Friendships as an Adult: Answering Your Questions About Expanding Your Circle
Powerhouse Women
Lindsey Schwartz
4.9 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Do you want friendships that feel real, supportive, and go beyond surface-level? Today, I answer your questions about one of the most requested topics: how to develop friendships as an adult! If you're struggling with loneliness or feel like you just aren't connecting, I share simple ways to find your people, expand your circle, and nurture the relationships you want to go deeper with. I talk about what to do when a friendship is no longer a fit for you, and how to get vulnerable & open about what you need in your relationships. Get ready to connect on a deeper level and create friendships that expand, not shrink, you!
HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 How to meet and make new friends as an adult.
07:20 The 2 phases of friendship + what they each need.
10:35 What to do when you're not feeling supported in a friendship.
15:10 Why do we need vulnerability if we want to connect deeper?
18:30 How do you know when it's time to break up a friendship?
21:35 How our relationships act as a mirror for our growth.
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| 0:00.0 | Not every friendship is meant to be deep. Not every friendship needs to serve the same wants and needs. |
| 0:09.0 | And I think that has also really helped me in terms of friendship is taking the pressure off of my friends that anyone has to be everything to me. And asking myself, know, what do I need to feel |
| 0:24.8 | supported? And making sure that within my friend group, I have someone that I can go to for all of |
| 0:33.4 | those things. We are back with another Q&A episode, and this was the most requested topic. |
| 0:46.4 | The topic of how the heck do you develop friendships as an adult. |
| 0:51.5 | If you are someone who is just craving your people, your circle of friends, |
| 0:57.2 | those women who you can build with and dream with and also, I don't know why my mind went to |
| 1:05.0 | drink with, I guess drink whatever your beverage of choice, a matcha, a cocktail. You can tell |
| 1:10.6 | I'm at the end of the day |
| 1:11.6 | recording this one because that's where my brain is right now. But those people who you feel |
| 1:16.0 | safe being your most ambitious self, your most authentic self, and you also feel safe sharing |
| 1:22.7 | your more vulnerable moments. You know, friendship and relationships in general just require a level of vulnerability |
| 1:30.9 | that I don't know about you, but for me, really has taken me some time to develop the safety |
| 1:39.1 | required to allow me to go there and to develop the depth of friendship that I really crave. So I'm going to dive |
| 1:45.8 | into some questions. And if you're someone who is just really feeling a craving for deeper |
| 1:52.4 | connection in friendships or just maybe new friendships altogether, I think this is really going to |
| 1:58.4 | resonate. So the first question was from Destiny Perry, who just |
| 2:02.4 | asked, how do we make friends as adults? She's in her 30s, early 30s with three kids and a loving |
| 2:09.2 | husband, and she feels kind of lonely, wondering how to make real friends these days. And I just want you to know, Destiny, that you are definitely not alone. |
| 2:20.4 | This was the number one question that was asked. |
| 2:22.6 | And I know that friendship can really evolve at different stages of our life, |
| 2:28.1 | specifically as we transition from, you know, if you think about it, |
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