08/18/2026
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about friendship.
It started when I listened to a sermon from Pastor Rick Warren about being a good friend and attracting good friends and the reminder that God didn’t create us to do life alone.
Then I heard a conversation in Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper about loneliness and podcast with Dr. Marisa Franco about being an “igniter” - to be willing to put yourself out there instead of always waiting for someone else to make the first move.
Those ideas really stayed with me.
Because the older I get, the more I realize how much our friendships matter.
I know mine certainly do.
I have faithful friends who have walked beside me for decades and newer friends who have come into my life more recently and bring me such delight. These steadfast relationships have sustained me through so many of life’s ups, downs, and trials.
So I started thinking about what we can actually DO when we want deeper friendships.
That led me to develop a little philosophy I call “GO First” along with “The Cup Check” exercise built around four questions.
And last week, I had the opportunity to take those ideas and teach them in “The Connection Cure”, two different presentations -one for my Faith to Table church affinity group and another for Launch Ladies, a Facebook group for women in business.
I loved getting to talk about something that has become increasingly important to me:
We were never meant to do life alone.
Sometimes building the connections we long for begins with being willing to GO First.😁
