Welcome to another friendship roundup!
If you like friendship topics, you’ll enjoy my podcast, Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship, which you can find anywhere you listen to podcasts.
The latest episode of Dear Nina was about:
- Difficult Teen Friendships and Levels of Parent Involvement
- College Friendships: The Magic of the 90s and the Potential of Current College Friendships
- The Case for Phone Calls and Low-key Hangs
I Was a Guest on:
- I was so touched that Caryn Sullivan invited me to join her on an episode of Happiness Through Hardship. Caryn, founder of Pretty Wellness, is a two-time breast cancer survivor thriving with stage IV disease and the author of the book Happiness through Hardship. Caryn’s gratitude to her friends got her a bit choked up in this episode, which choked me up, too. Caryn is from Minneapolis, but has been gone a long time. I wish she lived here because I know we’d be friends!
- I was a guest on The Creative Superheroes Podcast, and I loved my conversation with host, Andrea Scher. We covered so many aspects of adult friendships, and I got a bit more personal than I sometimes do on my own show when I’m highlighting the guest.
Friendship Articles and More
I love doing these friendship roundups! I see so many friendship-related things, either because I find them myself or people send them to me. I’m going to keep sharing them on my site twice a month.
- I’m happy to see restaurants are starting to get rid of QR codes! Anyone else!? QR codes at restaurants made every meal with friends and family a phones-on-the-table experience. Gretchen Rubin and I spoke about the sensory issue of phones on tables in episode #57 of Dear Nina. Amelia Nierenberg in the NYT
- In Vox, Allie Volpe asks, “How Much Social Interaction Do You Actually Need?” She urges readers to consider the quality of conversations and diversity of the types of interactions you’re having. In other words, you might not need new friends. (But also, you might.)
- “Confessions of a Wedding Planner” by Xochitl Gonzalez in The Atlantic isn’t solely about friendship, but it’s worth the share here for its dramatic first-person account of being a wedding planner, which always includes some friendship drama others can and should learn to avoid.
- I liked former Dear Nina guest, Mia Brabham’s, piece in Shondaland about befriending neighbors.
- My friend, Lindsay D., sent me an episode of the Goop podcast with host, Cleo Wade, and co-author of Big Friendship, Aminatou Sow. It was a really good conversation. Lindsay was thrilled to be the first to send it to me. Her delight, delighted me!
Latest Anonymous Friendship Question
“Friends, You Don’t Have to Read my Book: But you should ask me how it’s sometimes.”
Some readers saw that headline and congratulated me for having a book on the way. This letter isn’t about me, and I don’t have a book coming out. But the question applies to podcasters, too, so I shared how I handle the letter writer’s problem from a podcaster’s point of view. (The problem being: When
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Latest posts by Nina Badzin (see all)
- Dear Nina in The Guardian - May 1, 2024
- Overtalking, Undertalking, and Lessons for Friendships in the Art of Storytelling - April 30, 2024
- Dear Nina in The Wall Street Journal - April 27, 2024
- 5 Friendship Issues to Consider Addressing with a Therapist - April 17, 2024
