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Friendlier

Friendlier

By: Sarah Kopper & Abby Olena
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Friendlier is like eavesdropping on a phone call between Sarah and Abby, long time friends—and now parents—who love to talk, read, and eat. Every episode we review books, share recipes, and explore a sometimes random/sometimes serious topic. Join us!

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2017
Art Cooking Food & Wine Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Final episode: looking back on 2024 and ahead to 2025
    Jan 7 2025

    We discuss the past year and look ahead to 2025. Also, surprise! This is our final episode of the podcast and we share our favorite episode and what the pod has meant to us over the last 8 years.


    Our favorite episodes: Quitting, Hard times, Enneagram 8 Experience (Sarah) and Everyday superpowers and Personal policies (Abby)


    And because we didn't do a year in books episode this year, here are our favorite reads from 2024.


    Life lately


    Sarah loved her kids' winter musical performances.


    Abby got her first tattoo with 13 other adult friends in Birmingham.


    Reading lately


    Sarah finally read the Crescent City series by Sarah J. Maas.


    Abby enjoyed The Wedding People by Alison Espach.


    Eating lately


    Abby made egg bites like you can get at Starbucks.


    Neil found a recipe for gnocchi pot pie, which is the best thing Sarah eaten in a long time.


    If you’d like to join in the conversation, please leave us a comment on our show notes, email us at friendlierpodcast@gmail.com, or find us on Instagram @friendlierpodcast. Thanks for listening!!


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    33 mins
  • Day in our (fall) lives
    Dec 3 2024

    Day in our (fall) lives

    We share the details of our days from Tuesday October 22nd. You can also listen to our first day-in-the-life episode or similar episodes from 2020 and 2022 if you’d like to see how our days have changed. Links we mentioned:

    • The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
    • The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels by Beth Lincoln
    • Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over American, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

    Life lately

    Abby and Sarah both share about recent trips.

    Reading lately

    Abby enjoyed listening to Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle.

    Sarah read Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy by Cait West.

    Eating lately

    Sarah enjoyed new camping food while Abby was disappointed with Texas fair food.

    If you’d like to join in the conversation, please leave us a comment, email us at friendlierpodcast@gmail.com, or find us on Instagram @friendlierpodcast. Thanks for listening!


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    34 mins
  • Our dream lives
    Oct 1 2024

    Life lately

    Sarah has a running injury and is rethinking her fall race plans.

    Abby and fam had an incredible long weekend at the beach.


    Reading lately

    Sarah shared two nonfiction hits: Behind Their Screens by Emily Weinstein and Carrie James and Gift of Failure by Jessica Lahey.

    Abby read yet another witch book, The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings.


    Our dream lives

    We talk about what we dream of for our lives in 5, 10, 20 years, as well as what dreams we'd have if money was no object or if we could go back in time and change things.


    Eating lately

    Abby has found the perfect snack for work: individual cottage cheese cups.

    Sarah made a vegan chocolate cake for Neil's birthday.


    If you’d like to join in the conversation, please leave us a comment on our show notes, email us at friendlierpodcast@gmail.com, or find us on Instagram @friendlierpodcast. Thanks for listening!


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    28 mins

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