📅 Monday, October 19th

⏰ 6PM

📍 Groundswell

🎀 Hosted by the amazing Em!

October Read: 📖 Gilded by Marissa Meyer

Heads up about the book it is a part of a series and this book does end on a significant cliffhanger. So, take that into consideration when you start to read it.

We will also have our infamous candy salad back, so please bring at least one bag of some kind of gummy candy to share. I will bring the tote (yes, I said tote) and baggies so we can take some home.

Also, let’s get in the spirit and wear fun wigs! I love nothing more than a fun wig to celebrate Halloween! It’s also our 2 year anniversary of the book club, so let’s party!

As soon as the event is up - I’ll post it here.

Thursday, October 29th

@ 6 PM

Pacific Social | Carmel Valley

🎃🖤 Gals That Brunch Halloween Book Bash! 👻📚

Join us for a spooktacular evening of books, costumes, treats, and tricks!

📖 The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

📅 Thursday, October 29th | 6 PM

📍 Pacific Social | Carmel Valley

✨ Costume contest, spooky fun, and great company!

We have a special reserved space just for our book club! RSVPs are very important so we can provide an accurate headcount.

🍷 Separate checks are available, with gratuity automatically added.

🍂 Bring your November book recommendation for our Fall Into Friendship theme!

We can’t wait to celebrate spooky season with you! 🎃🕸️

RSVP through our Gals That Brunch book club page! 💕

Kicking off

October 9th - Meet & Greet / Reading Plan @ Coffee Dose

16th - First offish @ Tiffs

23rd, & 30th: TBD

Time: 11AM

Book: Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans.

Get your Book Here: https://amzn.to/3SRvk8A

Where: Rotating (Morena District) between my house and maybe mix it up a couple of times as well too

We just wrapped our very first round of Gals That Grow and trulyyy… we loved it so much. 🥹💛

There was something really special about gathering with women who are all in a season of wanting to grow, reflect, and become more intentional, together. It felt grounding, honest, encouraging, and exactly like the kind of space we want more of.

So yes, babe… Gals That Grow is officially coming back this fall! 📚✨

And if there’s anything life and honestly, the culture around us—is showing us right now, it’s that things can change in an instantttt. Careers shift. Relationships change. Opportunities appear. Plans unravel. Doors open that we never even knew to knock on. The life we pictured five years ago may no longer fit the woman we’re becoming—and that doesn’t mean we’ve failed. It might simply mean it’s time to get curious again.

That’s exactly why we chose Designing Your Life for our next four-week series.

Written by two Stanford design professors, this book takes the creative problem-solving tools designers use to build and improve products and applies them to something a little more personal: building a life that feels meaningful, joyful, and genuinely yours.

This isn’t a book about creating one perfectly polished five-year plan and then forcing your life to follow it. It’s about learning how to move forward when you’re unsure, uncover what actually gives you energy, reframe the stories and “shoulds” keeping you stuck, and explore more than one beautiful version of what your future could become.

Because there isn’t only one right career, one right calling, or one tiny path you must discover before it’s too late. You’re allowed to experiment. You’re allowed to pivot. You’re allowed to outgrow an old dream, imagine a new one, and take small steps toward it before you have every single detail figured out.

Together, we’ll explore how to:

✨ define what a well-lived, joyful life actually means to you

✨ notice the people, places, and experiences that make you feel most alive

✨ identify the beliefs, expectations, and “shoulds” keeping you stuck

✨ reframe problems so you can see possibilities you may have been missing

✨ imagine multiple versions of your future instead of putting all the pressure on one perfect plan

✨ test-drive new ideas through small, low-risk experiments before making a giant leap

✨ build more courage, curiosity, and trust for life’s inevitable pivots

And honestly, we chose this book because these are not questions women should have to wrestle through alone. Sometimes we need a table full of gals to help us recognize what we can’t yet see in ourselves, to remind us that changing direction isn’t failure, uncertainty isn’t a dead end, and we’re not behind just because our lives look different than we thought they would.

Think meaningful conversations, gentle accountability, practical exercises, cozy snacks, and a room full of gals reminding you that you’re allowed to change your mind, try something new, and intentionally design a life that actually feels like yours.

Your RSVP includes all four gatherings, your Gals That Grow companion workbook, and weekly snacks. The book is purchased separately, so grab your copy now and get a little head start before we kick things off!

📖 Get your book here:https://amzn.to/3SRvk8A