Episode 103 -Terri and Jacqueline discuss why making investments in friendships should be one of our highest priorities, especially in midlife

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Terri and Jacqueline discuss why making investments in friendships should be one of our highest priorities, especially in midlife

Show Highlights

·      Terri and Jacqueline talk about how loneliness is harmful to your health and shared research around this along with how friendships improve your health

·      Jacqueline talks about how it can feel so good to tap into the empathy in celebrating a friend’s success

·      Terri will be digging into why women have trouble supporting other women and launching an October challenge to actively support other women daily

·      Terri and Jacqueline talk about how expressing gratitude daily reprograms your brain

·      Crew chat idea:  conduct a friend audit and discuss ways to be grateful for certain friendships, where there are gaps and what are we bringing to our friendships

·      Terri and Jacqueline talk about the importance of understanding our Love Languages and those of our friends to have better relationships (Note: it doesn’t look like there is a quiz for friendship, but I did the singles one and found out mine)

·      Terri shared how her self-imposed exile in the winter 2018/2019 was not healthy for her

·      Terri shares the concept of the Crew Chat outlined in the book and suggests this month’s assignment is:

o   Assemble a flight crew (max 4-5 women)

o   Schedule 2-3 hours together this month

o   Do the love language assessment

o   Discuss your friendships, what you are grateful for, gaps, what you are bringing to your friendships

o   Post a pic on IG story and tag @pilotingyourlife #crewchat #flightcrew and/or share in the Piloting Your Life (the book) FB group

·      Go get friendly!

Terri’s Key Takeaway

Investing time in friendships is time well spent. 

References in the Podcast

·      Piloting Your Life:  https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/

·      Lioness:  http://bit.ly/PYL092019 Use the code:  PILOT to save $25.

·      Life Reimagined:  http://www.barbarabradleyhagerty.com/life-reimagined

·      Amy Gross: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amycgross/

·      Maria Malavenda: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmalavenda/

·      Mandi Bateman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mandibateman/

·      Kiki Mwiti: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kikimwiti/

·      Love Languages:  https://www.5lovelanguages.com/quizzes/

·      Piloting Your Life (the book) FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/277389409608299/

·      Piloting Your Life IG: https://www.instagram.com/pilotingyourlife/

Contact

You can purchase Piloting Your Life (the book) on Amazon at http://bit.ly/PYL-Amazon, or you can go to https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/ to choose your preferred format and retailer and see other goodies.

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com. Terri blogs a variety of topics on Medium at https://medium.com/terri-hanson-mead.  

You can follow Jacqueline on Twitter @TipsyCopilot. 

Terri would love to hear from you via email at PilotingYourLife@gmail.com.

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.