A podcast about friendship. Friendshipable--having the power, skill, means, or opportunity to have the emotions or conduct of friends or to create the state of being friends. Terri + Manya (co-founders of Project BFF) have conversations and interviews about friends, friendships, and friendship-adjacent topics.
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© 2023 Friendshipable
Friendshipable
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Terri and Manya are very clearly bff’s and are leading by example, in their authentic conversations. I’m shocked there is so much research on friendship and they always seem to be talking right to me!
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- March 17, 2023
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- Terri + Manya
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- © 2023 Friendshipable
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- 73: How to contact a friend you haven't talked to in a whileFrom Project BFF HQ, Terri + Manya riff on the topic of contacting a friend you haven't been in touch with in a while. There can be fear about reaching out if you've fallen out of touch with a friend. How you contact them, in what format (text, phone, etc.), and what you say might depend on how close a friend you have been in the past, and how you left things that last time you were in touch. How to Text Someone You Haven't Talked to in a Long Time, by Hailey Shafir on SocialSelf.com #BeAFriend Support us: Patreon Merch: Spring Email: friend@project-bff.com Share the love: subscribe + rate us in your favorite podcast app + tell your friends We use Buzzsprout to host our podcast + we love it. They make it so easy! Support the show0 comments0
- 72: Balance in friendships with Des CaminosFrom Project BFF HQ and our satellite office in Vermont, Terri + Manya chatted with embodiment life coach and intuitive somatic healer Des Caminos. We had the best time talking with Des about finding balance in friendships, toxic friendships, and the importance of setting boundaries. You can find Des at her website The Interconnected Self, where you can set up a call with Des to learn more about how she helps women create a life you love and that you deserve. #BeAFriend Support us: Patreon Merch: Spring Email: friend@project-bff.com Share the love: subscribe + rate us in your favorite podcast app + tell your friends We use Buzzsprout to host our podcast + we love it. They make it so easy! Support the show0 comments0
- Friendshipable Mar 3 · 30m 71: Finding friends with Chelsea AustinFrom Project BFF HQ and our satellite office in Vermont, Terri + Manya chatted with author, speaker, and coach Chelsea Austin. We had a fabulous conversation about the vital importance of friendships in our lives, making new friends and the fear of rejection, and finding friends who are a good fit for us. You can find Chelsea and her book Inexplicably Me at ChelseaAustin.com or on social media: Instagram Facebook Twitter TikTok #BeAFriend Support us: Patreon Merch: Spring Email: friend@project-bff.com Share the love: subscribe + rate us in your favorite podcast app + tell your friends We use Buzzsprout to host our podcast + we love it. They make it so easy! Support the show0 comments0
- 70: Less is moreFrom Project BFF HQ, Terri + Manya riff on an article about friendship from the World Economic Forum. The article is classified under global health, because that is how important friendship is. In 1990, 1/3 of American Adults said they had 10 or more close friends. In 2021, just 13 % say they have friends in the double digits. Friendships: Less is More Now, World Economic Forum The State of American Friendship: Change, Challenges, and Loss, Survey Center on American Life #BeAFriend Support us: Patreon Merch: Spring Email: friend@project-bff.com Share the love: subscribe + rate us in your favorite podcast app + tell your friends We use Buzzsprout to host our podcast + we love it. They make it so easy! Support the show0 comments0
- 69: Operation make new friendsFrom Project BFF HQ, Terri + Manya riff on how to make new friends. We know that in some ways and in some cases, the basis of friendship is convenience. And we also know that the pandemic challenged some friendships. And we also (also?) know that friendships are good for our health. So what if you want to make new friends? Resource Operation Make New Friends by Jill Filipovic in The Guardian #BeAFriend Support us: Patreon Merch: Spring Email: friend@project-bff.com Share the love: subscribe + rate us in your favorite podcast app + tell your friends We use Buzzsprout to host our podcast + we love it. They make it so easy! Support the show0 comments0
