Project BFF sat down with leader and social impact entrepreneur Julie Kantor to talk about the friendships in her life.
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Friends are Breaking Up Over Social Distancing
The measures related to COVID-19 are being debated by individuals and groups alike. There are growing instances of friends with opposing perspectives that lead to disagreement and disappointment in one another, with a potential for long-term impact on their friendships.
11 Truths About Friendship Every Girl Needs to Know
Knowing what you do today, it’s interesting to consider what kind of friendship advice you would give to your young self or the young women currently in your life.
Boomers + Gen Xers = Amazing Intergenerational Friendships
It is said that one of the best things about an intergenerational friendship is its authenticity: the elements of jealousy or self-consciousness, or keeping up with whomever it may be that you want to keep up with, are pretty much nonexistent.
Making Friends Who Don’t Look Like Us
Acquiring friends of different races means we need to be thoughtful and make a choice to be diverse in who we become friends with.
Uh Oh. I Don’t Like My Friend’s Friends
Though we often know and appreciate our friend’s friends, that isn’t always the case. Sometimes we don’t like a particular person or the effect she has on our friend. Or maybe she doesn’t like us. This can be as innocuous as her or you simply not wanting to join in shared activities. Or it can…
An Ode to the Friends of Our Friends
Many of us have good friends who have good friends we know of. We hear stories about them and their lives—when they succeed, when they struggle—because those things affect our friend. On social media, we see photos of our friend with the other people in their lives, at the beach, on vacation, picking kids up…
Friendships Are Rarely Our Primary Relationships
Friendships are rarely our primary relationships; and this can be difficult to navigate for some friends.
When a Friend Dies
The death of a friend can be particularly hard because we don’t get the same level of support for grieving friends.
Friends in the Time of Virus
Humans are social animals. And we need to maintain our friendships, especially at this difficult time.