Building Life Around Friendships with Rhaina Cohen—Journalist and Author

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

What if the key to a meaningful life wasn’t in landing the dream job, finding a perfect spouse, or achieving all your personal goals? Journalist and author, Rhaina Cohen, believes the secret lies in the very thing most of us put on the back-burner as adults—friendships. In this aggressive conversation, Rhaina discusses the importance of friendships in ancient cultures, what kids can teach us about making friends, why men are at a disadvantage, and why proximity to friends matters. This aggressive woman will push you to take steps toward reimagining life with friendships at the center.

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0:00.0	Here we go, Dirt. Dirt is my cohort here. You might have known him's Caleb. He's actually Dirt.
0:04.8	He's very dirty. That's his email, Dirt at crossroads.net, or Dirt at bryantome.com, whatever it is.
0:11.0	It's amazing how people get nicknames. I don't know what the origin story is there, but I'm sure there's something fun.
0:16.6	If you saw him, you'd know exactly why he's called dirt. I did see him on screen, and I don't understand why he's called dirt, but I just missed something.
0:24.1	Have you seen his feet that he never wear socks or shoes, and he's got dirt crusted everywhere?
0:30.0	You didn't see that, did you?
0:31.0	You don't want to see that.
0:32.3	Is it instead that he, like, digs up dirt on you and that that's a way to...
0:36.1	Well, he could do that. He doesn't have to dig it up.
0:38.2	He has it all on me, for sure.
0:57.2	Welcome to the aggressive life.
1:04.7	It was 57 years ago that the Beatles let us know the value of friendship.
1:07.3	Speaking with Dirt, have you seen the movie?
1:09.5	I think it's called Help.
1:10.4	Is that what's called?
1:29.7	The old Beatles movie? Yeah, no, it's a new one. Gosh, I forgot the name of it. It's a guy who, um, who has some weird thing happened to him and he's the only person on the planet who knows the Beatles and the Beatles songs. I know I didn't see that. And he's this struggling artist. And so he pulls out this, it's really, it's really great.
1:31.1	I wish it'll come to be in a moment.
1:37.3	Anyway, they had that whole song with, I get by with little help from my friends.
1:40.3	Ooh, I get high with a little help from my friends.
1:42.0	Yay, I'm going to try that whole thing.
1:46.9	Problem is, most of us still aren't listening or we're not having that kind of high.
1:53.0	Loneliness is an all-time high around the world and we're suffering the results of it.
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