156: How to Maintain Current Friendships and Build New Ones as A Mom with Danielle Bayard Jackson

04/03/24 • 55 min

Is it impossible to build new friendships when you become a mother? How about maintaining the relationships you already have? No. It’s not. In fact, it’s vitally important to our health that we continue to actively build and maintain our relationships.

But how do we do that when we’re juggling all the things as moms, wives, employees, business owners, etc? Here to share her tips and strategies for navigating friendships is Danielle Bayard Jackson.

Danielle is a female friendship coach and educator who speaks nationally on the science of woman's platonic connections. She's also the author of Fighting For Our Friendships, which is coming out in May of this year. She also has a coaching business Friend Forward that is dedicated to teaching women how to create and maintain better female friendships. And her expertise has been featured in The New York Times, NBC News, Psychology Today, Wall Street Journal, Oprah Magazine, Good Morning America, and a host of other media outlets as the resident friendship expert for the global app Bumble for friends.

Listen as she shares her story, research, and why it’s so important that we continue to hone our friendships as we move into different stages of life.

In this episode, we discuss:

Ways to navigate current friendships and make new ones once you are a mom.

How to handle different parenting styles or issues that come up between friends.

What research has to say about quality friendships.

Resources:

Book-preorder - Fighting For Our Friendshipshttps://www.betterfemalefriendships.com/fighting-for-our-friendships

Article by Kirsten Powers -The Way We Live in United States is not Normal https://kirstenpowers.substack.com/p/the-way-we-live-in-the-united-states

https://substack.com/home/post/p-139238299?r=5ftqh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=substack

Article by Rosie Spinks -The Friendship Problem

https://rojospinks.substack.com/p/the-friendship-problem?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=4486&post_id=139046175&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=180ck&utm_medium=email

Connect with Danielle:

Instagram - @‌daniellebayardjackson -https://www.instagram.com/daniellebayardjackson/

TikTok - @‌thefriendshipexpert -https://www.tiktok.com/@thefriendshipexpert?lang=en

Questions:

What is the surprising research around the benefits of women’s friendship?

What are 4 tangible ways to make time for friends as a busy mom?

Do you know the 3 of the most common conflicts that arise between mom friends (and how to solve them)?

What does the research say about how friendship changes for those in their 30s and 40s?

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Listen as she shares her story, research, and why it’s so important that we continue to hone our friendships as we move into different stages of life.

In this episode, we discuss:

Ways to navigate current friendships and make new ones once you are a mom.

How to handle different parenting styles or issues that come up between friends.

What research has to say about quality friendships.

Resources:

Book-preorder - Fighting For Our Friendshipshttps://www.betterfemalefriendships.com/fighting-for-our-friendships

Article by Kirsten Powers -The Way We Live in United States is not Normal https://kirstenpowers.substack.com/p/the-way-we-live-in-the-united-states

https://substack.com/home/post/p-139238299?r=5ftqh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=substack

Article by Rosie Spinks -The Friendship Problem

https://rojospinks.substack.com/p/the-friendship-problem?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=4486&post_id=139046175&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=180ck&utm_medium=email

Connect with Danielle:

Instagram - @‌daniellebayardjackson -https://www.instagram.com/daniellebayardjackson/

TikTok - @‌thefriendshipexpert -https://www.tiktok.com/@thefriendshipexpert?lang=en

Questions:

What is the surprising research around the benefits of women’s friendship?

What are 4 tangible ways to make time for friends as a busy mom?

Do you know the 3 of the most common conflicts that arise between mom friends (and how to solve them)?

What does the research say about how friendship changes for those in their 30s and 40s?

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155: Nutrition for Brainpower: A Deep Dive with Dietician Barbie Boules

With processed foods being so excessively available to us, how do we nourish our brains and fuel our bodies for longevity? Believe it or not, you can use nutrition for brainpower and to deter the effects of neurological dysfunction and disease.

Here to do a deep dive on what to eat to support your brain and body for life is Barbie Boules.

Barbie is a registered dietician, certified health coach and meditation teacher with over 22 years of experience. In her practice, she works as a private coach, community educator, passionate speaker, popular corporate wellness programmer, and respected dietetic intern preceptor. She's had the privilege of counseling 1000s of men and women around the country on her journey to better health. Barbie specializes in the unique needs of women over 40.

She focuses on helping her clients achieve optimal metabolic and cognitive fitness. Without the unnecessary and unsustainable rules of FAD dieting, and rather, through a genuine understanding of what each client truly needs to transform their health for good.

Listen in as she debunks some of the widely held beliefs about diet, whole grains, coffee and more. Plus she shares tips and tricks for creating a home that supports healthy eating habits early on... without the stress and regrets.

In this episode, we discuss:

The biggest risk factors for developing Alzheimer’s.

How you can nourish your body to help protect your cognitive health.

Protein and its role as we age.

Why coffee and tea are still important for your diet.

The importance of whole grains.

Resources:

Nutrition Essentials - https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5mc1lhdr00hoszmy3l0jd/NUTRITION-ESSENTIALS-1-1.pdf?rlkey=19plr4uhrchgpy3fb91ykf3ue&dl=0

Everyday Mindfulness - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HIW60H_j8fcO0sk7hLSxqqozBBwsv_wz/view?usp=sharing

Connect with Barbie:

Barbie Boules Longevity and Wellness

LinkedIn | Instagram

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Questions:

What are the biggest risk factors for developing Alzheimer's?

Is the MIND-DIET beneficial and what key foods are in it?

When it comes to 80-20/90-10 rules, does the time frame matter for the “treat” days?

Why does she like coffee and tea being added to the diet?

What are the best sources of whole grains?

How can what we eat affect our cognitive brain health?

What would her approach be with her kids to grow up eating in a similar way?

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157: The Importance of Active Listening with Dr. Maiysha Clairborne

Our children are begging for us to listen to them. In fact, recent polls suggest that many of our children, pre-teens and teens feel like we aren’t listening because we’re engaged with our phones and distracted. Is this true? Are we really not listening? Or have we forgotten the importance of active listening in conversations?

Dr. Maisha Clairborne is an integrative family physician, Master Practitioner and trainer of neuro linguistic programming, hypnosis and timeline therapy and founder of the mind remapping Academy. Through her live training, Dr. Clairborne teaches individuals how to master their thoughts, beliefs and communication, while eliminating fear, shame, self doubt and old trauma that interfere with their ability to experience full aliveness and live their best, most fulfilled, productive and peaceful life.

Listen as Dr. Clairborne and I talk about this extremely important topic. She even provides examples of situations where she has used active listening with her own son to help build his confidence and trust.

If you’ve been struggling with communication in your home, you will not want to miss this one.