How do you make new friends as an adult? Who can you be your full authentic self around? How do you handle a friendship breakup? And how much work do you have to put into your friendships as an adult? Valeria attempts to tackle these questions with help from female friendship coach and educator, Danielle Bayard Jackson, and her best friend of fourteen years, Mary B. Sharon. While romantic relationships often take priority in our culture, this episode turns the spotlight on the people who help you get through life: your friends!

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This Not Alone episode is sponsored by Joe Fresh. Get 25% off their entire website spanning apparel, accessories, and footwear when you use the code Valeria25 at checkout. Fresh Style. Fresh Price. Joe Fresh.

Not Alone is produced in partnership with FRQNCY Media.

Producer: Lizzie Stewart 

Associate Producer: Emily Krumberger

Supervising Producer: Enna Garkusha 

Executive Producer: Michelle Khouri

Script written by: William Cagle, Ellie Katz, and Sara Naz Jadbabaie 

Script editors: Isabel Moncloa Daly and Jessica Olivier

Mixer and sound designer: Claire Bidigare-Curtis

Dialogue editing: Sidney Evans 

Session engineering: DonTaé Hodge.

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