What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist

podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to

rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take

back your motherhood

and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show.

Welcome to the show. I love what we'll be talking about today, but when do I not? I'll be discussing

my favorite easy ways to finding your tribe and making new friends.

This has been a game changer for me mentally and emotionally in the year 2019 by surrounding

myself online and offline with like-minded women and men. One of my favorite quotes from motivational speaker, Jim Rohn,

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. I truly believe that

statement. And this is why we're having this conversation today. Author Martin Van Dorn says this.

The people you spend the most time with shape who you are.

They determine what conversations dominate your attention. They affect to which attitudes and

behaviors you are regularly exposed. Eventually, you start to think like they think and behave

like they behave. As Darren Hardy writes in the compound effect,

according to research by social psychologist Dr. David McClelland of Harvard, the people you

habitually associate with determine as much as 95% of your success or failure in life. Maybe you

have a tribe right now, or you've lost touch over

the years because of moving across the country, having babies, or having to work 60 hours a week.

No matter what, if you consider your current tribe, I think most of us can agree, it's always

nice to meet new, like-minded people that help us grow,

give us different perspectives, become a part of our support system and us for them, and at the end of

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