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Sydney Asks Someone Out


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In this episode Sydney talks about the risk of asking someone to be a friend, how hard it is to make new friends in your 40s, and different ways to make and sustain friendships throughout our lives.

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Topics discussed in this episode:

Sydney’s story (2:31)

Where Melinda and Emily are in friendship making (6:16)

Loneliness and how to organically make friends (13:00)

Why Sydney started asking people out (23:00)

How friendships were modeled (27:37)

Breaking up with friends is hard (30:36)

Forming friendships at work (36:19)

What do you need from your female friends (43:29)

Resources mentioned in this episode:

  • You can’t go home again, Thomas Wolf (7:15)
  • Dr. Maya Shankar’s loneliness episode with Dr. Vivek Murthy (13:00)
  • Rebecca Adams on how to make friends (14:14)
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