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November 16, 2024

How to Make Friends as an ADULT in a big city (for both introverts & extroverts)

52 minutes

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

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By Jemma Permalloo