Asking For A Friend (Literally) with Dr. Marisa G. Franco
Laugh Lines with Kim & Penn Holderness
Kim Holderness
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
I have the best, most loyal friends from different parts of my life but I’ll be honest, the idea of making NEW friends makes my pits sweat. I’m in my late forties, but even thinking about making new friends and all of a sudden I’m thrust back into my middle school when a group of girls made fun of me for walking into their circle and introducing myself.
On the podcast this week, Penn and I spoke to Dr. Marisa G. Franco, a friendship expert who wrote the book “Platonic: How The Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends.” She explained why friendship is essential at every stage of life, and friends can help you discover a totally new side of yourself. We dive deep into the science of friendship, trends between men and women, and how you can apply these same concepts to having healthy relationships with family. Dr. Franco shares one thing you can do right now to make friends—and it’s probably not what you think.
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Kim and Penn are online content creators known for their award-winning videos, including original music, song parodies, and comedy sketches. Their videos have resulted in over 2 billion views and 8 million followers across their social media platforms since they (accidentally) went viral in 2013. They have a best-selling book on marriage communication, a top-rated podcast, a fun-filled family card game, and most recently, they were the winners on Season 33 of The Amazing Race.
The Holderness Family Podcast is edited and engineered by Max Trujillo of Trujillo Media and produced by Ann Marie Taepke, Sam Pressman, and Ashley Cimino.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. I'm Kim Holderness. And I've been Holderness. You have found the Holderness |
| 0:08.3 | Family podcast. Congratulations. Congratulations for finding us. Congratulations. |
| 0:13.4 | We hope you're welcome. You're welcome. Got no, we'd really do hope you enjoy it and |
| 0:17.0 | we're very grateful that you're that you're consuming this content. We are we're so excited |
| 0:21.2 | to hear you guys. There are a lot of exciting things to talk about, including our guests |
| 0:27.7 | who we are about to talk to, who I'm so excited about, but each our game family face-off |
| 0:34.5 | is on store shelves right now at Target. Isn't that nuts? That is so nuts. |
| 0:40.8 | That's really not. I mean, you and I have been patrons of Target. Well, some of us more |
| 0:44.6 | than others over several decades. It has been the home base for a lot of the things that |
| 0:51.6 | we need. And we see, you know, the gains family, we see people who have their little, their |
| 0:58.2 | bits at Target and have always wondered like, oh, that's never going to be us. And now |
| 1:02.0 | we have something in Target. Yes, I mean, we're not going to have an entire section |
| 1:05.5 | I know, but it's a start. It's one little thing. Could you do me a favor, you guys? We're |
| 1:10.2 | so excited. This has been a goal of ours. We're so excited by this. If you're making |
| 1:14.5 | your target run and you see our game, first of all, if you wanted to buy it, that'd be |
| 1:18.5 | cool. But if you snapped a picture with it, yes, so there are a hundred new clues and |
| 1:23.8 | family face-off for this exclusive Target edition. And it is one of those things we are |
| 1:28.7 | working on our second game right now, but the way games work and retail, it's going to take |
| 1:33.7 | a couple years before it would be on store shelves. So if we want to get game two on store |
| 1:39.9 | shelves, game one needs to do really well. So if you could help us spread the word a little |
| 1:45.2 | bit, that would be really great. We're so excited about this. Yeah, so take a snap of picture, |
| 1:50.7 | holding it and send it to us on Instagram, Facebook, we love it. So thank you. |
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