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Ep 34: Friendship is Medicine - Why Community Matters When It Comes To Health and Longevity
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Strong social connections aren’t just good for your heart and happiness, they’re linked to your lifespan, brain health, and overall wellbeing. Science shows that having a supportive community lowers risks of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and dementia, while boosting your immune system.
In this episode, we explore why community matters, how it shifts across life stages, and practical ways to find and nurture your people—even when it feels hard. With Valentine’s and Galentine’s around the corner, there’s no better time to invest in the power of connection.
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Transcript
Introduction to 'What's My Age Again'
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Welcome to What's My Age Again, the realest podcast for women who are done chasing trends and ready to feel empowered. Hi, I'm Kim. And I'm Tanya, holistic nutritionists and childhood best friends who've been there, done that, and bought the collagen.
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more than once. Each week we provide actionable steps that you can start today to help you thrive through every decade to come. We're cutting through the wellness noise to bring you honest conversations about aging, hormones, health, beauty, mindset, and everything in between.
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You see, we're also on a mission to age gracefully one WTF moment at a time, backed by research and real life. We're here to share what actually works, what's a waste of time, and how to truly thrive through the messy, magical midlife transition.
Valentine's Day & Retail Trends
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We're so happy you're here. Let's dive in. Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. i cannot believe I'm saying this. It mid-February. Kim, what is up?
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Happy Valentine's Day. it is certainly that time of year. Let's be honest. This year, Kim, was crazy.
Friendship and Community in Aging
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It was before Christmas. I am not even joking because my mom arrived like mid-December and then we did a little bit of shopping leading up until leading up to Christmas and we were at like, it was HomeSense.
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The Valentine's Day stuff, though, was out before Christmas. Kim. Okay, you know I'm coming from a retail background, right, for years. So, yep.
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I remember listening to Christmas music, I don't know, in the fall. I believe you because guess what? Yesterday I was at Costco and the Easter stuff is out. And I was like, guys, what is going on? Anyways. You've got to get prepared. You've got to get prepared. Oh, my God. so This is the love week. And I think me and you feel the same. Valentine's in general, we bring it back to the love, the self-love, that partner love, romantic love, but also that friend love, that tribe love, that whole idea of Galentine's and what that can mean for us because
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Lately, more and more, you're seeing that friends, I'm seeing it out there all over. Friends are soulmates too. And I think it's so important to take a deep dive into not only friends and friendship, but what community, our tribe, these relationships, the importance in our lives.
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Absolutely. And like for for all of you listening, when Tanya and I were talking about what to talk about, you know, um on the podcast, we've we've wanted to do a community, a conversation around the importance of community for a long time now. And so we just thought Valentine's Day was the perfect opportunity to celebrate our girls.
Community's Role in Longevity
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And also, you know, when it comes to our tribe or even just, you know, I love right now, um i mean, it could have been like this forever, but I'm really feeling it a lot more, this women supporting women, you know, this real idea of like finding your people and supporting each other and how important it is. And actually, you know what I should say, i remember my mom as a kid telling me,
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to to always prioritize and take care of your friendships because they take you through life. Kim, I'm like getting all like emotional because our moms are still friends to this day. And that is a long friendship. Nevermind us as well, but that coming from your mom saying that and seeing that quality in her And she's right. And our community, our tribe, our gals, whatever we want to call them, let's be honest, stuff we might have not known, what we didn't know as kids and teens, even in my twenties, this, these kinds of relationships, these communities that we build for ourselves, they are directly linked to emotional, physical health and longevity.
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And again, This is physical science, people. Oh, absolutely. We both love that book, um Healthy to 100. All of the different blue zone populations that they discuss in that book...
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All say, because they talk about in those in in this book that we continually reference here on this podcast, their talk they're looking at, the the writer is looking at all of these populations and what do they have in common in terms of diet, lifestyle, movement habits, all of these things.
