How to Build a Deeper Community in a New Place with Chinae Alexander

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Chinae Alexander

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4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Calling in and asking for advice today is L.A. listener Kelsey! Join us as we talk about building community in a new place, how to be more intentional when it comes to fostering deeper friendships, and whether or not straight men and women can be close friends.

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0:00.0	Sometimes you got a present when you want a friend, all you got to do is present, present.
0:29.2	Welcome to Preston, I'm Chanel Exander and this is the podcast where we talk through all of your problems and I give you my best advice today.
0:37.2	We have my friend Kelsey. Well, my new friend Kelsey. How's it going?
0:42.2	It's so good. So nice to talk to you. Big fan. I'm so happy you're here. Where are we recording live from?
0:50.2	I just moved to LA about nine months ago. That's kind of part of the question at hand.
0:56.2	What do you, where did you move from?
0:58.2	I moved from Seattle and it's like a month before my 30th birthday and COVID, of course, like caused everyone to have a quarter life crisis.
1:09.2	Oh, I don't know, do the shit I want to do. So I moved them. I love it so far. Yeah.
1:15.2	Wow. That's like a huge move. So you're, you're living in LA. What are you, what are you doing with life? What's exciting to you right now?
1:23.2	Well, I went back to school during the pandemic at sit-in, which is a fashion school here for beauty marketing and product development. So I worked for cosmetics manufacturer.
1:34.2	Basically, like the middle man between the brand and the factory. It's super fun.
1:40.2	It's like a new pivot for me. So it's been interesting like getting used to a whole new kind of job description and back to desk work all day.
1:50.2	It's just cool. But the sun and the weather is amazing. I love the last Hollywood. I love my neighborhood. I love it so far. So good.
1:59.2	Don't even, it's like, it's like storming and hot here. So I don't even.
2:04.2	I don't know.
2:07.2	It's, it's not great.
2:09.2	This is like, this is the time of year where I hate New York for about two months.
2:15.2	So you've caught me in the middle of that, my scorn.
2:20.2	Okay. So, so what can I help you with today?
2:24.2	Yeah. So like I said, I've been here like nine months. I probably had six acquaintances upon moving here. Nobody that's like a super close friend, which I think is helpful in terms of like branching out and really extroverted and outgoing.
2:39.2	I love like just enjoying the city. So for the first like six months that I moved here, I was just saying yes to literally everything I was invited to just to like branch out and make friends and it's been great.
2:51.2	But now I'm kind of like.
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