The Friend Lab

Text us to be featured on the show! Liz gets told to "calm down" mid-livestream — and it cracks open a lifelong wound about being "too much." Bryce and Liz talk being a lot, not being enough, and why that combo makes you exactly who your people need. 🩵 Follow The Friend Lab on Instagram About Liz McKean: Liz is a hypnotherapist, yoga teacher, and creator of spaces where people...

Text us to be featured on the show! Bryce receives a mysterious "Best Buddy Ever" shirt in the mail... and has absolutely no idea who sent it. What starts as a hilarious detective story turns into something much deeper. Bryce and Liz explore what it means to let people know they've changed your life while you still have the chance. From moving away and saying "see you later,&qu...

Text us to be featured on the show! Birthdays are supposed to be exciting. So why do they feel so complicated? Bryce and Liz get into time, identity, expectations, and why the best birthday Bryce ever had may have been the one where nobody even knew it was happening. Follow The Friend Lab on Instagram About Liz McKean: Liz is a hypnotherapist, yoga teacher, and creator of spaces where people can u...

Text us to be featured on the show! Liz is moving. Again.  What does packing up your life and starting over teach you about the relationships that actually last? Bryce and Liz get into identity, geography, and why the real ones stay tapped in no matter the zip code. Follow The Friend Lab on Instagram About Liz McKean: Liz is a hypnotherapist, yoga teacher, and creator of spaces where people can un...

Text us to be featured on the show! How do you show up fully for the people you love without losing yourself in the process? In this episode of The Friend Lab, Bryce and Liz get into one of the most honest conversations the pod has had yet — the real tension between being a considerate person and being a self-advocate. Liz opens up about how recovery literally forced her to break through a lifelon...

Text us to be featured on the show! Sometimes friendship looks like family counseling. Sometimes it looks like catching a stranger in a mosh pit. This week on The Friend Lab, Bryce and Liz unpack a Baby Keem concert that went sideways (in the best and worst ways), talk about the "scrolling season" ( are you a SCROLLy Polly??) we all fall into, and remind us that real conversation is stil...

Text us to be featured on the show! Bryce walked out of the movie Obsession and immediately needed to talk about it — so naturally, he hit record. The premise: one wish, and someone is magically compelled to love you. Sounds like a fantasy. Turns out it's kind of a horror story. In this episode, Bryce and Liz use that as a jumping-off point to dig into what real connection actually requires —...

Text us to be featured on the show! Bryce hit record mid-conversation — and this is what came out. In this episode, he and Liz dig into something we've all felt but rarely talk about: why the same information hits completely differently depending on who's delivering it. When it's someone you trust, someone who knows your heart and your history, even the scary stuff feels manageable....

Text us to be featured on the show! Ok ya dirty birdy, we're not talking about THOSE benefits! BUT all friendship has benefits - and some are more... material than others. But when does a friendship cross the line from beneficial to... transactional?  Well, that's what we're discussing today.  Let us know what you think! We love ya. -Liz & Bryce Follow The Friend Lab on Instagra...

Text us to be featured on the show! Bryce and Liz have a convo that starts as a catch up and delves into EVERYTHING going on in their lives currently, which begs the question...can we really show up anywhere without ALL of us present in some way?? Follow The Friend Lab on Instagram About Liz McKean: Liz is a hypnotherapist, yoga teacher, and creator of spaces where people can unshame their coping...

Text us to be featured on the show! The Friend Lab was LIVE on Substack a few weeks ago, and this is the convo we had! If you haven't already, join us over on Substack for the chance to join us on an upcoming live. If you like it, we'll do more of these! Ironically -or is it serendipidously? - we talk a lot in this episode about being IN THE MOMENT and how that can be challenging when yo...

Text us to be featured on the show! Did you know there is a loneliness epidemic among men? Bryce did NOT want to have this conversation, so of course we had to have it. And we're so glad we did, because you a deserve a positive, action-oriented perspective, and that's what we have for you today. Ways to connect if you're feeling disconnected. The positive impact of connection for ev...

Text us to be featured on the show! We are tackling the big topics on the Friend Lab! AI- friend or foe to connection, to mental health, to... society? We don't know. But we sure do have opinions!  From ChatGPT whispering sweet nothings in our ears, to ours and others' conflicting feelings about whether AI in mental health is a good or bad thing (or somewhere in between), to questions ab...

