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You're listening to Live Free Creative, an intentional podcast with practical

tips for living your life on purpose. I'm your host Miranda Miranda Anderson, and I believe in creativity, adventure,

curiosity, and the magic of small moments. I hope that every time you listen, you feel empowered and free to live the life that

you want. Welcome, welcome back to Livery Creative. I am your host,

Miranda Anderson. This is episode 179, Making friends as an adult, 2.0.

2.0, because I did an episode in the first season of the show

called How to Make Friends as an Adult, that was episode 3. And episode 80 of the show was cultivating adult friendship, so kind of a step deeper.

And today, after COVID, I mean, we're still kind of emerging.

Things are normalizing socially a little bit, at least in a lot of the world. I want to take just

a minute and acknowledge the absolute tragedy that's occurring in Ukraine and Russia and that my prayers and my hope and my donations and my heart is with the people of Ukraine in this terrible time of war. It can be so difficult and heavy to hold all

of the different things happening in the world among our fellow humans at the same time and so I acknowledge

that and send my love to the people of Ukraine and there's not really a segue out of that into how to make friends as an adult

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