Girlfriends, episode number 331, how we can form authentic communities online.

Hello and welcome to girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom and I'm on a mission to help you know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy and family living.

This week we are talking about building communities online, how we can do that and I, and joy and family living. This week, we are talking about

building communities online, how we can do that. And I've got a brand new place to tell you all about.

Let's get going.

Hey there. Welcome. Glad you're here. Thanks for joining me this week. Always glad to connect with you right here on the podcast. If you are a first time listener, I want to give you a special welcome.

Thank you for checking us out. I hope you're going to like what we share here and want to

become a regular part of our girlfriend's community ongoing here. If you're a sometime or a long time

listener, thank you too. You know I appreciate you. And I love that we're able to connect right here

through the podcast. So this week's topic, I am so excited to share with you because this is something I've been working on,

kind of in the background for a little while now. I've had it on my heart for a long time.

You know, I always talk about here on the podcast, the girlfriend's community, and we do have a

community. You all as listeners are a community of women that I am deeply grateful for. And I love the things

that we're able to share here. I love all the ways that we're able to interact through voicemail,

through email, through social media. But I've always wanted it to be more. I've wanted a deeper and more authentic back and

forth interaction between me and you, because a podcast out of necessity, this is just the

form of media that it is. It's largely one way, me sitting here talking to you. And I love that. I love that we're

able to connect in that way. And I love hearing back from you, especially in real life when someone

comes up to me in real life and they're like, I listen to the girlfriend's podcast. That is like my

all-time favorite. I already know that we're truly friends. So knowing that, I've had it in mind and on my heart for a while

that I want to build something that is more of an ongoing community outside of just the once

per week putting out a podcast episode. There's so much more here. And there's so much more,

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