bask in friendship

We learned a lot in the last five months since we started working on Bask and this podcast! We’re closing out our first season of the Bask in Friendship podcast today, with what we’ve learned and where we’re headed.Breck understands more about how much effort it takes to build and maintain friendships – through our Bask conversations she's been inspired to make more of an effort with friends. Sally has learned that the world really does need help making friends! So Bask is a whole lot personal and a whole lot universal. We've also been working with a designer – and we've really enjoyed it for two people that have never built a consumer app before! We tested Bask via Zoom gatherings a few months back, but we learned from that that we actually needed to emulate a more casual IRL gathering, we wanted it to feel less formal, and so we built into our design a way to support that natural ease (and sometimes awkwardness!) of jumping into a conversation. This means no start times to video chat rooms, no waiting in the wings, and no formal intros or moderators. We also learned that friend apps really don’t need to tell women who to meet – that doesn't make sense for women! Swiping just isn’t our style. Women need time to connect and go deep on shared interests and experiences – it takes 200 hours to get to deep friendship, which is the goal most women over 30 have. So we couldn't create Bask like every other dating app where we suggest individuals, but instead suggest interest/experience rooms, so you have a great initiation point to get the conversation started. So now we've got an MVP (minimum viable product) clickable prototype. Rough sketches came out of our head and into the real world! We’re closing out the first season of our podcast with smiles on our faces and wind at our backs.We'd love to share with you – send us a note (baskfriends@gmail.com) if you'd like to check out our designs and give us feedback. See you next season! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bask.substack.com

Breck and Sally both made friends at work! In this episode, they compare notes on the shared interests they had with women at work, and how that translated to friendships outside of work. They are joined by guest Natalie Underdown, Ph.D., from The Nu Company. While in the corporate world, Natalie also made a great friend at work, with a woman that she collaborated with and connected with across time zones. Through their international travel and shared projects, they became close. Natalie is: “driven by the idea that we truly can change the world through business if we’re willing to #dotheworkatwork.” This applies to work friendships too! Bringing your personal self to work means bringing your most authentic self, and provides the opportunity for more authentic friendships. We talk about all things company culture and how organization culture has evolved over time. Millennials are pushing their companies to enable employees to bring their whole selves to work. Natalie shares that when it comes to female friendships at work with a boss or direct report, it's best to keep a healthy distance. Boundaries can be helpful with the power dynamic of a boss/direct report. When you're peers or on the same team, however, building a friendship outside of work can only help the relationship.We chat about all things culture, behaviors, and how companies can encourage camaraderie and connection amongst their employees. We also dig into what happens when you get promoted and your prior friends now report into you. Does remote work help or hinder building friendships at work? You'll have to give the podcast a listen and hear Natalie's take!At the end of the day, consider what role you'd like your work friends to play in your life. For any healthy relationship, it's important to be able to show up as your whole self, which might not be possible with certain work friendships, and it's important to understand that. But some work friendships can be an incredible thing because they know what you're dealing with Monday through Friday! Continue to BaskGalllup's Q12 Employee Engagement SurveyHow Remote Workers Make Work FriendsNatalie is an executive coach and organizational psychologist. She weaves psychology, wellness, and science-backed strategies together to offer modern, mindful support for the whole person at work. She lives in sunny San Diego with her husband Preston and Golden Retriever Bowie Girl and can often be found trying out new restaurants, walking with Bowie, or diving into anything creative (lately it's been painting!). Follow her at @the_nu_co. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bask.substack.com

