Friend Forward

You noticed she didn't share your last post. She liked her post but not yours. She hasn't watched your stories in weeks, but she's clearly online. And now you're spiraling, trying to figure out what that says about your friendship. Sound familiar?
In this episode, Danielle sits down with licensed mental health counselor JoJo Venant to unpack the very real strain social media puts on women's friendships: from birthday shout-out expectations to the "friends should support your business" discourse. Together, they explore how influencers with healthy pre-fame friendships navigate digital boundaries differently, why we've gone from reading the room to reading the feed, and what happens when we personalize every like, share, and story view. JoJo also walks through how to actually have the conversation with a friend when social media expectations don't match.
🎧 BUT WAIT… THERE'S MORE.
Members of Office Hours get supplementary material with every episode to deepen their friendships. Join anytime (and get your first two weeks free) at: https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/office-hours.
TOPICS IN THIS EPISODE:
The one thing that determines whether an influencer's friendships survive her platform growth
What the birthday shout-out expectation is actually telling you about yourself
We used to read the room; now we're reading the feed, and it's breaking something
The word Danielle almost didn't say out loud in this conversation
The myth that's quietly killing more friendships than any unshared post
What happens when JoJo asks her clients to role-play the friend they're upset with

ABOUT JOJO VENANT
JoJo Venant is a licensed mental health counselor and the founder of The Clarity Hour, a counseling practice based in Orlando, Florida. With over a decade of experience specializing in healthy relationships, self-esteem, and life transitions, she's known for her grounded, relational approach to helping women navigate connection and conflict. She has served as an adjunct professor at Palm Beach Atlantic University and contributed as an expert voice to the Mental Health Television Network.
CONNECT WITH JOJO:
Website: https://theclarityhour.net
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theclarityhour
Links: https://solo.to/joannvenant

🎙️ GET FEATURED ON THE PODCAST
Have a friendship question, hot take, or personal story you want featured? Send a voice note via Instagram DMs @friendforward or email a voice note or video to hello@betterfemalefriendships.com.
WORK WITH DANIELLE BAYARD JACKSON:
Join Office Hours for bonus content and community → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/office-hours
Join the Friendship Elevated Fall 2026 Waitlist → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/friendship-elevated-waitlist
Check out more connection resources → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/resources
Become a certified relational health coach → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/relational-health-institute

FOLLOW DANIELLE BAYARD JACKSON:
Get the book "Fighting for our Friendships" → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/book
Follow on Instagram → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/instagram
Follow on TikTok → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/tiktok
Learn more about Danielle → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/website

🗣️ BOOK DANIELLE TO SPEAK
Looking for a speaker on women's cooperation, communication, and conflict? Send your inquiry to info@tellpublicrelations.com.

There's a psychological concept known as "the fresh start effect", and it can be helpful as you set your friendship goals for the summer. You've been wanting better friendships for a while now, but you're not quite sure where to start. We'll walk you through an exercise that includes more than 8 examples of connection goals you can set this season.
🎧 BUT WAIT… THERE'S MORE.
This week's Office Hours bonus content includes an EXTRA episode that focuses on what to do when you feel resentful toward a friend. It drops in Office Hours on June 16.
Members of Office Hours get supplementary material like this with every episode to deepen their friendships. Join anytime at: https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/office-hours.
TOPICS IN THIS EPISODE:
What is the "fresh start" effect?
The 5 domains of relational health
How to set a goal for the domain that reflects your most pressing friendship issue/ desire

📚 EPISODE RESOURCES & REFERENCES:
At the beginning of the episode, Danielle mentions her girls' trip to Savannah and her stay at the Marriott Savannah Riverfront.

🎙️ GET FEATURED ON THE PODCAST
Have a friendship question, hot take, or personal story you want featured? Send a voice note via Instagram DMs @friendforward or email a voice note or video to hello@betterfemalefriendships.com.
WORK WITH DANIELLE BAYARD JACKSON:
Join Office Hours for bonus content and community → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/office-hours
Join the Friendship Elevated Fall 2026 Waitlist → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/friendship-elevated-waitlist
Check out more connection resources → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/resources
Become a certified relational health coach → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/relational-health-institute

FOLLOW DANIELLE BAYARD JACKSON:
Get the book "Fighting for our Friendships" → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/book
Follow on Instagram → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/instagram
Follow on TikTok → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/tiktok
Learn more about Danielle → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/website

🗣️ BOOK DANIELLE TO SPEAK
Looking for a speaker on women's cooperation, communication, and conflict? Send your inquiry to info@tellpublicrelations.com.

