Slightly Unsupervised | Female Friendship and Realtalk |Best Friends Podcast
Two best friends. Zero filters. All truth.
Slightly Unsupervised is a friendship podcast about the kind of soulmates who don't come with a marriage license.
Hosted by lifelong best friends Jennifer Hobbs and Jackie Schroeder, this best friends podcast explores female friendship, chosen family, emotional growth, and the relationships that witness our lives.
Through honest conversations, laughter, and real-life stories, Jennifer and Jackie dive into friendship breakups, loyalty, boundaries, healing, motherhood, identity, reinvention, and the emotional support women provide each other through every season of life.
As the creators of Bestiemony®—A Different Kind of Love Story—they believe some of the greatest loves of our lives are friendships. The women who stand beside us, help us survive life's challenges, and remind us who we are when we've forgotten.
Whether you're celebrating your ride-or-die, healing from a friendship loss, navigating life's changes, or searching for deeper connection, Slightly Unsupervised offers real talk, bestie energy, and meaningful conversations about female friendship and platonic soulmates.
Because friendship isn't just part of life.
Sometimes it's the love story that helps define it.
🎧 New episodes every week.
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Episodes
59 episodes
Can Social Media Make Us Feel Less Connected? Real Talk on Friendship & Tech
Can social media actually make us feel less connected? In this episode of Slightly Unsupervised | Best Friends Podcast | Real Talk on Female Friendship, Jennifer and Jackie tackle one of the biggest challenges facing f...
Bestie Energy and the Truth About Female Overwhelm and Emotional Labor
Everything’s Hunky Dory… Right? | The Exhaustion of Pretending You’re Fine “I’m fine.” Three simple words that women say every day... even when they're exhausted, overwhelmed, lonely, anxious, and barely holding it toget...
Unlocking Bestie Energy: The Power of Female Friendship
What exactly is Bestie Energy—and why do some friendships feel like home?In this episode of Slightly Unsupervised, Jennifer and Jackie explore the meaning behind the phrase "Bestie Energy" and why female friendship may be one of the most...
How Lifelong Female Friendship Survives Everything | Mandi & Billie's Bestiemony Story
How Lifelong Female Friendship Survives Everything | Mandi & Billie's Bestiemony Story What makes a friendship last nearly 40 years? In this heartfelt episode of Slightly Unsupervised | Best Friends ...
Best Friends & Soulmates: The Power of Female Friendship Beyond Romance
Can You Have More Than One Soulmate?What if one of the greatest love stories of your life isn't romantic at all?In this heartfelt episode of Slightly Unsupervised, Jennifer and Jackie explore a question that challe...
When Your Best Friend's Marriage Breaks | A Friendship Podcast Guide
How to Help a Woman Through a Marital Crisis | Supporting Her Without Losing Yourself One of the hardest things in the world is watching someone you love slowly break inside a relationship… while trying to pretend they’re okay. ...
Women's Survival Maps | Why Best Friends Matter Most
When crisis hits, women don't need rescue—they need another woman who's been there. In this episode of Slightly Unsupervised, Jennifer and Jackie explore why best friends become platonic soulmates who share survival maps, not just advice. They ...
Why We’re Basically Thelma & Louise | Ride-or-Die Female Friendships
Why We’re Basically Thelma & Louise | Ride-or-Die Female Friendships At some point in every strong female friendship, there’s a moment where you realize: “If society collapses… this is the woman I’m getting ...
Sisters by Blood, Best Friends by Choice | The Female Connection Women Need
Sisters by Blood, Best Friends by Choice | The Female Connection Women NeedSome women grow up with sisters.Some spend their whole lives searching for one.In this emotional and deeply relatable episode of Slightly Unsupervised,...
When Money Gets Weird in Friendships: Navigating Income Gaps Without Losing Each Other
When Money Gets Weird in Friendships: Navigating Income Gaps Without Losing Each Other Say “yes” to things they can’t afford How income differences can quietly create distance The e...
Raising Good Friends | Teaching Daughters What We Didn't Learn About Female Friendship
Raising Good Friends: What We Didn’t Learn (But Our Daughters Need to Know) Most of us were never actually taught how to be good friends—we were taught to be nice, to include others, and to keep the peace. But no one showed us how t...
