Friendship IRL: Real Talk About Friendship, Community, and What It Actually Takes

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  Bestiemonies, Friendship Vows, and the Ceremony You Didn't Know You Needed with Jennifer Hobbs 17.09.2026 54мин

  We have so many rituals for romantic love, between weddings, anniversaries, showers, and celebrations. But what do we have for friendship? Today I’m talking with Jennifer Hobbs, owner of Rhinestone Wedding Chapel in Nashville and creator of Bestiemony, a friendship commitment ceremony she created after realizing that the vows she hears at weddings every day also sounded a lot like the promises her best friends had been keeping for years. Jennifer shares what actually happens inside of one of ...
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  5 Ways to Shake Up a Stale Friendship 10.09.2026 23мин

  Have you ever realized that every time you hang out with certain friends, you do the exact same thing? That happened to me recently with a group of friends. We were all sitting around my living room when one friend named what I think a lot of us had been feeling: the hangout was still good, but it had started to feel stale. In today’s episode, I’m talking about what it can mean when a friendship starts to feel like it is maintaining instead of growing. Because I think there is a big differenc...
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  How to Help Your Teen With Friendship Drama with Sheri Gazitt 03.09.2026 1ч 7мин

  Today’s episode is for the parents who have messaged me over and over again asking, “How do I help my teen daughter through friendship drama?” But it’s also for the adults who are realizing that some of their current friendship patterns may have started in those very formative years. Sheri Gazitt, founder of Teen Wise, helps teen girls and their parents understand what is really happening underneath their friendship struggles. We talk about why “girl drama” is not usually random, why labels l...
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  Disappointment is the Cost of Friendship 27.08.2026 22мин

  Last week’s guest said something that really stuck with me: “The cost of community is disappointment.” We feel disappointed when a friend cancels at the last minute, when someone doesn’t show up the way we hoped they would, when we feel left out, and when the birthday or baby shower or hard season does not look the way we imagined it would. And most of us do not really want to admit how much disappointment exists inside our friendships, because we want friendship to feel like joy, ease,...
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  How to Make Mom Friends When the Village Doesn’t Just Appear with Molly Menning 20.08.2026 48мин

  Making new mom friends sounds simple enough until you’re actually in the thick of it, and that’s where Molly Menning found herself after becoming a full-time stay-at-home mom of two. Many of her mom friends had gone back to work or had kids in different stages, and the daytime hours at home started to feel really isolating. So she decided to try something simple: a weekly, drop-in playgroup at her house for local moms – and it worked! In this episode, Molly talks about how she started t...
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  The Urge to Tell Your Life Story on the First Friend Date (And What to Do Instead) 13.08.2026 27мин

  Have you ever come home from hanging out with a new friend and you spiral, wondering if you shared too much or scared them off? I call this a new friend hangover. And in today’s episode, I want to talk about what happens when we rush into new friendships, especially when we are really, really hungry for connection. So much of adult friendship advice tells us to open up, be vulnerable, share more, and let people in. I don’t think that advice is wrong, exactly. I just think it’s incomplet...
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  What to Say When Someone You Love Is Grieving with Shelby Forsythia 06.08.2026 1ч 12мин

  This episode will completely change how you show up for the people in your life when they are grieving or going through something. Most of us have heard the advice about what to do when someone is grieving: bring the meal, send the gift card, walk the dog, take the kids, run the errand. And those things matter, but knowing what to say is where a lot of us panic. Today I’m talking to Shelby Forsythia, a grief coach, author, and podcast host whose book, Of Course, I’m Here Right Now, gives us a...
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  Are Birthdays Doing Too Much Work In Our Friendships? 30.07.2026 28мин

  Have you ever caught yourself on your birthday paying a little too much attention to your phone? Noticing who texted, who posted, who sent a voice memo? What about who just “liked” your Instagram story but didn’t actually say anything? Who remembered, who didn’t, and what all of that might mean about how much they care about you. For most of us, birthdays are one of the only times we explicitly tell our friends how much they mean to us. It’s the one day when all the evidence gets collected: d...
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  Loneliness, Vitality, and the Six Domains of Health with Dr. Alan Rozanski 23.07.2026 59мин

  It’s impossible to talk about friendship or community without the topic of loneliness. What is loneliness doing inside the body? How is it affecting our hearts, our brains, our stress hormones, and our actual day-to-day health? That’s exactly what we’re going to explore today with Dr. Alan Rozanski, a cardiologist who has spent decades studying this question: what allows people to truly flourish? Dr. Rozanski breaks down his six domains of health: physical health, mental vitality,...
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  When Your Friend Starts Feeling Like a Different Person 16.07.2026 25мин

  Have you ever left a hangout with a friend and felt like 95% of the hangout was normal, but the other 5% was just… off? Maybe it was a comment that surprised you, or a value that seemed to come out of nowhere. And suddenly you’re wondering, wait, is this still the person I thought I knew?! That’s what I’m talking about in today’s episode. Notice this isn’t about friendship breakups or big fights. But rather, the strange grief of realizing a friend might be changing in a way that no longer f...
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  What Actually Happens When You Move Next Door to Your Best Friends? with The Friendhood 09.07.2026 58мин