Halfway through the year! We're checking in on goal setting, resolutions, and living a healthier life. As we discuss that the vast majority of people don't fulfill their new years resolutions, we also dig into how to build and lead a healthier life, and what that means for friendships.Mikaela Davis is our talented guest: she worked in international public health in the last 10 years, but recently became a health coach. She loves working with communities, but seeing how some of her bigger projects like water sanitation improvements impact the individual really drew her to working now 1:1.  She's driven by helping her clients understand how to get to where they want to go! If you're thinking about making resolutions and goal achievement, consistency is way more important than intensity. What you do daily matters more than what you do every now and then. Pick a goal that you'll stick with. This also means start small – don't try to overhaul your entire life at once! Goals are all part of a bigger picture around living a healthier life. Mikaela breaks down her seven things you need to lead a happier and healthier life in great detail and with a ton of tips to help you get going! She covers purpose, play, sleep, nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and community. We love play and community, because they’re natural places to build and maintain friendships!You'll have to give a listen to hear more about what play really means to her, and what fun activity Mikaela has started up recently! At the end of the day, dive into designing the life you want to be living (rather than changing who you are) by getting connected to your WHY. From there, celebrate the small wins as you make progress on any of your goals related to the seven things.Finally, we chat about how to show up with a friend that may not be showing up in a healthy way for themselves. Check in with them, see what they need, perhaps model a certain behavior to them. And then also spend time on YOU - go outside your comfort zone to play, to build community. These seven things are not silos, they all intersect and intermingle, so making adjustments in one can impact another. We'd love to hear from you if you make any changes or feel as empowered as we do after listening to Mikaela! Send us a note! Contact to Bask:Mikaela Davis is a Health Coach and trauma informed yoga instructor with a Master’s Degree in Public Health from Yale University. She specializes in mindset and behavior change.She spent 10+ years working in international public health from India to Haiti on HIV/AIDS projects , advocacy for factory workers and water & sanitation. Her work in international public health informs her coaching work today where she concentrates on helping people change their thought patterns, build better habits & create more joyShe absolutely loved that her international work allowed her to live in and experience new places. Travel and food are high on her list of favorite things. She's never met a sunset she didn't like. Loves a good book and is always up for an adventure, particularly if it involves the outdoors. As a self proclaimed type A, perfectionist who has experienced burnout, breakdown and health issues as a result, she is a big believer that habits & mindset are paramount to happiness and living well. And, that we can all live well!Follow her on Instagram. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bask.substack.com

Socializing post COVID! It seems like we're all talking with equal parts excitement and nerves about the re-opening of the world. We discuss what happens next with the worst being behind us (knock on wood): we're traveling, we're socializing, we're networking, we're exploring. So many questions on this topic! We chat about whether we can go back to normal. And what we're taking with us into the new normal. And whether the world is going to be more empathetic to introverts after the last 18 months.Our discussion also (of course!) covers friendships during and now post COVID. Breck has become more mindful of friendships during COVID. Sally has done more audio and video texting. We're both excited to take these two new intentions into the post COVID world because they've felt the benefit of these new experiences. We asked a sampling of our friends how they were feeling about the world opening back up! As we discussed and laughed about the comments that came back, we realized there is such a range of emotions about what is to come. From this:Outrageously overjoyed to start chipping away at our hug deficit!to this:I've already taken two trips and have trips planned through November but when I'm in the airport I still am getting used to being around strangers it makes me a bit nervous. At the end of the day, we encourage everyone to take their reemergence day by day, and slowly. Consider moving into the time with care and kindness towards yourself and others. We leave you with a few tips on how to manage this transition well – but we'll leave it to you to give it a listen to learn more! Enjoy!Continue to BaskIt's the Newfound Social Anxiety for MeWhat Will Happen to Friendships When We Crawl Out of Our Pandemic Hidey Holes?What Did COVID Do to Friendship? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bask.substack.com

Today's topic is – yes! a friendship-adjacent topic: how to show up as an individual in your friendship. Every relationship is a two-way street! How you show up as yourself is critical to how you show up in a friendship. Breck and Sally go deep with Leah Aguirre, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and practicing psychotherapist, on all things friendship. We hear a little from Lucy, her dog, too! We talk about what it means to be authentic in a friendship: to Leah it means showing up exactly as who you are, not only your strengths but also with your flaws and quirks. Being confident that those pieces are your whole identity and being true to that. She gives us that friendly reminder that no one is perfect! Leah shares her own incredible story about being in a sorority in college and losing herself. She sees now that her values were different from her sorority sisters, and she felt she wasn't always able to show up as herself. After college, she had to find herself again. And those friendships from college didn't last or sustain because they weren't based on her authentic self. To get grounded and find her authentic self, she started to meet like-minded people and was able to sustain good conversation and experiences with them around shared interests. This episode also covers group think, what to do if you feel judged in a friend, and the different kinds of friends you might have in your life (hint: not every friendship is the same!).If you're anything like us, you'll be friends with Leah by the end of this conversation! Continue to BaskThe Happiness Trap - take inventory of your values!Leah Aguirre is a California native and currently resides in San Diego, CA. Leah attended the University of California, Santa Barbara where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and shorty after attended San Diego State University graduating with a Masters of Social Work. Leah is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and has been practicing as a psychotherapist for over 7 years, working primarily with individuals who have experienced complex trauma and struggle with mental health challenges. She is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), an evidenced based practice that is used to address trauma, PTSD and other anxiety disorders. Leah currently works at a community based clinic clinic and has her own private practice where she offers individual therapy. Leah specializes in supporting women survivors  of abusive or unhealthy relationships and women navigating and conquering the dating world. Leah is passionate about women’s mental health and wellness. Her goal and mission is to help women clear trauma and develop self-love and acceptance.  Leah writes for PsychologyToday and has also been featured in GQ, Sanity & Self App, and San Diego Union Tribune. Follow her on Instagram. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bask.substack.com

