Hello, hello, welcome back or welcome to Morning Ray. I'm your host, Lan or Alana, and this is part two of your hot girls' spring guidebook.

Today we are covering friendships and dating. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Today we're covering mindsets that you should

have, that you should embody and work towards when it comes to your friendships and dating

on Monday or Tuesday. Ended up going up on the last episode, the previous episode, Part one, we focused on mindset surrounding career and

wellness. I'm super excited to dive into the friendship and dating relationship portion of this

episode. It's something I've definitely been focusing more on and trying to learn how to be a

better friend, a better communicator,

setting boundaries, de-centering, dating, and relationships, romantic relationships,

and also not putting so much pressure on it.

And I feel like as someone who is in their mid-20s, I have enough grounds to speak on my experiences,

my learnings, how I have changed and grown, and just my different perspectives and

the mindsets I'm embodying, especially entering into spring and summer of 2025.

Starting off with friendships. Friendships. I am someone that believes quality over

quantity. I would way rather have few solid friends over a large circle. It's better to have a few

genuine friendships than a crowd of acquaintances. I've been there. I've had a large circle of

acquaintances and you feel more lonely than ever. When you never have that person or you don't have

those people that you can really lean on that really know you that really care about you,

that it's a really strong and deep friendship. It can feel

really isolating and make you feel more alone. I have really learned I rather have a really

small, close circle. I do have a lot of acquaintances, friends, acquaintances, for lack of better words,

but in terms of like my core inner circle, it's quite small. I like to

keep it that way. I don't really have a friend group per se. I more so have like clusters of really

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