- 68: Are you experiencing a friendship recession?From Project BFF HQ, Terri + Manya riff on the concept of a friendship recession--the "slow then sudden creep of people self-reporting that they have no close friends." We learned that 15% of American men and 10% of women reported having no friends. We talk about the factors that have led to the decline, as discussed by Kimberley Wilson, including increase in people moving to search for work or the challenges of a dicey urban rental market and the increased cost of living. There are factors outside of our control, of course. But there are things we can control when it comes to friendships, like re-galvanizing old friendships, investing time to build new ones, and remembering that making friends takes time. Resources: Are You Experiencing a Friendship Recession? by Claudia Canavan in Women's Health Magazine American Men Suffer a Friendship Recession, by Daniel A. Cox, Survey Center of American Life Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review, in PLOS Medicine #BeAFriend Support us: Patreon Merch: Spring Email: friend@project-bff.com Share the love: subscribe + rate us in your favorite podcast app + tell your friends We use Buzzsprout to host our podcast + we love it. They make it so easy! Support the show0 comments0
- 67: Three things about friendship that change as you get olderFrom Project BFF HQ, Terri + Manya riff on how our friendships change. As kids, we are thrown together at school, and in other ways that mean our friends are an intimate part of our daily lives for most of us. As we get older, and especially as we move on after school, the nature of our friendships can change. Factors that influence our friendships in adulthood include life stages and tasks (like finding a career or having kids). We also tend to be so busy that many of us focus on maintaining friends versus specifically making new friends. And as adults, we are much more likely to have friends in different age groups, which can be an interesting way to learn new things and for some of us, get out of our comfort zone Article we reference: 3 things about friendships that change as you get older, by Art Markman on FastCompany.com #BeAFriend Support us: Patreon Merch: Spring Email: friend@project-bff.com Share the love: subscribe + rate us in your favorite podcast app + tell your friends We use Buzzsprout to host our podcast + we love it. They make it so easy! Support the show0 comments0
- 66: What are friends for?From Project BFF HQ Terri + Manya riff on the topic of why we have friends in our lives and how friendships of all types--short or long--bring us value. Have you ever heard the saying that we have friends for a reason, a season, or a lifetime*? We chat about this is a framework for thinking about our friend relationships. Reason. This is when a short-lived relationship brings you a benefit or helps you. Season. This is when a relationship accompanies you through a certain period of your life and eventually ends. Lifetime. This is when a relationship lasts a lifetime. What Are Friends For? A Reason, Season, or Lifetime, Pychcentral *This is sometimes attributed to Brian A. "Drew" Chalker and sometimes to Eleanor Roosevelt. #BeAFriend Support us: Patreon Merch: Spring Email: friend@project-bff.com Share the love: subscribe + rate us in your favorite podcast app + tell your friends We use Buzzsprout to host our podcast + we love it. They make it so easy! Support the show0 comments0
- Friendshipable Jan 20 · 22m 65: My best friend's best friendFrom Project BFF HQ Terri + Manya riff on the dear friends of our dear friends. How and why they are special to us (spoiler alert: because they matter to our friends), how to get to know them better, and what to do if you are feeling jealous of their relationship. Shout out to all our friends' friends, even if we haven't met yet! #BeAFriend Support us: Patreon Merch: Spring Email: friend@project-bff.com Share the love: subscribe + rate us in your favorite podcast app + tell your friends We use Buzzsprout to host our podcast + we love it. They make it so easy! Support the show0 comments0
- 64: What is a best friend?From Project BFF HQ Terri + Manya riff on the concept of best friends. What is a best friend? Can you have more than one? It turns out that the concept of best friends is really pretty new and we probably don't all mean the same thing when we call someone our best friend. For some it may mean a singular relationship that has risen above all others. For other people, it is a term the describes a level of closeness. 'Best Friends’ Are a Surprisingly Recent Phenomenon, Jaya Saxena in th Atlantic The Friendship Report, by Snapchat Best Friend, Urban Dictionary #BeAFriend Support us: Patreon Merch: Spring Email: friend@project-bff.com Share the love: subscribe + rate us in your favorite podcast app + tell your friends We use Buzzsprout to host our podcast + we love it. They make it so easy! Support the show0 comments0
