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Don't Be Strangers is a podcast and social experiment for learning to create meaningful connections together via collaborative conversations!

05/02/2025

I’m so stoked to introduce you to Jamie ! If you’re part of this community, I know you have a keen sense of curiosity & Jamie radiates this quality. 💚

In this podcast episode we chat:

How we got into tech as women 💻

Working remotely and what role it plays in community, connection, and loneliness 🫂

How to ask for help on the professional and personal level 😭

Jamie’s book she published called 7 Signposts - Find Your Direction in Life’s Foundational Decisions 🪧

How her communication and connection style has evolved over her career pivots ☎️

🎧If you take a listen, I’d love to know, did any of the topics resonate with you?

Pssttt drop a 🎧 for a link to the podcast 🥰

01/01/2025

NEW CALENDAR GRAPHIC, WHO THIS? 👀 Combining all the calendars into one now ✨

I’m waiting for someone to call out a typo on the dates because it seems like I make one every calendar… so let’s see if you’re the first one to spot it. 🙈

DALLAS:
✨ Conversation Game Night every 2nd Tuesday night! (Tickets required)
✨ Cozy Clothes & Stuff Swap w/ + (only 8 spots left!)

AUSTIN:
✨ Conversation Game Nights w/
✨ added a North Austin location to her reading club! Every 4th Friday.

ONLINE
✨ Classic co-working for the creatives .uk

Comment “RSVP” for tickets!

27/12/2024

👗 Kickoff 2025 with your girls!! 9 GIRLS MAX — this is gonna be extra cozy/intentional 💗

If you’ve swapped with us before, you know this is MORE than just a swap. ♻️

is out here spreading the word on sustainable fashion and these swaps are her way of bringing people to do more of exactly this!!

is passionate about creating safe spaces for women to connection and feel empowered!

Come to let go of things you no longer need and welcome in newness for the new year! ✨

🎟️ only 9 spots - $20 per person 💫

26/12/2024

📝 Write & answer below! 💬 How are you learning to feel yourself these days?

Podcast Episode 🎧The Magic of Movement w/ Madison 🦩 Play, Motion, and Self-Love

Today, I’m thrilled to be joined by , the heart behind , where she empowers women to feel enough in their own skin through movement, nourishment, and self-love. 💗

Our conversation today is all about reconnecting with ourselves, making time for play, and using movement as a pathway to healing and self-expression! 🎨

In this episode, we explore:
1. The unique opportunity we have as adults to love and support ourselves authentically. 🤗
2. What it means to feel like yourself and how to bring more of that into daily life. 🥹
3. The role of movement in opening up, connecting with others, and releasing emotions. 🛼
4. How we can embrace doing less but with more intention, shifting from productivity to purpose. ✨

09/12/2024

Join us for a joyful, creative afternoon where the holiday spirit meets artistic collaboration! ☃️ RSVP by dropping a “☃️” in the comments or via our Eventbrite (if you already know the link 😉)

🖍️In this unique Christmas-themed paint and sketch event, participants will start by sketching or painting their own festive masterpiece.
⏰ After a set time, each drawing will be passed around the group to add their own touches, building on the artwork as it rotates.
🎄By the end of the event, everyone will contribute to a one-of-a-kind collaborative holiday piece—a beautiful blend of creativity and Christmas cheer.
👶🏻Perfect for artists of all skill levels, this event is a fun, interactive way to celebrate the season while connecting with others through art.
☃️Bring your holiday spirit and your creativity—let’s make something merry together!

Things to bring:
📓 a piece of paper or your notebook/sketchbook
🖍️ some art supplies! (pencils, pens, crayons, markers, etc)

Hosts: +

05/12/2024

Dec in ATX & Online!! 🎄 Let’s hang before the end of the year!

Let us know if you want an Xmas pen pal!! 💌 We are meeting online this Sunday to meet and write with our new snail mail friends! 🐌

Super excited for this sketching meetup with .cc — thank you for reaching out to make more community gatherings possible!!

Let us know if you want to host an event going into 2025? 👀

04/12/2024

Excited to end this year strong with everyone!! 🎄 Thank you for believing in us and growing with us in 2024! (📆 ATX Dec cal coming soon!)

If you have yet to give our Conversation Game Night a try, we invite you to take a chance and meet someone new before the end of the year! ☕️ I always leave these feeling soooo good about humanity. Thank you for bringing your courage and curiosity to the table.

