In this festive episode, Emily and Meredith celebrate the holidays together for the first time in 30 years by sharing their traditions, exchanging a special holiday recipe, and opening a few meaningful gifts they’ve given each other.

Join along as they share the joy of connection during the holidays!

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In this episode, we have the fun of hanging out with Sarah and Caroline, lifelong besties whose friendship began over a cookie choice carfuffle in Pre-K – proving that the best of friendships can begin in the most hilarious and unexpected ways.

Though the beginning of their friendship may have involved ducking from flying oatmeal cookies, Sarah and Caroline shine the light on why long-term sisterhood is such an important aspect of growing into one’s authentic self.

We dive into how their friendship thrived - despite not attending the same schools growing up, we explore the importance of being seen and heard, and how healthy friendships can offer the most pristine opportunity to say the important truths and perspectives that may otherwise go unsaid or unwitnessed.

These two friends radiate sweetness and adoration. Come and be a part of it. You are welcome here!

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Sometimes, the best of mom friends are made in the school parking lot - with a shared hello and friendly gaze - while the kids happily run in circles around the budding relationship. Such is the case for new mom friends (who feel like lifelong friends), Vlatka and Hilary.

In this episode of Hello Again, Friend, we dive into the significance of making mom friends - the kind where get-togethers take place amidst the literal and figurative messiness that can exist while raising littles.

These two champions of women supporting women have quickly developed the kind of friendship that lasts a lifetime, beyond the season of motherhood.

We discuss the importance of showing up authentically from the get-go in order to cultivate a truly genuine friendship - and how doing so leads to an ease in getting together, showing up for one another, and maintaining a strong friendship.

Through laughter, we explore the closeness test that often pops up for friends. Welcoming each other - even when bra-less or having messy homes - seems to be the ultimate litmus test, and these two pass with flying colors. We can so relate!

We also explore the intentionality behind pursuing platonic female friendships and acknowledging the realness of “love at first friend sight” as we live in a generation that is seeing (remembering, perhaps?) a rise in honoring the importance of sisterhood.

It’s a mom friend celebration today, and YOU are welcome here.

Produced by Carrie Flynn.

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In this episode of Hello Again, Friend, ShDonna and Teri generously welcome us into their intentional friendship that spans more than a decade.

We dive into how two established adults - and strangers in a church group - become each other’s most trusted confidants, and in doing so, discover valuable insights into how forming strong adult friendships occurs - an accomplishment that can feel like a bit of a unicorn for many today.

We adored our time of honest and raw conversation together, and we are so grateful to now call ShDonna and Teri friends of the Hello Again, Friend podcast.

Produced by Carrie Flynn.

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It was an instant connection during the Kindergarten roundup in the early 80s in rural Iowa that set the stage for a laughter-filled, adventurous friendship between Lori and Jolene. Around the age of 18, their desire to experience new parts of the world took them to different places. Their recent reunion after both returning home to Iowa has proven to be a deeply meaningful connection in more ways than one. "The fact that we are here at 48, and this is where it went, is so profound. It's so the magic of this experience.

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Lifelong friends, Katie and Margaux, share what life is like having a friend who is always there for you (and has always been there!) - without question.

This week, Emily and Meredith have a big-feel experience speaking with lifelong friends, Katie and Margaux. Less than one year apart in age and connected by two mothers who made a concerted effort to maintain their own friendship, which ultimately led to an inter-generational history of friendships between mothers and children.

From mischief to major milestones, Katie and Margaux re-lived some of their favorite moments with us. We giggled and grinned as we opened an email filled with photographs commemorating their decades together. Then we stumbled across a copy of a handwritten letter Katie sent to Margaux for Margaux’s 18th birthday (that’s how we did things BEFORE THE INTERNET). We marveled at the pure love reflected in her recollection of memories and advice.

Margaux showed Katie the world of Six Flags over Georgia with vigor and zeal, and Katie described the beauty of having another person in your life who allows you to be yourself without judgment. As children, we need that unconditional acceptance for us to “try on” each part of our personality as we figure ourselves out.

Katie helped Margaux forget about the rules of life by “getting lost” in adventure; keeping each other safe while they throw off the structure placed on them by Southern culture. Emotional risks, physical risks, no matter what–they would do it together.

Through Katie and Margaux, we learn the value of, “Of course I’ll be there.” They endured (and are enduring) difficult experiences of moving away, health diagnoses, aging parents, and raising their own children now. They were each other’s first phone calls…they opened the door to find the other standing there, ready to help. Of course the other would be there to support the other. No question.

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Emily and Meredith are together in person for the first time in 31 years! Listen as they break down the details and plethora of emotions that went into their one epic day together. From the emotions of the hello hug to the fun of grabbing coffee together, these childhood besties have so much to catch up on.

Welcome to the very first episode of Hello Again, Friend: the podcast that relishes the beauty of human connection by reuniting and celebrating childhood besties.

In today’s episode, get to know co-hosts Emily Horak and Meredith Rausch, childhood BFFs who have reunited after 30 years to reimagine a friendship as mothers, professionals, and humans who have lived and learned so much since those days of swinging side ponies held with a scrunchie.

Listen in on how their powerful reconnection story inspired this very podcast and a movement of bringing together and celebrating childhood best friends. YOU are welcome here.

Produced by Carrie Flynn.