Making new friends as an adult can be really tricky whether you've just moved to a different city or you've grown up where you live. But one group of Melbourne based women has found a solution and it doesn't involve running, netball, books or singing.
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00:00Caps on and coffees in hand, these women are united in one mission only, to make new friends.
00:10Turns out they have a lot in common.
00:12Yeah and then she loves Pilates and then I'm like I just started Pilates and then she said she's a yoga instructor.
00:17Hype Girl Social Club has grown to a community that's thousands of women strong.
00:22It started as a regular walking group, an antidote to the hardcore run club boom.
00:28There's no other sort of space for women to connect so if you didn't run or if you weren't athletic what do you do?
00:33But the group now also runs activities like boxing, movies and silent discos.
00:38It was an idea born out of Ash Orman's own experience with loneliness.
00:43In my early 20s moved across town maybe like an hour and that was enough to sort of pull me from my community and my friends.
00:49And I remember sitting on the floor of my shower in my early 20s just sobbing my eyes out feeling really lonely.
00:54Her hunch turned out to be correct. There were others out there who'd experienced the same feeling.
01:00A lot of people make their friends in school and uni but I found that after uni all of my friends kind of moved away to different cities, different countries.
01:09It's difficult to make friends in this world because increasingly we're living in a world that is less connected.
01:16It's much more difficult to also make the time because of the culture of what we're supposed to be doing in our daily routine.
01:24The group has been a lifeline for Jessica Keith. Struggling with her mental health she found herself feeling alone.
01:30And when I say it's saved my life I mean that in every sense of the word.
01:34I've got a group of probably seven to eight really really beautiful girlfriends and this is one of my dearest friends City Stay that I've met through Spice Girls.
01:42We've met a lot of first timers here today and Ash says the best thing about this group is that many people feel comfortable enough to rock up alone.
01:50We are not meant to do that alone and I wish I could go back 12 months ago and tell myself that, that I'm not meant to do that alone.