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there. Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast. I'm your host Sammy, and today we are

talking about finding friends. Hey, everyone. Welcome to the podcast today. Are you guys almost out of school? My kids have two weeks left. Yay! It's an exciting time, but also stressful for a lot of you with finals and all the things everyone is like trying to crunch in these last few weeks of school. So hang in there,

you guys. Next week's podcast, I'm going to be talking about finals and stress. So if you are

finding you are having more stress than usual at this time of year, tune in to next week's

podcast. So there was a review left for the podcast saying, yay, such good advice. Thanks for this. Could you do an

episode on being left out of activities with friends? Thank you for that review. And yes, if you didn't

listen to last week's episode, that is a really great episode to get some help on friendships and how to handle

not being invited. So go back and listen to episode 159. You should also go back and listen to

the episode because today's episode kind of piggybacks off of that one. And this topic that we're going to cover today is something that I

wish I knew more about earlier and when I was younger and looking for friends and many times

feeling myself very alone. Sometimes we look around and we perceive that everyone has someone

except for us and it can feel lonely.

And I know a lot of you feel alone and really want just like a best friend or people to

connect with. Okay. So how does one find friends? And let's answer that question today. Okay. So the first step we basically covered in last

week's episode, which is to figure out what kind of friend you would like to have. That's part of the

first step. And then the second part of the first step is to make sure you are being that person. If you want a friend who is

nice, then a nice friend will be looking for someone who is also nice. Someone who is nice is not

going to be okay being friends with someone who is me. You will attract what you are becoming. And this doesn't mean you have to be

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