The Best Friend Project
Hosted by Rachel · Rachel Joy Swardson
4.6from 30 ratings
- 38
- Episodes
- 15
- Transcribed
- 30
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2026
- First episode
About The Best Friend Project
When her best friendship ended, Rachel Joy Swardson went to the bathroom. Hundreds of them. She taped up postcards with a QR code in bathroom stalls, asking the question she was too hurt and humiliated to verbalize, "How do you do friendship?" Thousands of women answered, and their stories changed and healed her. So she brought them forward, here for you on The Best Friend Project podcast.
- Publisher
- Rachel Joy Swardson
- Category
- education · society & culture · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 16 Jun 2026
- Latest episode
- 24 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
15 of 38 episodes have a transcript.
24 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Bonus 18: On The Phone | Cami Talbot
20 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep 19: Losing Your Tribe, Finding Beauty & Making New Friends | Cami Ann Talbot
17 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Bonus 18: On The Phone | Beth Pacunas
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Bonus 18: On The Phone | Cami Talbot
Published 24 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So I think there's ways of doing this that, you know, we're not all going to get what you got on the first try, but, you know, meet somewhere safely and just see what develops because, you know, finding friends at, you know, a later in life stage where you're not in college, maybe you're not working together because maybe you're a freelancer or a solopreneur or something like that, but finding those opportunities to find new friends and then embracing it, I think is a massive takeaway for everyone. And you're a living lesson of that. Oh, thank you, Rachel. And I also, thinking back to our episode, I really love the tie-ins that we talked about with jealousy and beauty. […]
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- Cami Talbot
- Cami Ann Talbot
- Beth Pacunas
- Laura Goodburn
- Kimberly Pomeroy
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 21 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.2 / 5
- 9 ratings
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Who hosts The Best Friend Project?
Rachel host the show. Published by Rachel Joy Swardson.
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