Friendship Bucket Lists: How to Stay Close, Make Memories, and Grow Together Over Time
Friendship Bucket Lists: How to Stay Close, Make Memories, and Grow Together Over Time Bucket lists aren’t just for life… they’re for friendships too. In this episode of Slightly Unsupervised, Jennifer and Jacki...
Platonic Soulmates Plan Retirement: The Bestie Pact Explained
The Retirement Home Pact: Why Best Friends Plan to Grow Old Together (And Refuse to Drift Apart) It started as a joke… but it turned into a pact. In this episode of Slightly Unsupervised, Jennifer and Jack...
Reconnecting After Years Apart: How We Rebuilt Our Friendship
We Found Our Way Back: Rebuilding a Friendship After 15 Years Apart What happens when a friendship you thought was gone forever… finds its way back? In this deeply personal episode of Slightly Unsupervised, Jenn...
Bestie Energy Lost: Rebuilding After 15 Years Apart
We Didn’t Talk for 15 Years… And It Mattered More Than We Admitted What happens when someone who once knew everything about you… becomes a stranger? In this deeply personal episode of Slightly Unsupervised, Jenn...
Same Friendship, Different Rules: Why Generations Don’t Get Each Other
Same Friendship, Different Rules: Why Generations Don’t Get Each Other Ever feel like you and someone you care about are speaking completely different emotional languages?You’re not imagining it… it might be generational....
Why You Don’t Think Like Me: The Truth About Generational Friendships
Why You Don’t Think Like Me: The Truth About Generational Friendships Friendship hasn’t gotten worse… it’s just gotten different. In this episode of Slightly Unsupervised, Jennifer and Jackie break down how frie...
Touch My Bestie and It’s On: Why We Defend Our Friends Harder Than Ourselves
Touch My Bestie and It’s On: Why We Defend Our Friends Harder Than Ourselves You can insult us. We’ll probably roll our eyes and move on. But disrespect our bestie? Now we’re drafting paragraphs, standing tal...
Making Friends Later in Life: Episode 9 Deep Connection Requires Risk | Midlife Friendship Vulnerability
Making Friends Later in Life: Episode 9 Vulnerability — How to Open Up Without Overexposing YourselfYou can’t build real friendship without vulnerability — but the older we get, the riskier it feels.In Episode 9 of our Making ...
Making Friends Later in Life – Episode 8 When You're the Only One Reaching Out | Reclaiming Balance in Friendship
Making Friends Later in Life – Episode 8 Matching Effort: When You’re Doing Too Much in Friendship (And How to Stop)Have you ever realized you’re the only one reaching out…the only one making plans…the only one checking in? ...
When It’s Not a Match: Episode 7 When It's Not a Match | Handling Friendship Rejection Without Shutting Down
Episode 7: When It’s Not a Match — Friendship Rejection, Ghosting & Moving Forward You met someone.You went to coffee.You thought, “This could be good.”And then… nothing.She didn’t text back. She f...
The Slow Build: Episode 6 The Slow Build | Why Real Friendships Take Time
The Slow Build: Episode 6 Why Real Friendships Take Time (And Why That’s a Good Thing)You met for coffee. It was fun. Maybe even promising.Now what?In Episode 6 of our Making Friends Later in Life series, Jennifer ...
Making Friends Later in Life Series | Episode 5: Making Friends After 40 | Platonic Soulmates & Real-World Connection
Making Friends Later in Life Series | Episode 5: From Insight to Action — Building Friendships Later in LifeMaking friends later in life isn’t about collecting people — it’s about finding the right people.In Episode 5 of ...
Making Friends Later in Life Series | Episode 4 - Boundaries in Friendship | How Best Friends Stay Real Without Losing Each Other
Making Friends Later in Life Series | Episode 4 Boundary Needs & The Friendship Reset — Stay Open Without Self-AbandoningBoundaries get a bad reputation — like they’re cold, harsh, or “pushing people away.” But in midlife friendships...
Making Friends Later in Life Series | Episode 3: Friendship Wounds & Patterns | Why You Pulled Away
Making Friends Later in Life | Episode 3: Your Friendship Wounds & Patterns — Why You Pulled Away (and How to Open Up Again) If you’re trying to make friends later in life but something in you hesitates… there’s a reason....