Hey friends, welcome to Girls Night. I'm Stephanie May Wilson and I am so happy that you're here.

Each week I have a girlfriend over and we talk through one of the biggest questions we have about

our lives as women. We're talking about friendships and faith and relationships and self-confidence.

About our calling in life and how to live every bit of our lives to the absolute full.

Life is so much better and easier and absolutely more fun when we navigated together as

girlfriends and I cannot wait to get started. So friends, I am seriously so excited for you to

meet today's guest. Our guest for today's episode is my new friend Danielle Byrd Jackson.

Danielle is a certified friendship coach, talked about best job title ever, and a national speaker

who works to teach women how to create and maintain better female friendships.

And guys, I have to say, Danielle is incredible. Get out a pen and a piece of paper because you

are going to want to take notes during this episode. Just trust me. Get that pen, get that piece of

paper, you're going to need it. So in this episode, I asked Danielle some of the trickiest questions

about friendship. These are things that I know so many of us are dealing with and I'm going to go

ahead and speak for all of us when I say that we have no idea how to navigate these things.

I brought her questions like, okay, it seems like everyone has already has a best friend and I would

really love to have a best friend, but I have no idea how to make a new best friend as an adult.

Any ideas? Or I used to be really close to one of my friends, but it feels like our friendship has

changed and faded over the years and I'm not sure what to do about it. I asked her, how do you know

when it's time for a friendship to end and how do you cope about ending it without being a total jerk?

I asked her, what do you do if you're in a friendship that feels one-sided when you feel like you

were always the one putting in the most effort? Or what about this one? I always feel like I'm

the odd one out. In every friend group, I always feel like the extra, like I never fully belong,

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