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SUMMARY:Empower Hour: Friendship After 40
DESCRIPTION:Empower Hour: Friendship Over 40\nBuilding community gets harder with age. But it doesn’t have to. \n \nWednesday July\, 8 2026 · 12:00–1:00 PM Pacific · Virtual · Free for community\nMaking friends used to be built into your life — school\, sports\, the dorm hallway. After 40\, it doesn’t happen by accident anymore. You have to build it on purpose\, and for gay and queer men of color\, that’s its own layer of complexity. \nThis Empower Hour is a space to get honest about adult friendship — why it gets harder\, what we’re actually craving\, and what it looks like to build real connection at this stage of life instead of waiting for it to find you. \nExpect: a grounding check-in\, reflection on the friendships you have and the ones you’re missing\, and real talk with community members navigating the same thing. \nFacilitated by Noris Chavarría\, ICF PCC-Certified Executive Coach and founder of Bloom Social Club.
URL:https://norisknows.com/event/empower-hour-friendship-after-40/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Bloom Social Club,Community & Connection,Empower Hour,Personal Growth,Virtual Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Bloom Social Club":MAILTO:noris@norisknows.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260715T120000
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SUMMARY:Empower Hour: Still Building
DESCRIPTION:STILL BUILDING\nthe conversation nobody’s having about the long haul\nAn Empower Hour Session — Wednesday\, July 15\, 2026 · 12–1PM Pacific · Virtual\n\nTHE ROOM\nNobody talks about what it takes to keep going once you’ve actually built something. \nThere’s plenty of conversation about how to get into the room — how to earn the seat\, land the funding\, build the reputation. The early chapters get all the attention. But the middle chapters — the ones where you’re leading the company\, running the practice\, holding the vision\, and quietly wondering how long you can sustain the pace — those stay unspoken. \nFor gay and queer men of color who’ve climbed further than the systems around them were built to hold\, that weight is specific. You didn’t just build a business or a career. You built it while carrying more than the job description ever accounted for. And the same drive that got you here can start to feel like something you’re managing instead of something fueling you. \nThis month’s Empower Hour is a conversation about the long game — for the ones who are already far enough in to feel it. \nABOUT THIS SESSION\nEmpower Hour is a free\, monthly virtual gathering for gay and queer men of color. One hour. Honest conversation. No panels\, no pitch decks — just a room that holds space for what’s actually hard about staying at this level. \nThis month: Still Building — what it takes to keep leading\, founding\, and creating over years\, not just a sprint. What replenishes you versus what quietly drains you. How to build a practice that doesn’t cost you your health\, your relationships\, or your edge to maintain. And what sustaining yourself looks like when the systems you’re operating in weren’t designed with your longevity in mind. \nWHAT WE’LL EXPLORE\n\nWhat stamina actually means at your level — beyond grit and willpower\nThe replenishment practices high-performing queer leaders and founders of color actually use\nHow to recognize depletion before it costs you the thing you built\nBuilding a leadership or creative practice that holds up across a career\, not just a quarter\n\nWHO THIS IS FOR\nSenior leaders\, founders\, and entrepreneurs — gay and queer men of color who’ve already built something real and are figuring out how to sustain it. Executives carrying real weight. Creatives and business owners scaling past the hustle phase. People who aren’t asking “how do I get in the room” anymore — you’re asking “how do I stay standing in it.” \nThis isn’t for anyone looking for a pep talk on grinding harder. It’s for the ones already ambitious enough to be tired from the climb\, and serious enough about the long game to actually do something about it. \nEVENT DETAILS\nDate: Wednesday\, July 15\, 2026\nTime: 12:00–1:00 PM Pacific\nFormat: Virtual — Google Meet\nCost: Free
URL:https://norisknows.com/event/empower-hour-still-building/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Bloom Social Club,Community & Connection,Virtual Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Bloom Social Club":MAILTO:noris@norisknows.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260719T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260719T103000
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SUMMARY:Off Leash at Wattles — Bloom Social Club