Text us to be featured on the show! The bad news is, Fruity Pebbles are just colorful rice bits now, and pizza rolls have lost their spark. The good news is, we think we can we retrain our adult brains to center joy, to be in the moment with grace & compassion, and to live more like we did as kids, while we're still here. We chat about reasons joy can feel harder to find as an adult: is i...

Text us to be featured on the show! Friend Lab fam, did you catch us live on Substack ? It won't be the last time so subscribe over there if you haven't yet- we can't wait to connect! On today's episode, we talk about intellectual partnerships, what supportive love for friends looks and feels like, and what it means to be experimenting & growing in our relationships. We als...

Text us to be featured on the show! How the evolution of our stories and the way that we tell them change who we are and how we relate to the world...also Kool aid man babyyyy Follow The Friend Lab on Instagram About Liz McKean: Liz is a hypnotherapist, yoga teacher, and creator of spaces where people can unshame their coping tools and finally feel better. About Bryce The Third: When it comes to t...

Text us to be featured on the show! Friends don't make friends feel bad about tummy trouble. In this episode, we relive some IBS childhood trauma and find a way to make it about friendship! We also celebrate March 4th, a.k.a. "March Forth!," we're talking gratitude, spiritual practices, and how both of those evolve over time.  (Shout out to Stinky Jeff, who inspired the masses...

Text us to be featured on the show! As they all are, this episode is my fave. Bryce and I are friends on and off this show, so we talk often. And amidst all that talking, we disagree sometimes. And by sometimes, I mean a LOT. We actually disagree at the very start of this conversation! (and I'm writing the description this week so I get to say that I'm right. This is Liz btw)  We talk ab...

Text us to be featured on the show! This is a special one. To start, I tell not only THE Starfish Story, but the story behind my connection to the story, and why I believe we are all starfish in this sea of humanity. We all need love and connection- and each other. Did you know I used to be a nurse? And did you know it's uncool to say "homie-g?" Some things I have to learn along wit...

Text us to be featured on the show! Maybe we'll chill with the hyperbole in the show titles one day but that day ain't today :)  -Bryce  Follow The Friend Lab on Instagram About Liz McKean: Liz is a hypnotherapist, yoga teacher, and creator of spaces where people can unshame their coping tools and finally feel better. About Bryce The Third: When it comes to the most authentic and impactf...

Text us to be featured on the show! Friendship and connection are, often at the same time, amazing experiences AND challenging. We doubled back on this episode to dive deeper for each other and for you all and we encourage you to do the same for the people that you care about!  -Bryce  Follow The Friend Lab on Instagram About Liz McKean: Liz is a hypnotherapist, yoga teacher, and creator of spaces...

Text us to be featured on the show! Tbh, Liz and I are both married so wth do we know about dating…but love? Now there’s something we’re both qualified to yap about. This is a good one. Press play you love birds ;) - Bryce  Follow The Friend Lab on Instagram About Liz McKean: Liz is a hypnotherapist, yoga teacher, and creator of spaces where people can unshame their coping tools and finally feel b...

Text us to be featured on the show! Comparing our actual friendships to what we see on "Friends" and "Sex and The City" will probably leave us sad AF. Good thing we can stop that comparison...like right this very moment. Let's talk about it. Also, wtf was up with that "Stranger Things" finale??  - Bryce  Follow The Friend Lab on Instagram About Liz McKean: Liz is...

Text us to be featured on the show! I'm literally up the night before this is due to go out to you, our wonderful friends, putting this description together. If you HATE the term "networking", always wondered what it'd be like to randomly join an improv class and/or have absolutely no idea what Internal Family Systems therapy is.. there's some REALLY good stuff in here. So...

Text us to be featured on the show! Check in on your friends today! I will too. Even if it moves my cheese. (Listen in for too many cheese puns.) We love ya. -Liz Follow The Friend Lab on Instagram About Liz McKean: Liz is a hypnotherapist, yoga teacher, and creator of spaces where people can unshame their coping tools and finally feel better. About Bryce The Third: When it comes to the most authe...