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Having People Over

A Modern Guide to Planning, Throwing, and Attending Every Type of Party

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Having People Over

By: Chelsea Fagan
Narrated by: Chelsea Fagan
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 Become the perfect host and learn how to foster community as an adult with this modern guide to hosting every type of gathering.

In a world that often feels disconnected and transactional, there's nothing more radically hospitable than welcoming people into your space, your table, and your life.

In this accessible, inviting audiobook on hosting and entertaining, author, CEO, and internet big sister Chelsea Fagan guides listeners on creating moments worth staying in for. From designing the right space, to crafting a menu that won’t keep you in the kitchen all night, to revitalizing the lost art of cultivating grown-up communities, this audiobook will make you the perfect host at every budget. Having People Over includes guides for:

• Curating a space optimized for entertaining, so people can drop by without it sending you into a tailspin.
• A brief history of the cocktail hour—and its imagined future—including recipes with and without spirits.
• The 101 tutorial for all things dinner parties: inviting guests, setting the table, planning a menu, creating a mood board, and actually enjoying the evening yourself.
• Facilitating a (platonic) adult sleepover—and why you definitely should!
• How to be good guest wherever you go, from when to show up, to what to bring, to what absolutely not to do.

With plenty of actual recipes for your next gathering, Having People Over will transform your relationship to entertaining, one apéritif at a time.


* This audiobook edition contains a downloadable PDF of recipes from the book. Cooking Creativity Food & Wine Personal Development
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Finding out about this book release came just in time when I started questioning my circle of friends and what went wrong in the last few years (covid and me becoming a mom). Found myself nodding too often. She disects topics that are deeply linked - where we stand with ourselves, what do we inspire for, how do we pick the people we meet often, how are we approaching adulting and the spiral social media put us into. I would take another listen now. It is like having a healthy and honest discussion with a deeply caring friend. Priceless. Thank you, Chelsea!

Much needed healthy and honest discussion

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