Episode #222
You Already Know: Friendship, Ghosting, and Taking the Leap
Lisa Steadman's mother made her a marriage counselor when she was 12 years old — crying, then problem-solving, while she was still playing with Barbies. Forty years later, she's built five bestselling books and a career on studying why relationships work and why they don't. This episode, she brings that same clarity to something we don't talk about enough: friendship in midlife. We get into how to actually make friends after 40 when nobody's inviting you to anything. What it's like to lose a friend who won't tell you why. The friendship that ended over a text about a 401k match. And what happens when you lose weight and an old friend from 20 years ago resurfaces just to tell you that you've changed. We also get honest about the tiniest, most privileged-sounding advice that's still true: take care of your health, save what you can, and stop waiting for permission to be brave. Lisa left a corporate job in her 50s to make a short film that premiered at Cannes. She'll tell you exactly what that free fall felt like — and why she jumped anyway.
