Welcome to episode 283 of Live Happy Now.

This is Paula Phelps, and this week we're here to talk about friendship.

As the song says, you've got to have friends.

But in today's busy world, it's often easy to overlook the value of those friendships.

After a cancer diagnosis, Sherry Lead realized that

she wanted her friends to know how much they meant to her. So she made a list of 50 women and

sat down with each one face to face to tell them what they had done for her. Not only did it

change her life and the lives of her friends, but it led to the book,

The 50-50 Friendship Flow, Life Lessons from and for My Girlfriends.

She's here today to talk about how this book changed her life and how you can use this

same process to deepen your own friendships and discover greater gratitude in your life.

Sherry, welcome to you, Live happy now. Thank you. I'm so

happy to be here. Well, happy is what we're all about and happy is what this topic is really,

really about. Friendship is something we all need and I think we all know how important it is,

but we kind of let that slip in today's

busy world. So I wanted to know, first of all, what made you decide to start exploring the

topic of friendship? Sure. Well, you know, as you know, October happens to be a breast cancer

awareness month. And it was during this month, three years ago,

that I received that phone call from my doctor that none of us want to receive. She had told me,

he was 47 years old at the time. And she told me, I'm sorry, but you have cancer. And my kids were

in high school at the time. And, you know, it was at that point.

I knew, of course, that the next 30 years weren't promised.

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