What is up? I'm Grace Beverly and welcome back to Working Hard, the podcast

shared guide book on how to improve your own life and achieve what you actually dreamed of doing,

because life's too short for boring podcasts and bad advice.

What is up and welcome back to working hard today? I want to talk about something that I have been

thinking about for so long and I've wanted to do an episode on for so long because I feel

like it's something that a lot of us crave, but

don't necessarily know how to build. And I also think the landscape has changed a lot in the

past few years. So I wanted to talk about how to build amazing friendships and what it really

takes to build them. And I don't just mean having lots of friends. I do not mean that at all.

I mean building real, having lots of friends. I do not mean that at all. I mean building real,

supportive, close friendships as an adult. So not the catch-up coffee once-a-quartered kind of friendship and not the kind of I will go out with this person, but wouldn't necessarily tell them my deepest,

darkest secrets. But friendships that feel

like a village, the ones where people show up for you and you show up for them, even when it's

inconvenient, because that, I feel, is the secret. To build community, which close friendships are,

like I found myself really craving community as an adult. You have to

inconvenience yourself and you have to go first and you have to be a little bit too keen in a way

that wasn't encouraged at all at school or definitely would have felt at school a little bit too

much. That is exactly how you build genuine community and genuine friendships. And honestly, I think it's one of the most

rewarding things that you can do. And also one of the things that we as humans want more and more and

more, particularly in the world of social media, particularly in a world where we are in touch with

people all the time, but don't necessarily have the type of close friendships that we would have

had when we, as

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