Ep. 32: Cultivating deep female friendships w/ Dr. Joyce Williams & Keli Alvarez

Female friendships aren't a luxury. They're a necessity.

In this AMPstigator episode, Host Lauren Lowrey enlists the help of two of her closest friends in Nashville to talk candidly about cultivating deep female friendships. The women sip some bubbly while getting real about the struggles of cultivating deep, life-giving friendships, and how they support each other through life's hardest times.

If your friendships just aren't doing it for you, these three women discuss what should be present in every supportive friendship in a light-hearted, LOL-type-way. Together they explore WHAT'S THE LESSON?

💥 This episode is for you if 💥
- You love Happy Hour with girlfriends more than anything
- You want to meet Host Lauren Lowrey's gal-pals
- You've struggled to find close female friendships in adulthood

📺What you'll hear in this episode📺
This episode begins with the trio joking about getting tattoos and how they want to blow-off mom responsibilities to get inked. It's the perfect way to introduce you to hilarious moms who keep-it-real.

• [8:10] You'll meet LL's friends as they introduce each other and talk about their adult lives up to present day. Learn Dr. Joyce's path into the ICU and Keli's plight as a Major League Baseball wife.
• [22:58] Lauren explains how her friends supported her during her traumatic hospital stays in August. Dr. Joyce visited every day to keep Lauren's spirits up.
• [37:45] The trio explores the tenets of life-giving friendships and how they serve as therapeutic self-care for each other.

🔖 Chapters 🔖
0:33 - Backstory; Lauren's opening monologue
5:44 - Girl time! What our friendship is really like
8:10 - Introductions - meet LL's friends Joyce and Keli
16:35 - Keli's an MLB wife
19:28 - How the 3 of us girlfriends MET
22:58 - How LL's friends supported her in the hospital
27:51 - How we met in 2018
37:45 - First lesson: What deep friendships require
39:20 - How Keli encouraged LL to start AMPstigator
42:57 - The tenets of a LIFE-GIVING friendship
50:42 - We're a therapy-friends group
57:35 - The effortlessness of healthy friendship

✔️ Connect with Lauren Lowrey ✔️
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