Cultural Differences in Community Norms
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And all of their diets vary. They're all whole food based, but they are all vary in terms of what each of the diet contains. But the one commonality between all of them is community.
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It's how they look at aging and community. And there's this one part, whatever, where i say it's in the Sardinia, the Italy part. And I remember laughing and like cringing at the same time because there was a part that's saying like, if you think that you're not going to show up to church and then not have like 10 people at your door. And I'm like, oh my God, I don't want people to come to my door, which we can talk about in a second here. Like that's how the community is. Like if you're not there, they're coming to get you. What is the matter? Yeah. They're bringing food.
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And we're like, cringing like, no, don't, no, no, no, don't come to my door. But that says a lot about our culture here in Canada, I think that, you know, in a other, a lot of other places in the world, there's even communal living, like places, you know, like the Indian culture, you live communally with your family and It's so prevalent in a lot of other cultures, but in here, the North American culture, we're more separate than we have ever been before. Households are separate. And that's a big, big factor in our health and longevity here. And when we talk about it in terms of our tribe, of our gals and whatever, even think about, think about us back as children, doing all of the things, Kim, doing the seat and press and putting on plays when we're in there too.
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That friendship, did right? So that, think of the comfort that we got from our friends as childhood in childhood that we don't even really realize until we talk about it later in life. The sense of belonging, the sense of camaraderie, you know, the sense of feeling a part of something. And then really think about your relationships with your girls in your teens, in your twenties, and how much time,
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We invested into those at that time versus how much and now. And that's normal. Obviously, we cannot revolve our lives around each other because as we age, we know we get busy, life changes, but it's like We go from our friends and our tribe and our community being everything, sometimes maybe to the detriment, you know, we and they their approval for everything. We're so involved in their lives. We lose ourselves. But now we go to almost a drastic stop in that. And that's really ah an important piece of our health that's missing.
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Yeah. Well, and you talked about isolation. And that is, I think, a lot, there's a lot of talk around that, especially like, as you said, in the Western culture, where it's like, we live separately. um We, as you said, we live these
Social Isolation Risks
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extremely busy lifestyles where we don't make time for those relationships. Like, there are some countries about who all have lunch together and like, You know, they they they specifically make time for family and friendships. And that's so key.
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You're right. And even before COVID, we were already living in more isolation. And now we plug that factor in and we have more people than ever working from home, even to this day. hello, it's me and you as well. But like, you know what I mean? And that aren't necessarily having the pleasure of still having, you know, through the screen face to face with clients and whatever. So that's isolating that people aren't getting up and leaving every day. People don't even have the opportunity if they wanted to prioritize it to have lunch with their coworkers, you know? So there's definitely that theme of isolation more and more.
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Absolutely. And it's technology is wonderful in the way that, like as you you and I both live away from our family and and friends in other cities. And so technology has an amazing way of helping us stay connected there.
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But it can also, like you said, go the opposite way and make us make it too easy for us to not leave our homes and to not prioritize those face-to-face interactions. Yeah.
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A thousand percent. And I think what we really want to get into is some stats about actually that might be surprising um the role of community and your tribe and your girls on your health. And then talk more about what is a tribe like, you know, and what happens if you can't find yours and some of the obstacles associated with that, because these are all real things.
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Love it. Absolutely. Okay. Some stats.
Active Social Lives and Health Benefits
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So this one's from PubMed, um where social isolation and loneliness have been linked to various forms of morbidity, including increased risk of heart attack and stroke.
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Wow. And also on that list, I see type 2 as well. And then we have increased risk of depression and anxiety and even cognitive health issues from dementia to Alzheimer's to even just minor, you know, mild, sorry, cognitive impairment.
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Like, that's crazy. Totally. and it's ah And it goes with when we talk about being social keeps us young. Like, you see, I know, you know, the social, being social has been a very important piece of my parents' life. Right.
