Best Forevers: A Podcast for Kindred Spirits Alysa Lucas

All-around badass, Venturesome Podcast host, and friend, Rachel Esterline Perkins, visits the podcast to talk about supporting others through their work journey, how to build relationships, and workplace friends. Given that we spend most of our time in the workplace, finding your supportive work people or personal Board of Directors (as Rachel discusses) is particularly important!
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Many of us have friends right there in our pockets! That’s right, we connect with people via social media, like Twitter, and have all sorts of friends on our phones. Alysa’s pocket friend, Dr. Liz Faber, joins the podcast to chat about the meaning, the joy, the fun (and sometimes the blocks) of having friends in our back pockets.
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In book five of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix, things are getting serious - the danger, the control, and the angst. In this episode, Alysa’s friend, Haley, joins her to talk about how the friendships are changing as the Wizard World is also changing.  
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At a certain point in our lives, we begin to choose our friends. Sometimes it’s an easy choice, and sometimes we may wish we had more options. And, when we’re lucky, we choose our friends who are our family. In this episode, Alysa explores friendships and the idea of choice.
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Sources
11 Secrets to Choosing the Right Friends | HuffPost Communities 
Social Media Study Shows Proximity Is Strongest Predictor of Friendship | Science at Rensselaer (rpi.edu)

Friends and secrets go together like peanut butter and jelly. In this part one episode, Alysa talks about what secrets are, the types of secrets we experience, and how secrets can help and hurt our friendships.
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Special Promo Art Work for this Episode by Kate Cosgrove
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Sources
Afifi, T., Caughlin, J., & Afifi, W. (2007). The dark side (and light side) of avoidance and secrets. In B.H. Spitzberg and W.R. Cupach (Eds.), The dark side of interpersonal communication (pp. 61-92); 2nd edition). New York: Routledge.
Miller, R. (1997). We always hurt the ones we love. In R.M. Kowalski (Ed.), Aversive interpersonal behaviors(pp. 11-29). New York: Springer Science + Business Media.
Vangelisti, A.L. (1994). Family secrets: Forms, functions, and correlates. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 11(1), 113-135.

Battling friends can be fun and help friends bond so out of this born a new series of epsiodes called, Battle of the Besties: Where our Bests have the Worsties! Yes, it’s time to go head-to-head on our hout takes. In this first episode, my friend, Meredith, joins me to talk about The Parent Trap movies. Alysa thinks the version 1961 is superior while Meredith has full support behind 1998. So, who wins? Have a listen! Share Your Friendship Stories with Alysa!
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Special Promo Art Work for this Episode by Kate Cosgrove
Theme Music by Trevor Wilson 
The Parent Trap (1961) = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmnMRtU439Q 
The Parent Trap (1998) = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMAhVpgzmRU 
The Parent Trap 2 (1986) = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znbvG24zaEs&t=4s 
The Parent Trap 3 (1989) = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqTzJhOq144 
Let’s Get Together = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fu4jkhshLY 
Handshake with Martin = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AQCTft9FGg