Building New Friendships From Scratch: Midlife Friendship with Ricki Radosh (Part 3 of 4)
Episode 38: Building New Friendships From Scratch: Midlife Friendship with Ricki Radosh (Part 3 of 4)
Sometimes the friendship task in front of you is not reconnecting with old people. It is building a circle from nothing in a place where you know no one. In Part 3 of our midlife friendship series, happiness coach Ricki Radosh walks through what it actually took to make new friends after she moved into a brand new community: showing up, choosing what she genuinely enjoyed, and staying open long enough for someone to walk over and say, “You look like the people I’m looking for.”
In this episode, we talk about:
- Why everyone in a new community is starting over the same way, and how that makes people more open than you expect
- The relief of a setting where the menu of activities is handed to you, so all you have to do is choose one and show up
- The moment a stranger walked over to Ricki in an exercise class and a whole friend group formed from it
- Why doing what you actually enjoy, not what you think you should do, is what makes new friendships stick
- The difference between isolation and loneliness, and why connection now counts as a real health practice
- The one small step Ricki gives anyone who finds this hard: name one thing you enjoy, then go looking for it
About Ricki Radosh:
Ricki Radosh is a writer, speaker, and happiness coach, and the host of the Claim Your Happiness podcast. Her message is that you don’t have to change your circumstances to change your experience. She teaches a simple practice she calls Name It, Frame It, Claim It, and she is a contributor to the Amazon best-selling anthology “The Grass Grows Where I Am.”
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