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We all want to be loved and known in friendships. And also? Friendships are hard. For this special episode, one of my dearest friends in the entire world, Christy Crosby, joins me in the barn studio! And we’re chatting about everything we’ve learned in our unlikely 28-year-long (!) friendship that started in college when a country music-loving Tennessee cowgirl met a rap music-loving Jersey girl.

Christy and I have a lot to share from our friendship that spans several states, seasons, and life stages. Our hope is that YOU can take some of these ideas and cultivate deeper friendships where you are.

Just a few of the questions we answer in this episode:

• What characteristics make a really strong friendship?
• What does “mature transparency” look like in friendships?
• What do you do when it seems like everyone else already has their people, and you don’t?
• How to keep a friendship going with longevity, even if you’re in different life stages
• Why some friendships are cultivated more like annual plants and some more like perennials
• Why I wore such an embarrassing Halloween costume our freshman year at Belmont 🤭

If you want to GROW in your friendships and find encouragement for challenges that friendships face, JOIN US!

Christy Crosby serves on the staff of Grace Community Church in Clarksville, TN in women’s ministry and outreach and on the ⁠MomLife Ministries⁠ Board of Directors as President. She's been married for 23 years to her high school sweetheart and is a mom of two - a daughter who is a college sophomore and a son who is a high school freshman. She finds so much joy in this season of parenting and describes herself as a life-long learner who loves to read, listen to podcasts, and ask questions about all the things. Christy loves finding God’s beauty in the arts, so she’s always up for a good concert or theatre production. On a rainy day you can find her knitting with a cup of good coffee.

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• MomLife Website

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• Sick of Me: From Transparency to Transformation by Whitney Capps

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