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Award-winning author, Heather Dugan, is the founder of Cabernet Coaches®, an “all ages, all stages” group for women that fosters self-betterment through face-to-face friendships and social connection. The Friendship Upgrade: Trade Clickable Connections for Friendships that Matter shares savvy wisdom and insights on how to build communities, one relationship at a time. Her 2015 book Date Like a Grownup: Anecdotes, Admissions of Guilt & Advice Between Friends was a finalist in the USA Book Awards and the Indie Next Generation Book Awards, and she speaks on topics pertaining to dating, relationships, social connection, group culture, and effective interpersonal communication.

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	Date Like a Grownup: Anecdotes, Admissions of Guilt & Advice Between Friends 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Friendship Upgrade 4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pickup In Aisle Twelve (Angie Wharton, #1) 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stuffing Sandwiches Down My Shirt... Strategies and Inspiration for Crutch Users 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Heather discusses how we’ve unwittingly created isolation in our lives and how we can change that with DIY community-building (excerpted from Your Working Life podcast with Caroline Dowd-Higgins). Full interview includes information on “Cabernet Coaches,” a social group for women and Heather’s upcoming book, Finding Your Cabernet Coaches: Building Face-to-Face Friendship in a Virtual World.

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“All in all, the lunch date was fine. Like an opened can of soda in its second hour. If you were thirsty, you might take a sip or two, but I carried more hopes walking in to the restaurant than I did walking out.”
― Heather Dugan, Pickup In Aisle Twelve

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“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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