About… Letting Friends Go (Part 1)
Tell Me More with Nicole Walters
Dear Media
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
No one really prepares you for this part: when your life changes, not everyone gets to come with you.
In this 2-part chat we're covering one of your most requested topics: friendship fallouts. And I’m not talking about dramatic blow ups or petty drama. I’m talking about the quiet grief. The slow drifting. The realization that some friendships were tied to a version of you that no longer exists.
Divorce didn’t just change my relationship status, it shifted my entire ecosystem. My family dynamics, my work, my sense of self… and yes, my friendships. Some people couldn’t meet me in this new season. Some revealed things about themselves I didn’t expect. And some simply didn’t have the capacity to support the transition I was moving through.
I’m sharing the hard-earned truths I’ve learned along the way, including:
- Why certain friendships only work when you stay small, familiar, or unchanged
- What people’s reactions reveal when your life shifts in a big way
- Why losing friends during major transitions isn’t failure, it’s growth
- How to tell the difference between seasonal friends and aligned ones
If you’re navigating divorce, a breakup, a major life pivot, or even just becoming a new version of yourself, this chat is for you.
And don’t miss Part 2, where I go deeper into what I had to release - and what I had to protect - to build my life back better.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:07.2 | Welcome to the Tell Me More podcast with Nicole Walters, the only podcast where I'm not seeking to make you think more like me, but to help you keep thinking for yourself. |
| 0:25.1 | Okay. for yourself. Hello, hello, everyone. |
| 0:27.2 | So this particular chat is another solo. |
| 0:30.8 | We're going to do it as a part one and a part two because these are basically the hottest |
| 0:36.1 | topics that you guys keep coming back to me with. |
| 0:39.1 | Our last set that we did, |
| 0:40.8 | all about co-parenting, |
| 0:42.6 | y'all were just like, |
| 0:43.4 | Nicole, |
| 0:43.8 | this is exactly what I needed. |
| 0:45.5 | And this next one is also hard to talk about, |
| 0:48.9 | but I just want to tell you what I've learned and what I've experienced. |
| 0:52.8 | And, |
| 0:53.0 | you know, |
| 0:53.7 | my friends have experienced. And hopefully this meets you where you are. Now, it's top of the year or close to the end of the year. Either way, we are all, I think, thinking about starting fresh. We are all hopefully reinvigorated by the holidays and ready to take on the new year. And with that new year, we have new year energy. And that brings |
| 1:12.0 | fresh starts and clean slates. And, you know, I am praying for y'all new rooms that you are |
| 1:18.1 | walking into. Can I get an amen? Right. You know, police, y'all are there like, yes, Nicole, right? |
| 1:23.8 | But I also want to let you know that one thing I've learned about divorce is a girl's got to |
| 1:30.7 | receive the transition. And a transition is going to include things that you may not anticipate. |
| 1:36.9 | And with me, divorce didn't just change my marital status. It shifted my entire ecosystem. And when I say ecosystem, |
| 1:48.4 | I mean every single relationship on my docket, my relationship with my children, my relationship |
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