P3BPjurTTMKSRAwFLAPpz?si=8b835a5f86734ba1
📲 Apple Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/figuring-out/id1677026977
🌍Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/_jemma_p
🔗 CONNECT WITH THE LONELY GIRLS CLUB
https://www.llgc.co.uk/
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