Friends Next Door

Growing up is not easy, so does nurturing relationships as we get older. How should we navigate these personal relationships that are often highly nuanced?    As always, if you have a burning question, find us here:   Email:  frndsnextdoor@gmail.com IG: @frndsnextdoor Dan: @therealdanchen Mia: @msmiaaa Thomas: @mundane_photos

As we go through life, sometimes we'd feel stuck in a rut and start questioning our purpose on this planet. We may not be able to find all the answers to our life questions, but we think taking steps to rediscover ourselves is a great first step. When we reconnect with ourselves and figure out what we deem important, all the other pieces of the puzzle should eventually fall into place!   As always...

This may be a sensitive question to ask, but if you decide to ask yourself this question it would no doubt require an honest and courageous look at self. Is it easy? Of course not. Is it necessary? That's for everyone to decide.    As always, if you have a burning question, find us here:   Email:  frndsnextdoor@gmail.com IG: @frndsnextdoor Dan: @therealdanchen Mia: @msmiaaa Thomas: @mundane_photos

On a scale of 1 to 10, how much of a people pleaser are you? Do you usually have a hard time saying no? How have you changed as you get older? Let's talk about it!   As always, if you have a burning question, find us here:   Email:  frndsnextdoor@gmail.com IG: @frndsnextdoor Dan: @therealdanchen Mia: @msmiaaa Thomas: @mundane_photos

We're letting our hair down and choosing fun for this episode - beach-side resort or hill-side cottage? Call or text? Golf or tennis? We've been friends for a while but some of these answers were still a surprise!   As always, if you have a burning question, find us here: Email:  frndsnextdoor@gmail.com IG: @frndsnextdoor Dan: @therealdanchen Mia: @msmiaaa Thomas: @mundane_photos

If the title sounds like an oxymoron, think again. Identifying our own personal blindspot is not easy, but not impossible with the help of a little research and a lot of self reflection. Of course, you could also listen to our convo and see if any of these are relatable to you. Hope you find this episode enjoyable!   As always, if you have a burning question, find us here: Email:  frndsnextdoor@gm...

And also, are you, literally, too hot to handle? Honestly, we think these two questions are enough to start a fun convo so listen on!    As always, if you have a burning question, find us here: Email:  frndsnextdoor@gmail.com IG: @frndsnextdoor Dan: @therealdanchen Mia: @msmiaaa Thomas: @mundane_photos

Be honest - when you're traveling, how many days do you last without looking for your comfort food? Of course culinary adventure is fun, but there's something comforting about eating food you've grown up consuming. As we're chatting this time, we're taking this idea and asking each other, what are the things that bring you a sense of home?    As always, if you have a burning question, find us here...

Alright friends here's a fun episode for you: what are simple things that you're just bad at? For example, you could be bad at using Google Calendar and no matter how simple it looks, you just can't find your reminders and events - (whisper) BOOMER moment. But that's okay, no one is perfect so let's just poke fun at ourselves every now and then!     As always, if you have a burning question, find...

Does anyone else feel worried about how normalized mediocrity is becoming? We're asking for a friend - a Reddit user. Okay this has the potential to become a controversial topic, but we decided to take it on and chat through it. Listen on and let us know how you agree or disagree.   As always, if you have a burning question, find us here: Email:  frndsnextdoor@gmail.com IG: @frndsnextdoor Dan: @th...

What would be your answer if someone asked you this today? And we're not talking about FOMO strictly in a social sense, but in also other aspects of this thing called life.   As always, if you have a burning question, find us here:   Email:  frndsnextdoor@gmail.com IG: @frndsnextdoor Dan: @therealdanchen Mia: @msmiaaa Thomas: @mundane_photos

What are things or situations that you would never get yourself into? Haunted houses, rollercoasters, bungee jumping might be obvious to some people, but some of our answers may be surprising to you. Listen on and see if you agree!    As always, if you have a burning question, find us here: Email:  frndsnextdoor@gmail.com IG: @frndsnextdoor Dan: @therealdanchen Mia: @msmiaaa Thomas: @mundane_photo...

