The Friends Who Won't Let You Die: Loving a Friend for a Lifetime

The Friends Who Showed Me Grace: What Friendship Revealed in Season One

Season one finale of The Yeah, No, For Sure Show—a friendship podcast about female friendship, midlife friendship, chosen family, and the lessons we learn when we finally look closely at the relationships that shape us. In this finale, I revisit the moments, clips, and guest reflections that stopped me this season: what Katharine realized about building things with friends, what happened to Marcy’s mother’s best friend after listening to our episode, what Alice discovered about grace — and about herself — and what changed for Alisa, who came on this show and said out loud that she sucks at friendship. I also answer a few questions my friends sent me and share what’s coming in Season 2, plus how you can help build it. This episode is a celebration, a reflection, and a thank you for anyone who has been here from the beginning, found us in the middle, or is starting right here. Here’s what friendship revealed when we finally gave it the mic. Topics: female friendship, friendship podcast, friendship lessons, chosen family, midlife friendship, loneliness, connection, women and friendship, friendship stories, grace Join the conversation + community → yeahnoforsure.show [http://yeahnoforsure.show] | Instagram → @theyeahnoforsureshow [http://www.instagram.com/theyeahnoforsureshow]

The Friend You Watch Everything With: Our Top Five Friendship Shows and Why They Matter

There’s always one friend you watch everything with—the one who gets your 11pm recap text, the one who made you watch it in the first place, the one whose name comes up every time a new season drops. This episode is for her, and for you. Holly Curtis is back—creative director, sauna companion, and the friend who helped build this brand with me—and today we’re each revealing our top five friendship shows of all time. We built our lists independently and reveal them live, with no idea where the other one landed. You’ll hear where we overlap, where we completely diverge, and why this conversation turned out to be about so much more than the shows. It’s about the shared ritual of watching something together. The post-episode group texts. The remember-when rewatches. The way certain stories become inseparable from the people you watched them with. Because sometimes what we remember most isn’t the cliffhangers or the characters, it’s the friends we tune in with. This episode is for anyone who has ever loved a show the way you love a friend—or loved a friend the way you love a show. Topics: friendship shows, watching TV with friends, top five lists, chosen family, shared experiences, nostalgia, friendship rituals, comfort TV, binge watching Tell us which shows made your list—head to Instagram or Substack and let's debate it.   Join our campfire: yeahnoforsure.show [http://yeahnoforsure.show] | @theyeahnoforsureshow [http://www.instagram.com/theyeahnoforsureshow]

The Friends at 13: What Middle School Friendship Feels Like

What does friendship actually feel like at 13 when middle school drama hits hardest and you're figuring out who your people are?  This week I sit down with my daughter Emma and her best friend Sierra, both 13 and in 8th grade, for a conversation about what friendship looks like right now from the inside.  You'll hear the four words Sierra said in a fourth-grade recess line that started their whole friendship. The summer they spent watching Riverdale on call simultaneously so neither one got ahead. How they've built a tight, drama-free friend group without social media, what they honestly think about it, and how they feel about having their moms be friends too. I also share what 8th grade was really like for me: the cheerleading formation, the girl who said out loud she couldn't believe she had to stand next to me, the three days of silence and heartbreaking lonliness that followed. Because watching these two show up for each other the way they do, with that much honesty, kindness and maturity, it gives you hope.  This one is for those with 13-year-olds in their lives, all of us who remember our first real teenage friends, and anyone who thinks middle school friendship is just drama. Emma and Sierra's Friend Picks: Keeper of the Lost Cities book series, Duolingo streaks, late-night phone calls Topics: middle school friendship, teenage friendship, 13-year-old best friends, friendship without social media, Riverdale, middle school drama, parenting teens, finding your people Join the campfire → yeahnoforsure.show [http://yeahnoforsure.show] | Instagram → @theyeahnoforsureshow [https://www.instagram.com/theyeahnoforsureshow/]

The Friends Who Won't Let You Die: Loving a Friend for a Lifetime

Jeanne McDermott gave the eulogy for her oldest friend two weeks before we sat down together. She’d known her since she was ten years old. Alice Markowitz, filmmaker and Jeanne’s closest friend for nearly 50 years, was sitting right beside her. The three of us talked about how beautiful it is to hold a friendship across an entire life: what you gain, what you lose, and what you carry forward when someone is gone. We also talked about what friendship in your 70s looks like, the shock of aging, and the real joys of a community choir. This one comes with a lot of laughs, a little heartbreak, and so much wisdom about how to cherish your friends and give one another grace. It’s for anyone who has friends they’ve known throughout their life—people they love deeply and are also a little terrified of losing. Topics: lifelong friendship, friendship grief, friendship in your 70s, aging, women and friendship, midlife connection, chosen family, friendship after loss Alice’s Friend Pick: Anything written by Anne Lamott [https://annelamott.substack.com/] Jeanne’s Friend Pick: A good game of Charades. Join the campfire → yeahnoforsure.show [http://yeahnoforsure.show] | Instagram → @theyeahnoforsureshow [http://www.instagram/theyeahnoforsureshow]

The Friend Down the Street: When Neighbors Become Your People

There's a particular kind of longing that hits in midlife—not for more friends exactly, but for a friend nearby. Someone whose door you can walk to. Someone who knows your life because she's actually in it. My neighbor Marcy Yeager sent me a text she rewrote 800 times—and what followed was one of those rare friendships that sneaks up on you. We talk about how cul‑de‑sac Halloweens and carpooling turned into deep friendship, what it means to have someone in the foxhole of raising a teenage girl with you, and the quiet magic of friends down the street. Marcy is a CliftonStrengths coach who can spot your superpower—and your kryptonite—in about five minutes. We get into what your wiring reveals about friendship chemistry, why she modeled her entire approach to showing up after watching her mom, and what happens to a neighborhood friendship when the kids grow up and you realize you're not making plans around them anymore. We also talk about bringing back the afternoon pop‑over, the magic of a door that's always unlocked, and why sometimes the bravest thing you can do is text the person down the street and say: do you want to be friends? This episode is for anyone who has ever wanted a friend nearby. And for anyone who has been rewriting that brave little text for way too long. Join our campfire: yeahnoforsure.show [http://yeahnoforsure.show] @theyeahnoforsureshow [http://www.instagram.com/theyeahnoforsureshow]