Helping 20,000+ busy adults build better friendships — one small move at a time. From Matt Ritter, co-host of Man of the Year, the #1 podcast on adult friendship and and author of The Buddy System on Audible. Start the seven day challenge today— and make connection a habit.
What Eric Church's Viral Speech had to say about Friendship
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The Friendship Habit
Helping 20,000+ busy adults build better friendships — one small move at a time. From Matt Ritter, co-host of Man of the Year, the #1 podcast on adult friendship and and author of The Buddy System on Audible. Start the seven day challenge today— and make connection a habit.
“I wrote 52 newsletters about friendship. Here’s everything I know in one email.” (2-3 minute read) Hey Reader, 52 issues. One full year. The first one went out to 543 people from my kitchen at 11pm. Now there’s over 25,000 of you. I went back through every issue and pulled the 13 ideas that seemed to change the way people thought about friendship. Before we get into it, if this newsletter has meant something to you this year, forward it to one friend and ask them to subscribe. That’s it. One...
“Old houses need maintenance. Old marriages need maintenance. Old friendships do too.” (2-3 minute read) Hey Reader, Every time someone tells me they have a "low-maintenance friendship," I get a little suspicious. Because most of the time, they're not describing a low-maintenance friendship. They're describing a no-maintenance friendship. In our Audible original, The Buddy System, I joke that men love bragging about this. "We can go ten years without talking and pick right back up where we...
"Looking back, my dad wasn't ordering coffee. He was buying time." (2-3 minute read) Hey Reader, Every Father's Day is bittersweet when your own father is gone. But having kids of my own has made me realize something I completely missed when he was alive. My dad always wanted to extend the evening. After dinner he'd suggest a walk, a cappuccino, or some errand that absolutely could have waited until tomorrow. At the time, I never thought much about it. My siblings and I were in our twenties....