Dolly Alderton: The Unwritten Vow of Friendship
Everything Happens with Kate Bowler
Everything Happens Studios
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Today’s conversation is dedicated to the many loves that make up our lives—especially that of our friends. Dolly Alderton is a Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling writer and memoirist. She recognizes the great gift of the friends who have walked with her through many seasons of life—all the highs and lows and inbetweens.
In this conversation, Kate and Dolly discuss:
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The great loves that make up a life
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The push-pull of loving relationships with your body
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The power of witness
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Rushmastajani, founder of Girls Who Code. Look, I'd consider myself a pretty successful |
| 0:06.8 | adult woman. I've written books, founded two successful nonprofits, and I'm raising two incredible kids. |
| 0:13.7 | But here's the thing. I still wake up wondering, is this it? And if the best years are yet to come, when's that going to start? Join me on my |
| 0:25.0 | so-called midlife, my new podcast with Lemonada Media, where we're building a playbook for navigating |
| 0:31.2 | midlife, one episode at a time. Each week, I'll chat with extraordinary guests who've transformed their midlife crisis |
| 0:39.3 | into opportunities for growth and newfound purpose. At some point, we all ask ourselves, |
| 0:47.2 | is there more to life? I'm here to discover how to thrive in my second act, right alongside you. |
| 0:57.0 | My so-called midlife is out now, |
| 1:04.4 | wherever you get your podcasts. Ex-Myo is a comedian, writer, producer, and when it comes to confidently managing her finances, she's a beginner. Join her on The Doe, Lemonado Media's new 10-episode |
| 1:10.3 | podcast series as she dives into |
| 1:12.0 | better understanding the financial trap doors that any of us could fall into. If you've ever |
| 1:16.2 | stayed in a bad relationship to avoid moving out costs or found yourself swimming in debt, |
| 1:20.3 | you're not alone. Each week she'll be exploring all types of financial flops and money |
| 1:24.4 | myths that stand in the way of our financial freedom. On this show, |
| 1:31.9 | Cash is Queen. We hardly know her, but we're determined to be her friend. You can listen to the dough on Amazon music or wherever you get your podcasts. I've always said that I don't have hobbies. I have |
| 1:39.8 | friends. My name is Kate Bowler, and this is Everything Happens. |
| 1:45.6 | So look, I'm not someone with, I think, what they call self-esteem. |
| 1:51.6 | I'm someone who is externally constituted. |
| 1:56.2 | I'm an outside-in kind of person slash project. |
| 2:00.6 | I am almost entirely held up by the people who love me, |
| 2:04.6 | who remind me who I am, who carry my stories with them, even especially the most embarrassing |
| 2:12.0 | ones that they will remind me of again and again and again. Today's conversation is dedicated to the many |
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