Hey, I'm Simone Boyce.

I'm Danielle Robe.

And we're the host of The Bright Side, the podcast from Hello Sunshine

that's guaranteed to light up your day.

Like our recent episode with comedian and actor Alana Glaser about

leaving behind her 20s and welcoming the next decade.

I'm being a bad girl now. I'm like, oh my gosh, L-O-L-O-L-L-L-, and to be a bad girl on a solid foundation,

you know it actually just looks like taking pleasure.

Listen to the Bright Side from Hello Sunshine on the I Heart Radio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I-Heart Radio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to make your invitations specific.

If you are suggesting getting together with someone,

offer enough details that it can actually happen with one reply.

Today's tip like another this week comes from Anna Goldfarb, who is the author of the new book Modern Friendship.

Goldfarb notes that it is really harder to make friends in our disconnected age.

But this is an important. to make friends in our disconnected age.

But, and this is an important but, it is not impossible.

One way to move casual acquaintances up the friendship ladder is to invite them to get together in a new way.

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