How do women show up in their friendships? Do you realize, as an individual, you are half of every relationship! Breck and Sally are joined in this episode by Nila Conzen, a multi-passionate, curious Holistic Life Coach from Germany and creator of the @about.the.good.life. As she shares, she supports women in finding their own inner wisdom in large part because of her own history: she suffered an eating disorder, which has led her to studying psychology and yoga and ancient wisdom and nutrition. She's tried to including everything she's learned into her own holistic framework which lends itself beautifully to the conversation in this episode. She suggests that showing up in a friendship starts with knowing oneself: knowing your own values and beliefs and what you might expect from others (needs, wants, and desires) makes it easier to find the individuals that connect to you. We cover all things how friends showed up to her during her difficult time, what she's learned from friends, and how best to show up to your friends when they're going through tough times so you aren't a therapist to your friends and they're not a therapist to you!The brute-iful truth she highlights is both brutal and beautiful: we are responsible for our own life, and our own boundaries, and we cannot change anyone else. But this doesn't mean we shouldn't allow ourselves to be seen. She celebrates: don't be afraid to show your weirdnesses and flaws and what makes you special and unique! Once you do that, others will find the space to feel welcome and share what makes them special.  She has a great tip to get started in being vulnerable with a friend. A simple question will get you deeper sooner – but you'll have to give the episode a listen to hear about the wonderful single question to get you started! Continue to BaskNila Conzen is a multi-passionate, curious Holistic Life Coach from Germany and creator of the Instagram Account @about.the.good.life who is passionate about helping women turn crises into opportunities for learning, personal growth, and transformation. She believes the “good life” is possible for everyone - no matter the challenges they have faced and that it is never too late to be who we came here to be. Her unique approach blends modern science with ancient wisdom to promote long-term holistic wellbeing. Her "superpower" is saying what you need to hear when you need to hear it.She provides holistic life coaching & group mentoring in German and English with the mission to help women harness their inner wisdom so that they can remember and embrace all of who they are. Her promise: to make you believe in yourself as much as she believes in you. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bask.substack.com

Sally and Breck reflect that a lot of the qualities, communication tools, and aspects of relationships apply to both romantic and platonic relationships. So we decide to apply the 5 Love Languages to female friendships, which became the 4 love languages!We bring on guest Mackenzie Dunn to dig into love languages and friendship. She shares that search around the word “loneliness” spiked to an all-time high at the start of the pandemic, with the volume of queries like “how to deal with loneliness” and “how to make friends as an adult” increasing as much as 200%. These stats remain heightened—even now—and prove that no one is alone in their loneliness. She loves the love languages because they apply to all relationships – and are a great way to get to know the people around you better. It allows you to get to know yourself and the people you love on a deep level. You'll have to give the podcast a listen to learn whether she had her boyfriend (now fiancé) take the love languages quiz.We swap stories about our love languages, Mackenzie as #friendgoals, what is possible when you enter into the safe space of friendship and end with a lot of discussion about friendships in the post-COVID era. She leaves us with a poignant and timely question that we can ALL use with our friends today to go deeper and develop a more meaningful friendship. Continue to Bask:* Explore your love language, and encourage your friends, partners, family to take a quiz too!* Read The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts* Mackenzie Dunn is a writer, editor, and SEO strategist who focuses on the latest search trends and data to create meaningful, informative content that shows up in your search engine. She’s passionate about helping people find the information they need—whether that’s a guide on how to make friends as an adult or what to say to someone who is feeling lonely. As a millennial who knows the struggle of finding and meeting people post-college, she values true blue friendships and connections that withstand the test of time. In her free time, you can usually find her on the phone with a friend or family member (maintaining long-distance friendships is kind of her thing), or editing content for Editorialist.com, where she currently works. Read her article on helping a lonely friend on HelloGiggles or Follow her on Instagram. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bask.substack.com

