Anna Goldfarb: Wholehearted Friendship

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Friendships aren’t always easy and fun. Like all meaningful relationships, they require work. They require nurturing and a willingness to grow. And in today’s world, explains author and journalist Anna Goldfarb, many friendships are being pushed to the brink and painfully ending. In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with Anna about her new book, Modern Friendship, an empowering guide to creating what she calls “wholehearted friendships.”

Enjoy this conversation that’s filled with insights and strategies you’ll find especially helpful in our isolated, hyper-fluid society. Tami and Anna discuss: the increasing ambiguity of 21st-century friendships; the false promise of social media; the core elements of a successful friendship strategy; memorial friendships vs. active friendships; Jacuzzi friends, bathtub friends, and pool friends; three main causes of friendship breakups; the three requirements—consistency, positivity, and vulnerability; choosing people with whom you can share meaning; the characteristics of wholehearted friendship; and more.

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0:00.0	Hello friends. My name is Tammy Simon and I'm the founder of Sounds True and I want to welcome you to the Sounds True Podcast, Insights at the Edge.
0:12.0	I also want to take a moment to introduce you to Sounds True's new membership
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0:59.0	sounds true foundation, our nonprofit that creates equitable access to transformational tools and
1:07.3	teachings. You can learn more at sounds true foundation.org and advance, thank you for your support.
1:16.3	In this episode of Insights at the Edge,
1:18.4	my guest is Anna Goldfarb.
1:21.5	Anna is a journalist, author, and speaker called the New York Times Friendship Correspondent.
1:29.1	Anna's work explores the nuances of friendships and relationships. She's reported for outlets
1:36.0	including the New York Times, the Atlantic Time, Vice, Vox, The Washington Post,
1:42.1	and with sounds true Anna Goldfarb is the author of a new book.
1:47.0	It's called Modern Friendship. How to nurture our most valued connections.
1:53.9	Anna, welcome!
1:55.9	Thank you so much for having me.
1:57.3	I'm so excited to be here.
1:59.6	How did you become a friendship correspondent? How did your journalism career take you to the topic of friendship?
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