- 63: Talking friendship with Shasta NelsonFrom Project BFF HQ, Terri + Manya chatted with friendship expert Shasta Nelson on all things friendship. We had so much fun talking about how friends support us, why it matters that we build healthy relationships, and how friendship is a necessity, not just a nice to have for our health and happiness (there is a study that shows that 70% of our happiness comes from our relationships). It is common to struggle with friendships, not everyone had these kinds of relationships modeled for them, but it is something we all deserve and a skill we can all learn. Shasta Nelson, a friendship expert, is a leading voice on loneliness and creating healthy relationships. Whether she’s speaking at conferences or on TEDx stages, giving media interviews to outlets such as The New York Times and The Washington Post, or appearing as a guest on The Harvard Business Review podcast or The Steve Harvey Show, she is constantly teaching all of us how to create healthier and more fulfilling relationships in our lives. Shasta's books Friendships Don’t Just Happen! teaches us how to make new friends as adults Frientimacy: How to Deepen Friendships for Lifelong Health and Happiness teaches us how to make our relationships more meaningful and healthy The Business of Friendship: Making the Most of the Relationships Where We Spend Most of Our Time teaches us why we need to foster better relationships in our jobs. ShastaNelson.com Follow Shasta on social media: Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Instagram YouTube #BeAFriend Support us: Patreon Merch: Spring Email: friend@project-bff.com Share the love: subscribe + rate us in your favorite podcast app + tell your friends We use Buzzsprout to host our podcast + we love it. They make it so easy! Support the show0 comments0
- Encore: How do I deal with adult mean girls?We'll be back with new episodes on January 6. Please enjoy this favorite episode from Season 2 in 2022. It is human to be aggressive, no matter the gender, but that doesn't mean it's any fun to be on the receiving end of that aggression. This can come from friends, friends of friends, and colleagues. The aim of the person doing the bullying is to make someone look bad. That can take the form of cyberbullying, gossiping, intimidation, or ostracizing. We also talk about some workplace bullying that we've been on the receiving end of. "The same attributes that allow girls to be socially intelligent also allow them to be aggressive. They are drawing from the same skill set." - Rachel Simmons Sometimes these bullying experiences happen in front of others, who may themselves be afraid to step up out of fear of becoming the next victim. Some ways to deal, though it does not always feel simple. The key is to recognize what you cannot control in the encounter. Pretend you didn't hear: Excuse me, can you repeat that? Ask for clarification: I don't understand, what do you mean? Walk away and disengage Keep responses polite, while standing up for yourself. Resources we discuss: When the ‘mean girl’ is a woman: How to deal with an adult bully, By Cathy Alter How to Deal With Mean Girls in Adulthood, by Sherri Gordon Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls, by Rachel Simmons #BeAFriend Support us: Patreon Merch: Spring Email: friend@project-bff.com Share the love: subscribe + rate us in your favorite podcast app + tell your friends We use Buzzsprout to host our podcast + we love it. They make it so easy! Support the show0 comments0
- Encore: What does it mean to be a friend?We'll be back with new episodes on January 6. Please enjoy this favorite episode from Season 1 in 2021. From Project BFF HQ, Terri and Manya riff about what it means to be a friend. Have we ever actually defined what a friend is? What does it mean to have a friendship? What are the qualities or characteristics or connections that turn a relationship into a friendship? What are some of the commonalities out to being a friend? #BeAFriend Support us: Patreon Merch: Spring Email: friend@project-bff.com Share the love: subscribe + rate us in your favorite podcast app + tell your friends We use Buzzsprout to host our podcast + we love it. They make it so easy! Support the show0 comments0
- Encore: Am I a Bad Friend?We'll be back with new episodes on January 6. Please enjoy this favorite episode from Season 1 in 2021. From Project BFF HQ, Terri and Manya talk about how sometimes we may be a bad friend. (Not a bad art friend, just a regular bad friend?) Are you a pretty good friend if you are thinking "Is what I'm doing making me a bad friend"? What to do with the fear that you've done something wrong as a friend? How the pandemic has revealed how important friendships are and enabled us to have more grace towards our friends (and towards ourselves in our friendships). Each of us is so many things to so many different people and the big picture is that we are all trying. #BeAFriend Support us: Patreon Merch: Spring Email: friend@project-bff.com Share the love: subscribe + rate us in your favorite podcast app + tell your friends We use Buzzsprout to host our podcast + we love it. They make it so easy! Support the show0 comments0