People need support, trust, and honesty in a relationship. So is honesty a defining quality of deep, true friendship? Breck and Sally dig in and realize that friendships are all different, so one friend’s need for honesty might also be different depending on how deep they want to go. We chat about having hard conversations as a way of being honest and realize that many people avoid the difficult conversations – we are so out of practice as a society in sharing clear honest feedback or insights about how you're feeling in a true careful thoughtful non-judgmental way. Similarly, we're also not practiced in listening in an open way without added layers of stories. Ultimately, the lack of honest conversation leads to withered trust. It's easier to leave than to speak up. We dig into:* Do you call out your friends when you catch them lying?* Do you address the things that are bothering you in a friendship to avoid having to mask the truth?* Is it possible to be real true friends with someone if one or both people aren't 100% honest all the time?* Can people be honest in relationships if they're not being honest with themselves?You'll have to give a listen to hear where we end up on these questions, but it's more of a debate than we thought! Continue to Bask* How to Build Exceptional Relationships and Why You Should with David Bradford and Carole Robin* Brené Brown Anatomy of Trust This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bask.substack.com

It’s business as usual before a big life change, but we know life transitions happen every 18 months for adults, and life is no longer the same as yesterday, so this is such an important space for friendships. This podcast is all about friendship after a big life change: the after a divorce edition.Breck and Sally are joined by guest Sari Kimbell, a self-described introvert that just needs a few high-quality friends. Divorce and FriendshipSari went through a divorce after ten years of marriage. With her then-husband, one day they decided "the relationship has ended." She likes to say it was a good divorce with one bad day! It was also a year she took a shotgun to her life: turned 40, diagnosed with a gluten allergy, not a mother, not a dog-owner, also got laid off, living in her mom's basement. Despite the challenges, Sari's joy and zest for life comes through in this conversation. She asked herself: with a clean slate, what does she want to create in her life? Before the divorce, she and her husband had a lot of couple friends, and Sari had one best friend that had moved away. And upon divorce, most of the couple friends went to her ex-husband as they were originally friends with him. The best advice she got? Take a year, don't date, don't make any major life changes, and just recalibrate. (hint: because of her own exploration... she hasn't been back to a zoo!)Making Friends After the DivorceWhat helped her through the friend attrition she had faced while still a couple and in her mid-thirties, and now she's 40 and divorced? * Getting involved in a non-profit around an interest she cared about, and then going out on a limb and asking a woman she met there to hang out! * Shared activities and hobbies you enjoy with someone is a good place to start when trying to get to know someone. * Sending someone an email, asking if they want to get a coffee. Showing Up For Your Friends Going Through a DivorceOther words of advice if you have a friend going through a divorce? * Reach out, tell them there's no judgement* Tell them you love them where they are* Tell them “I'm here for you, how can I help?”Ultimately, making friends is about making it a priority. It isn't always about achievement, it's about fulfillment. Continue to Bask* Use Marco Polo to keep the threads of your relationships alive. * More about Sari:Sari Kimbell has held just about every position in the CPG food industry from grocery buyer to selling local produce wholesale into stores, running a commissary kitchen to starting her own food business and helping food brands get off the shelves as the Marketing Director at Whole Foods Market. In 2015, she decided to start her own business with a mission to help packaged food entrepreneurs start and scale profitable businesses called Food Business Success. Sari is also becoming a certified life coach and will be incorporating business coaching for food founders into her business in 2021.In her non-work time, you can find Sari at farmers markets, in her home kitchen making something delicious, at brunch with friends and family, at pilates, riding her bike on the Denver trails and playing with her Covid cat, Calvin. Find her at SariKimbell.com.  This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bask.substack.com

