You're listening to the Creating a Brand podcast where we deliver weekly interviews on topics to help entrepreneurs make their first or next step in business the right one.

I am your host, Alex San Felipe.

Statistics show that humans are becoming lonelier than ever before. In a recent poll, it was

determined that we only spend 4% of our time with our friends, and entrepreneurs certainly do not

help improve this statistic. Although creating a brand is an entrepreneurship podcast, we cannot

ignore this topic because it has been proven that friendship directly affects our level of

creativity and results in business. In this episode, I'm bringing on my friend Smiley Puzwalski.

He is an author and speaker focused on helping people develop their friendships.

Today, Smiley shares some ways we can begin to prioritize our friendships in a more meaningful way.

If implemented, we'll begin feeling less lonely and begin living more fulfilled lives.

For links to resources that will be mentioned during this episode,

please visit CreatingABrand.com slash 114.

And now here is my conversation with my friend, Smiley Puzzwalski.

Smiley, welcome to the Creating a Brand podcast.

Hi, Alex. Thanks so much for having me today. It's great to be here.

Yeah, I'm really excited with this conversation. I want to first off say that I so appreciate the heart and passion you put into your book, friendship in the age of loneliness.

It's rare that I read a book that I can actually feel, but when I read this book,

I can just feel your passion that you put into it and the energy put into it. And, man, talk about

something that's just so needed today. So thank you so much for doing that and putting everything

into this that you did. Yeah, thanks for that. That was the idea. I wanted to kind of create like

a love letter to friendship, something that you, as soon as you see it, as soon as you feel

it, you're like, ah, like I already feel a little bit less lonely. Like, I feel like a friend's

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