And special shout out to & for hosting our Junk Journaling Hangout THIS Sunday 12/8 in Richardson ✂️

Let us know if you want to host an event going into 2025? 👀

02/12/2024

Come join us for a fun and creative junk journaling hangout! ✂️ THIS SUNDAY 📍 Richardson (Dallas,TX) @ 1-3pm !! Comment ✂️ for more deets + rsvp 💚

Bring your favorite scrapbooking materials and memorabilia to create beautiful journals together. 📓

Whether you’re a seasoned journaler or just starting out, this is the perfect opportunity to connect with fellow crafters and get inspired. ✏️

Don’t miss out on this chance to unleash your creativity and make new friends. ✨ See you there!

Please Bring Your Own...
📗 Journal/Notebook
🧾 Trash/Junk (receipts, packaging, tea bag tags, etc)
✂️ Scissors
🧴Glue/Tape

We will also provide some crafting supplies for everyone to share!

27/11/2024

🎄 Xmas Pen Pals Club | Match & Meet a Pen Pal ONLINE ✉️

🦌 A Christmas-themed virtual event where you are matched with a pen pal who you meet “face-to-face” before writing to each other!

💚 Pen Pals Club is returning for a one-off Christmas/winter holiday event where we match you with a pen pal who you can meet “face-to-face” before writing your first letters to each other.🎄

✉️ Comment with 🎄 if you want more details to RSVP!

25/11/2024

Join our Community Challenge for 1 weekend (Thursday 11/28 - Sunday 12/1)! 💚

We challenge you to detox from all those Thanksgiving scrolls cluttering your feed!

Join us for 4 days of scrolling less and connecting more with yourself & your community! Are you up for the challenge?

How? 👀

Uninstall your distracting scroll-addicting apps on Wednesday night before bed, feel free to re-install them on Monday morning – in good company.

💌 Signing up will give you email accountability!

💚Set your intention with the community

💚Receive ideas for alternatives to scrolling

💚 Little reflection at the end of your experience

25/11/2024

Announcing our *SECOND* live podcast recording!! 🎙️ Please meet Jamie Knight of of .co 👀

✨ I’m Jamie, a former technology/management consultant turned collegiate-level teacher turned author & entrepreneur, and I am passionate about mentoring people on transforming how they work.

✨ I’m the founder of Career Brilliance, a business that helps people boost their business savvy and cross more things off their to-do list, so they can fast-track their path to professional leadership and enjoy their workday more.

Want to be part of this conversation? ✨ Comment RSVP for a link to join us TOMORROW Tues 11/25 @ 3pm CST.

21/11/2024

Going on a date, kinda nervous. 🥺👉👈

Announcing our *FIRST* live podcast recording!! 🎙️ Please meet Estefania of ✨ Comment RSVP for a link to join us TODAY Thurs 11/21 @ 4pm CST. 👀

✨ Hola! My name is Estefania and the person that I am now is totally different from the person I was a year ago. I was born in Puerto Rico and moved to the USA 10 years ago, living in Colorado and now in Dallas. 🇵🇷

My first career was in corporate finance and my life at that time was suffering of lack of inspiration, color, art and magic. 🪄

Since I was a kid, I was labeled as the shy and introverted (sometimes the anti-social adjective was used as well) so I have carried that as the major description of my personality until last year.

I was the creative kid and never the sports type of kid. But that creativity slowly got hidden with the years.

After a cathartic spiritual trip to Hawaii and few identities crisis later I left my successful finance career of 10 years to pursue what I always wanted to be a Holistic Esthetician -against many advises and family members opinions-. 🧴

I wanted to join aesthetic industry to provide something different and with a soul. I don’t want to bring just what you can find any other place;

✨ I want to teach so you can be your best healer ✨

I want to seek beauty over perfection, I want to infuse skin with art, I want to show the no so common things that affect your skin -like loneliness or lack of community- I have to accept that the shy and anti-social labels have shown again at the moments of having to promote my business and philosophy.

18/11/2024

When you’re moving with people, it opens them up. 💚 New Podcast Episode... finally!

👀 Keep your eyes out for our first episode in a long time! Wednesday 11/20!

🦩 I’m thrilled to be joined by Madison, the heart behind ⁠⁠, where she empowers women to feel enough in their own skin through movement, nourishment, and self-love.

🤗 Our conversation is all about reconnecting with ourselves, making time for play, and using movement as a pathway to healing and self-expression...

In this episode, we will explore:

🌼 The unique opportunity we have as adults to love and support ourselves authentically.

🌼 What it means to feel like yourself and how to bring more of that into daily life.

🌼 The role of movement in opening up, connecting with others, and releasing emotions.

