Well, hello and welcome to the Slow Home podcast.

This is the podcast all about slow living in a fast-paced world.

I am Brooke McCallory.

My name is Ben McCallery.

Welcome to episode 248.

We are in week four of our relationships month of July.

And as promised, we're going to talk about new friendships.

Yeah, specifically how to create them and how to take someone from maybe an acquaintance to a true friend.

And specifically talking about these things through the lens of slowness.

So, you know,

taking our time, being intentional, paying attention, choosing to spend time with people based on what's important to us rather than who we may just be forced into close confines with. And yeah,

I think there's a lot to dig into here, actually,

because we are asked a lot about this broad topic of...

Top five questions we get asked about how to find like-minded people. Before we get into it,

let me ask you this question. How's the slow book tour going? It's going really well.

It's going wonderfully well, actually.

I mean, I think, I don't think it's unusual to say that I get nervous before I speak.

But turning up every few days to one of these events is just such a joy because there's, first

of all, people there.

Yeah.

But also people are interested.

Talk about like-minded people.

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