On this week’s episode, we talk about the importance of 'mom friends', and navigating that space: what that actually means, the loneliness that comes when you don’t have mom friends but you’re a new mom, and how the new identity of being a mom changes your current friendships. Not a mom? Don’t worry, this episode is still for you! We cover how to show up for your mom friends.Mom FriendsSo mom friends are agentic friends! They build bonds quickly because they share common goals or interests. And why is that important? Because 3.7M new babies born every year. Lots of women that need a mom friend! This space seems simple, but it's so much more complicated and emotionally charged.  So we have a guest to help us through it…Our Guest This WeekHolly Sturdivan shares her story about being a new mom when she went in for a job interview and wasn’t going to share that she had a 4-month old at home with her potential employer. Then discovered that they were launching a new product aimed at babies and as a mom she was going to be the target market. It was a great opportunity to build a brand but also figure out how to be the target market, as well as how to be a new mom while working. Win-win! So she talks about setting boundaries that allowed her to be committed as a mom, but also to show up to work in the best possible way. Sometimes it takes having the hard conversations ("are you not inviting me to things because now I have a child?") to resolve some of the loneliness that comes with motherhood. Motherhood can be very lonely and isolating, but it can be a shared experience amongst friends to help mitigate the scariness of becoming a mom if friends are open to it.COVID and MotherhoodAnd then there's COVID! The silver lining right now for Holly, as she became more isolated from friends and family, is that COVID gave her a chance to pause and think through how she wants to show up to her children, and how she wants to show up in that relationship going forward. Despite the quality time with their children, Breck and Holly compare notes that their family can't be their everything. They need good friends to get them out of the house and away from parenting. One big question: is the single common bond of motherhood enough to sustain a friendship with another mom? Both Holly and Breck think at the end of the day, you still need something more to sustain a friendship: another shared interest, experience, or alchemy between two people. You already have so little time, so you need your mom friends to also have something more in common. You need more substance to move that acquaintance into real friend zone. Continue to Bask:* Be a friend by being persistent. Remember it's not personal if your mom friends don't get back to you quickly. * Check in by showing you're thinking of your mom friends. They just want to hear you're thinking of them. Holly Sturdivan lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, Matt, and their kids, Zoe (age 3.5) and Mason (11 months). She is the Director of Marketing for Puffworks, a startup snack company that makes organic peanut butter puffs. Holly was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma and after graduating from the University of Oklahoma in 2010, she moved to Portland sight unseen for a job doing tech-PR. Soon after, she combined her PR experience with her passion for food and transitioned to doing food-PR. After becoming a mom in 2017, she joined Puffworks when her daughter was just four months old as had helped the company grow to nearly $1M in annual revenue. Follow her on Instagram @twistedpint.If you’re not in on Bask yet, join our waitlist over at GetBask.com. Your future friends will thank you! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bask.substack.com

It’s time to share more about what we're building! In this episode, we cover how we birthed Bask. We had both experienced the problem of making friends: life transitions take place every 18 months once you get into your 30s – and it's hard to make friends as you move, start families, leave or start jobs. You might meet friends in random places, but the problem is you're not clear on the intent of the other person. And that leads to wasted time. And as you get older, you value your time more so you don't want to waste time. The solutions to this friendship problem were built to look like dating apps. And they weren't working for us (or our friends!) because: 1) women bond over conversation and shared interests 2) women don't care what their friends look like. So dating app-esque apps aren't built for us, and Bask is building something totally different.Bask as a video-first app for women to meet other women through group conversation around shared interests and experiences. Our goal is to finalize our prototype by mid-June. We want your feedback, for you to join our waitlist, to hear your reactions to this overview of the problem we're solving! Continue to Bask:If you’re not in on Bask yet, join our waitlist over at GetBask.com. Your future friends will thank you! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bask.substack.com

Two friends meet in an Uber Pool in San Francisco, and get out a block away from each other. They're exhausted after a long day, but while in the car they struck up a conversation ("you never know who is sitting besides you") around commercial real estate, an industry where there are not many women. They both had an openness to getting together after they initially met, and that openness enabled room for their friendship to grow – it was casual, but still meaningful. Those two women are Meghna Krishna Bondili and Amanda Murray, and they join us on this podcast. We chat about all things meeting friends and how to stay in touch over a distance, and recognize that as women post-20, our time gets more limited as we get older, so friend chemistry is so critical in order for our time to be best spent! When you're maintaining friendships at a distance, they shared a few tips:* Be kind to yourself: imperfect is enough! You can't be perfect at all the things you do all day every day. Even if you don't text your friend until the minute before you fall asleep at the end of a long day, that's totally good!* Play online games with friends, watch online concerts!* Get on the phone with your friends while you're taking a walk, or doing the dishes rather than rely on text all the time, especially on birthdays.* Ask "how can I help you?"Parting words? You never know what someone's going through, so be kind always.Today's Friends:Meghna Krishna Bondili is the Founder of Butterfly Voyage, which brings fresh perspectives to real estate development marketing. Raised in Manhattan, and currently living in San Francisco with her family, Meghna has learned to merge her NYC urbanist sensibility (she still has not learned to drive) with the greener vibe of the west coast (she has learned to grow vegetables).Amanda Murray is Head of Business Development at Design Like Whoa, a SF based woman-owned and operated business that provides customized corporate apparel, accessories, and gift kits. After spending the past 10 years in San Francisco, she recently moved back to her native land of Vancouver, Canada. Amanda is the mother of two girls, Georgia (2.5) and Scout (3 months), and is learning the fine balance of mothering and making it rain at the office.Continue to Bask:Alameda Point Antiques FaireVintage finds from Elsie Green, Poshmark, Etsy, Food52 Vintage ShopPlay Codenames online with friendsWatch concerts with friends (here too)Send a card or two (Minted and Handwrytten) If you’re not in on Bask yet, join our waitlist over at GetBask.com. Your future friends will thank you! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bask.substack.com

