I would not consider myself to be a friendship expert. In fact, I feel like nobody is,

except for who we're about to talk to you today, but who we are as a friend is so unique to us as individuals and what we look for in friends is so different

depending on I don't know who we are and what we're looking for in a friend.

And so that's why I'm very excited to talk to a friendship expert today.

Danielle Byard Jackson.

She is a friendship coach who speaks nationally on the subject of female friendships.

Through her work, Danielle teaches women how to make and maintain better friendships through research-based methodology.

She studied the ins and the outs of female friendships,

which are particularly complicated, I would say.

In fact, I made an episode a while back

about female friendships from a very personal

lens, which was maybe a mistake because I mainly focused on the challenges of female friendships.

And I think I was speaking from a place of

immature female friendships. I was 19 or 20 when I recorded this episode and to be

fair majority of my female friendships had occurred in middle school and high school and talk about a turbulent time.

Where everybody's insecure, nobody knows who they are, are you know I think the worst of

female friendships come out there and that was mainly my experience since then at a

rapid pace I think I've experienced more and more beautiful

female friendships and so my opinion has definitely shifted on what female friendships are.

All this to say, we have a very phenomenal guest coming on today who is an expert in

female friendships.

And she is going to answer even more of my questions that I have about

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