2024-04-04
48 分钟I would not consider myself to be a friendship expert.
In fact, I feel like nobody is except for who we're about to talk to today.
But who we are as a friend is so unique to us as individuals.
And what we look for in friends is so different depending on, I don't know, who we are and what we're looking for in a friend.
And so that's why I'm very excited to talk to a friendship expert today, Danielle Bayard Jackson.
She is a friendship coach who speaks nationally on the subject of female friendships.
Through her work, Danielle teaches women how to make and maintain better friendships through research based methodology.
She studied the ins and the outs of female friendships, which are particularly complicated, I would say.
In fact, I made an episode a while back about female friendships from a very personal lens, which was maybe a mistake because I mainly focused on the challenges of female friendships.
And I think I was speaking from a place of immature female friendships.
I was 19 or 20 when I recorded this episode.
And to be fair, majority of my female friendships had occurred in middle school and high school, and talk about a turbulent time where everybody's insecure, nobody knows who they are.
You know, I think the worst of female friendships come out there, and that was mainly my experience.
Since then, at a rapid pace, I think I've experienced more and more beautiful female friendships.
And so my opinion has definitely shifted on what female friendships are.
All this to say, we have a very phenomenal guest coming on today who is an expert in female friendships, and she is going to answer even more of my questions that I have about friendship because I think friendship is often overlooked as something that just comes naturally to us.
We're humans.
We all have friends.
This is just what we do as humans.
But friendship is a huge piece of our foundation in life, and digging in and analyzing it never hurt anyone.