Shasta Nelson is a friendship expert and a leading voice on loneliness and creating healthy relationships. Whether she’s speaking at conferences or on TEDx stages or giving media interviews to outlets such as the New York Times and The Washington Post, she is constantly teaching all of us how to create healthier and more fulfilling relationships in our lives.

Shasta’s latest book, The Business of Friendship: Making the Most of Relationships Where We Spend Most of Our Time, teaches us why we need to foster better relationships in our jobs and that’s what we’re diving into today.

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In this episode, Shasta shares how our relationships impact our physical and mental health, that more friendships at work do not always equal more drama in the workplace, the benefits of cultivating workplace friendships as a leader in your organization, that friendships are still possible in a highly competitive environment, the role vulnerability place in workplace friendships, why she doesn’t like it when people say it’s lonely at the top, how she is personally handling the relationships in her life with people who have differing political views than she does, how she developed her voice of influence, and more.