Girls Who Recover with Dana Hunter Fradella

Sisterhood in Midlife: How to Create Adult Friendships and the Power of Women in Community

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Episode 16: Have you ever said, “Making friends with women as an adult is so hard?” If so, this episode’s for you.

Today’s episode comes straight from my good friend Kena Siu’s panel on her powerful podcast The Midlife Butterfly: Healing, Empowerment, and Self-Discovery and you'll meet six of the most remarkable women- and friends- I know, straight from our  podcasting community. 

We share our personal struggles with isolation, the competitive mindset many of us were conditioned to carry, and the transformative power of building your own community of women.

💎Episode Gems 

  • Many of us have a competitive mindset with other women that stems from patriarchal conditioning around scarcity
  • Research shows children benefit tremendously when they observe their mothers maintaining strong female friendships
  • How to break the ice and make new friends
  • Let's talk about friendship "breakups" 
  • The fastest way to true friendship is authenticity (and not perfection) 
  • How to decide who deserves a "seat at your table" and who doesn't

📝 Reflect on it:

  • Who are the women in your life that truly see and celebrate you? How can you nurture those connections?
  • What kind of sisterhood do you crave in this season of your life? What would it feel like to be fully supported?
  • What’s one step you can take today to call in your soul-aligned community—whether it’s joining a new group, reaching out to someone, or showing up more authentically?

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Hey, gorgeous. Today's episode is so special and I'm repurposing it from my dear friend, Kena Siu's podcast, the Midlife Butterfly. And this episode features six incredible women, yours truly, included, and we are talking about what I think might be the hottest topic in midlife, and that is sisterhood and the power of female friendships. So you'll get to hear a little bit from me on the panel, and you'll also get to hear from. Five of my closest colleagues in the podcasting world, and in fact, we all started, launched and maintain podcasts as a result of the sisterhood that we've created in our podcast community. So they are all very different and offer unique perspectives and experience on what it's like to create sisterhood and friendship. In adulthood and it is can be easy, it can be hard, it can be a lot of things, and I can't wait for you to hear the perspectives of these gorgeous, fabulous women enjoy. Welcome to the Girls Who Recover podcast with Dana Hunter Fradella, where incredible women just like you, go to transform life's biggest setbacks into your most powerful comebacks so that you can live a life you. Love. I'm your host, Dana Hunter Fradella, transformational coach and founder of Girls Who Recover, and my mission is to pull back the curtain on our mistakes, failures, shame and personal disasters, and light the way for how to use those to create your biggest and most gorgeous comebacks. Follow the show now. Grab your iced coffee and turn up the volume for girls who recover. Let's light it up. Whoa. Did you just feel what I felt? There's a whole lot of that and so much more to inspire you to create miracles in your own life on upcoming episodes of the Girls Who Recover podcast. And if you loved that episode as much as I loved making it follow the show, give it a gorgeous rating and a five star review, and then share it with your best friend to be a light in her life. And don't let the fun stop here. You can find me on Instagram at Girls Who Recover. For more ways to create a life that takes your breath away. And Sister, in case you haven't heard it today, I love you. I'm so proud of you, and I believe in your ability to create a gorgeous life you love starting right now. See you in the next episode.