  There is something dreamy about the idea of living close to your people. Imagine all of the spontaneous walks, casual dinners, and “come over, I’m on my couch” friendship vibes that so many of us crave. Today I’m talking with Kelly and Kristi from The Friendhood, a group of four women in Atlanta who actually did it. They didn’t just talk about moving closer to their friends someday — they now live within a block of each other, and their story went mega viral. In this episode, we chat about wh...
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  Why You Feel Lonely Even Though You Have Close Friends 02.07.2026 40мин

  There’s a specific kind of loneliness that I don’t think enough people talk about — the loneliness you feel EVEN when you have good friends. In this episode, I’m talking about why you might feel lonely, and I’m breaking it down into a few different reasons. Maybe you don’t feel fully seen, maybe this friendship isn’t the right container for what you’re carrying, maybe life circumstances have changed, or maybe there are quiet expectations that have never actually been named out loud. My hope i...
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  Raised by Community: The Small Moments That Actually Save Kids (and Adults) 25.06.2026 1ч 12мин

  Why does connection, caregiving, parenting, friendship, and community feel so hard right now? Author Stephanie Malia Krauss is here to talk about the “weather” we’re all living in right now: we’re overtapped, overworked, overstimulated, and overwrought. And honestly, when I read that, I felt like she had put language to something so many of us are carrying around without even realizing it. Stephanie and I both know what it feels like to be raised by a community. We talk about t...
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  THE BOOK IS HERE! Behind the Scenes of “Are We Friends Yet?” 18.06.2026 51мин

  My book is finally out in the world. This week, I'm taking you behind the scenes of the 6-year journey that became Are We Friends Yet? — from a food blog and a 40-page e-book idea, to a 120-page Word document, a friendship framework obsession, a major health crisis, an unexpected book deal, and more moments of crying on the floor than I'd like to admit. This is the story of how this book came to be, the twists and turns I never saw coming, and why following my gut (even when it didn't make se...
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  The Secrets We Keep (For Our Friends) 11.06.2026 23мин

  What do you do if a friend tells you something deeply personal? Maybe they're getting divorced, or they’re pregnant but haven’t publicly announced it. This week, I'm sharing a friendship boundary that Michael and I have held for years, including the kinds of things we don't share with each other, why some of our friends are shocked to learn we've kept their secrets for months (or years), and the role trust plays in building strong friendships, communities, and marriages. I know this is a hot ...
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  How One Bumble BFF Match Turned Into a Best Friendship with Hayleigh Hayhurst 04.06.2026 47мин

  Friendship apps have a reputation for being awkward. They're "not how real friendships happen.” But what if that's not true? When Hayleigh Hayhurst moved to Seattle knowing almost no one, she found herself craving deeper connection and a stronger support system. Instead of waiting for friendships to happen organically, she decided to try Bumble BFF — and ended up meeting some of her closest friends! Hayleigh talks about what it's like to go on friend dates, why friendship rejection can feel m...
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  What Is Friendship Culture? (And How to Shift It Without Blowing Everything Up) 28.05.2026 42мин

  Why does one friendship feel effortless while another feels tense, draining, or rigid? In this episode, I’m diving into a concept I think about constantly: friendship culture. The unspoken norms, expectations, habits, and “rules” that shape how our relationships function. From how you split the dinner bill to who initiates plans, what topics feel safe to discuss, or whether partners are included in hangouts — every friendship develops its own culture over time. And most of the time, nobody co...
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  How to Show Up for a Friend Going Through a Divorce with Oona Metz 21.05.2026 1ч

  Divorce is one of those life moments where everyone has an opinion, a reaction, or a face they make when they’re told – which is, much of the time, not very helpful. … So what IS helpful? That’s what today’s guest, Oona Metz, is here to talk about. Oona is a licensed independent clinical social worker, a certified group psychotherapist with 30 years of experience supporting women through some of life's hardest transitions, and the author of Unhitched: The Essential Divorce Guide f...
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  Friendship Stalls: How to Work Your Way From “Acquaintance” to “Friend” 14.05.2026 44мин

  Have you ever tried to make a new friend and felt like you were stalling out between the “acquaintance” and “friend” stages? Maybe this person was on the edge of your life for months, and yet, nothing ever changed: you saw each other in the same places, you kept having the same conversations. How do you get to that point where they feel like a friend? Some people assume if a friendship isn’t progressing, it’s not meant to be. But I’d argue part of the reason is there’s not enough nuance...
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  The Cost of Quiet: How to Stop Avoiding Conflict and Have Those Hard Conversations with Colette Jane Fehr 07.05.2026 1ч 1мин

  Here you are, leaving that friendship hangout frustrated again. You swear you’ll tackle the issue at the next meet-up, but then, time goes by. You’ve pushed the problem aside. Until it happens again. And again. Suddenly, this little issue has become a major one. Today’s guest is Colette Jane Fehr, a therapist, TEDX speaker, and author of the Amazon bestselling book, The Cost of Quiet. Her work is rooted in couples therapy, but don’t press pause! Every single skill she teaches transfers ...