The Childhood Friends Who Shaped Our Identities: Kristin Nilsen
Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship
English - September 27, 2023 13:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBRelationships Society & Culture Education Self-Improvement friendship friends advice relationships making friends breakups keeping friends connections Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Episode #74 with Kristin Nilsen: Have you ever stopped to acknowledge the profound impact of your childhood friendships, even the most casual and fleeting ones, on your adult identity?
This episode is dedicated to the friends who touched our lives, even if they are no longer an active part of it.
Walk down memory lane with Kristin Nilsen, a middle-grade fiction writer and co-host of The Pop Culture Preservation Society Podcast, as we scrutinize our early social interactions and their lasting influence. We acknowledge the importance of these friendships, even those that were temporary, and appreciate the roles they played in shaping us.
Special shoutout to Braeside Elementary School and the many classmates who made my childhood so special.
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Meet Kristin Nilsen:
Kristin is the author of Worldwide Crush, a new novel for middle grade readers that unpacks and celebrates the celebrity crushes of our youth. It's also gathering a following of nostalgic middle aged readers who are having fun reliving their own first crush experiences. Kristin is also one of the co-hosts of The Pop Culture Preservation Society Podcast, a podcast devoted to preserving the cultural nuggets of the classic Gen X childhood.
Find Kristin on Instagram @kristin.nilsen.writer and on TikTok
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Let's connect over all things friendship!