As much as we'd like to think our romantic relationships exist apart from our friendships, the research says otherwise. Your friends' opinions can determine whether a couple stays together, influence the values they hold in the relationship, and even shape the kinds of arguments they have. And that influence starts long before a woman is partnered; it starts while she's still dating.
In this episode, Danielle sits down with Yue Xu and Julie Krafchick, co-hosts of the Dateable podcast and authors of How to Be Dateable, to explore how your friends can be your greatest asset on your dating journey, or your biggest unintentional roadblock. They break down five dating archetypes, what each one looks like in action, and how to give the right kind of support to the right kind of dater; because the advice that helps one friend can sabotage another.
🎧 BUT WAIT… THERE'S MORE.
This week's bonus content for Office Hours members includes an exclusive video from Danielle breaking down four surprising research-based ways your friends can impact your romantic relationships, plus a bonus segment of this interview you won't hear in the free episode.
Members of Office Hours get supplementary material like this with every episode to deepen their friendships. Join anytime (and get your first two weeks free) at: https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/office-hours.
TOPICS IN THIS EPISODE:
The three ways your friends' opinions shape your romantic relationships (even before you're in one)
Five dating archetypes that change the kind of support your friend actually needs
The "supportive" response most friends default to that backfires every time
What friends keep asking Achievers that makes the problem worse
The one piece of advice that saved a Thinker's relationship… and would've ruined a Dreamer's
A better question to ask a dating friend than "when's the next date?"

ABOUT YUE XU & JULIE KRAFCHICK
Yue Xu and Julie Krafchick are the co-hosts and creators of the Dateable podcast, one of the longest-running dating podcasts and named a top show by the New York Times, HuffPost, and Oprah Daily. They're also the co-authors of How to Be Dateable: The Essential Guide to Finding Your Person and Falling in Love and the executive producers of the dating experiment show Exit Interview. After a decade of interviewing thousands of daters and world-renowned experts, they bring a research-backed, compassionate approach to modern dating and relationships.
CONNECT WITH YUE & JULIE:
Book, How to Be Dateable + Dating Archetypes Quiz: https://howtobedateable.com
Podcast, Dateable: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dateable-your-insiders-look-into-modern-dating-and/id1084105171
Website: https://www.dateablepodcast.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dateablepodcast/

📚 EPISODE RESOURCES & REFERENCES:
Julie Krafchick & Yue Xu, How to Be Dateable: The Essential Guide to Finding Your Person and Falling in Love: https://howtobedateable.com

🎙️ GET FEATURED ON THE PODCAST
Have a friendship question, hot take, or personal story you want featured? Send a voice note via Instagram DMs @friendforward or email a voice note or video to hello@betterfemalefriendships.com.
WORK WITH DANIELLE BAYARD JACKSON:
Join Office Hours for bonus content and community → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/office-hours
Join the Friendship Elevated Fall 2026 Waitlist → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/friendship-elevated-waitlist
Check out more connection resources → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/resources
Become a certified relational health coach → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/relational-health-institute

FOLLOW DANIELLE BAYARD JACKSON:
Get the book "Fighting for our Friendships" → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/book
Follow on Instagram → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/instagram
Follow on TikTok → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/tiktok
Learn more about Danielle → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/website

🗣️ BOOK DANIELLE TO SPEAK
Looking for a speaker on women's cooperation, communication, and conflict? Send your inquiry to info@tellpublicrelations.com.

How to navigate friendship at work without losing the relationship, with Brooke Taylor
She's your lunch buddy, your Slack confidante, your person at work. But what happens when boundaries get blurry, or you start sensing competition where there used to be camaraderie? Workplace friendships between women are some of the most meaningful connections we form as adults, and some of the most complicated to maintain.
In this episode, Danielle sits down with executive career coach and former Google marketing lead Brooke Taylor to tackle three of the most common questions women ask about navigating friendship at work. They dig into why mismatched expectations between "colleagues first" and "friends first" cause so much friction, how the success wound fuels jealousy and comparison with the women closest to you, and what happens when entrepreneur friendships blur the line between support and strategy-sharing.
🎧 BUT WAIT… THERE'S MORE.
This week's bonus content for Office Hours members includes:
a bonus segment of the interview with Brooke sharing 3 ways to raise your self worth (if you're often competing with work friends)
a personal video from Danielle sharing her key takeaways from Brooke's book
3 scripts to help you address sticky work friend situations