- Friendshipable Dec 9 · 41m 62: Friendship and Women Finding Clarity, with Pascale Cook-FernandesFrom Project BFF HQ, Terri + Manya talk with Pascale Cook-Fernandes of Women Finding Clarity about women, friendship, and how the three of us met. We talk about the nuances of friendships and how these relationships require compassion, understanding, forgiveness, love, and gratitude. And how Pascale thinks of friendships (and all relationships) as energy Pascale, who is also host of The Happiness Workshop podcast, supports married women with the tools and strategies she discovered and learned along her journey to rediscover who THEY are, so they can rebuild a strong foundation for connection. Join us as we discuss Women Finding Clarity The Happiness Workshop #BeAFriend Support us: Patreon Merch: Spring Email: friend@project-bff.com Share the love: subscribe + rate us in your favorite podcast app + tell your friends We use Buzzsprout to host our podcast + we love it. They make it so easy! Support the show0 comments0
- 61: Friendship and Herself360, with Cathie BriggetteFrom Project BFF HQ, Terri + Manya talk with Cathie Briggette of Herself 360 about women, friendship, and how the three of us met. Cathie and Lyvia created Herself360 as a way for women to help each other by sharing their stories--so we can learn about ourselves by telling our own stories and from other women by reading about their experiences. Cathie, Lyvia, and Herself360 are part of the Project BFF origin story, too, as we have supported each other as friends and businesswomen from the start of our project. Herself360 --a media platform and online magazine that supports and encourages women and offers a space to connect through stories. #BeAFriend Support us: Patreon Merch: Spring Email: friend@project-bff.com Share the love: subscribe + rate us in your favorite podcast app + tell your friends We use Buzzsprout to host our podcast + we love it. They make it so easy! Support the show0 comments0
- 60: Family vs. Friends: Comparing RelationshipsFrom Project BFF HQ, Terri + Manya riff about family and friends and how they compare as relationships. They are different types of relationships and serve different purposes in a lot of our lives. The key to a meaningful and supportive relationship, family or friends, is the quality of the relationship. Family is related to you no matter the circumstances, and friendships can wane--someone might not always be a friend. And both types of people in our lives can be kind, loving, and supportive. Family vs. Friends: Comparing Key Relationships, LoveToKnow #BeAFriend Support us: Patreon Merch: Spring Email: friend@project-bff.com Share the love: subscribe + rate us in your favorite podcast app + tell your friends We use Buzzsprout to host our podcast + we love it. They make it so easy! Support the show0 comments0
- 59: Cousins and friendsFrom Project BFF HQ, Terri + Manya riff about cousins who are also friends and our own relationships with our cousins. Articles Growing Up With Cousins is Growing Up With Friends For Life 10 Reasons Why Your Cousins Are Your Best Friends #BeAFriend Support us: Patreon Merch: Spring Email: friend@project-bff.com Share the love: subscribe + rate us in your favorite podcast app + tell your friends We use Buzzsprout to host our podcast + we love it. They make it so easy! Support the show0 comments0
- 58: Family as friendsFrom Project BFF HQ, Terri + Manya riff about friends who are family members. How do we define a friend? Some people consider kin as friends, while others do not. Some use the label only for long-lasting, close relationships, while others use it more liberally to define almost anyone they've met. And it can change over time with the same people. Articles: When Friends Are ‘Like Family’, Deborah Tannen, New York Times Friends, family, and family friends: Predicting friendships of Dutch women, Social Networks (via Science Direct) #BeAFriend Support us: Patreon Merch: Spring Email: friend@project-bff.com Share the love: subscribe + rate us in your favorite podcast app + tell your friends We use Buzzsprout to host our podcast + we love it. They make it so easy! Support the show0 comments0
- 57: Financial disparities in friendshipsFrom Project BFF HQ, Terri and Manya riff on managing financial disparities in friendships. Whether you are the one with more money in your bank account, or the one with less, there can be some challenges in navigating friendships. Americans don't like to talk about finances with their friends. But when not out in the open, disparities in income (or disposable income) can crop up and inconvenient times among friends--like getting the bill at a restaurant or planning a vacation together. For the cash strapped friend: Set boundaries. It's ok to say no or to pay for your own tab separately. Make suggestions that do work for you Pick up extra costs if you can, to treat every once in a while. Resources we mention: How not to be a bad friend in a rich-poor friendship, by Brittany Wong on Huffpost A survey of 2,000 Americans found they're more likely to talk about politics and relationships with their friends than money, on Business Insider. #BeAFriend Support us: Patreon Merch: Spring Email: friend@project-bff.com Share the love: subscribe + rate us in your favorite podcast app + tell your friends We use Buzzsprout to host our podcast + we love it. They make it so easy! Support the show0 comments0
