Ep. 92: Friendships
Simple
Tsh Oxenreider
4.3 • 879 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes it's hard to make time for friends as an adult. And draining. And potentially awkward. But also completely worth it.
In this episode, Tsh talks with co-host Erin Loechner about friendships—how do they make time for the life-giving people in our life? How do they make sure we're a good friend back? How do they set healthy boundaries in these relationships?
They talk about what it means to invite other people into their lives, even when it's messy and inconvenient. Because the crazier life gets, the more meaningful those friendships become.
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- Erin on Twitter and Instagram
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- An easy ice cream tip for entertaining
- Our summer hospitality episode
- The real definition of a mentor
- On making friends and partial solutions
- Voxer
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- Milk Carton Kids live from Lincoln Theater, on Tiny Desk, and on Spotify
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Simple Show. You've got episode 92. |
| 0:03.4 | Hi, I'm Tishawkson Writer. And I'm Erin Lachner. And on The Simple Show, we talk about saying |
| 0:08.1 | no and yes to the right things. In this episode, we are talking about friendship. |
| 0:13.4 | Before we begin, two quick things. Don't forget to follow the podcast on Instagram at The Simple |
| 0:18.6 | Show. There we announce new episodes and we'll also occasionally |
| 0:22.3 | ask for your input on the show there as well. So that's at Instagram.com slash the Simple Show. |
| 0:27.5 | And then secondly, make sure you're getting the weekly email five quick things. It's a short |
| 0:32.3 | email handwritten by me and it's exactly as it sounds, five quick things to know. It's either |
| 0:37.0 | something I published or something I personally enjoyed or found sounds. Five quick things to know. It's either something I published or something |
| 0:38.6 | I personally enjoyed or found valuable. We'll link to each new episode of The Simple Show when they |
| 0:43.2 | come out in that email so you'll never miss an episode. Plus, you might get occasional perks from me. |
| 0:48.1 | My goal is to always make this email readable in under a minute so I don't clog up your inbox. |
| 0:53.0 | So to get five quick things, |
| 0:54.9 | go to the art of simple.net slash email. And I'll also put a link to this in this episode's |
| 1:01.1 | show notes. Okay, Erin, so start us off with this topic of friendship. What do you say no to? |
| 1:08.8 | Oh, goodness. Okay. |
| 1:12.5 | Friendship guilt, for one. |
| 1:17.7 | Meaning, so I think that means I let both myself off the hook and my friends off the hook. |
| 1:18.7 | I am just currently in that trench season with the two littles. |
| 1:22.9 | And I have a lot of friends who are as well, which means we are often canceling because our kids are sick |
| 1:28.9 | or we are rejiggering our schedules and trying to plan things crazy far ahead of time and then they |
| 1:35.3 | just don't happen. And so there's a lot of grace being handed out right now. And I think, too, |
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