She's So Lucky

How to Strengthen Your Friendships, Make New Friends, and Navigate Friendship Changes with Danielle Bayard Jackson

Feb 13, 2024

Female friendship coach Danielle B. Jackson shares tips on making and keeping friends. They discuss the impact of friendship on health, navigating different life stages, types of friendships, coping with breakups, using technology to make friends, creating friendship rituals, and defining friendship success.

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Episode guests

Danielle Bayard Jackson

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Quick takeaways

Fostering deep friendships requires positivity, consistency, and vulnerability in interactions for enhanced satisfaction.

Practicing friendship rituals and regular catch-up schedules can ease planning burdens and strengthen connections effortlessly.

Effective communication, discussing needs, boundaries, and mutual support, is vital for friendship growth and navigating challenges.

Deep dives

Prioritizing Deep Friendships with Positivity, Consistency, and Vulnerability

Fostering deep friendships involves incorporating positivity, consistency, and vulnerability into interactions. Embracing more positive exchanges while maintaining a five-to-one positive to negative ratio enhances relationship satisfaction. Consistency in spending time with friends and sharing experiences regularly deepens connections. Revealing vulnerability and taking risks of rejection allows for authentic connections and mutual understanding.

Introduction

2min

Embracing Ambition and Friendship Evolution

7min

Navigating Relational Diversity and Managing Friendship Expectations

5min

Navigating Expectations in Female Friendships

9min

Exploring Friendship Communication, Oral Health, and Intimate Enhancement

4min

Building Meaningful Friendships Through Simple Interactions

9min

Costco Trip, Element Drink, Custom Hair Care, and Making Friends

5min

Strategies for Building and Maintaining Friendships

21min

Empowering Friendship Reflections and Book Release Excitement

2min

10.

Upcoming Book Release, Book Tour Plans, and Using Events to Make Friends

2min

As we get older, it feels like opportunities to make friends diminish. Even finding the time to maintain the friendships we already have can feel more challenging.

Between busy schedules, demanding jobs, family obligations and other responsibilities, we are left with little time for socializing, wondering how to be closer to those who make us feel like home.

In today’s episode, I’m sitting down with female friendship coach and educator, Danielle Bayard Jackson for tangible tips on how to overcome these challenges to spice up your social life, make new friends, and embrace the ebs and flows of friendship for years to come!

We also talk about…

The surprising connection between friendship and our long-term health.
How to navigate friendships through different seasons of life.
Types of friendships and how to find the aligned friends you need
Why friendship breakups feel so devastating, and how to cope
How to leverage technology to make new friends
How to create friendship rituals and stay connected even when you have limited capacity
Identifying what friendship success looks like for you

Resources:

Follow Danielle on TikTok @thefriendshipexpert
Follow Danielle on Instagram @daniellebayardjackson
Pre-order Danielle’s new book “Fighting for Our Friendships: The Science and Art of Conflict and Connection in Women's Relationships” Out May 7th, 2024
Listen to Danielle’s podcast Friend Forward
For more friendship advice and coaching visit Danielle’s website: betterfemalefriendships.com
Follow @BumbleForFriends on Instagram
Download the Bumble For Friends app
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She's So Lucky

How to Strengthen Your Friendships, Make New Friends, and Navigate Friendship Changes with Danielle Bayard Jackson

Episode guests

Podcast summary created with Snipd AI

Quick takeaways

Deep dives

Prioritizing Deep Friendships with Positivity, Consistency, and Vulnerability

Implementing Friendship Rituals for Consistency

Navigating Friendship Evolution Through Effective Communication and Understanding

Leveraging Technology for Friendship

Healing Learned Loneliness and Friendship Breakups

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