Today’s guest is a leading expert on friendship and how we can create healthier and more fulfilling relationships in our lives.

She speaks across the country and facilitates events for connection. She’s been quoted in the New York Times, The Washington Post, and Reader’s Digest, and has been interviewed live on over a dozen TV shows, including the TODAY Show and The Steve Harvey Show. She was selected by Facebook to be their media spokesperson and friendship expert for Friends Day 2018.

Her previous books include “Friendships Don’t Just Happen!” and “Frientimacy: How to Deepen Friendships for Lifelong Health and Happiness.” She’s taken her expertise about friendship into the workplace in her latest book, “The Business of Friendship: Making the Most of Our Relationships Where We Spend Most of Our Time.”

Her TEDx talk, “Frientimacy: The 3 Requirements of All Healthy Friendships” has been viewed over 400,000 times.

Please join me in welcoming Shasta Nelson.

In this episode we discuss:

• her thoughts on leadership: “Leadership is influence and having the influence to help people maximize who they are.”
• her journey of leadership goes back to when she was 8-years-old and her sisters were her followers.
• her original plan to become a war correspondent but how she ended up becoming a pastor and studying divinity in college.
• her passion to encourage and promote having healthy relationships.
• how she built a “match.com” but for friendship.
• how important it is to know your strengths and weaknesses in whatever industry you are in.
• how positivity, consistency, vulnerability are the basic requirements for strong  and meaningful relationships.
• how the pandemic has changed the way friendships are cultivated and nurtured.
• her transition from pastoring to coaching.

Listen, subscribe and read show notes at www.OnTheSchmooze.com – episode 223.