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And I could tell, like you just talked about COVID when we all isolated, there was a difference. There was more, you know, you could see more depression in people. The mental health stats came out, right?
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You can see the direct link between that that isolation and mental health issues. um Yeah, very interesting. Yeah. You're right. And when you talk about the social interaction, keeping us healthy, you just made me think of my mom. My mom lives in an adult lifestyle community. So it is absolutely amazing. They are my mom, like she lives in her own house. It's just a community um of homes. And it's all people that are, you know, living an adult lifestyle, living in older, in their older years. And they have so many events that go on. My mom's social calendar is busier than mine. And I'm going to tell you, honestly, I'm so proud of my mom. So if she's listening to this, I am so proud of my mom in terms of how she is surrounding herself with community. My mom's social calendar is busier than mine. I'm like, call my mom nine times out of 10. And I'm like, she's not there. What is she possibly doing?
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That is not just being my mom, but she's out doing the things and it is keeping her young Kim. And like, you can see that in her. Absolutely. That's a longevity piece right there because my dad passed away seven years ago.
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And things could have gone very differently, I think, depending on how my mom moved forward with a lot of things, but especially with that social community and
Maintaining Friendships with Age
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her tribe. She has a tribe in her 80s. It's amazing.
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Well, yeah and you know what? It takes work. Like I think about our our moms and I think about, you know, that they just touch base with each other every once in a while. They both live in different communities. They both, you know, they were really, it was easier for them. And we can talk about this a little later. It was easier for them when we would go to school and they would drop us off and they'd talk in the parking lot at pick up and drop off. And they had the other moms that, you know,
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that they were able to like meet with and go out with on the regular. But then even as we grew up and moved on, they kept that friendship strong, but they, it took work. It took effort to stay connected.
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That's such a good point. And that kind of goes back to what we were saying at the start. My mom would tell me that they would drop us off in the parking lot like for when school started, whenever that was obviously in the morning.
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And then we would always go home for lunch, Kim and I, like when we were in the younger grades, cause our moms were home. And sometimes they would have stayed in the parking lot the entire morning and they just sat in the car and like, they just would take us home for lunch. And that amount of time that, that they had then is amazing. And you're right. As things change, we're not in school anymore or whatever. The effort,
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is absolutely required to build that community and keep that community. But there are some obstacles and it can be hard. So that's such a good point for sure.
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For sure. Should we go back to a couple of stats here, Tanya? I see- Because they're wild. They're wild. Another one is, you talked about dementia and cognitive decline. Social isolation is associated with a 50% increased risk of developing dementia in older adults.
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Also, our immune system, people with a stronger social network have a better antibody response. Absolutely, for sure. And crazy too, when we talk about stats, um,
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even when we look at like heart disease and stroke and cardiovascular health, um it's showing that poor social relationships um can be associated with like a a massive increase, 29% increase in the risk of heart disease and 32% increase in the risk of stroke.
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Like these are real physical facts. And you know, this is again, just one of those moments where we can point out the holistic nature of the body, mind, body, and spirit, right? How much things like are who's around us, who's not around us, isolation can impact our emotions, our mental health, and these have real impacts then on our physical health.
00:15:42
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Absolutely. And I think we can give all the stats, you know, we can give all the stats, but what it comes down to is how we feel, right? And we always go back to that.
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Think about the time where you go to your friend's house and literally laugh until your cheeks hurt and how you feel coming home from that. Or, you know, when you used or hopefully you still do, go out dancing with friends or, you know, have a great dinner with friends or go on a hike. I have a hiking group that I just love and they're helping me go through life.
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And, you know, whether whether it's that you need advice, whether it's just that you need an ear, whether it's if you need a laugh, like think about how you feel leaving those situations and how how good do you feel leaving those situations. It obviously have a wonderful impact on your health.
00:16:35
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I'm smiling the whole time that you're saying this. Like I'm just sitting here smiling with like, all of these happy glimmers, other reference to an old podcast of joy.
