Making Friends is Sweet and Sour
Coffee + Crumbs Podcast
Ashlee Gadd
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
For some of us, making friends as kids was challenging. The same can be true now, as adults. But you can turn a sour situation into something downright sweet when you show up as your whole self. Today, we're talking with YIGC contributor Neidy (naydee) Hess who shares about the good, bad, ugly, and beautiful of finding your people. We hope this conversation gives you permission to embrace the awkward, grieve the losses, but also delight in your community.
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Neidy says home-cooked meals and debriefing TV shows helps build friendships; listen to this bonus episode to hear more ways to Take Your Friendships Out of the Group Chat.
For more encouragement in your motherhood journey, check out the stories at Coffee + Crumbs.
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| 0:00.0 | We believe motherhood is a gift, an art, not a science. |
| 0:07.2 | We believe it takes a village to raise our kids and that motherhood is better when we stick together. |
| 0:12.7 | Most of all, we believe motherhood is holy work. |
| 0:16.9 | At the core of our show, we want you to feel safe, known, encouraged, and loved. |
| 0:22.4 | This is the Coffee and Crumbs podcast. |
| 0:28.4 | Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Coffee and Crumbs podcast. |
| 0:32.5 | I am here with my girl Ashley Gad. |
| 0:34.4 | Hi, friend. |
| 0:35.3 | Hello, friend. |
| 0:36.5 | And we are joined today by the, let's see, I'm trying to |
| 0:41.9 | think of some adjectives, the delightful, the life-giving, the bubbly, sparkly. |
| 0:49.0 | Nady. Hi, friend. How are you? I'm so happy to be here. Yay. We are so happy to have you here. I'm going to tell |
| 0:58.5 | everybody a little bit about you, Nady, before we kind of jump into what we're going to talk about |
| 1:05.3 | today on this episode. But Nadi's a storyteller through and through. Informed by her culture as a first generation Latina, as well as her experience as a Marine's wife, a Marine who served two tours in Afghanistan and is now a firefighter's wife. |
| 1:22.2 | She writes stories that bring color, justice, and joy to the world. |
| 1:26.9 | Previously, she was also the Exhale Content |
| 1:29.4 | Manager, which was her favorite job of all time. Love that. And now in her daily hustle, |
| 1:35.8 | she's a grants and communications manager for a music school and a public advocate for the arts. |
| 1:41.5 | She supported numerous nonprofits to leverage ethical storytelling and currently |
| 1:46.3 | lives in Nebraska with her husband and three bicultural kids. Nadie, welcome to the podcast today. |
| 1:53.2 | Oh, thank you guys. It's so fun to be here. And I mean, I talk to you guys on Vox all the time. |
| 1:58.5 | So this is like Voxer for the public, essentially. |
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