Amber opens with a story from her Air Force training where she may have slapped a fake patient in a simulation as her fake airplane was sinking into water (yes, really). It becomes the perfect metaphor: we often want to slap people into growth or maturity—but real friendship doesn’t work like that.

This episode dives into what happens when friendship becomes transactional, one-dimensional, or just emotional customer service. We talk about the exhaustion of fixing people, the harm of institutional “togetherness,” why patience matters, and why spicy honesty is part of love—not the opposite of it.

If you’ve ever wanted to rush someone’s transformation or wondered why surface-level community feels so empty, this one goes deep (with laughs, curry references, and real talk).

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