- Friendshipable Oct 21 · 22m 56: Do men and women approach friendship differently?From Project BFF HQ, Terri and Manya riff on the differences in the ways women and men approach friendships. It turns out that men tend to prefer more activity-based friendships, and what are referred to as side-to-side, shared activities like sports. Women tend to prefer talking and spending time together, more intimate, face-to-face contact like sharing feelings and disclosing secrets. Article we mention: Female vs Male Friendships: 10 Key Differences, on PsychCentral #BeAFriend Support us: Patreon Merch: Spring Email: friend@project-bff.com Share the love: subscribe + rate us in your favorite podcast app + tell your friends We use Buzzsprout to host our podcast + we love it. They make it so easy! Support the show0 comments0
- 55: Famous women's friendshipsFrom Project BFF HQ, Terri + Manya riff about famous women's friendships. Did you know Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keefe were friends? And that Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe were friends? Resource: These famous women were friends? Read 5 stories of sisterhood and support, Washington Post #BeAFriend Support us: Patreon Merch: Spring Email: friend@project-bff.com Share the love: subscribe + rate us in your favorite podcast app + tell your friends We use Buzzsprout to host our podcast + we love it. They make it so easy! Support the show0 comments0
- 54: Female friendships on televisionFrom Project BFF HQ, Terri + Manya riff about female friendships on TV, from Living Single and Friends to Parks and Recreation and The Good Place. We talk about some of the shows we like, mostly from the past, the tv friendships we love, the Bechdel test, and how the way friendships are portrayed impact our enjoyment of the shows. Resource: Then vs. Now: The Portrayal of Female Friendship on TV, Her Culture Why the Bechdel Test is More Important Than You Realize, Gizmodo #BeAFriend Support us: Patreon Merch: Spring Email: friend@project-bff.com Share the love: subscribe + rate us in your favorite podcast app + tell your friends We use Buzzsprout to host our podcast + we love it. They make it so easy! Support the show0 comments0
- 53: Power of female friendshipsFrom Project BFF HQ, Terri + Manya riff about the power of female friendships and how it appears that women are genetically wired for friendships in a different way than men. According to a UCLA study, women were genetically wired to befriend and tend to people in times of stress, while men were more likely to exhibit a fight or flight response. And across their entire life cycle, females are more likely to mobilize social support in times of stress--they seek it out more, receive more support, and are more satisfied with the support they receive. "Abandon the cultural myth that all female friendships must be bitchy, toxic, or competitive. This myth is like heels and purses – pretty but designed to SLOW women down." - Roxanne Gay, Bad Feminis t Resources: Why there's nothing in the world more powerful than female friendship, in Glamour UK Biobehavioral Responses to Stress in Females, UCLA #BeAFriend Support us: Patreon Merch: Spring Email: friend@project-bff.com Share the love: subscribe + rate us in your favorite podcast app + tell your friends We use Buzzsprout to host our podcast + we love it. They make it so easy! Support the show0 comments0
- 52: State of American friendshipFrom Project BFF HQ, Terri + Manya riff about the 2021 American Perspectives Survey about friendship: changes, challenges, and loss. About half of Americans report losing touch with at least one friend during the pandemic and nearly half (46%) made a new friend over this same period. We discuss how many friends people have, and how people meet friends. Most people (49%) seem to have about 3 or fewer close friends, with people equally like to have more than 10 close friends (13%) or no close friends (12%). Most of us have situational friends or place-based friendships—people mostly see in certain places such as work, school, the gym, or the park. References: American Perspectives Survey #BeAFriend Support us: Patreon Merch: Spring Email: friend@project-bff.com Share the love: subscribe + rate us in your favorite podcast app + tell your friends We use Buzzsprout to host our podcast + we love it. They make it so easy! Support the show0 comments0
