Girlfriends started the way the best ideas do — somewhere nobody was trying to have one. Three women on a girls' trip to Palma, filling napkins with scribbles between beach walks and late-night conversations. Topic titles, questions, half-formed thoughts about the things women actually talk about when nobody's performing.

What kept coming up wasn't any single subject. It wasn't marriage or menopause or friendship on their own. It was that people around them — strangers, younger women in particular — kept asking the same thing: how are you three so close? What do you even talk about? Underneath those questions was something bigger. People were fascinated by a friendship that crossed cultures, backgrounds and life experience without any of it getting in the way.

Within 48 hours of coming home, over a hundred discussion topics were mapped out. Then came the research — conversations with women on trains, in coffee shops, in restaurants — asking what they actually wanted from a show. The answer was always the same. Not polish or performance. Honesty. The kind of conversations women have with their closest friends behind closed doors, or the kind they wish they could have but don't feel safe enough to start.

That's what Girlfriends is. An unscripted talk show built on real friendship between three women who happen to be completely different and deeply connected. Every episode is honest. Some are funny. Some are emotional. Most are both at the same time.

When the show launched live at the Disruptors Festival, the room stopped being an audience and became part of the conversation. A talking stick was introduced because when five outspoken women are all trying to speak at once, some structure becomes necessary. And what was meant to be thirty minutes could have gone on all night.

Season 1 premieres June 3rd, 2026. New episodes drop monthly on Wednesdays.

Girlfriends is produced by Violet Simon, a media and production company centring women's stories. Every episode is filmed, produced and distributed by our team. We retain all IP and creative control.