38. How to Make Friends as an Adult: Interview with Sunshine

The Kris Gethin Podcast

Kris Gethin

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.9 • 598 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This episode features Kris's girlfriend, Sunshine. The big question is, how do you make friends as an adult? When you're a kid you don't even think about it, but as you grow up and join the real world it becomes more challenging, awkward even, to put yourself out there. This just means you have to be more intentional about how you find friends. There are apps to find best friends similar to those that you would use to find romantic partners, but you still have to navigate the real world in order to make and keep those friends.

Tune in to hear them talk about why it's harder than ever to make friends these days and what you can do about it.

Time Stamps

Introducing Sunshine [1:00]
How Kris & Sunshine got on the subject of friendship [2:03]
Kris knows how to make friends but doesn't keep many [3:43]
Sunshine's challenges of making friends as an adult [5:50]
Finding people of similar interest to you [9:30]
Socializing is anti-aging [10:30]
The power of quality friendship [11:45]
Friendship takes effort [13:17]
Is friendship hard to find for youth nowadays due to excessive technology use? [14:18]
Sunshine's goals for friendship [18:40]
Does upbringing impact your need for friendship? [20:40]
Social interactions in school [23:45]
Needs for social interactions change as you get older [26:27]
Expect nothing and find people you want to be around [30:00]
Keeping friendships while having a family [32:35]
To have good friends you need to be a good friend [34:20]
How to have an authentic friendship [34:45]
Have active meetings like walks with new friends [38:30]
Find friends with a similar lifestyle [39:50]
Put yourself in the right social circumstances [40:39]
Maintaining friendships [42:50]

Featured Guest: Sunshine

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. Chris Gethyn here and welcome back to another episode of the Knowledge and Milege podcast.
0:06.9	You may be thinking, Chris, where were you last week? You didn't give us an episode while I was traveling.
0:11.9	I was on the road for close to four weeks, I think.
0:15.2	I did manage to record one episode, though, when I was in Delhi.
0:24.5	Yeah, I was in Delhi, I believe. Or Bangalore. Maybe it was Bangalore. Yes, I recorded an episode there. But because the travel was very, very hectic,
0:31.2	I decided to give all of you a break and come back fresh and nasty this week. Now if you do like the knowledge and mileage
0:41.2	podcast, please keep our doors open by leaving us an honest rating and review. You can go on
0:48.7	iTunes and leave us a rating review. And if you like it, please let us know. And if you really, really like it,
0:55.0	please share it with someone else. Now, I have a guest with me today. You may or may not know her.
1:02.9	If you've watched my videos, if you follow me on socials, you probably know her. Her name is
1:08.5	Sunshine and she is my girlfriend.
1:17.6	So we were having a discussion the other day in the car and I said, you know what?
1:31.4	I think we should probably discuss this on the Knowledge and Mileage podcast because we do have some similarities, but polarities when it comes to certain subjects, being one of them and I'm kind of more along the lines of being an anti-social person I would think so I'll ask Sunshine for her opinion on
1:38.6	where Sunshine is a social butterfly so welcome to the show Sunshine it's great to have you on. Oh, thank you so much, Mr. Chris Guthan. You've been waiting for nearly a year to get on my show. I know. I'm like, when will you invite me on here? I have so much to say. Yeah, I know. So this could go on for like two hours. So I hope you got lots of cardio ahead of you guys so uh we
2:02.0	we were discussing what was it friendship how to get friends how did we get onto this subject okay
2:08.8	so we were talking about how to make friends in an adult and it's because while chris was away in
2:13.3	India i had a lot of time to myself and i realized, wow, I don't know that I have a girlfriend
2:21.0	right now to call to go have a drink with me or go on a walk or nothing like that.
2:26.3	And so I started Googling how to make friends as an adult, which I have to say is a little
2:31.6	bit embarrassing that you have to look that stuff.
2:34.5	I would have never admitted that.
2:37.0	Yeah.
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