Friendship 101 with The Mamas

The Mama's Den

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4.9 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This week in the Den, the Mamas finally bring on Ashley's LITERAL day one—Nalo, her best friend since birth, Nalo Wise. After years of stories, references, and inside jokes, the audience gets to meet the woman herself. Together, Melanie, Codie, Ashley and Nalo take us deep into what it really takes to make a friendship last for decades: the honesty, the maturity, the forgiveness, and the intentionality that adult friendships demand—especially for women and moms. With maintaining new and old friendships being such a hot topic among moms and on social media, this conversation couldn’t come at a better time. As we head into Thanksgiving, a season centered on love, gratitude, and the people who feel like home, this episode is a beautiful reminder that chosen family matters just as much as the ones we’re born into. Prepare to laugh, reflect, and maybe text a friend after this one.

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0:00.0	Girl, we don't went through her.
0:01.0	Husband not liking me.
0:02.1	We don't went through.
0:03.4	Yes.
0:04.6	Yeah. Does he like you now? Sure. He doesn't have choice. I'm not going in. We're not going to where. I wouldn't go in nowhere. Right, right. So it is what it is. And guess what? And I still navigated the exact same way. Like, they serve on me, y'all gonna both want me here.
0:21.5	That's what she told us.
0:22.7	What's up y'all, it's Ashley?
0:24.1	It's Melody. what and I still navigated the exact same way. They still gonna be, y'all gonna vote on me here.
0:21.5	That's what she told us.
0:22.7	What's up y'all, it's Ashley.
0:24.1	It's Melody and Cody here and you've tapped into the Mamas Den.
0:29.1	Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Mamas Dem podcast.
0:32.1	Please somebody, somebody.
0:34.1	Melanie, fix it, somebody.
0:39.0	Melanie, fix it, Jesus.
0:40.5	I don't got it, I don't got it.
0:41.6	She doesn't want to.
0:42.4	My goodness.
0:46.1	It's Mama's Den Monday, and apparently I'm the only Mama in the Den,
0:47.8	because y'all don't want to sing the song.
0:48.7	I sang.
0:49.5	What, what?
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