00:16:47
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In my mind, thinking about all the things you said, even thinking about future events, thinking about the next time I'm in Ontario, I'm going to get together with the girls. So the next time I, me and you get together, like you're absolutely right. How does it make us feel? And that kind of helps us in adulthood when it comes to who is our tribe? our community, our friends. What does this mean? Because we know that we have those gut feelings and those undeniable emotions of happiness, elation, all the things we just described when we're with our true tribe.
00:17:27
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And we know that there's some people that we try with or, you know, they they just maybe don't quite fit And give us those feelings as others. So choosing our tribe, our true tribe and our true community that will give these health benefits.
00:17:44
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It's important. It's not just anybody off the street. It's, you know, it's the people that get you and have your same core values in life and who support you. Those are big things.
00:17:57
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Absolutely. yeah We talk about how all the amazing health benefits then come from having really healthy and good relationships, you know helping decrease stress, lowering cortisol levels, all of these great things. But the the same can be true for having toxic relationships and being surrounded by people who don't make you feel good. That can have a very negative impact on our health. So it is true what you just said, Tanya.
00:18:27
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You know, who you choose as your tribe or friend group really, really matters. Oh, you're so right. And we're at this age, too, where there can be some confusion and there can be some sadness and some resentment and some grief in terms of sometimes.
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people that have been part of our tribe, our gals, these can change and these can change as we shift and as we age. And I think something so important right now is to always take stock and s sit with yourself and exactly ask how your tribe makes you feel. Or maybe you don't even need to ask. Maybe when you come home, you know, yep, that lit me up in all the right ways or <unk> that was a bit taxing and I'm not...
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essentially sure that maybe this is my exact tribe members going forward. I think it's so important to always take stock on that.
Challenges of Adult Friendships
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Totally. i agree with you completely, Tanya, because it's like what we were talking about with our energy, right? We only have so much energy. And and let's be real, like when we we were kind of talking about how we were in our our teens and 20s, and it was really easy. Well, not really easy. Some relationships were challenging then as well. But But we didn't really know that.
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I don't think we knew that as well. Totally. And the social side of it, everybody's going out. We're all going out friends. We're all fun party friends. We all have a blast together. And that's great.
00:19:58
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But who kind of... The friendships that kind of see you through each transition of your life, that grow with you, that change with you, that support you through whatever you're going through in life, those are the ones that stick. I remember another one my mom said, you'll probably have, you know, tons of friends in your youth if you're lucky, but you probably have only about five friends.
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close friends, or if you if you if you have five close friends into your adult life, you can count yourself lucky. Those are the people that have seen you through all of these stages of your life and that that have supported you and that give you all those amazing health benefits that that we just sort of talked about.
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Oh, I love this so much. And it really comes down to a feeling at the end of the day. And for me, it's like literally the feeling of home, the feeling of freedom, freedom to be exactly who you are at every time, show up exactly as you are, never that niggle or anything of maybe I should hold this back or shoot, my hair is so greasy. I could fry an egg on it. Like it's that huge, like Kim's looking at right now. um It's that huge feeling of home and comfort. And yeah, Kathy Newton again, man, like you're right. You're probably all sitting there, whether you're walking or wherever you're listening to this.
00:21:30
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And you're probably picturing those faces in your mind that are your core tribe, or i'm going to be honest, some of you might not be.
00:21:41
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And some of you might be feeling, i don't still at this point in my life know who my tribe is, who my community is. Like, how am I going to find them? Should I even be looking? And like, that's very valid as
Building New Communities
00:21:57
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well. And that's something that a lot of people at this stage are going through.
00:22:02
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For sure, Tanya. And I think you said it, you said it earlier, like life gets busy, right? And if we're not, i mean... I mean, I could say also like some of my closest friends, even if I don't talk to them in a year, you know it's a great friend when you can get back and meet up with them and they're not making you feel guilty and you can catch up where you left off and it's just normal, right?
