Episode 342: Raising the Friendship Bar with Dr. Marisa Franco
Forever35
Doree Shafrir & Elise Hu
4.8 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
It’s the finale of friendship month, and Doree and Elise speak with return friendship expert Dr. Marisa Franco (author of Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make--and Keep--Friends).
They discuss how as you get older you raise the bar for friendship and focus on quality over quantity, giving your friends the chance to say “no” to you, navigating turmoil in your friendships by starting with curiosity, and why your friendships will really blossom when you stop predicting and start experiencing.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Forever 35, a podcast about the things we do to take care of ourselves. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm Dori Shafrier. |
| 0:17.5 | And I'm Elise Hugh, and we're just two friends who like to talk a lot about serums. |
| 0:22.8 | Hello, Elise. |
| 0:25.5 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:26.6 | It is our final interview in our Friendship Month series today. |
| 0:32.6 | I can't believe it's just flown by. |
| 0:35.5 | I tell you. |
| 0:36.8 | It feels just like yesterday that we got this started. |
| 0:40.4 | It's so true. It's been so fun. I've loved everyone we've spoken to. Our guest today is someone |
| 0:50.0 | who's been on the show before and I enjoyed this conversation as much if not more than our first one. |
| 0:58.1 | She was just so great. |
| 1:00.2 | And also, I feel like I've taken a lot of the Friendship Month lessons that we have learned from the various guests like Casley Killum and her 531 thing just to make sure that you do |
| 1:13.5 | five connections for one hour a day and all that. So I've done that. I've thought about that a lot. |
| 1:20.2 | And then Anna Goldfarb came on our recent mini and answered a lot of questions. And I don't know. |
| 1:26.5 | I just feel like these conversations have been applicable to our friendships and remembering |
| 1:33.0 | how important they are. |
| 1:34.1 | And they're just like telling your friends. |
| 1:37.9 | Yes. |
| 1:38.4 | I was saying that friendship month like inspired me to show up to your birthday dinner. |
| 1:48.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:48.8 | It's inspiring me to to show up to a birthday party tomorrow night for someone who I'm |
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