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The Friendship Edit: August Finds

New! Once a month I'm sharing the links and little joys related to making, keeping, and celebrating friends.

Nina Badzin

Sep 1

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My weekly posts are getting too wordy when I try to include all the friendship related articles I discover (or that YOU send me).

A solution! I’m compiling those links and other little friendship-related joys (and sometimes non-friendship related ones) into “The Friendship Edit: Monthly Finds”

Welcome to the August list!

Summer Articles & Episodes (from other shows)

I see so many friendship-related things. You all send me great links too. I love hearing from listeners and readers so keep them coming.

Where Have All My Deep Male Friendships Gone? (gift link, NYT)
How to combat the ‘friendship recession’ in the workplace (Fast Company)
The Under-examined Grief of Losing a Best Friend (Vogue)
A megalist of tools for building community from Elise Granata at (Group Hug)
Bridget Everett Says a Best Friend Can Be Your Greatest Love (gift link, Modern Love podcast)

On Dear Nina in August 🎧

#158: You Need an Older or Younger Friend with Liz Alterman (August Challenge)
#159: Teaching Kindness Without Forcing Friendships: A Parenting Dilemma with Jessica Speer
#160: From the Cafeteria to the Mahj Table: Friend Group Challenges from Teens to Midlife and Beyond (LIVE!) with Rebekah Jacobs
#161: How Much Can You Expect Friends to Support Your Business, Book, or New Endeavor? with Jackie Friedland

My Friends Convinced Me to Try This

A fun new monthly segment with a few products that my friends convinced me to buy, and I’m glad I listened.

This Wella product is outrageously priced but works like a dream if you want soft, easy to blow-dry hair.
These moisturizing heel socks are the first things to ever work on my dry, cracked heels. I’ve tried everything else.

“Dear Nina” in the Media

Thank you to Lara Starr and Bryan’s uncle Benji for letting me know that they heard me on NPR’s weekend edition of All Things Considered. I truly had no idea they’d taken a slice of my NPR Life Kit interview from May and turned into a 3-minute segment on ATC. I was thrilled! It was a total bonus with no extra work whatsoever on my end.

“I Went Through A Huge Breakup And My Friends Never Reached Out: Was I Expecting Too Much?” (I was quoted in this article from Betches.com)

Two anonymous friendship advice questions & answers you might have missed

"What if MY kid is the mean one?"

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Aug 11

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"My friend overshares my information"

Nina Badzin

Jul 9

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Thanks for being here in August! Feel free to send links for me to consider in September. ~ Nina

Let’s connect outside of this newsletter: You can find me most often in the Facebook group, Dear Nina: The Group. All the social media links are below. I know I need to get rid of some them!

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