#201 - Finding Friends You Can Count On
Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
4.6 • 849 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Are you seeking to increase your social circle with true-blue friends who have your back? (And weed out the selfish people who take more than they give?) On today's episode of the Love, Happiness & Success podcast, Val Walker is here to share expert advice for how to cultivate relationships with friends you can count on.
In this emotionally intimate interview, Val talks about the moment she realized she had "400 Friends & No One To Call" (the title of her latest book), and how it launched her intentional, successful creation of a supportive community of meaningful friendships.
Val has so much fantastic advice to share with you for how to build up a community of support for yourself. I hope you listen!
xoxo,
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| 0:00.0 | This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success |
| 0:12.0 | podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | And welcome back to part two of our exploration of friendship. |
| 0:19.1 | Last time we talked to author Lydia Denworth about friendship and her research into why it |
| 0:25.1 | is so fundamentally important that we are all investing time and energy into our personal |
| 0:31.0 | relationships. |
| 0:33.1 | And that is of course not the whole story. |
| 0:36.5 | For many adults it is difficult to form positive relationships. |
| 0:41.1 | You know, when you're younger, it's easy to put a lot of time and energy into our social life. |
| 0:47.3 | Not so much when you have a full-time job and a house to manage and a primary relationship and kids to wrangle. It gets a lot |
| 0:56.1 | harder and many people struggle with feelings of loneliness. So our show today is going to explore |
| 1:04.0 | this topic from the other angle, which is really getting into the nuts and bolts and nitty-gritty |
| 1:10.2 | of how to develop not just |
| 1:13.4 | fun friendships, although that's great too, but the kinds of friends and friendships that we can |
| 1:19.7 | really count on when the chips are down, supportive friendships, friendships with people that we can |
| 1:26.9 | call when we need help and who are going to be |
| 1:29.9 | there for us, just like we're going to be there for them. So in service of that goal, today we're |
| 1:36.7 | going to be talking to author Val Walker about her book, 400 friends and no one to to call about how and why we all experience loneliness |
| 1:49.1 | and also not just like talking about it theoretically but she's going to share some very concrete |
| 1:56.6 | real world strategies for how to create those kinds of supportive relationships even now during |
| 2:04.6 | the era of social distancing. And not only can it be done, it is more important for us than ever |
| 2:11.8 | to do exactly that. Val, Val Walker, thank you so much for joining me today on the podcast. I'm excited to speak with |
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