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Sunday Pick: How to be a better friend (w/ Rhaina Cohen) | How to Be a Better Human

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4.111.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

What would it look like if we took friendship as seriously as we take romance? Rhaina Cohen, author of the book The Other Significant Others: Reimagine Life with Friendship at the Center, talks to Chris about the value of platonic relationships. They get into everything from offloading expectations from a romantic partner onto a friend can help improve relationships to how to cope with the loss of a friend to what to do when politics divide friendships. If you want to develop your friendships, Rhaina has tons of practical tips and advice.


This episode originally aired on May 19, 2025.

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0:00.0

Hey, TED Talks Daily listeners, I'm Elise Hugh. Today we're bringing you a Sunday

0:10.9

pick where we share an episode of another podcast from the TED Audio Collective,

0:15.2

handpicked by us for you. What would it look like if we took friendship as seriously as we take romance?

0:22.2

To explore this question, we're sharing an episode of How to Be a Better Human,

0:26.0

featuring Raina Cohen, author of the book The Other Significant Others,

0:30.0

Reimagined Life with Friendship at the Center.

0:32.9

She sat down with host Chris Duffy to talk about the value of platonic relationships,

0:37.1

and they get into everything

0:38.5

from what it means to offload expectations from a romantic partner onto friends instead,

0:44.9

to how to cope with the loss of a friend, and what to do when politics divide friendships.

0:50.0

If you want to strengthen your relationships of all kinds, this episode is for you.

0:54.8

How to Be a Better Human is a show that looks in unexpected places for new ways to improve and show up for one another.

1:00.8

If you want to hear more insights like this, listen to How to Be a Better Human wherever you get your podcasts.

1:06.8

Learn about the TED Audio Collective at audiocollective.com.

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