#130 Focus on Friendship Featuring Nina Badzin

Nina Badzin is the host of the top 1% charted podcast Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship. As an essayist and freelance writer, she's had numerous pieces published on a wide variety of topics, but she started focusing on friendship in 2014. Nina moved to writing solely about friendship in 2021. Her Substack, "Conversations About Friendship" is a go-to newsletter for friendship advice, and her private Facebook group, "Dear Nina: The Group," has become a community where people help each other solve friendship problems and talk about books, shows, and more.

In this episode:

• How Nina Badzin transitioned from parenting essays to writing exclusively about friendship [5:39]

• Why Nina started Dear Nina, Conversations About Friendship and how the podcast has evolved [9:45]

• The challenges of pitching to podcasts and what makes a great pitch [11:13]

• The importance of pivoting and adapting as a writer and creator [15:09]

• How Nina monetizes her writing and podcast through paid Substack subscriptions [19:54]

• How friendships evolve over time and why letting go of expectations can improve relationships [31:57]

Connect with Nina

Website

https://ninabadzin.com/

Substack

https://dearnina.substack.com

The Podcast

https://ninabadzin.com/podcasts/

TikTok

https://www.tiktok.com/@dearninafriendship

Facebook: Dear Nina: The Group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/855246118403712

Estelle’s episode on Nina’s Podcast

#97 Disclosing my Invisible Disability Increased the Intimacy in My Friendships

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dear-nina-conversations-about-friendship/id1576473592?i=1000656069611

 

Estelle Erasmus: an award-winning journalist, is the author of WRITING THAT GETS NOTICED (named a "Best Book for Writers" by Poets & Writers Magazine), a Contributing Editor for Writer's Digest, and host of the podcast Freelance Writing Direct. She is an adjunct instructor for NYU’s School of Professional Studies/Center for Publishing and Applied Liberal Arts, has written for over 150 publications, including The New York Times, Next Avenue/PBS, WIRED, The Independent,The Washington Post, and AARP: The Magazine, and was the editor-in-chief of five national publications. Find out more at estelleserasmus.com 

 

Sign up for her Substack  (with craft advice and writing opportunities). