Introducing Friendtimate!

Hi Friend,

Sarah here.

Friendships are beautiful, and we’re here to celebrate and explore what makes friendships so incredible. Putting friendship under the microscope, Ricky and I explore the many facets of friendship, always striving to be better friends to ourselves and others. But mostly just because we both spend so much time thinking about friendships, because let’s face it: they’re fascinating!

Whether you’re a long time listener or a newcomer, we’re so excited to share this upcoming season with you. Where season 1 tackled a lot of the foundations of friendships, like when friendships evolved, how we friend - yes, we made it a verb - and what friendships mean to us, to getting some language down to talk about different types of friendships.

This new season will dive deeper, we’ll tackle some of the harder topics, like unrequited friendships and politics and ethnicity in friendships. Of course this new season is also packed with tons of laughter - and Ricky even pulls a movie reference that is from this millennium! You won’t want to miss that.  

Another new thing for season 2 is that we are launching this newsletter. You will have heard us make reference to our instagram page several times through season 1, and you will also hear us talk about it in season 2, but we both agree that social media is not where we shine. Or I shine really, as I was the primary poster there. Instead of focusing on creating a massive quantity of content to stay relevant and reach you, we prefer to take our time, sit down and write something specifically to you, from the heart, and not panicking over which photo or reel to create to reach you. In short, we are choosing quality over quantity in our content - exactly as we do in our friendships.

I cannot begin to tell you how excited we both are for this new season and newsletter. I love our podcast, both for the conversations we get to have and the energy that they give me, and for the listeners reaching out. Our intention has always been to talk about friendship, and to create a warm and welcoming community for friendships to form online, and I strongly believe that with this newsletter, we are closer to achieving just that. And I, for one, cannot wait to see where this new format will take us.

This week, we look back to our favorite episodes of season 1.

Ricky’s favorite episodes are:

• The Role of Friends in Supporting Mental Health with Jessica Cleary LPC in which Jessica shares a lot of tips and tricks for how to be a good friend to somebody who’s struggling. This episode feels like an audio hug and we’ve both gone back and listened to it multiple times to remember Jessica’s golden nuggets!

• The Friend Audit in which we dive into Your Best Life’s audit (read more here). The audit consists of five questions to determine whether somebody is still a friend. So simple, so easy to apply, and yet so effective!

My favorite episodes are:

• The Evolution of Friendships with Michael Richard Kauth, PhD in which Dr. Kauth takes us through friendships through out history. This episode is probably the one that blew my mind the most; I had no idea that friendships had changed that much throughout evolution!

• What’s YOUR Friendship Rating? This is probably the episode I laughed the most while recording. And I mean, I laugh a lot in every episode, but this one had tears rolling down my cheeks, and for that it holds a special place for me.