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Nothing beats turning 30, breaking up with a partner you’d been planning a future with, and realising your friendship group had entered the next phase of their lives: one that involved moving out of the city, and didn’t really involve you.

Happy for them? Yes. Sad for me? Also yes.

It was summer 2022, the heatwave had been running strong for weeks, I was re-entering a new single girl era after breaking up with my long-distance boyfriend of 3+ years. I was ready for excitement, adventure and making new memories. The only problem: all of my friends had moved away and I didn’t really have a group of pals anymore.

I don’t want to come across as though I’m one of those people who ditches their friends when they have a new partner. Seeing as my recently deceased relationship had been with a man living in another country, I had always had plenty of time for friends.

But breakups force you to re-evaluate your life.

So I sat in the park with my friend, Elle, as we stared at groups wondering “how are you lot even friends? How did you meet?”. I’d scroll on social media seeing everyone having fun - booking girly holidays, cocktails, day trips to the beach and wonder, is life passing me by?

I’m watching other people make memories whilst I sit here waiting for a text back about going for a drink in 2 weeks time.  

And in fairness, the undoing of my friendship groups had been happening for sometime. The love was still there - and still is! - but with every summer that passed, the group chat began to fall more and more silent. Even messages to my closest friends became less frequent as they prioritised friendships in closer proximity - housemates, workmates, people in their local vicinity (the north/south London divide is REAL) 

It’s something that happens to all of us at some point: especially the ones who move to a big city for work. There’s a timeline everyone seems to follow. You go to uni, move to the “big city” (in my case, London), live together, hang out together.

People get boyfriends, they move in together a few stops further down the tube line. The property ladder starts calling like a finance bro or club promoter from Tinder 5 years ago at 4am after a binge in Soho: incessantly, with repeated pressure and anxiety.

And next thing you know you’ve bought a little house in Surrey, Kent, or Milton Keynes. You get engaged, you get married, and you have a baby or a few. Your priorities and life changes - throw that in with new friendship groups from work, being a mum, your partners friends and family, and there becomes less and less time for your OG friends.

There is nothing wrong with any of this.

BUT what about the people who don’t want that? What about the people who feel like they’re being left behind in a city full of memories, but nobody to create new ones with? This is where I found myself, summer of 2022. And this is why I decided to make New Circle Society.

I’ve been a full-time content creator for years now and I am so lucky and grateful to have such a supportive group of women that follow my journey. But one thing I am forever being asked is “how do I make new friends in London? All of my friends have moved out of the city or have no time for me because they’re busy with their partners/kids” - and whilst it’s nice to know I’m not the only one, it sucks to know this problem is more widespread!

Being a full time content creator, you don’t have an office space to go to. You don’t have colleagues. And with more people being freelance and working from home, especially since covid, it’s becoming more common to be working solo. It can be a lonely working environment and you miss out on making friendships.

I had a plenty of solid individual girl friends who I love and adore - but I missed having a group. So with New Circle Society, I wanted to really help people people. The women who have followed me for years on my social platform and seen my life change are important to me and I want to be able to build something for them. 

I hope you guys are as excited as I am to build your new circle!