Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship is a podcast about the friendships that shape our lives and sometimes confuse us. Host Nina Badzin talks honestly with writers, therapists, creatives, and real people about making friends as adults, losing them, repairing them, and letting them change. Nina is a thoughtful, warm, and refreshingly real voice in the podcast space. Each episode includes nuance, humor, and a direct approach to the hard stuff of friendship we don’t always say out loud. If you’ve ever wondered “Is this normal?” about a friendship, you’re in the right place.
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Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship is a podcast about the friendships that shape our lives and sometimes confuse us. Host Nina Badzin talks honestly with writers, therapists, creatives, and real people about making friends as adults, losing them, repairing them, and letting them change. Nina is a thoughtful, warm, and refreshingly real voice in the podcast space. Each episode includes nuance, humor, and a direct approach to the hard stuff of friendship we don’t always say out loud. If you’ve ever wondered “Is this normal?” about a friendship, you’re in the right place.
#175 - Write a Letter to One Friend: December (the final!) Friendship Challenge
Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship
14 minutes
1 month ago
#175 - Write a Letter to One Friend: December (the final!) Friendship Challenge
This final friendship challenge of the year is simple but surprisingly powerful: write one friend a genuine letter. Not a text, not a quick “thinking of you,” but a real note that names why this friendship matters to you.
In this episode, Nina recaps all eleven past challenges from 2025 and explains why December’s challenge—putting your appreciation in writing—can shift a friendship in a way few gestures can. She offers ideas for choosing the friend, prompts to get you started, and a reminder that the message doesn’t need to be perfect to make an impact.
A quiet, thoughtful way to close the year and strengthen one connection that means something to you.
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Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship
Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship is a podcast about the friendships that shape our lives and sometimes confuse us. Host Nina Badzin talks honestly with writers, therapists, creatives, and real people about making friends as adults, losing them, repairing them, and letting them change. Nina is a thoughtful, warm, and refreshingly real voice in the podcast space. Each episode includes nuance, humor, and a direct approach to the hard stuff of friendship we don’t always say out loud. If you’ve ever wondered “Is this normal?” about a friendship, you’re in the right place.