00:22:28
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But it also takes work to stay connected. Like I know too, you, Tanya, like when you go back, you make a point to see to see everybody, you make a point to make plans. And for some of us, it's hard to do that. It is difficult to do that. And as we age, you know, we've got way more responsibility. We have family obligations. We have aging parent obligations. We have work obligations. And sometimes it feels like There's not enough time in the day for any of it, even if you really want it.
00:22:58
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And so if you're sitting there, like Tanya said, saying, oh, I haven't, you know, i haven't kept the connections that I really want to. You know, I haven't really invested in my friendships. Well, maybe now's the time to start investing in friendship in your life.
00:23:16
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I love that. Exactly. Maybe this is your sign from the universe to send that text, you know, make that contact. And maybe this is also your time to Really push yourself. If you're someone, let's say you're someone that's moved across the country, like him, like me, and you knew nobody when you got there, maybe this is your push to start to look into finding that community and that tribe. And this doesn't need to replace
00:23:54
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people that are already in your inner circle, because guess what? We can have several inner circles and most of us do long distance or not. Most of us might have our OGs, you know, from where we've come from and new connections here, but even in your current space, you might have connections that you connect over that are other moms. Let's say if you have kids that just are going through the same things as you that's That's your tribe there. And you might have a different tribe. Let's say when it comes to interests, you might have a bird watching tribe. You might have a moon circle tribe. That's what I have. You might have, you know, a tribe around religion. What I'm saying is that that community piece can come from a whole bunch of different places. And there are lots of ways that you can start to kind of look and seek and find them.
00:24:52
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Absolutely. You're absolutely right. Like when it comes like when it comes to what you need in in this time of your life too, like community can support you through so much. I mean, that's why we have, you know, grief counseling groups. good one We have, you know, for people that are that that you can relate to that have gone through something that you've gone through.
00:25:14
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you know, I have my hiking girls that they're all sort of, i guess, knew it. I guess we've been friends for probably five five years more now. But that when I first moved to Vancouver, they were a new group of friends and they've carried me through so much um of my life. And so, like you said, Tanya, does take work. It does take work to find those that can be, especially it's hard when you're in a new city or if you're You know, like you said, you're not involved. Maybe you don't have kids. Maybe you're not involved in any sports or anything right now.
00:25:47
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Sports and kids seem to be really easy connector ways to connect. But finding groups where you resonate with something like a hiking group, like Tanya's bird watching a book club, something that, you know, that you can be a part of.
00:26:05
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I love that point. And I think that it's really important to talk about my experience because when
Adapting to New Environments
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I moved to Alberta, I knew nobody obviously except my husband and my dog um outside of that. And I didn't have a tribe or a community for a long time. And you, Kim, are someone I looked to for guidance because you had made a move also, you know, and you had given me the most valuable advice ever. surrounding this that anybody could have ever given me, not only because it came from you, because it just hit home.
00:26:44
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And you told me about roots, and you told me about wings, and that my roots, I didn't, I think about it all the time. um that like my roots, I will always have those roots to go home to in Ontario, just like you will. And you're a root for me, even though we're both in different provinces from where we met, we will have our roots and we will have our our wings and our wings are the places where we've decided to go to because we have these new opportunities there. And I remember asking you within that, how did you
00:27:18
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get your new tribe? How did you get a new community? I remember asking you that actually, after a year and a half of being in Alberta, because I'm such a hermit that I was totally like, oh, this is, I'm good in Alberta because my friends and family were visiting and I had technology and I had my dog and my husband. But then one day,
00:27:39
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It wasn't enough. And I was like, but I want to sit across from someone like-minded and see them in person. And I want to go for a walk with them. And I, you know, so, and you had talked about for you a catalyst was exactly like you said, kids and sports.
