How To Become Your Own Best Friend & Love Being Alone
Busy, Yet Pretty
CAKE MEDIA
4.8 • 721 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This episode is so close to my heart — and honestly, one I could talk about forever. I'm diving into how to become your own best friend, the magic of solo dates, and why learning to love being alone is one of the most powerful things you can do for yourself. Whether alone time feels scary, boring, or just unfamiliar, I'm walking you through how to make it feel peaceful, fun, and something you actually look forward to. I'm also sharing my weekly review, current obsessions (citrus season + matcha is back!), goals of the week, an affirmation, and a self-love journaling prompt to close us out.
✨Affirmation of the Week✨
I am stepping into the most successful spring I’ve had so far — mentally, physically, and career-wise.
❤️Self-Love Question of the Week❤️
What have I overcome that I would have been scared of last year?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my love, welcome to the busy yet pretty podcast. I'm your host, Jaden Haley. |
| 0:15.1 | I'm so happy you're here with me today because this topic is something that I am very passionate about and I love very much, which is how to become your own best friend, solo dates and spending time alone. |
| 0:25.1 | This is something that I feel like we could all learn more tips on because sometimes we |
| 0:30.0 | just want to be with someone a lot or not be alone. |
| 0:33.4 | And that's okay. |
| 0:34.6 | It's human nature for us to want to be with somebody. |
| 0:38.7 | But sometimes it's good to know how to be independent and enjoy being alone. So one, you don't have to rely on someone. And two, |
| 0:44.9 | so you can actually enjoy spending time with yourself because you have you and yourself your entire life. |
| 0:51.5 | You are the only person in this world who's going to spend your day one with you |
| 0:55.1 | to the very end last day with you. You are the longest you'll ever spend your life with yourself, |
| 1:00.3 | so you want to enjoy it. You're the only person who will, so you have to enjoy it. But before we get |
| 1:05.3 | into today's episode, let's go into our weekly review. So this week, I have really just been locking into a motivated |
| 1:13.4 | week. And this is something that I've been needing, especially for spring around the corner. |
| 1:18.0 | I recorded an episode on this, but it was last week's episode, but it's how to reinvent and |
| 1:22.8 | rebrand your life. And I feel like we all have that urge to do that. And my urge came now. So I had that |
| 1:30.2 | just like reset and I'm feeling so much more motivated, refreshed, organized. It's actually |
| 1:36.1 | crazy how much organization can just save your life and help you. So if you're feeling stuck or |
| 1:41.2 | in a slump, I really recommend you listening to last week's episode on that but |
| 1:45.1 | anyways another thing this week is i have just been shopping for some spring wardrobe pieces |
| 1:49.6 | i had a little reset when it came to decluttering but i can't lie the minute i'd to clutter i love to |
| 1:56.6 | replenish what i just got rid of and it's more of like starting a new era and I try to lean into |
| 2:03.3 | the minimalist mindset and I think I do that really well when it comes to kind of like |
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