Fat Girl Sundays vancouver edition
sunday, no plans, no shame. we eat the whole thing and stay until someone says "one more hour."
big dreams. good people. a taste for everything life has to offer.
find your people · make the plan · live a little
gets it wrong. gets it right. keeps going.
currently obsessed with: saying yes before checking the calendar.
collecting stories, strange hobbies, plane tickets, people, recipes, and decisions.
ambitious, curious, a little bit restless.
girls who dance with life. who work for their dreams — and still say yes to the last-minute plan.
say yes, often. ✦sunday, no plans, no shame. we eat the whole thing and stay until someone says "one more hour."
bring one dish and one story. nobody's cooking to impress, everybody leaves with a number saved.
how everyone gets in. someone vouches, you show up, and the room decides the rest.
twelve members get a text with a time and nothing else. no theme, no dress code, no group chat, no address until the hour before.
a car, a two-hour drive, and dinner at the end of it.
we're keeping the first one small on purpose — enough people to make it interesting, small enough that you might actually leave knowing someone.
we already know everyone here is cool — so, what does your cool look like? tell us what you're into, what you're up to, and the kind of plans you'd actually say yes to.
applying isn't an automatic invite — and that's kind of the point. we're intentional about who we bring into the room. think of it like making friends in real life: you don't click with everyone, and you don't have to. we're looking for people who feel like a good fit, not trying to make everyone fit.
get vouched by someone you know, or fill out the questionnaire. if it feels like a fit, we'll invite you to a Friends of Friends night. come with someone. come alone. see what happens. if you like what you find, leave your name in the tip box — there might just be a whole new group waiting to meet you.
turns out, seeing someone more than once is pretty good for friendship. there's science behind it: repeated exposure builds familiarity, and familiarity helps connection grow. so if you're a fit for a cohort, you'll spend eight weeks with the same people — group hangouts, signature events, wildcard nights, and plans that happen along the way. because what's the point of meeting someone you really like once, only to never see them again?
somewhere along the way, we've lost a little spontaneity. the last-minute drink. the unplanned dinner. "wait, are you coming?" we want some of that back — because a real friend group isn't built entirely in a calendar.
eight weeks is just the beginning. your cohort becomes part of the wider Solira community — with access to the Marketplace, Townhall, member perks, and everyone who joins next.
see someone. see them again. do something together. repeat.
see the research ↗finish your first cohort and the doors open — to the girls who came before you, and everything the club is becoming.
the internet, wellness, new places, a little money talk, and the girls' own recommendations. we sort through it so you don't have to.
the girls run their own rooms — dinners, classes, trips, tiny parties — and fill the seats with people they'd actually want there.
the doctor, the neighbourhood, the number for the good one. answered by women who actually know the city.
three rooms open at week eight · more as we grow
there's too much to keep up with. we got you.
the internet, trends, wellness, new releases, substacks, vlogs & everything in between. we sort through it so you don't have to.
vancouver is a big maze. we know where to go.
new places, old favourites, pop-ups, events & september plans worth leaving the house for.
being financially responsible is the new hot.
finance trends, money diaries, sales worth knowing about & a little girl math.
solira girls have something to say.
stories, recommendations, shout-outs, vlogs & whatever else the girls feel like sharing.
the science, the founder, and the whole argument — on its own page.
read who we are →no résumé, just three real questions. friendship is chosen again and again, and that's what we're here for.
our plans are a secret. our emails are not.
ready to tell us more? answer the three questions →
no algorithm · two real people read every application
We live in a world where everything is one click away. We can work from anywhere, build careers, reinvent ourselves, and see a thousand different versions of the life we could be living.
And somehow, we're getting lonelier.
Especially in your twenties, building a social life can feel like another job. A workout class here. A networking event there. A new hobby. An Instagram follow. Trying to break into a friend group in a city that can feel impossible to break into.
seeing the same faces on repeat is what turns strangers into your people.
Zajonc, 1968 · J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. ↗the plans nobody scheduled are the ones people remember.
Back et al., 2008 · Psychological Science ↗Harvard tracked people for 80+ years. Close relationships keep us healthier and happier than money or fame.
Waldinger & Schulz, 2010 · Psychology and Aging ↗ Holt-Lunstad et al., 2010 · PLoS Medicine ↗"I'm a bioinformatics master's student at UBC in cancer research. The more I learn about health, the more I see how much connection matters."
I've lived in Vancouver for five years, and my female friendships have carried me through heartbreak, grief, uncertainty, moving, growing up, starting over — and all the beautiful moments in between. They've been my people when life was hard, and the first people I wanted to call when life was good.
And I kept thinking:
Every waitlist signup and application submitted from this browser is stored here. To collect submissions from everyone, everywhere, connect a form service (see the note I left you). Nothing here is uploaded anywhere.
a members' world for ambitious women who don't leave their people to chance.
started by a UBC cancer researcher who read the data on loneliness, then did something about it.