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Toronto Café Walk x Slow Networking for Introverted Entrepreneurs [Old Town Edition] ☕🦥
Friendly Note: This is a special collaboration with Slow Networking for Introverted Entrepreneurs. More walks available, check the full schedule here!
Toronto has incredible cafés hiding in plain sight and some of the best ones you'd never stumble into on your own.
Toronto Café Walk is a cozy social series where a small group of founders, solopreneurs, and creatives explore hand-picked café spots across different neighbourhoods, slow down a little, and meet each other in a way that actually feels human.
Slow Networking 🦥 was created by Jessie & Mei as a way for introverts to have deeper, genuine connections. Traditional networking can feel transactional, with quick pitches, exchanged contacts and conversations that rarely grow into anything meaningful. Inspired by slow travel, they wanted to slow things down and focus on connecting as humans first. Instead of meeting as many people as possible, it’s about giving a few connections the time and space to grow into a friendship, collaboration, future client, or simply a great conversation. And this special collaboration is a perfect example of where that kind of connection can lead.
Here's how the late afternoon goes 🌞
We gather at the park and settle in. Soft handpan music plays softly in the background while we do something most of us forget to do: breathe, notice what's around us, and just...be here for awhile.
From that space, I'll lead a guided intuitive journal reflection with prompts designed to help you hear what your inner self has been trying to tell you. We'll close with some intuitive drawing to let whatever surfaced move through you creatively. If you feel called to share with the group, there's space for that. If not, we'll slowly walk over to the café.
For the second hour, we'll walk to a hidden gem café to grab drinks, settle in, and meet each other in a way that actually feels human. Jessie & Mei will come in with the activities and conversation prompts, so you do not have to worry about what to do or say and focus on being present. 💜
What to bring: A journal and/or some loose paper, something to draw with, comfortable layers, and a picnic blanket or something to lay on the ground to sit on.
What You'll Walk Away With...
→ A genuine afternoon reset to reconnect with yourself before the weekend begins
→ Discover a café you probably didn't know existed
→ Meet a small group of like-minded people in a genuine, already-warmed-up setting
→ Walk away feeling lighter, more grounded, and with a few new connections you'll actually want to keep in touch with
Meet Your Host
Heyyy! We’re Jessie and Mei from JaM with Confidence, Inc., former teachers turned entrepreneurs.
We’ve often felt like the world rewards those who speak the loudest and stand out the most. As an introvert (Mei) & ambivert (Jessie), we wanted to create spaces where quieter voices can be seen and heard too, and where the strengths, ideas and depth that often stay hidden have a chance to come forward. Right now, we’re exploring how we can best support introverts through something we deeply value: genuine connection, whether in business or in life.
💖 Connect with Jessie & Mei
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Hi, I'm Michelle 👋🏻
Former B2B SaaS marketer turned Intuitive Business Strategist and a connector, creator, and curator at heart.
The Toronto Café Walk series grew out of my Toronto café guide and a simple belief that the right environment changes how you think, who you meet, and how you show up for a community.
This is my way of bringing people into spaces worth knowing about and into each other's orbits. 😊
〰 Connect with Michelle 〰
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Want to Explore on Your Own Time?
Check out Michelle's Toronto Café Guide! Michelle curated 200+ cafés across Toronto, Scarborough, Richmond Hill, and Markham. A living database of places Michelle personally worked from and ones still on her to-visit list. No sponsorship just her genuine shares as a solopreneur who frequents a lot of cafés.