Lovely readers, I hope this week is being kind to you. I’m really really making a conscious effort to make the most of these longer days and this heat (despite my previous grumbles) before it all slips through our fingers.
I’ve been thinking about friendships this week. It’s one of the unintended silver linings of what I do as a podcaster. Generally speaking, I’ve not met many of the women I interview - but I feel we have a beautiful appreciation of each other - we spend a really intimate hour together during our podcast interview discussing things that are deep and personal and in some cases things they have never spoken about with anyone before - the huge privilege of this is something I never underestimate - and the long lasting result is a friendship of sorts for which I feel really lucky to have! Not everyone gets to do this and it means, for me a unique kind of friendship with incredible women all over the place.
Bec Bignell, our guest on Company this week of one such person - …