BONUS | Galentine's Day Giveaway - FINAL HOURS!

02/20/25 • 1 min

The Friendship Tour | How to Make Friends, Female Friendship, Adult Friendship, Friendship Tips and Advice, Christian Friendship

Hey Friends!

This is the final call for the Galentine's Day giveaway!

REMINDER: I'm giving away a $50 Amazon Gift Card as my small way of HAPPY GALENTINE'S DAY.

To make the gift card yours, you'll need to do just a few things:

1. Listen to an episode of The Friendship Tour podcast.

2. Leave a written review.

3. Take a screenshot of your review.

4. Post the screenshot in the Women, Friendship, and Community Facebook group OR send an email with your screenshot to [email protected].

You must enter the contest no later than Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 11:59pm PST.

Good luck!

Cecelia

Hey Friends!

This is the final call for the Galentine's Day giveaway!

REMINDER: I'm giving away a $50 Amazon Gift Card as my small way of HAPPY GALENTINE'S DAY.

To make the gift card yours, you'll need to do just a few things:

1. Listen to an episode of The Friendship Tour podcast.

2. Leave a written review.

3. Take a screenshot of your review.

4. Post the screenshot in the Women, Friendship, and Community Facebook group OR send an email with your screenshot to [email protected].

You must enter the contest no later than Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 11:59pm PST.

Good luck!

Cecelia

Previous Episode

43 | STOP KEEPING SCORE! Aim for Tranformational, Not Transactional Friendships - featuring Stewanna Dasari

Do you find yourself keeping score in friendship? It goes something like this... “I went to her kid’s birthday party, but she didn’t come to my kid's party!” “I scheduled the last brunch meetup, so it’s HER turn to plan something!” Or, perhaps you catch yourself saying, “After all I’ve done for her?!”

Are you laser focused on reciprocity in your relationship? If so, it sounds like you have a transactional friendship.

While it’s reasonable to expect our friends to celebrate important days and milestones with us and to give as much as we give, reciprocity shouldn’t really be the goal in friendship. Instead, let’s aim for transformational friendships.

Transformational friendships help us grow and evolve as individuals. In these relationships, we dig a bit deeper - beyond the give and take - to offer a bit more of ourselves. Perhaps we offer a skill that only we have, a favor that a friend really needs, a word of encouragement so a friend can keep going, maybe a prayer. Perhaps we lovingly offer constructive feedback or carefully worded advice - all designed to help a friend grow. Will we get what we offered back? Maybe, maybe not. Still, we do it out of love.

Join Stewanna Dasari and me for a conversation about transformational vs. transactional relationships.

After the show, head to the Women, Friendship, and Community Facebook group to share your thoughts.

*BE A GOOD FRIEND!*

Would you like to hear more from Stewanna Dasari? Check out the episode below.

40 | Too Busy for Friends? 10 Tips to Help You Stay Connected When Life Gets Hectic - featuring Stewanna Dasari

Would you like to hear examples of transformational friendships? Listen to these episodes:

37 | GIRL! You Tripping! How a Friend’s Honesty Helped My Marriage - featuring Alicia Matthews

13 | Somebody Prayed for Me - And Those Prayers Got Through! - featuring Ashley Smith

9 | Faith-Building Friends - featuring Theresa Johnson

Let’s Be Friends!

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Email: [email protected]

Next Episode

44 | Does Your Friend Need Mental Health Support? Here are 6 Ways You Can Help - featuring Dr. Kandece Skinner

Is your friend just not herself? Does her behavior, sudden distance, or physical appearance have you concerned? Maybe she needs mental health support.

Many of us have found ourselves in this situation - where we see that something is different and we genuinely want to help, but we just don’t know what to do.

In this important episode, Dr. Kandece Skinner, a licensed educational psychologist, shares 6 ways you can help a friend who might be struggling. Dr. Skinner also shares 3 things NOT to do when you’re trying to help a friend, including:

Do not try to diagnose your friend.
Do not try to fix your friend.
Do not judge your friend.

If we live long enough and encounter enough people, we’ll likely need to put Dr. Skinner’s advice into practice at least once or twice. Or, perhaps a loving friend will use this information to help us, if needed.

RELATED EPISODES:

29 | Boundaries - What They Are, Why We Need Them, and How We Establish Them - featuring Ashley Cook

7 | We Were on a Break! How Two Friends Grew Apart...and Back Together (Part 1) - featuring Wendy Alleyne
8 | We Were on a Break! How Two Friends Grew Apart...and Back Together (Part 2) - featuring Wendy Alleyne

OTHER NOTES:

We have a great group of women in the Women, Friendship, and Community Facebook group! Join the group to keep this important conversation going.
Don’t forget to leave a written review in Apple Podcasts!

*BE A GOOD FRIEND!*