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Pep Talk: Making Friends with Ann Friedman + Aminatou Sow

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Feminism, Gender, Media Analysis, Body Politics, Patriarchy, Intersectionality, Society & Culture, Cultural Commentary, Beauty Standards, Internet Culture, Womens Rights

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Adult friending is hard! Luckily, a pair of long-distance besties are here to pep-talk you through the process: Call Your Girlfriend hosts Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman swap their tips and tricks for making new friends when you're grown.

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0:00.0

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0:59.6

Hey, young ladies, I'm Kristen. I'm Caroline. A couple years ago, way before the pandemic,

1:05.7

we made a series of pep talks and for the very first time, we are bringing them out from

1:11.6

behind the premium paywall for you. And we've picked six of our favorites that we think

1:18.8

will really help you all start the new year off right. We released three last week in

1:23.4

the other three are out today. Listen to all of them and enjoy.

1:32.4

Part of making new friends as an adult and as an older that you get is really just like

1:37.6

a testament of how flexible you are willing to be. And that's not to say that it's not

1:41.5

hard. It's really, really, it's really hard. Like, people are set in their ways. They're

1:45.8

less structural incentives to like bring new people into your life. But I do think that

1:50.2

if you can learn to be flexible about certain things and sometimes it's your time or sometimes

1:55.5

it's the kinds of people that you've traditionally been friends with or you know, it's like

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