00:27:54
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And I was like, well, shoot, don't really have either of those. And i think it's important to talk about the difference between that doesn't mean that it was easy for you. I'm not saying that like that was all where all your connections came from, but you definitely had to interact with other like-minded parents because you had kids and you were doing that. So for me, it was about exactly like you had touched on before,
00:28:19
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finding an interest, finding a passion, and then trying it out, hopefully finding like-minded people because they're also doing the same things. And I signed up for this women's circle.
00:28:32
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And here we go. Fast forward year later, year and a half later, I've been here for over three years now, which is wild. And some of my closest friends and connections came from there.
00:28:46
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So beautiful. It's true. it's And it's hard work. It's hard to put yourself and be vulnerable in those situations. Like I remember when I first moved to Vancouver, everyone was like, oh yeah, Vancouver is super friendly, but everyone seems to have their core group of people and it's hard to kind of get into another group.
00:29:03
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And it it was, it was, it, I mean, I think you can have that experience really moving anywhere or when you're trying to sort of find community. um And it takes, it takes like some vulnerability and it takes you opening up to new adventures, new activities, new opportunities. It's like networking, right? It takes time, and um but it's worth it at the end, I think. And it's so funny that Roots and Wings, I struggled with that for a long time because I have close, I have really deep roots.
00:29:38
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in family and friends in Ontario. And it was really difficult for me to find home in another part of this world that wasn't near my formative, my first family, right? And Natalie Alcoba, our friend, gave me a little bird,
00:29:58
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with like, like kind of on a branch. And we were the ones that talk, cause she also did the same thing, a big move. And we talked about roots and wings and how you can have both it. But just like what we were talking about, it takes work.
00:30:12
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It takes
Celebrating Community
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work in connection. I still go back to Ontario all the time. Thankfully I have the means to do that. And I still keep connected with the people back in Ontario and keep nurturing those roots, right? So that I can have the wings.
00:30:27
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I couldn't have said that any better. um As you know, too, very grateful that I'm back and forth to Ontario probably every two months. And I think one thing that I'm going to say on this very special Galentine's episode is that my roots are my foundation.
00:30:44
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My tribe back there, my girls, they know who they are They are my whole entire heart. So I think it's so important that for me and talking about community and the importance of it, I also needed that community here to survive after a while, but it in no way diminishes my roots. My roots are what holds me. And interesting enough, when you're at a new place longer, like you just said, Kim,
00:31:23
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I have roots now in two places and it feels really good. And one day going to have wings again because let's face it, I'm moving to somewhere hot eventually. That is no surprise to anybody. And i just love that going through it, it's made me realize even for a lone wolf like me, someone who is very okay with being on my own for the most part, that it's impossible to thrive forever.
00:31:52
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in the way that I want to with my health, my physical and emotional health without community. who I agree, Tanya, so much. um My girlfriends are, you know, they've they've carried me through life and I know that they're going to be an important part of my future too.
00:32:12
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Like with whatever we go through, be it health, be it, you know, our ah romantic partners, kids, life, right? Like these these are the women that kind of stand by us and help us through and encourage us and make life fun.
00:32:27
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Let's be real. Make life so fun. They are home. These relationships are home. Galentines, Valentines, all of this love.
00:32:38
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It's like home, right? And it's so important for... all All of these reasons. And that's why we wanted to talk about it this week and not only talk about the importance, but celebrate it as well. Celebrate all of the people in our lives that we love. And maybe you guys can take the opportunity this week to do that as well and celebrate your community and your tribe.
00:33:05
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Absolutely. And I just want to take a second to thank this community of listeners that have been so supportive of us. I mean, we're on episode, what, 33 now? I can't believe it.
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And you've just been so supportive of us. And it feels ah feels a little like a little community growing, which is really, really nice for us as well. And so wishing all of you happy Valentine's, happy Galentine's. Reach out to your girls. even if you haven't reached out to them in eons, um and celebrate your love.
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