The Yeah, No, For Sure Show | Friendship Takes the Mic

Season one finale of The Yeah, No, For Sure Show—a friendship podcast about female friendship, midlife friendship, chosen family, and the lessons we learn when we finally look closely at the relationships that shape us. In this finale, I revisit the moments, clips, and guest reflections that stopped me this season: what Katharine realized about building things with friends, what happened to Marcy’...

There’s always one friend you watch everything with—the one who gets your 11pm recap text, the one who made you watch it in the first place, the one whose name comes up every time a new season drops. This episode is for her, and for you. Holly Curtis is back—creative director, sauna companion, and the friend who helped build this brand with me—and today we’re each revealing our top five friendship...

What does friendship actually feel like at 13 when middle school drama hits hardest and you're figuring out who your people are?  This week I sit down with my daughter Emma and her best friend Sierra, both 13 and in 8th grade, for a conversation about what friendship looks like right now from the inside.  You'll hear the four words Sierra said in a fourth-grade recess line that started their whole...

Jeanne McDermott gave the eulogy for her oldest friend two weeks before we sat down together. She’d known her since she was ten years old. Alice Markowitz, filmmaker and Jeanne’s closest friend for nearly 50 years, was sitting right beside her. The three of us talked about how beautiful it is to hold a friendship across an entire life: what you gain, what you lose, and what you carry forward when...

There's a particular kind of longing that hits in midlife—not for more friends exactly, but for a friend nearby. Someone whose door you can walk to. Someone who knows your life because she's actually in it. My neighbor Marcy Yeager sent me a text she rewrote 800 times—and what followed was one of those rare friendships that sneaks up on you. We talk about how cul‑de‑sac Halloweens and carpooling t...

Have you ever asked your friends how they actually feel about your friendship - what it means to them, what they need from you, how it's really going? Most of us never do. Even though we talk to our friends for hours, for decades. This week there's no guest, just me on the couch halfway through season one, sharing the biggest revelation these first six conversations have given me: turning the lens...

What happens when someone who isn’t a “match” on paper becomes one of your most important people—and stays that way? I sit down with Sarah Orr, my daughter Emma’s former outdoor school teacher, our family’s nanny, coworker and creative collaborator for over a decade, and in a few months, a mother herself. Sarah came into my life when she was 23 and I was almost 40, and for the last thirteen years...

What if you actually bought a vacation home with your closest friends? Executive coach and writer Katharine Campbell Hirst did—and this conversation will make you want to call your people the second it’s over. We talk about co‑owning a seven‑bedroom house with sixteen friends (yes, the legal docs and money conversations), the Burning Man origin story, and what it feels like to stand on a deck and...

What happens when the person who’s known you your whole life becomes your closest friend—and what does it take to actually get there? This week I sit down with my sister Megan, the only person on earth who has seen every version of me—the awkward ones and the becoming ones—for a conversation I’ve been wanting to have for years. With a six-year age gap between us, we weren’t always close. We were s...

My friend Alisa told me something completely matter‑of‑fact: “I suck at friendship.” Not apologetically. Not with shame. Just as a plain, true thing. Alisa loves people. She’s a birth doula, amateur cattle rancher, and the woman who became my founder doula during the hardest years of building Pumpspotting. She listens in a way that makes you feel fully seen. She just has a very specific idea of wh...

What happens when reality TV says no, but your friendship says yes and you build something impossible together anyway? I sit down with Lindsey Witmer Collins, the brilliant software architect and tech founder who saw my Pumpspotting pitch deck and believed I’d succeed before we’d even met. We pitched to Gwyneth Paltrow and Will.i.am on a moving escalator for Apple TV’s Planet of the Apps , got all...

If you're in the messy middle of life craving friends who truly get you, welcome to the campfire. I’m Amy VanHaren, and in this first episode, I share how friendship carried me through business collapse, perimenopause, and outgrowing old connections — and why I’m starting a show about the beautiful mess of showing up for your people. In this episode, I talk about the loneliness epidemic, shifting...

What happens when a friendship hits a breaking point, and you choose to repair it instead of run? I sit down with Holly Curtis—brilliant creative director, sauna companion, and the friend who answered the phone when I had my first panic attack in an orthodontist parking lot. Holly and I have been friends for a decade, we're on each other's emergency contact lists for literally everything, and we a...

This is the podcast that makes you want to text your people. Celebrating every season of friendship: the joy, the mess, the changing dynamics. Because without friends, life is f*cking lonely. The friendship podcast you've been craving starts February 4. New episodes drop every Wednesday at 5:30am. Hit subscribe. Text your people. Pull up a chair. Join the community: yeahnoforsure.show @theyeahnofo...