Friends Next Door

Inspired by Love Is Blind (the dating show), Dan, Kuan and Mia share their thoughts on whether love is really blind or if it has eyes. Need we say more? Nope, let's give it a listen! 

As always, if you have a burning question, find us here:

Email: [email protected]

IG: @frndsnextdoor

Dan: @therealdanchen

Mia: @msmiaaa

Thomas: @mundane_photos

Calling all hopeless romantics from around the world! You know those butterfly in your stomach feelings when you're falling in love? Great! Now all you need is a friend who's keeping you off your rose-tinted glasses and helping you watch out for potential red flags. Don't worry, we're not being all negative, there are green flags as well ;)  Enjoy!

As always, if you have a burning question, find us here:

Email: [email protected]

IG: @frndsnextdoor

Dan: @therealdanchen

Mia: @msmiaaa

Thomas: @mundane_photos

We're back with season 4! We had plans of starting season 4 much earlier in the year, but life got the better of us so here we are, in late May, uploading the first episode of our FOURTH season. 

It's only fitting, then, that our first topic of the season is about having motivation and being resolute (ha!). Are you someone who is disciplined and has the will to hold yourself accountable? How do you stay motivated? And we're not even talking about grand ideas, it could be as simple as setting a goal to wake up early. Listen on as Dan, Thomas, Kuan and Mia weigh in on these things.  

As always, if you have a burning question, find us here:

Email: [email protected]

IG: @frndsnextdoor

Dan: @therealdanchen

Mia: @msmiaaa

Thomas: @mundane_photos

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!! Another year, another season - we can't believe it .  If you've been listening to us all this time, thank you so much, we see you!!  If you're just finding us, welcome, friends ^_^!  2022 going on 2023 -- what did we even do this year?? Listen to us reflect on: what we accomplished, what we're proud of, what were the nice things people did for us this year, and what are things which are getting easier for us.  We encourage you to review and share your reflections as well! We are here ringing in the new year with you -- here's to 2023!!

This wraps Season 3 as we take our beginning of year break :)  Tell us what more you want to hear from us/questions/comments/stories here:

Email: [email protected]

IG: @frndsnextdoor

Dan: @therealdanchen

Mia: @msmiaaa

Thomas: @mundane_photos

Ohhh high school, we're here again!  In our S2E36. Have We Peaked? episode we touch upon how some people "peak in high school" and now we're exploring another way high school find it's way back into adulthood: does high school ever end?  Listen to us rewind and reflect while we trade high school experiences in clubs(or lack of clubs....) we were in and our social circles.  Through the roasting and sharing, we cross over into life today and what it means to be popular, when the "lunch room scene" happens to you, and the feeling of belonging or not belonging. Bowling For Soup might have been onto something, but you tell us, do you think high school ever ends? 

As always, if you have a burning question/comment/story, tell us here:

Email: [email protected]

IG: @frndsnextdoor

Dan: @therealdanchen

Mia: @msmiaaa

Thomas: @mundane_photos

How many times have you heard someone saying that adulting is hard? You have to juggle so many things that come at you in life - finding and keeping a full time job, making a career out of that job, maintaining friendships, taking care of family members, AND finding time for self care. Oh and figuring out how to do your taxes! 

So yeah, no one would throw any blame if you complain about how hard life is from time to time. If you get carried away, though, you might end up feeling way too burdened by all the responsibilities that come with adulthod and giving up. So what's the best way to tackle this thing called life? 

As always, if you have a burning question/comment/story, tell us here:

Email: [email protected]

IG: @frndsnextdoor

Dan: @therealdanchen

Mia: @msmiaaa

Thomas: @mundane_photos

Is there a "work" you, a "family" you, a "secret agent" you? Do you, like Chandler, have a work laugh your significant other hates?  Going one step further, have you, again like Chandler, influenced your partner to also have a work laugh around your work colleagues?  Is this a fake way to behave?  We talked about the concept of "Being On" in our S3E21. I Need a New Social Battery episode and now we expand more into that with the different "versions" of us.  Listen to us flip through the different versions we identify in ourselves and let us know if you have a specific version of you which comes out when you least expect it or if you know exactly what triggers it.

As always, if you have a burning question/comment/story, tell us here:

Email: [email protected]

IG: @frndsnextdoor

Dan: @therealdanchen

Mia: @msmiaaa

Thomas: @mundane_photos

They were really nice, but we just didn't have "the spark".  How often have you heard this or said this yourself?!  What does this even mean and does this change with the phase of life you're in?  Could we be passing up great potential partners and can attraction really grow? The skeptics want to know.  Featuring a film analysis of "He's Just Not That Into You", we hope you enjoy this episode on the love seat!  Also, please share, did your current relationship start with "a spark" or how do you/do you factor "the spark" into your relationship-ing? 

As always, if you have a burning question/comment/story, tell us here:

Email: [email protected]

IG: @frndsnextdoor

Dan: @therealdanchen

Mia: @msmiaaa

Thomas: @mundane_photos

Since some of us had just gotten back into the habit of going to the office to work, we couldn't help but notice that we're...more socially drained now lol. Face-to-face interaction with real people makes us feel the need to always be "on", leaving our social battery very low. Home just feels that much better because, well, that's our comfortable little cocoon. Of course not everyone feels the need to recharge their social battery (ehm, DAN), but for those who do, how do you recharge?

As always, if you have a burning question/comment/story, tell us here:

Email: [email protected]

IG: @frndsnextdoor

Dan: @therealdanchen

Mia: @msmiaaa

Thomas: @mundane_photos

Piggybacking on our S2E30. MBTI Triggered episode, we bring you the Enneagram version!  It can be fun and helpful(sometimes) to analyze yourself and hopefully you learn more about us :) A caveat here that we use these tests just as a guide post, not as a way to pigeonhole ourselves, so have fun with it!  For some of us, the test took 5 minutes and for others it took...much longer than 5 minutes ^_^'.   

Here is the Enneagram test we took: https://www.truity.com/test/enneagram-personality-test
Here is the Enneagram report we reference in the episode: https://www.narrativeenneagram.org/tour-the-nine-types/

As always, if you have a burning question/comment/story, tell us here:

Email: [email protected]

IG: @frndsnextdoor

Dan: @therealdanchen

Mia: @msmiaaa

Thomas: @mundane_photos