Friendship IRL: Real Talk About Friendship, Community, and What It Actually Takes

Alex Alexander

Booking Overview

A weekly relationship-and-friendship interview show focused on adult connection, community-building, and practical strategies for navigating friendship, featuring everyday people alongside occasional subject-matter experts. PR agencies could credibly pitch friendship educators, relationship and social-emotional experts, parenting specialists, and founders who have created new models for building community; booking difficulty is low because the show regularly features accessible professionals and lived-experience guests.

Metrics

Episodes: 199

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1,000 - 10,000

Gender skew: Female

Listener location: USA

YouTube: 191 subscribers

Instagram: 5.2k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Alex Alexander - Friendship educator, author of Are We Friends Yet?, and creator of practical resources that help adults build meaningful friendships and support systems.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low

Typical Credentials:

Practical expertise or compelling lived experience related to friendship, relationships, parenting, social-emotional development, loneliness, or community-building; guests may also bring an original program, ritual, or gathering model.

Required Achievements:

Founded a relevant education, coaching, or community-building program, Created a practical model, resource, or initiative for strengthening friendships or support systems, Built a meaningful local community or recurring social gathering, Published or developed expertise in teen friendship, parenting, or interpersonal skills

Recent Guest Discussions

Jennifer Hobbs - Friendship Commitment Ceremonies, Friendship Rituals, Written Vows, And Publicly Celebrating Important Friendships.

Sheri Gazitt - Teen Friendship Drama, Social-emotional Skills, Conflict, Harmful Labels, Identity, And Parents' Role In Guiding Friendship Struggles.

Molly Menning - Making Mom Friends, Hosting Recurring Gatherings, Loneliness, Vulnerability, And Building Community Through Small Social Events.

Recent Topics

Relationships, Friendship, Adult Friendships, Loneliness, Conflict Resolution

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Friendship IRL: Real Talk About Friendship, Community, and What It Actually Takes

When Friendship Doesn’t Look Like You Thought It Would

October 08, 2026

Have you ever seen someone else’s friendship online and immediately felt that little pang? One day I started thinking about the TV show Friends, and girls’ trips, and the friend groups online who live next door to each other or travel with five families or somehow make the version of friendship we imagined look effortless.And then I had to stop myself, because I have beautiful friendships and do cool things with my friends all the time. So why did one reel on social media make me feel like I ...

What a Ugandan Village Taught Tom Karrel About Belonging

October 01, 2026

Everyone is talking about building a village right now. It’s on social media, in parenting forums, in wellness content, in the conversations we have when we’re exhausted and lonely and wondering why support feels so hard to find.But how many of us have actually experienced a REAL village? Today’s guest, Tom Karrel, has spent a lot of time thinking about it.Tom is the author of The Lost Art of Random Conversations, and he has more than 10,000 hours of group facilitation experience across 45 co...

Financial Literacy as a Friendship Goal & Money Conversations We Should Be Having With Friends

September 24, 2026

Do you talk about money with your friends? Money can bring up jealousy, comparison, shame, judgment, and all kinds of feelings we may not want to bring into our friendships. But I also think there is so much power in these conversations.You do not have to start by sharing your salary, your mortgage payment, or the amount in your savings account. Sometimes talking about money means sharing a budgeting app, a credit card strategy, a financial goal, a resource, a work benefit, a business decisio...

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