Members of Office Hours get supplementary material like this with every episode to deepen their friendships. Join anytime (and get your first two weeks free) at: https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/office-hours.
TOPICS IN THIS EPISODE:
How boundary-setting can feel antithetical to the female friendship code of offering unconditional emotional support
How to respond to competition in the workplace (and why capitalism might be to blame)
Why friends who are both "entrepreneurs" might need to clarify boundaries around resource-sharing

ABOUT BROOKE TAYLOR
Brooke Taylor is an executive career coach for women, former marketing lead at Google, and the author of Healing the Success Wound. She coined the term "success wound" — the pain that comes from mistaking achievement for self-worth — and has coached over 5,000 women leaders at companies like Google, Goldman Sachs, and McKinsey.
CONNECT WITH BROOKE:
Book, Healing the Success Wound: https://brooketaylorcoaching.com/successwound/
Website: https://brooketaylorcoaching.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brookevtaylor/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brooke-taylor-18751949/

📚 EPISODE RESOURCES & REFERENCES:
Brooke Taylor, Healing the Success Wound: Align Your Ambition, Find Lasting Career Fulfillment, and End the Cycle of Never Enough: https://brooketaylorcoaching.com/successwound/

🎙️ GET FEATURED ON THE PODCAST
Have a friendship question, hot take, or personal story you want featured? Send a voice note via Instagram DMs @friendforward or email a voice note or video to hello@betterfemalefriendships.com.
WORK WITH DANIELLE BAYARD JACKSON:
Join Office Hours for bonus content and community → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/office-hours
Join the Friendship Elevated Fall 2026 Waitlist → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/friendship-elevated-waitlist
Check out more connection resources → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/resources
Become a certified relational health coach → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/relational-health-institute

FOLLOW DANIELLE BAYARD JACKSON:
Get the book "Fighting for our Friendships" → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/book
Follow on Instagram → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/instagram
Follow on TikTok → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/tiktok
Learn more about Danielle → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/website

🗣️ BOOK DANIELLE TO SPEAK
Looking for a speaker on women's cooperation, communication, and conflict? Send your inquiry to info@tellpublicrelations.com.

You've seen the articles. You've heard the discourse. People are pulling away from the digital sphere and opting for in-person connection instead: ditching dating apps, skipping the DMs, going analog. Google searches for "matchmaker near me" and "dating coach" are higher right now than they've been in the past ten years. But here's the part that isn't getting enough attention: how people are making this shift. And the answer is far more curated than you'd expect.
In this solo episode, Danielle breaks down the rise of “connection concierges” — friendship coaches, speed friending events, and supper clubs — and what this trend reveals about what women actually need when they're trying to make friends offline. She also walks through three things to consider before you invest in a curated social experience, including how to get specific about what you're looking for so you don't leave disappointed.
🎧 BUT WAIT… THERE'S MORE.
This week's Office Hours bonus content picks up right where this episode leaves off: Danielle shares three things gatherers and unofficial social connectors can do to meet this moment. Practical shifts for anyone who hosts dinners, book clubs, or get-togethers and wants to show up better for the people looking for curated connection.
Members of Office Hours get supplementary material like this with every episode to deepen their friendships. Join anytime (and get your first 2 weeks free) at: https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/office-hours.
TOPICS IN THIS EPISODE:
The real reason "going analog" isn't working for most women
What friendship coaches, speed friending, and supper clubs have in common
The Google search data that signals a bigger cultural shift than dating apps
Why "come one, come all" social events set you up to leave disappointed
Four ways to curate your search so you actually find your people
The question to ask yourself before choosing a coach, an event, or a club

📚 EPISODE RESOURCES & REFERENCES:
Become a certified relational health coach at the Women’s Relational Health Institute: https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/relational-health-institute

🎙️ GET FEATURED ON THE PODCAST
Have a friendship question, hot take, or personal story you want featured? Send a voice note via Instagram DMs @friendforward or email a voice note or video to hello@betterfemalefriendships.com.
WORK WITH DANIELLE BAYARD JACKSON:
Join Office Hours for bonus content and community → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/office-hours
Join the Friendship Elevated Fall 2026 Waitlist → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/friendship-elevated-waitlist
Check out more connection resources → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/resources
Become a certified relational health coach → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/relational-health-institute

FOLLOW DANIELLE BAYARD JACKSON:
Get the book "Fighting for our Friendships" → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/book
Follow on Instagram → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/instagram
Follow on TikTok → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/tiktok
Learn more about Danielle → https://friend-forward.captivate.fm/website

🗣️ BOOK DANIELLE TO SPEAK
Looking for a speaker on women's cooperation, communication, and conflict? Send your inquiry to info@tellpublicrelations.com.