How to Make Lasting Friendships as an Adult (Ft. Alyssa Bethke)

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Jordan Lee Dooley

Health & Fitness

4.9 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Raise your hand if this sounds familiar…🙋‍♀️ In college, friendships seemed to come pretty easy. You hung out in each other’s dorm rooms, went to classes together, shared meals, and pretty much got to live life with each other. But now, as you get older, it feels like friendships and community are becoming more difficult. You’re busy working or running after the kids, people are moving to different places, and you find you and your friends are often in different seasons. So what’s a girl to do? To answer that question, Jordan talks with author Alyssa Bethke about how to build community and friendships as an adult. Pull up a chair, get your comfy clothes on, and tune in to this episode to learn: How to build friendships as an adult Tips to start conversations as an introvert How to pursue friendships in the midst of busy seasons and motherhood The benefit of having friends of different ages How social media and comparison affect friendships To learn more from Alyssa Bethke, visit her at www.jeffandalyssa.com.

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0:00.0	But only thing you get from this conversation, like pursue those that have gone before you,
0:05.8	because they are some of the greatest gifts and I can cry about it now.
0:09.0	Like I, and especially my whole life, but like I feel like they've discipled me, they've
0:13.9	mentored me, they've prayed for me to know that they've gone ahead and they've been
0:17.9	faithful and they're like, you will get through this and here's wisdom and I'm praying
0:21.6	for you and I totally get it.
0:23.2	Like I've been there.
0:24.4	I feel so covered by this.
0:38.8	Here's your host, Jordan Lee Dooley.
0:54.7	Hey, let's go welcome to she.
0:56.7	Hi Jordan, next wish for heaven beyond today.
0:59.8	Of course, this is so fun.
1:01.2	I am so excited to just, I feel like we get to catch up and share our conversation with
1:05.0	the world.
1:06.0	I feel like I don't know.
1:07.0	I've been excited to.
1:08.0	Well, for anyone who may not be familiar with you or your story, can you tell us a little
1:26.2	bit about who you are and what led you to what you do now?
1:30.1	So my husband and I just, we live in Maui and we have three kids, seven, five and two.
1:38.4	Before we got married, he could have spoken, let's go come home out to the world and it
1:43.4	kind of went crazy.
1:44.5	And so ever since we've been married, we've just kind of, he's traveled and he spoke and
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