What questions do friends ask you?

I recently completed an exercise from a podcast episode by Amy Porterfield’s Online Marketing Made Easy. The task was to reflect on what questions friends and family members ask you.

After some deliberation these were the Top 3 conversations:

“What’s the best advice for living alone in your 20s?”
“I’m having trouble making a decision…”
“Help me validate the boundaries I’m trying to set and uphold…”

For context, my closest friends have known me for most of my life. I am very fortunate to have a small, close group of women.

These topics are profound. Deeply personal. It’s easier for me to identify strengths in my entrepreneurial self or in a business context than in a personal one… I wouldn’t have thought those would be the three most common ones.

Let’s dive into number 1. For context, I am married and only lived alone for 1 year of my life - hence part of my surprise.

HOWEVER… I often reference that year as one of the most, if not the most, significant periods of personal development in my life. I struggled. Hard. I quit jobs (yes, multiple). I was lonely. I was isolated.

I’m an open book when discussing that year both the good and the bad. My friends reminded me of how my experience living in Seattle for that one year has helped others in my world. They come to ME for advice when grappling with the emotions I battled during that time.

Thank you, Amy Porterfield, for the push to complete this exercise.