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From Strangers To Family Founder, Codi Shewan's new book
Everyday Legacy: Lessons For Living With Purpose, Right Now
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Where the types of conversations you wish you had more of happen.
SNAPSHOT DISCOVERY
INTIMATE
Each dinner is limited to a small, select group of individuals, who are carefully curated to ensure an intimate experience. We want to give you an experience like no other.
DEEP CONNECTIONS
Guests from past dinners always leave saying that they feel like they've know the other participants far longer than a couple of hours.
UNIQUE
The focus is on quality over quantity, while other networking opportunities do the complete opposite.The people at the table are of substance, and make the dinners absolutely unique.
POWERFUL
People arrive as strangers and leave feeling a deeper connection to people they just met; as if they're chosen family. How much more powerful can it get?
DEEPER DISCOVERY
WHY?
The world has never been so connected, but we hear all the time how disconnected people feel.
Created to connect amazing humans with other amazing humans, this experience is for people who are changing the world by how they're showing up. The From Strangers To Family Dinner Experience is small and intimate and never exceeds 12 people.
We love facilitating deeper more meaningful conversation that gets to the heart of what’s challenging us, what scares us and what’s possible when like-minded people come together to support each other’s success.
We always try to curate a group with some commonality, i.e. entrepreneurs in the health and wellness space, founders, those who are all from Manhattan, etc. Sometimes we can, and other times we can’t, but we find that regardless when we dive to the deeper truths around entrepreneurship, we uncover that we often have more in common than not.
Our principle golden rule is that we’re a community of peers, not prospects - so these dinners aren’t an opportunity to pitch. They’re an opportunity to connect more meaningfully and to build a network that’s strength isn’t a pocket full of business cards, but a heart and mind that's full and richer - all because of one simple dinner. We've seen it happen time and time again.
To be clear, this isn’t a business or a profit centre. What each person pays covers their meal costs and we happily connect like-minded attendees in a venue that we organize.
We do this because it’s shifted our whole philosophy around networking and connection.
Dinner will be served family style, over many courses. The aim is to create not only an incredible experience through the conversation that will be curated but also in the culinary experience you'll have too.
This isn’t your typical networking event. Our attendees always leave having a full heart, mind, and belly!
If collecting business cards; taking names and numbers is your thing - this isn’t a good fit for you, please consider a different event. This experience is about quality over quantity and for shifting networking towards something people can enjoy, where they really get to know the people they're connecting with.
SOME DINNER PHOTOS
Codi Shewan
ABOUT
I have a deep-seated passion and love of entrepreneurship, a servant heart and most importantly, a desire for the world to experience better connection and deeper, more meaningful conversations.
After experiencing a similar event, I was taken by its effect on not only myself, but everyone in the room. I wanted more, but there was a problem: that particular event had no formality or consistency around it's format or the regularity of when it occurred.
As a result, From Strangers To Family
was created.
The FSTF
philosophy:
Help amazing humans meet other amazing humans.
APPLY
If you'd like to be considered for an invitation to a dinners, feel free to send in some more information about yourself. We carefully curate our dinners, and would love to have you, if you're the right fit.
GUEST COMMENTS
RinaRovinelli
"These dinners meet a serious need; connection and networking with a purpose."
Dr. NatashaWilliams
"Transformative and cathartic.
This experience enables you to present your true self - no compromise - and be
embraced by the people around you."
LeeDeBoo
"Thanks so much for including me in such a powerful evening!"
Carol Schulte
"Thank you for creating a safe space for strangers to become family!
It was an honour and privilege."
ShirinAriff
"This dinner created immediate awareness and action.
I feel liberated! What an experience!"
SamDemma
"This dinner made me uncover things about myself that I didn't even know existed. Highly recommended!"