#303: How to Make Adult Female Friendships with Danielle Bayard Jackson

Black Girls Heal

Shena Lashey

Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Why is it so difficult for some women to find and maintain healthy female friendships? Joining me today is Danielle Bayard Jackson, The Friendship Expert, to share more about this topic and to help provide actionable advice to get your friendships back on track, even if they’ve fallen off due to the pandemic.

Danielle is a publicist by day and a certified friendship coach by night. She started her career as a high school English teacher for many years and was relied upon by her students to help navigate friendship issues.

What she didn’t realize is that those “high school dramas” weren’t limited to high school. So often the way we approach friendship and relationships in general at a young age, follows us throughout our lives and experiences.

Friendship like any other relationship requires work and nurturing but after more than a year of limited in-person interaction, it may seem daunting to reconnect.

Listen as Danielle shares her tips for re-emerging as we reach the end of this pandemic and what you can be doing right now to start working on building new friendships. Remember that there could be people in your existing circle that you’d click with, you just need to give it a chance.

Also, just because someone doesn’t have the capacity to spend time with you right now does not mean that they aren’t interested in friendship. Don’t let the stories you tell yourself obscure what could be an amazing relationship.

If you’ve struggled in any way with finding strong female friendships, then you won’t want to miss out on everything Danielle has to share.

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0:00.0	My job is to somehow make them curious enough or persuade them by hook or crow to get more aware of themselves and where they came from and what they are into and what is already there.
0:20.0	Just to bring it out. This is what
0:22.1	compels me to compel them. And I will do it by whatever means necessary. Welcome to the Black
0:30.2	Girls Hill podcast where we talk about healing our intimacy disorders and resolve trauma
0:35.0	and building a healthy relationship with first ourselves and then
0:38.6	others. Every episode, we will talk about advice you can apply today to bring unhealthy patterns
0:44.4	and grow in your self-work. I'm Sheena Lachay, love addiction coach and trauma specialist. Let's begin.
0:53.7	Hello, hello, and welcome to the latest episode of Black Girls Heel.
0:57.7	I am so, so happy to be with you today.
1:01.9	I'm so, so happy to welcome you in today.
1:06.2	Today is a beautiful day.
1:08.6	We are on our final series, y'all. So we just wrapped up the series before this one.
1:14.8	And this is our final series where we are overviewing one of the most important set of topics that we talk about here.
1:22.8	And this series is going to be all about sisterhood and friendship.
1:27.4	Bar none, out of all the questions that I get,
1:30.3	even though I teach from a romantic lens, and for those of you who are just now joining me on this
1:36.0	journey, I teach from a romantic lens, not because to intentionally center relationships as if they
1:42.0	are the end-all be-all. But my belief is that there
1:45.0	are multiple entry points into the healing journey. Some of us have extreme depression. We decide to
1:50.4	go and get help for that. Some of us have extreme anxiety. We decide to go and get help for that.
1:55.6	Some of us have extreme grief and we decided to go and get help for that. That was actually my
2:00.0	entry point. Even though I had a
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