Shasta Nelson - Girlfriends Can Save the World

For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

Jen Hatmaker

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Did you know that there is a science around “girlfriendhood?” Shasta Nelson, a noted “friendship expert” and author of a book series on friendships, does. Shasta’s life work is to help women make and keep great friendships, and she has studied the actual science of why having girlfriends makes us stronger, smarter and healthier! Plus, you’ll find out what kind of friend Jen is, when you hear the results of her taking Shasta’s “friendtimacy” quiz (don’t worry, she passed).

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0:00.0	Welcome to For the Love Podcast with bestselling author, Jen Hatmaker.
0:07.0	Come on in and join us for a chat with Jen and friends about all the things we love.
0:12.0	Now here's Jen.
0:18.0	Guys, thank you so much for joining us today on For the Love Podcast.
0:24.0	We are super excited to talk with you in this series about what it means to create and to keep and to nurture just a really meaningful circle of girlfriends.
0:38.0	I think this is an idea that affects virtually every single one of us.
0:44.0	And so it is my great pleasure to get to introduce you to today's guest.
0:51.0	We have on today Shasta Nelson and she is fabulous. Welcome Shasta. Thank you, honored.
0:57.0	Let me tell everybody about you just for a second. If you're not already familiar with her work, which you should be, let me tell you just a little bit.
1:04.0	She just could not be a more perfect guest for this series. Shasta is the author of Friendships Don't Just Happen.
1:13.0	The guide to creating a meaningful circle of friends for those of us looking to make new friends.
1:18.0	She's also written, friend to me see, by the way, brilliant title. Love it.
1:22.0	How to deepen friendships for lifelong health and happiness for knowing how to make the relationships we have even better, even stronger, even lasting, even longer, even through confidence.
1:33.0	They're both available in bookstores or online. They're both both available in audio.
1:40.0	Let me tell you something else that Shasta does that you guys are going to love and you're going to want to go on and check out immediately.
1:47.0	She has this amazing website called Girlfriend Circles.com.
1:51.0	It's basically a women's community dedicated to introducing women to new friends and inspiring better friendships more or less.
2:02.0	Does that sound right? Do you want to elaborate on Girlfriend Circles at all, explain it to our listeners?
2:07.0	Yeah, we actually just want to be a place where people are learning how to make friends.
2:11.0	Most of us have never been taught how to do this.
2:14.0	We do a monthly class that helps deepen those friendships and then we encourage people to meet offline in their different cities and to make friends.
2:22.0	We use the online to meet each other, but the goal is to encourage you and teach you how to make friends wherever you live.
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