The Secret To Making Soul Satisfying Friends As An Adult (Avoid The Mistake Everyone Makes!)

The Liz Moody Podcast

Liz Moody

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Author and journalist Anna Goldfarb dives into the challenges facing friends these days, the most important qualities to making new friendships and deepening old ones, and how to find the most fulfillment in your relationships. The challenges that make friendship SO much more difficult now than it was for our parents or grandparents Exactly what an “about” is, how to find one, and why it is so crucial to lasting friendships The differences between memorial and active friendships, and how to treat both Small, simple, and specific ways to be a better friend How to successfully reach out to potential new friend (and what NOT to say) How to identify and navigate a toxic friendship Exactly what the three Ds are and why you need all of them for a successful friendship The ideal number of friends to have, according to science How to navigate political differences within friendships Why men are so lonely and how women can help And so much more For more from Anna, you can find her on Instagram @annagoldfarb or her website, www.annagoldfarb.com. Her new book, Modern Friendship: How to Nurture Our Most Valued Connections comes out on June 4th and is available for pre-order where books are sold. To join The Liz Moody Podcast Club Facebook group, go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/thelizmoodypodcast. Ready to uplevel every part of your life? Order my new book 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success now! This episode is sponsored by: Molly’s Suds: go to mollyssuds.com/LIZMOODY and use code LIZMOODY for 20% off. AG1: visit drinkag1.com/lizmoody and get your FREE year supply of Vitamin D and 5 free travel packs today. Previous episodes referred to in this episode: How To Work LESS AND Get MORE Done Actress Ashley Greene & Olivia Khoury On PMDD, Cycle Syncing, & How To Understand Your Hormones To Transform Your Health My FULL Anxiety Story + The Tools That Help Me The Most The Liz Moody Podcast cover art by Zack. The Liz Moody Podcast music by Alex Ruimy. Formerly the Healthier Together Podcast. This podcast and website represents the opinions of Liz Moody and her guests to the show. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for information purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professional for any medical questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello friends and welcome back to the Liz Moody podcast. I'm your host Liz Moody and I'm a
0:06.0	best-selling author and longtime journalist. This podcast is all about helping you live your
0:10.4	healthiest, happiest life, whether we're learning how to work less but get more done with a new approach to productivity,
0:16.0	diving deep into hormones and how to cycle sink, or sitting down for an intimate look into my anxiety journey and the tools that help me the most.
0:25.5	And yes, those are all real episodes and they are linked in the show notes if you would like
0:28.9	to listen.
0:29.9	I don't want to over-hipe this episode too much, but it contains this paradigm shift when it comes to how we view friendships.
0:38.7	It is a huge unlock that has completely changed how I approach building and maintaining friendships in my own life and I have not been able to stop talking about it.
0:48.0	Since I recorded the interview, I keep telling people, did you know that friendships need and about?
0:53.4	This is the missing piece of friendship.
0:55.5	You will find out what that means in the episode in just a second.
0:58.4	Okay, I feel like I have just overhiked it a lot,
1:00.6	but it's really exciting.
1:03.0	information I feel like that has been missing from this conversation for so long and I am so
1:08.5	excited to welcome Anna Goldfarb to the podcast to discuss it. Anna is a journalist, author, speaker, and friendship explainer.
1:16.6	She is the Friendship Correspondent for the New York Times. She writes about friendship for
1:20.8	publications like The Atlantic time vice the cut
1:23.6	vox in the Washington Post among many others her new book is called modern
1:28.6	friendship how to nurture our most valued connections it comes out June 4th and it is such a gem of a
1:34.3	book and Anna is just such a gem of a human being. There is so much
1:38.7	fascinating research and so many completely game-changing ideas in this episode.
1:44.0	We get into the challenges that make friendship so much more difficult now than it was for
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