Hi everyone, welcome to another episode of Date Yourself instead.

Today's episode is super exciting. I'm really, really looking forward to recording.

It's officially summer in New York City. I remember when I originally moved to New York City,

it was right after college.

I moved into a new apartment for the first time,

had a new relationship, I was social, I was going out, I was just living the

sex and the city dream life, and it was truly incredible and so special and every time I come back to Manhattan,

especially after a long period of time where I'm away, it just, it feels so special all over

again and I never get tired of it. Last night I went to a really amazing dinner with a group of people that I've never met before. I went really far out of my comfort zone. I love socializing and I do feel like I'm both introverted and extroverted.

Like I could be a social butterfly and I could also be pretty introverted where

it's kind of a struggle for me to like go up to people and introduce myself and talk to them because I'm a little bit nervous or shy it's just who I am and

last night pushed me out of my comfort zone I went to this dinner called, it's like this company called

Supper Series and I found it on Instagram. I ended up going, I didn't know anyone

there and I just had to kind of like push myself to start talking to people and everyone was so

friendly everyone was so nice and welcoming and it was just such a good time I met so many

cool people from all different parts of the city and it was just really amazing to realize that there are so many good amazing people in New York City and sometimes I define the city as cold. I think it is a little tricky to meet people here because everything is so spread out and I feel like whereas I was in Australia and Bondi Beach is a very small community so it's fairly easy to just run into people all the time.

In New York you really do have to make more of an effort to create a social life for yourself and especially when you move to a big city like New York, it can be really challenging to meet your people.

So just putting myself in positions like that has helped me network, has helped me meet new friends and I highly

encourage you looking into different events and group activities if you do live in a

big city and you're struggling meeting new people I always get this question like

what do you do when you're by like what do you do when you're by

yourself what do you do when you're dating yourself how do you meet people and these

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