You Need to Fight for Friendship with Julia Louis Dreyfus

Michelle Obama: The Light Podcast

Higher Ground

Relationships, Society & Culture, Education, Self-improvement

4.4 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Legendary actress and comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus joins the podcast to discuss the importance of building community in adulthood. Michelle talks about how she’s approaching life in her 60s, the surprising strategy she used to maintain her friendships while in the White House, and Julia shares the women who inspire her most. Plus, the group answers a listener's question about finding adult friends at every stage in life.

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0:00.0	This stage in life for me, for me personally, is the first time that I've been completely free.
0:07.8	Yeah, there's a real release.
0:10.1	Where every choice that I make in my life is not about my husband, not about his career, not about what my kids need or where they're going.
0:18.8	It's totally about me.
0:26.2	Yeah. need or where they're going, it's totally about me. This episode is brought to you by Pinesall and Chase Home Lending.
0:32.1	Hey, you?
0:32.9	Hi, Craig Robinson.
0:34.6	How's it going?
0:35.4	It's going well, Mish.
0:36.7	How you doing?
0:37.4	I'm doing pretty good. I'm digging that aqua.
0:40.9	This is one of my favorite pieces. Yeah, yeah. It looks like, you know, you'd wear that pulling up in some hot shot ride or something.
0:49.9	Yeah, well, I've been tooling around in my, in my Rivian R1S here in L.A.
0:55.9	And, well, it's actually not my.
0:57.7	Rivian has been kind enough to gift us with vehicles.
1:04.5	But when I'm here, I've driven a loner that I'm just falling in love with it every single time I get in it.
1:13.4	But listen, we've had a great conversation about friendship.
1:19.7	Oh, yeah, today.
1:20.7	Today we're going to talk about.
1:21.8	But today we're going to talk about friendships as we age.
1:25.7	Ah, okay.
1:26.4	And I was finding it hard when I was sort of researching this topic
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