🌼 How we can embrace doing less but with more intention, shifting from productivity to purpose.

🎧 Search “Don’t Be Strangers” on your favorite podcast streaming platform!

31/10/2024

💚 Austin, we are so excited to partner with & for a very special junk journaling night! 📓 (tickets dropping soon, keep an eye out on our stories!)

Thank you to our volunteers out in Austin making these little gatherings happen so that we can extend our fight against adult loneliness in the capital of Texas! 🌮

And of course to our online champion for keeping these weekly online cowriting/coworking clubs going!

Have you been to any of these events? Any you’ve been meaning to try but haven’t had time for yet? 🥹 It’s not too late to close out the year with some new friends~!

30/10/2024

💚 Are we really only 2 months until the end of 2024?! 😱

It feels like we’ve gotten into such a good groove of events throughout this year!! Thank you to everyone who has made these little pockets of community possible in Dallas! 👖

We’ve been able to offer more and more events throughout the month thanks to volunteers who just want to help connect people in their neighborhood!! ✨

Have you been to any of these events? Any you’ve been meaning to try but haven’t had time for yet? 🥹

It’s not too late to close out the year with some new friends~!

21/10/2024

Waco Girls! 🎀 We are partnering with for a feel good guided walk!!!!

Here are all the details:

McLane Stadium at Baylor University
October 27th · 2:30pm
GIRLS ONLY 🪩🍒

bring a water bottle & a friend !! *we’ll meet at the big concrete steps (they’re right between the stadium & the lake, near the parking lot) for a walk warm up + guided walk around the lake! ✨

DM for more details on meeting point if you’re confused. 🙈

💚 see ya there?

is a podcast + community championing authenticity, vulnerability and self awareness. We fight adult loneliness and emotional disconnect 👊🏼 Our mission is to create spaces that foster deep, purposeful conversations and connection by providing thoughtful events for the curious and creative.

17/10/2024

Open Book Club with Lauren are now EVERY OTHER Wednesday in ATX! 🤠

Read with us! Bring anything you want to read and connect with likeminded book lovers 📖 📚

We’ll spend about 45mins reading! After, we’ll share a bit about what we’ve read or learned. 🤓

Drop a 🐛 if you want to RSVP!

Who are we?

is a podcast + community championing authenticity, vulnerability and self awareness. We fight adult loneliness and emotional disconnect 👊🏼 Our mission is to create spaces that foster deep, purposeful conversations and connection by providing thoughtful events for the curious and creative.

09/10/2024

Have you ever wanted a pen pal but struggled to find one? 🤔 Us too!

That’s why XinYi and Jasmine Lee (of our weekly coworking space for writers) will be hosting an online Pen Pals Club on Saturday, October 19, where we match you up with another pen pal and give you some 1:1 time to hang out before writing your first letters to each other ✍️

If that sounds like something you’ve been looking for, tickets are available now 💌

We can’t wait to see you there 💚

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From our event! Folding origami hearts + writing self love letters 💌 Have you done this before? 🥰 Thanks again @theorigamimonk for leading our workshop and @breannsanderson for co-hosting!! Comment HOST if you’d like to help host a cozy event to help fight adult loneliness anywhere in the world! 🥰 #galentinesday #galentines #galentinesparty #origamiart #communityevents #communityevents #craftidea #selflove

What’s your relationship with aging? 👀 This was a really interesting question to answer for the podcast! Long story short, we’re both excited and scared to age. 😂 Full chat on the pod! 🎙️ Episode 63: From Finance to Facials 💸➡️💆🏻‍♀️ Estefania’s Journey to Holistic Healing and Creative Freedom w/ @LombaSkin 🌺 💬 Say “hi” below to help fight adult loneliness! #deepquestions #deepermeaning #deeplearning #deeplistening #aging #aginggracefully #aginggratefully

What are *you* reading?! 👀 Seriously, comment below — we want to know. 📗 This is Lauren’s Open Book Club which happens every other Wednesday in Austin, TX. Check out our full calendar of events linked in stories. 📆 We have other stuff happening in Austin, Dallas, and soon NYC. 💚 @dontbestrangers is a podcast & community against adult loneliness! ✨ We’re creating lil pockets of cozy activities in small groups to connect on a more intentional level. It’s perfect for introverts and those who are curious and creative. 🥹 Want to host a pocket of community with us? Comment “HOST” ✨ #booklover #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #bookstack #booknerd