Do you constantly find yourself in ‘go go go’ mode or are you a relaxation professional? How important is it to take a step back from our daily grinds and slow down every once in a while? Dan, Kuan and Mia weigh in on these questions as they sit down and have a relaxing and fun chat *wink*.   As always, if you have a burning question, find us here: Email:  frndsnextdoor@gmail.com IG: @frndsnextdoo...

They say age is just a number, but are there times when you feel your age? Or older than your age? In our opinion, it's only normal to feel both! Maybe you pull a muscle from simply carrying your grocery bags (not saying that this happened to one of us, L-O-L), but you have so much zest for life that even those much younger than you can hardly keep up. Ahh.. 'tis the beauty of life :)    As always...

Our FIRST Mailbag episode in a while and we're here for it! Have you traveled solo? Or is it in your bucketlist? Many people credit traveling solo as a way of self discovery and to be more in tune with who you are. So if given the opportunity, would you do it? What are some of the things to prepare for a fun and memorable solo trip?  Shoutout to Shirley for sending this in :)   As always, if you h...

Inspired by Love Is Blind (the dating show), Dan, Kuan and Mia share their thoughts on whether love is really blind or if it has eyes. Need we say more? Nope, let's give it a listen!    As always, if you have a burning question, find us here: Email:  frndsnextdoor@gmail.com IG: @frndsnextdoor Dan: @therealdanchen Mia: @msmiaaa Thomas: @mundane_photos

Calling all hopeless romantics from around the world! You know those butterfly in your stomach feelings when you're falling in love? Great! Now all you need is a friend who's keeping you off your rose-tinted glasses and helping you watch out for potential red flags. Don't worry, we're not being all negative, there are green flags as well ;)  Enjoy!   As always, if you have a burning question, find...

We're back with season 4! We had plans of starting season 4 much earlier in the year, but life got the better of us so here we are, in late May, uploading the first episode of our FOURTH season.  It's only fitting, then, that our first topic of the season is about having motivation and being resolute (ha!). Are you someone who is disciplined and has the will to hold yourself accountable? How do yo...

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!! Another year, another season - we can't believe it .  If you've been listening to us all this time, thank you so much, we see you!!  If you're just finding us, welcome, friends ^_^!  2022 going on 2023 -- what did we even do this year?? Listen to us reflect on: what we accomplished, what we're proud of, what were the nice things people did for us this year, and what are t...

Ohhh high school, we're here again!  In our  S2E36. Have We Peaked?  episode we touch upon how some people "peak in high school" and now we're exploring another way high school find it's way back into adulthood: does high school ever end?  Listen to us rewind and reflect while we trade high school experiences in clubs(or lack of clubs....) we were in and our social circles.  Through the roasting a...

How many times have you heard someone saying that adulting is hard? You have to juggle so many things that come at you in life - finding and keeping a full time job, making a career out of that job, maintaining friendships, taking care of family members, AND finding time for self care. Oh and figuring out how to do your taxes!  So yeah, no one would throw any blame if you complain about how hard l...

Is there a "work" you, a "family" you, a "secret agent" you? Do you, like Chandler, have a work laugh your significant other hates?  Going one step further, have you, again like Chandler, influenced your partner to also have a work laugh around your work colleagues?  Is this a fake way to behave?  We talked about the concept of "Being On" in our S3E21. I Need a New Social Battery episode and now w...

They were really nice, but we just didn't have "the spark".  How often have you heard this or said this yourself?!  What does this even mean and does this change with the phase of life you're in?  Could we be passing up great potential partners and can attraction really grow? The skeptics want to know.  Featuring a film analysis of "He's Just Not That Into You", we hope you enjoy this episode on t...

Since some of us had just gotten back into the habit of going to the office to work, we couldn't help but notice that we're...more socially drained now lol. Face-to-face interaction with real people makes us feel the need to always be "on", leaving our social battery very low. Home just feels that much better because, well, that's our comfortable little cocoon. Of course not everyone feels the nee...

Piggybacking on our S2E30. MBTI Triggered episode , we bring you the Enneagram version!  It can be fun and helpful(sometimes) to analyze yourself and hopefully you learn more about us :) A caveat here that we use these tests just as a guide post, not as a way to pigeonhole ourselves, so have fun with it!  For some of us, the test took 5 minutes and for others it took...much longer than 5 minutes ^...