Ep 262: Searching for a Best Friend REPLAY
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This episode is for anyone who has gone through a friendship breakup, or who desires finding a best friend as an adult.
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Ep 235: 4 Lessons After Publishing 2 Books + Listener Q&A
/This is an episode for writers, aspiring authors, readers, and anyone who likes a peek behind-the-scenes.
We're going to talk about the publishing industry as it stands, how it's changed in the last few years, the rise of self-publishing, conquering self-doubt, money, and so much more.
Read MoreEp 214: A Friendship Reckoning
/The first story I tell in my book The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs is called A Friendship Reckoning. In this chapter, I share about a painful conflict with a friend that almost led to the end of our deep friendship, and how we reconciled with one big, meaningful, conversation in my backyard.
Read MoreEp 194: On Endings and Intuition (with Meg Tietz)
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10 Things To Tell You exists because Meg Tietz put a microphone in my hand nearly a decade ago when she launched the Sorta Awesome podcast and asked me to be a regular cohost. That invitation changed my life, along with the thousands of Sorta Awesome listeners who have been touched by Meg's words and wisdom for all these years.
Read MoreEp 186: College Roommates, Marriage Pacts, and Overdue Apologies (A Secret Tapes Conversation with my Soul Sister Lindsay Lawler)
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In my book about friendship THE LIFE COUNCIL: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs, I write about my freshman college roommate and longtime LA roommate Lindsay Lawler. In the book, and in my life, Lindsay occupies the seat on my my life council that I call the SOUL SISTER. And in this conversation you’re going to see why. We have been connected spiritually and logistically and our lives have been intertwined since we were 18 years old.
Read MoreEp 176: The Mentor (A Secret Tapes conversation with Cyndi Finkle)
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When Cyndi and I sat down to record this conversation for the Secret Tapes series, we had barely seen each other in nearly ten years, even though we live within miles of one another. It was a chance for me to tell her how much she meant to me during the most important year of my life, and to hear her side of what it felt like to take a 22-year-old sorority girl fresh out of Oklahoma under her wing.
Read MoreEp 175: How To Have Hard Conversations with Friends (with Danielle Bayard Jackson)
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In this episode, friendship coach Danielle Bayard Jackson gives us actual scripts for how to start those hard conversations with friends. I hung onto every word.
Read MoreEp 173: The Life Council Book Club (Live Replay)
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My new book The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs came out last month, and one of the greatest pieces of feedback I've already received is that it would make a great book club pick!
Read MoreBONUS: FRIENDSHIP STORIES: Serendipity (Caroline's Story)
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My guest today is someone you might recognize if you've ever emailed or DM'd the show, or you've just heard me talk about her giant contribution to 10 Things To Tell You, my book launches, and all other behind-the-scenes operations around here: Caroline!
Read MoreBONUS: FRIENDSHIP STORIES: A Bridge Across Cultural Differences (Carol & Gloria's Story)
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Carol and Gloria's friendship spans a few cultural differences, including race (Carol is Asian and Gloria is Black) and a large age gap (they have twenty years between them). In this episode, Carol speaks candidly about how these differences affects their friendship and bring both challenges but also beautiful gifts.
Read MoreBONUS: FRIENDSHIP STORIES: The Breakup (JeriLynne's Story)
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This episode is about an aspect of friendship that is painful and rarely discussed: the friendship break up.
Read MoreEp 170: The Old Friend (a conversation with Shauna Niequist)
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For twenty-five years, Shauna Niequist has been a friend, role model, mentor, and, yes, even a fellow obsessive as we discuss in this episode.
Read MoreBONUS: FRIENDSHIP STORIES: Island Life (Kammy's Story)
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The childhood that my guest Kammy is going to describe in this conversation is unlike any I've ever heard. She grew up on a remote island just two square miles in size, without much contact with the rest of the world.
Read MoreEp 169: Battle Buddies (with Beth Silvers and Sarah Stewart Holland of Pantsuit Politics)
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In the framework of my new book The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs, the duo behind the Pantsuit Politics podcast could be considered Business Besties or Old Friends, but I see them primarily as BATTLE BUDDIES.
Read MoreEp 168: The Life Council is OUT NOW! (10 things I haven't told you yet about my new book)
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In this episode, I wanted to share with you ten thoughts about the book, the creative process, why I felt like a fraud writing it, and why I believe in its message so deeply.
Read MoreEp 167: Five Friendship Philosophies (an audiobook excerpt of The Life Council by Laura Tremaine)
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This episode is an excerpt from the audiobook version of The Life Council, read by me. The sections I'm sharing here are called A Friendship Reckoning and Five Friendship Philosophies.
Read MoreBONUS: FRIENDSHIP STORIES: Men and Women Can Be Friends (Kerith & Lee's Story)
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Can men and women be "just friends"? Kerith & Lee are here to answer that OF COURSE they can. Their unique friendship story starts with a surgery that results in hours-long phone marathons and a friendship that stretches across time and gender roles.
Read MoreEp 166: How To Write A Book (in 10 steps)
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My second book The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs comes out in just two weeks, and so I have writing on my mind.
Read MoreBONUS: FRIENDSHIP STORIES: Pen Pals. (Sarah's Story)
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When I was young, I always dreamed of having a pen pal. It seemed like something straight out of a movie! Well wait until you hear Sarah's story...it really is like some magical fiction.
Read MoreEp 164: Are we friends or not? (A Secret Tapes Mastermind Conversation with Jamie Golden, Bri McKoy, and Kendra Adachi)
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Back In 2019, I infamously said on this podcast that the women in my business Mastermind were not my friends.
Jamie Golden, Bri McKoy, and Kendra Adachi are back to refute that claim and also take their offical seats on my Life Council as my "Business Besties," as I write about them in my book.
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