Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

I will tell you this, as I've gotten older, my friendship circle has gotten much, much smaller.

I used to love having loads of friends and like I still do. I love people at my core. I love people.

But increasingly, I think as I'm more and more clear on who I am and what I want and how I want to spend my time during my precious few years on planet Earth, my friendship group has become curated and perfect. And it's interesting because I was speaking to a

friend about this recently who said to me that she's realizing that she just naturally wants to

spend more time with fewer people. And I get it. I think it's something that maybe does

happen a little bit naturally over time. But as I was speaking to

this friend, I said to her, you know what? I think I've come to really understand what it is that a

really good friend means to me in my life. And look, of course, I love people with a great sense of

humour. I love having smart friends.

People I can, you know, talk about all sorts of complex or deep subjects with. Absolutely.

But at its core, we were having this conversation. I'm like, do you know what? This is kind of,

and this is on the spot we were talking about it. I said, in my estimation, these are kind of like the characteristics that matter the most.

And maybe these are helpful for you. If you're thinking too about your friendship circle and what you

most want to get out of the time that you spend with the people that you love, who those people

might be, and what's perhaps, or who are the perhaps most healthiest and expansive relationships for you moving forward in your

life. Here are my, I guess, I don't want to say criteria, it sounds so formal, but I think this is

what matters the most to me. A good friend is someone you can be really, really happy with

and also sad with.

So if you need to talk about something, maybe a struggle, maybe you're emotional, maybe

you're going through a grief or a loss or a hard time, my friends are people who I can talk

to about the hard stuff, right, about stuff that I'm feeling. They've got some crazy

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