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She Built a 20,000-Woman Friendship Community | FrancesMary Loughead, BFF Indy
On today's show I sat down with FrancesMary "FM" Loughead, a DePaul graduate who moved from downtown Chicago to Indianapolis in 2021 during COVID, initially living in Bloomington and later Brownsburg, Carmel, and Noblesville.
With no local network and working remotely, FM struggled to make adult friends and began using Bumble BFF, which led her to start a Facebook watch party for The Bachelorette that drew 15–20 women weekly. The group expanded into other events like wine nights and community outings, eventually becoming BFF Indy, officially launched in January 2024 with a 100-person party at…
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