Skip to content
Artwork for Wine & Whispers
Wine & Whispers · Yesterday · 46 min

Compound?

Okay Whispies, let’s talk about the thing that's taking over our group chats: WOMEN. LIVING. TOGETHER. 🏡✨ This week we're diving into the "women compound" movement that's blowing up on TikTok and Instagram — millennial women pooling resources, buying land or adjacent properties, and raising their kids alongside their closest girlfriends instead of going it alone in isolated suburbia with just a husband and a mortgage. We're unpacking why the "nuclear family in a single house" model is leaving so many of us burnt out, touchy on the loneliness epidemic hitting stay-at-home and working moms alike, and getting into the real logistics — split childcare, shared meals, built-in village. We talk village-style parenting, communal living for moms, modern intentional communities, and whether this is the return of the village it takes to raise a kid — just with a group chat and a shared Costco run. Grab your wine, because this one's giving "what if we just... lived with our friends forever."

0:00-46:17

transcript

No transcript — this publisher did not publish one.

show notes

Okay Whispies, let’s talk about the thing that's taking over our group chats: WOMEN. LIVING. TOGETHER. 🏡✨ This week we're diving into the "women compound" movement that's blowing up on TikTok and Instagram — millennial women pooling resources, buying land or adjacent properties, and raising their kids alongside their closest girlfriends instead of going it alone in isolated suburbia with just a husband and a mortgage.

We're unpacking why the "nuclear family in a single house" model is leaving so many of us burnt out, touchy on the loneliness epidemic hitting stay-at-home and working moms alike, and getting into the real logistics — split childcare, shared meals, built-in village. We talk village-style parenting, communal living for moms, modern intentional communities, and whether this is the return of the village it takes to raise a kid — just with a group chat and a shared Costco run.

Grab your wine, because this one's giving "what if we just... lived with our friends forever."

more episodes

All episodes