E218: Mastering Connections: Nurturing New Friendships and Rekindling Old Bonds After Forty with Nina Badzin The Art of Living Well Podcast®

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.

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