Deep friendship. Today's topic. What does it even mean? We go deep (pun intended) on deep friendship in Episode 5, and start with a definition of deep friendship. Rena Staub Fisher shares that  “a deep friendship is one in which we feel seen and loved for exactly who we are. It’s when we feel safe enough to talk about what’s really on our minds and in our hearts — and when we trust that the things that make us quirky, unique, and different are the qualities our friend cherishes most about us.” We inquire how we get to that safe place with a friend, and what we each need as individuals in order to deepen friends. We explore how much consistency, communication, and bi-lateral (mutual) sharing needs to take place to get to deep friendship (hint: playing chicken might be one of the ways we get there).  Ultimately, it may take upwards of 200 hours to get to close, deep friendship, so recognize this may take time! The more we can be seen as the unique and quirky individuals we are, the easier it might be to get to the safe space that needs to exist for deep friendships to exist. We challenge our listeners to be curious and love the outside-the-norm folks in our lives. Continue to Bask:How To Be A Better Friendexample of Quirky British DesignSend your deep friend a small package, or a friendship e-card (more here). If you’re not in on Bask yet, join our waitlist over at GetBask.com. Your future friends will thank you! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bask.substack.com

4 types of friends! We probably all started labeling some friends “best friends”, but as we grew up we have evolved to calling them real or true friends. Contemporary psychologists have also given us labels based on function:* Acquaintances* Casual friends* Agentic friends* True friendsAnd it's those agentic (pragmatic friendships with a shared interest or goal) that are most likely to evolve into those true (deep) friends. And we have an example of that on the show today! Our first guest! >> Julia Santucci (Go Emerald Green or go_emeraldgreen on Instagram). We have a great chat about the origin of our agentic friendship, how technology has helped/hindered our ability to grow our friendship and the fun of the shared interests we have. Because we both love talking about sustainability and eco-conscious living, we also shared a few actionable tips:* Eat less meat* Book: How To Be A Conscious Eater* Bring a to-go mug when you go get a coffee* Bring a reusable bag when you go shopping (and think beyond the grocery store: when you're picking up take out leave them a note to not give utensils or “no bag needed please!”)Continue to Bask:Fascination: thefascination.com Good on You: https://goodonyou.eco/Purpose Banking: purposebanking.comMayven: https://www.shopmayven.com/If you’re not in on Bask yet, join our waitlist over at GetBask.com. Your future friends will thank you! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bask.substack.com

Hi! We’re Breck and Sally, two friends that wondered why it was so hard to make deep friendships as we got older. We believe female friendships are going to save the world. Today we share the genesis of our friendship. Without giving away too much: we met in the Bay Area about five years ago and were both inspired to join startup land, but also to pursue our passions in food and agriculture to find community. Somewhere in that non-linear path, we found each other, worked on things together, and eventually landed here. If you’re not in on Bask yet, join our waitlist over at GetBask.com. Your future friends will thank you! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bask.substack.com

Why are we making Bask? Breck and Sally are connecting the challenge of making friends in adulthood with the solution of technology to solve the isolation in the United States.Continue to Bask:Social Relationships Are Good For Your Health3 out of 5 Americans are LonelyHow Friendships Change in AdulthoodHow to Make Friends as an Adult — and Why It's ImportantIf you’re not in on Bask yet, join our waitlist over at GetBask.com. Your future friends will thank you! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bask.substack.com

In the first episode of Basking in Friendship, Breck & Sally jump right into it for International Women’s Day. They mull on if International Women's Day is too similar to a Galentine's Day, whether we should be sending IWD cards to men, and whether the attention on a day like IWD actually makes a difference. Ultimately, their discussion led them to a call to action to support an organization in their local community, and they encourage the same of you! Continue to Bask:International Women's DayStatus of Women Data in the StatesWhen and Why Diversity Improves Your Board’s PerformanceThe Safe Alliance, Austin, TXWomen's Lunch Place, Boston, MAIf you’re not in on Bask yet, join our waitlist over at GetBask.com. Your future friends will thank you! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bask.substack.com