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confidence in your life. So go check that out. Welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast. I'm your host, Mikkel, and today we are talking about making friends.

All right. Guys, how's it going? I am so excited to be here talking with you all today.

I was thinking a lot about our last episode, which was on popularity.

And I wanted to do a follow-up episode, just kind of on some basic skills and mindsets to have when making friends.

And first off, I just have to start with saying,

I think it's very important that you do go listen to my episodes on loneliness and popularity.

I think we have to have a mindset when making friends that we have that individual worth and value

and we're not just trying to win over friends so that we can feel loved and valued

and just trying to please other people and get them to like us.

With that said, though, today we are going to talk about a few basic skills and things that I think are so important when you are trying to get to know people and build relationships with them.

I've told y'all before that I've moved around a lot.

And I feel like through my moves growing up, making friends was a skill that I really developed and learned how to have.

Because I wasn't in this friend group that I had developed from a young age.

I was constantly being thrown into new social groups and new dynamics and trying to figure out

how to make friends in them.

And even if you have been in the same school your whole life, maybe you're in a phase of life right now

where things have kind of shifted or you've changed grades and you just kind of feel like

you want to be able to make more friends. Okay, so skill number one, compliment genuinely.

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