Hi everyone! I'm back with a follow up to the "Coworkers Aren't Your Friends" episode. So many of you all resonated with that topic, so I created an episode that is a practical guide to making friends outside of work.

I talk about specific places to go that create healthier and longer-lasting connections and recapping why workplaces are harder today to create strong friendships.

In this episode I go into topics about:

• choosing recurring hobbies over one-off events

• dance, writing workshops, group fitness, improv, choir, martial arts as perfect environments for building friendships

• skill-based learning like languages, book clubs, pottery, welding, acting and music production

• faith and spiritual communities for consistent connection

• volunteering as a filter for kind, empathetic people

• animal shelters, community gardens, mutual aid groups and how to find them

• playing the long game and avoiding instant over-investment

• being intentional, staying open, handling awkwardness, risking rejection

Let me know in the comments, wherever you are listening, what are you challenging yourself to commit to for the next 4 weeks in order to start building new friendships?

Come back every week and let us know how it has been going...what are you learning, have you met anyone new yet, and what has been hard about it?

I'll see you all in the next episode!

-Jacq

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