You're not looking for a party.
You're looking for actual friends.
Golden Guiris is a private community for international & local people building an actual life in Spain. Not another surface-level expat WhatsApp group. Real friendships. Real events. No bullshit.
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Let's be honest
You didn't move to Spain to feel lonely in a new language.
You left a comfortable life that was quietly killing you. Burnout, long hours, a social life that had gone flat. You came here for slower mornings, longer dinners, and people who actually want to know you.
But the standard expat scene is exhausting. Surface-level small talk. Networking events disguised as fun. WhatsApp groups full of "anyone know a good gestor?" and nothing else.
You came here for a life. Not another LinkedIn meetup with rebujitos.
You came here for the Sunday hike where you actually talk. The dinner that runs until midnight. The friend who texts you about a plan on a Tuesday.
What Golden Guiris actually is
Not a club. A community.
Two things, working together every day. The chat is alive. The events fill rooms with people you actually want to know.
Marta
Anyone up for sunset padel in Retiro at 7?
Tom
I'm in 🎾
Yussef
Casting two faces for a short film next week, DM if curious 🎬
Ana
Booked the Asturias trip. Lit. 🌊
The chat
A WhatsApp that actually does stuff
City and themed subgroups. Plans pitched in the morning, happening that night. The unglamorous stuff too: visa help, flat leads, a doctor that speaks English.
The events
Member-only nights you actually want to go to
Long-table dinners. Sunrise hikes. Book clubs that actually read books. Padel tournaments. Mastermind nights. The kind of Sunday that makes you feel like you actually live here.
A powerful network, only for Guiris who want to build something real.
A browsable directory of every Guiri in the community. Their projects, side-hustles, skills, and what they're looking for. See who's building what, send a connection request, they get an email instantly.
Best for founders, freelancers, career-movers, and anyone building something in Madrid who wants their network to actually do something.
Free members get 1 connection request per day. Golden Guiris: unlimited.
Make your profile and connect with other Guiris
Find collaborators, clients, mentors, hires
Already filtered to internationals in Madrid who actually showed up. Not a feed of strangers — a directory of doers.
Showcase what you're building
Your projects, side-hustles, skills, and what you're looking for — in front of a captive audience of operators, not lurkers.
Browse the whole community
No swiping. No algorithm. Scroll through real profiles at your pace and reach out when something clicks.
Free to join · 1 connection a day
Send a request, they get an email instantly. Golden Guiris get unlimited connections — because building moves faster that way.
Which Guiri are you?
However you got here, there's a place for you.
The Rebuilder
You made a deliberate choice to blow up a comfortable life and start the next chapter here.
Maybe it was post-burnout, post-breakup, or just a slow realisation that the life you had wasn't the one you wanted. Madrid was the answer. Now you need the people to build it with.
The Builder
You're working on something — a company, a creative project, a career pivot.
You don't want to network. You've been to those events. You want to be in a room with other people who are building things, where the energy just runs differently because everyone there actually gives a shit about what they're doing.
The Creative
Filmmaker, designer, writer, photographer, musician.
You moved here partly for the life, partly for the space to make things. You want collaborators, not contacts. People who are curious, who make stuff, and who want to be around others doing the same.
The Settler Going Deeper
You've been here 2, 3, 5 years. You know the city.
What you're missing is a tighter circle — people you can actually call, not just see at events. The surface-level phase is over. You want to go deeper.
What you actually get
Concrete. Specific. Honest.
Private WhatsApp community
City subgroups (Madrid, Barcelona) and themed groups for fitness, business and creative work. Active every day. Real plans, real help, real people.
Member-only events
Intimate dinners, spontaneous hikes, secret parties. Smaller rooms, deeper conversations, the kind of nights you actually remember.
Discounts on everything
50% off our biggest events (yes, including the Christmas party) and early access before they sell out to the public.
Access to the Guiri Dating Pool
The only dating pool built just for Guiris. Browse real internationals living in Madrid, send interests and get matched. No swiping, no games, just real profiles.
Bring a Plus One
Use your Golden Guiri discount to bring a plus one to any event you go to. The good nights are better with backup.
Cancel anytime, no bullshit
One click. No phone calls, no retention emails, no awkward exit chat. Stay because it's good, not because it's hard to leave.
Real members
They came for the events. They stayed for each other.
This group brings me back to the excitement of my early days here, meeting people from all over the world.
Simon
London → Madrid (25 years)
Golden Guiris has become my go-to community whenever I'm casting for creative projects. It's an absolute goldmine of interesting, diverse, and talented people.
Yussef
Argentina · Filmmaker
For the first time, I felt small — but in a good way. It sparked a hunger in me to live bigger and try new things. What made it special was how welcomed I felt.
Ana
Santiago
The faces behind the community.
Six Goldens. Six different routes to Madrid. One thing in common: they showed up, and the room rearranged itself around them.
Golden GuiriMateo
Bolivia → DC → Madrid · E-commerce operator
Born in Bolivia, raised in Washington DC, Mateo scales e-commerce brands and somehow now owns more Zara than he'd like to admit. He moved to Madrid in 2024 for the lifestyle, and stayed for the people.
Golden GuiriSimon
England → Madrid (26 yrs) · Journalist · TV voice
A journalist from England who came to Madrid for a weekend 26 years ago and never really left. You might recognise his voice on the AVLO train, or his face on Spanish TV talking about the royals. He found GdM during one of life's harder chapters, and found a lot more than he expected.
Golden GuiriEnmary
Venezuela → Madrid · Founder, Top Speakers
Originally from Venezuela, Enmary founded Top Speakers to help people communicate with confidence and own their voice. She came to Madrid needing a real change, and ended up building the life she actually wanted.
Golden GuiriTatiana
Miami → Madrid · Founder, Deep Chats
A mental health and wellness professional from Miami who swapped a traditional life path in the US for teaching English in Madrid. She ended up founding Deep Chats, a community built around real, vulnerable conversation, and hasn't looked back since.
Golden GuiriYussef
Lebanon · Spain · Argentina · Filmmaker
A filmmaker with Lebanese, Spanish, and Argentine roots who came to Madrid to open a production office and ended up making it home. After years of bouncing between cities, he found what he was actually looking for: real connections and a place that made him feel alive again.
Golden GuiriMariana
Monterrey → Madrid · Brow & makeup artist
A brow and makeup artist from Monterrey, Mexico who made a spontaneous move to Madrid in 2022 and never looked back. She came looking for a bigger world, found her people, and has been connecting them with each other ever since.
How it works
Four steps. No friction.
01
Apply to join
Fill out a quick application and pay €50. That's it.
02
We review every application
Every application is read individually. You'll have an answer within 24 hours. If you're not accepted, you get the €50 refunded.
03
Get the chat invite
You're in the WhatsApp within minutes. Pick your city, pick your themes, say hi.
04
Build your life here
Trips, dinners, collaborators, partners, your weekly padel four. Stay as long as it's good.
Questions, honestly answered
Everything you're about to ask.
If you're building a life in Spain that isn't quite the one you grew up in, yes. Guiri started as a joke about foreigners. The community is for anyone who feels a bit between worlds, no passport check.
Last thing
Find your people.
You came here for a real life. This is how you build it: faster, deeper, and with people who actually get it.
Cancel anytime · No bullshit