Coffee & New Friends

So I’ve been doing this thing called Coffee & New Friends, and I want to explain it a bit.

The idea is simple: show up to a park, bring cold brew mocktails, hand them out for free, hang out. That’s it. No agenda. No pitch. Just a reason for people to come stand in the same place and maybe talk to someone they don’t know yet.

Fort Collins is a pretty friendly city, but finding community in a new place is always hard. It's easy to feel like you're on the outside of something and build habits where you go home every night and don't do anything because you're alone. The goal with Coffee & New Friends is to make it easy to break out of it, at least for a couple hours on a Saturday afternoon.

Free coffee is the excuse. Something good in your hand makes conversation easier. I don’t know why, but it does.

We’ve had some genuinely cool stuff happen at these – people exchanging numbers, just having a good time outside. That’s the whole point.

If you haven’t come to one yet, keep an eye on my instagram stories. They’re free, low-key, and the drinks are good.