DESCRIPTION:Off Leash at Wattles — Bloom Social Club \nOff Leash.\nFinally.\n \nA Saturday morning for single gay and queer men of color and their dogs at Wattles Garden Park\, Hollywood. \nNo performance. No pressure. Just the right people in the right place doing the most natural thing there is. \n───────────────────────────────────────────────── \nABOUT THIS GATHERING:\nYou know the feeling. \nYou take your dog to the park\, and they are immediately in their element — running\, playing\, making friends without calculation. \nAnd you are standing there thinking: When was the last time I did that? \n\nOff Leash is a morning for gay and queer men of color who are ready to stop managing themselves and start actually connecting. \nNo mixer energy. No networking agenda. No performance. \nJust Wattles Garden Park\, a beautiful Saturday morning in the Hollywood Hills\, your dog if you have one\, and an outdoor room full of other successful\, dog dads of color who get it — because they are living the same story. \nSingle. Building something. Done with bars and apps. \nReady to be in a room where showing up as yourself is the whole point. \n───────────────────────────────────────────────── \nWHAT TO EXPECT:\n\nA stunning morning on the historic Wattles Mansion lawn right next to Runyon Canyon.\nDogs off leash on the open grounds or on your preference.\nCoffee and a light spread on arrival.\nA bingo card to help you find your pack (it is more fun than it sounds — trust me).\nOne question to open the morning and let the conversation go where it needs to go.\nA group photo at 10 AM — all dogs and their dads.\n\nSome people will walk up into Runyon after. Some will exchange numbers over coffee. Some will just enjoy two hours of being exactly who they are with people who understand that. \nAll of it is the point. \n───────────────────────────────────────────────── \nTHIS MORNING IS FOR:\n\nDog dads. Dog Uncles. Dog godfathers.\nMen who moved to LA and are still looking for their people.\nMen who came out of a long relationship and do not know where gay men of color actually meet anymore.\nMen who are so deep in the hustle that they forgot what a real Saturday morning feels like.\nMen who want to connect without performing it.\n\nYou do not need to bring your dog to attend. \nYou need to be single and identify as BIPOC and gay or queer. \nThis is not a dating event. \n───────────────────────────────────────────────── \nTHE DETAILS:\nDate: Sunday\, July 19\, 2026 \nTime: 8:30 AM – 11:00 AM \nLocation: Wattles Garden Park\, 1824 N Curson Ave\, Hollywood\, CA 90046 \n(Meet on the upper lawn near the mansion — off Curson Ave entrance) \nTicket: $20 RSVP \nWhat to bring: \nYour dog (optional but encouraged) \nWater for yourself and your pup \nSunscreen — we start in shade but the morning opens up \nComfortable shoes \nA good attitude and zero agenda \nParking: Street parking on Curson Ave and Franklin Ave. \nLyft or Uber recommended. \nDogs of all sizes welcome. \nNo dogs or dogdads in heat please. \n───────────────────────────────────────────────── \nThe room is small. That is the point. \nRSVP — $20 \nNo one turned away for financial reasons. \nEmail noris@norisknows.com if that is you. \n───────────────────────────────────────────────── \nBloom Social Club · norisknows.com \nCurated gatherings for gay and queer men of color
URL:https://norisknows.com/event/offleash/
CATEGORIES:Bloom Social Club,Community & Connection,Community Gatherings,In-Person Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Bloom Social Club":MAILTO:noris@norisknows.com
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SUMMARY:BUILT DIFFERENT
DESCRIPTION:BUILT DIFFERENT\nthe body you built everything around — and never for\n \nA Bloom Social Club Experience · Saturday\, July 25th\, 2026 · 10AM–12PM\nTHE ROOM\nYou’ve built the company\, the practice\, the career that reads well from the outside. You’ve sat across from investors\, boards\, clients — closed the deal\, made the case\, held the room. \nAlmost none of that required you to feel good in your own skin. \nAmbition doesn’t leave much time for the body. You’ve optimized your calendar\, your pitch\, your team — but the relationship with your own body has mostly been managed\, not lived in. \nBuilt Different is a pause on that pattern: an intimate morning of crop-top cutting\, real conversation\, and celebrating the bodies that got you here\, for gay and queer men of color who’ve built something real and are ready to build a little ease\, too. \nWHAT TO EXPECT\nA small\, intentional group — never a crowd\, so nobody’s performing for an audience.\nA simple\, guided crop-top cutting technique — just scissors\, no sewing\, no prior skill required.\nReal conversation about body image among men who don’t need the context explained.\nA room of founders\, leaders\, and creatives who understand exactly what “having it together” has cost you.\nSomething you made yourself to walk out wearing. \nWHO THIS IS FOR\nFounders\, senior leaders\, and creatives — gay and queer men of color who’ve spent years building everything except ease in their own skin. Men who can command a boardroom or a client call but haven’t sat in a room where their body\, not their output\, was the subject. This is for the ones ambitious enough to have built something real\, and honest enough to admit the body got left out of the blueprint. \nNot a crafting hobby. Not a body-image support group. A working session for people who build for a living\, doing something with their hands that isn’t performance\, output\, or optimization. \nTHE DETAILS\nSaturday\, July 25th\, 2026 · 10AM–12PM\nWest Hollywood Location\n$35 early bird — bring your own top\n$45 day-of — top provided\nLimited to 15 spots\nBUY TICKET HERE\nABOUT BLOOM SOCIAL CLUB\nBloom Social Club is a curated community for gay and queer men of color who are done shrinking — built by and for the ones already building something real.
URL:https://norisknows.com/event/built-different/
CATEGORIES:Bloom Social Club,Community & Connection,In-Person Events,Personal Growth
ORGANIZER;CN="Bloom Social Club":MAILTO:noris@norisknows.com
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