Women I Want
You to Know
by Andrea L. Johnston IRL
The (dining) room where remarkable women meet
Women I Want
Intimate, invitation-only dinners bringing together women who are shattering glass ceilings and redefining success
You’re craving real connections, IRL, with the right women
In a world of Zoom rooms, Slack threads and endless DMs…
It can feel like meaningful relationships have been reduced to the pings of notifications. And genuine opportunities feel out of reach.
And the women you want to know? They’re just names on LinkedIn.
It’s time to change that.
Women I Want You to Know — IRL brings the women you really want to meet to real tables.
This isn’t networking.
This is nourishment.
I started these dinners because I believe something powerful happens when women come together — face to face, plate to plate, story to story.
One minute you’re sharing a starter and clinking glasses with a stranger…
The next, you’re deep in conversation with a woman who just cracked the code on something you’ve been stuck on for months. Or the woman who just asked you a question that takes your business in a whole new direction.
It’s the kind of evening where you go home with your head buzzing — not just with fresh ideas, but with that rare, electric feeling of being surrounded by women who just get it.
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Who’s in the room
Women I Want You to Know — IRL is intentionally intimate—just 10–15 handpicked women per dinner.
Expect to sit alongside:
Founders scaling mission-led businesses
Executives rising in corporate settings
VPs navigating corporate growth
Consultants, creatives and dealmakers with big visions
Women shaping culture, systems and the future
You’ve seen them online.
Now imagine sitting beside them.
Over the past year, I’ve had the privilege of spotlighting dozens of incredible women through my Women I Want You to Know series on LinkedIn.
Women building communications companies. Leading global strategy teams. Navigating motherhood, ambition, identity and everything in between.
Every time I hit publish, I think: I wish more people could sit across from her. Hear her story. Feel her energy.
So I created a way to make that happen.
These dinners bring the series to life—one city, one table, one unforgettable conversation at a time.
Women I Want You to Know
Meet a few of the women I’ve already featured
What to expect at Women I Want You to Know IRL
Cocktail welcome
Arrive, grab a drink and ease into the evening with relaxed conversation. This is your moment to exhale, settle in and start getting to know the remarkable women at your table.
Three-course dinner
As the courses arrive, so do the conversations. Expect meaningful dialogue, moments of insight and food that makes you pause mid-sentence just to savour another bite.
Post-dinner chats
In Spanish, there’s a word for what happens after a good meal “sobremesa” the time you linger at the table, lost in conversation. That’s exactly what we’re creating here.
Where we gather
Each dinner takes place in a private dining room in cities like Boston, MA and Wilmington, NC, with more to come.
Sobremesa (n.): the time spent in conversation after a meal, lingering at the table in good company
Come hungry. Leave with your heart, belly and mind full.
Dinner is by invitation only but you can register your interest by clicking the button above
