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Finding new friends that you can connect with can feel daunting. But it is doable! And it is very worth doing! While maybe you're a bit out of practice, if you think your life would benefit from developing additional friendships, tune in for five minutes. I'm Dian Griesel, Ph.D. and along with Charlotte Reardon we will share several ways you can start today to expand your besties circle right away!

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Hi. I'm Diane were said, and this is shouted, read. And you are visiting the silvered Experience. Podcast, our last podcast, we talked about how people have lost the ability to socialize that haven't even actually lost it. Just kind of forgotten it because we are social by Nature

as humans. So one of the things we talked about that you could start being social just by saying hello Whoa, now that I realize that's a high-risk move sometimes but it is a good start but people ask for some more suggestions so Charlotte and I are going to talk about a few of those ideas that you might want to try as well. Charlotte what's the first thing that comes to mind for you? So for me, given my age, I don't really want to go out tonight clubs or bars as much as I used to.

I also don't have Community like a church setting or something along those lines, but something that I do have, it's Hobbies. Mmm. I'm an avid cyclist, and I'm part of a Cycling group called social cycling. And that happens every Thursday and I've made a ton of friends that way, I have a lot of hobbies. I spend a lot of time at the gym and I think making those bodies that a good healthy, I would say, like, cycling working out. Cooking classes play class meeting any kind of hobby.

You can think of karate. I have some friends that go to karate, you can meet new people that way. So the big theme is think about what you love. Yeah, get in figure. Then, figure out ways, you can get involved with it because right off the bat, whoever you meet, you have something in common with right away. Yeah, exactly. And you like the same thing. So that's My, that's my take, that's how I've made all my friends. And that's also how I stay fit

and healthy. Because sometimes going to the gym by yourself or whatever, it's hard to be accountable. And I think having friends that are like, hey, are you coming to this Rye or see you at the gym? Because we're doing, I'm learning how to swim, or whatever it is. It keeps you hit you accountable and it keeps you with a good schedule. So that's why I like it, you know, that it's a really good point, you know, we have a

friend, very dear friend. My favorite friends is a friend Judy and she moved into a brand-new building sing neighborhood, but she's in her eighties, early 80s and she's very active socially, and a very active Ghost Writer. But she moved into a new building. And one of the things, the buildings had is a cool and she loves to swim. So now the pool has become something she does in her building and The way she's meeting people. Exactly? Yeah. And for me, that's my biggest.

Take on how to make new healthy habit friends. Yeah. So yeah, you know, another really fun thing that I used to do when I moved into the city which was a lot of years ago, it was over well, getting close to 40 years ago, shockingly, but when I moved in, I used to have what I would call you know, pack it up yourself. Dinner's, you know, brings something and I would say to everyone either one, it was that everyone would bring some kind of meal or dish but then they could invite a friend.

But we wanted to constantly try to rotate that friend group of who people were bringing and another thing, one of the most hilarious parties I have ever had that I recall was, I asked everyone to bring an instrument, whether you played one or not. And my you know, and I started with a group, you know couple of girlfriends and then they invited their couple of girlfriends or any guy friends and everyone was inviting

different people. And before we knew it, we had the most hilarious music party going. I'm sure our neighbors learned Thrills, but it got people. Socialize. Yeah, yeah. That's an awesome way to bring people together. So I know record contracts. Yeah. But I guess those are two very, very important things that you can do now, but I really healthy and fun to get people together. Yes. So we encourage you socialize.

Get out there. Meet people life is about living, it's about the connections were making. It's about who we can meet what fun we can have because a good life is made up of a lot of experiences. Indeed. I agree. So we're dying or sell and Charlotte region, we are recording in Creative content oft for the silver to Speedy ins podcast and we thank you for joining us.

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