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Hello and welcome to Forever 35, a podcast about the things we do to take care of ourselves.

I'm Dory Schifrier and I'm Kate Spencer.

And we are not experts. We are just two friends who like to talk a lot about theorems.

And this is a mini episode where we usually hear from you, share your comments and thoughts

and answer your questions for the best of our ability. But today, since we are not experts,

we brought an expert in. We brought in an expert to answer some of your most pressing questions

about friendship, which is a topic that we get so many questions about.

Yeah, I think it is, I think to our surprise, it has been probably the most asked or requested topic

when it comes to listener questions and comments. It's definitely changed how I think we both

look at the importance of friendship and building those relationships and maintaining them

and also navigating them when they get hard.

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And like, I didn't even know that friendship expert was a thing.

But it is. It is. And we're so, so excited to be sharing this interview that we did with Danielle.

Danielle Byard Jackson is a certified friendship coach. And she's a speaker and she's an author

of a book on friendship called Give It A Rest, the Case for Tough Love Friendships.

Y'all are going to hear this again when we do her bio during the interview. But

Danielle is an expert in friendship and like, it is very evident the second she starts answering

some listener questions that she knows a lot about the subject. Yeah, and I think we hope to do more

of these mini episodes where we talk to actual experience. I think that the field can answer,

who can answer listener questions. So we're excited to hear what you all think of the episode,

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