E218: Mastering Connections: Nurturing New Friendships and Rekindling Old Bonds After Forty with Nina Badzin

Nina Badzin has been writing about friendship since 2014. She's the host of Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship podcast and the co-founder of the writing studio at ModernWell in Minneapolis.

In today’s episode we discuss: 

  • Making new friends.

  • How to nurture an acquaintance and take the friendship to the next level.

  • Balancing the desire for new friendships versus nurturing old ones.

  • How circles change when you become an empty nester.

  • Ways to handle disappointment or the feeling of rejection in the process of making new friends.

  • Personal friendship stories.
    Head on over to YouTube  to watch this fun episode. We are so grateful to share it with you today.

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