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

Piloting your Life

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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:
- Assemble a flight crew (max 4-5 women)
- Schedule 2-3 hours together this month
- Do the love language assessment
- Discuss your friendships, what you are grateful for, gaps, what you are bringing to your friendships
- 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.

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