These deep conversations with thoughtful strangers always heal my soul. 🥹 📆 every 2nd Tuesday @staycationcoffee Or elsewhere in Austin, TX & @dallasmeditationcenter or even maybe near you (if you’d like to help host in your city 💚)! #dallasevents #dallasthingstodo #communityfirst #communityovercompetition #loneliness #lonelinessthoughts✨

Do you have high achiever syndrome? 👀 Are you conscious or unconscious about it? 🤔 *New* pod episode! 🎧 Making Better Decisions w/ Dmitri Sennikov 🌌 growing up as cultural misfits 🍵 honoring yourself 💚 finding true connection (61) Dmitri and I get deep in today’s episode covering: 💚 how to make better decisions 💚 being cultural misfits and our coping mechanisms while growing up in a foreign country 💚 recognizing and honoring your own needs and energy 💚 and vulnerability, experimentation, and self-connection If you listen, let us know what you think below! #anxietyrelief #anxietysupport #highachiever #highachievers #highachievingwomen

SHE HEALS 💚 Saturday May 4th, 10am-3pm (come and go as you please!!) But!! You don’t want to miss out on the panel happening at 11:30am-12:30pm! We will be talking with: 🎤Sara Bannat |Serial Entrepreneur | Nonprofit Leader| Activist (@dallasbusinesstribe, @blendedrelations , @roof.raidersco) 🎤The Honorable Tonya Parker |Judge | Keynote Speaker (@thehonorabletonyaparker) 🎤Maria Garcia | Business Owner| Wellness Coach (@urbannutritionlounge) 🎤Heidi Levan | Founding Partner| Registered Nurse & Anesthetist| Mental Health Advocate (@nuwellnetwork ) 🎤Ingrid Rivera |Tantric Therapist |CEO of a hispanic chamber of commerce (@bellaini , @mujeresconalashispanicchamber) 🎤Rosa Oneal | Dallas Lifestyle|Influencer | Business Owner| Community Leader (@dallassocialbutterfly, @dallassocialbutterflies) 🎤Ari Medrano | Impact Speaker| Serial Entrepreneur (arimedranoofficial) 🎤Jamie Lopez | Home Builder | Nonprofit Founder | Investor (@empowher_mind , @first_choice_customhomes) Comment “SHE HEALS” for links to the tickets! I’d love to see you there! #womenofdallas #dallasgirls #wellnesscommunity #dallaswellness #dfwevents

NEW POD EPISODE OUT w/ Ana of @ThePodcastSpace 🇵🇹 😱 loneliness as an extrovert 🇬🇧 how to meet people in London (after moving from Portugal) 🇺🇸 meeting your French husband and following him to the USA 👕 pro-tips for “networking” (not what you think!!) If you don’t know Ana, write below what’s your first impression of her from this clip?! 🙈 (Even if you do know her, write what was your first impression of her.) Drop a 💚 if you want a link to this podcast episode! Loneliness as an Extrovert w/ Ana of @ThePodcastSpace 🇵🇹 how to meet people in London 🇬🇧 meeting your husband who is moving to the USA 🇺🇸 pro-tips for “networking” 👕 (57) #extrovert #extrovertedintrovert #extrovertproblems #introvertproblems #introverts

I’m notoriously bad about editing and publishing these podcast episodes on a timely manner. 😂🙈 So I always live by this Moto: “Better Late Than Never!” 🥺 But I’m super excited to drop this one with @larrythesociologist !! I’m enjoying the editing process of re-living this conversation! #motivational #motivation #inspiringquotes #personaldevelopmentjunkie #selflovejourney

Share your favorite ways to meet new friends without food or alcohol involved! 👇🏼 This is our Open Book Club hosted by Ahad @sanjraniahad every 4th Saturday @7thDayCoffee 💚 Comment 📆 (or “calendar”) if you want to see all the events we host! #readingclub #readingcircle #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #adulting101

🎙 Ep 55: Rob may be the most reluctant author I’ve ever met. 😂 Comment 🎧 to listen to the full episode of Making 10k Friends with Rob (@Robs10KFriends) 🇺🇸 your identity pie chart 🥧 making friends for a living 🤗 memory tips & tricks 🧠 (55) We talk about… 🥧 Our identities as pie charts ⚖️ Balancing your personal social life when your work is all about making friends 💰 How Rob makes a living doing this full time 🪀 His memory ticks and tips for sharing the stories of people he meets ✨ Other communities out there helping you to make friends (@nomorelonelyfriends) #bookproposal #publishing #bookdeals #writing #authorjourney #writersofinstagram #authortalk #bookwriting #bookpublishing #bookrecommendations

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