Jul 28, 2025
Are you lonely or feel like no one truly understands you? Are you having a hard time finding positive friends who love you just as you are and bring out the best in you? Be encouraged that it is possible to create long-lasting and healthy friendships, starting now. Bailey T. Hurley, author of “Together Is A Beautiful Place,” is everyone’s favorite community cheerleader. A Bailey is the "friendship expert" and helps us identify what makes a true friendship, tackles lies and false expectations about creating lasting friendships, and offers wisdom and practical tips for healthy friendship rhythms. We hope this conversation inspires you to cultivate positive and life-giving friendships in your own life.
About our guest: Writer and speaker Bailey T. Hurley is everyone’s favorite cheerleader for Godly friendships. With a lifelong heart for hospitality, Bailey offers simple friendship habits to help women build meaningful, lasting relationships. She’s written for publications like Deeply Rooted Magazine, Grit and Virtue, and the Salvation Army’s Peer Magazine. She loves podcasts, and you can find her on Sally Clarkson’s “Life with Sally,” Kristin Schell’s “At the Turquoise Table,” and a dozen more.
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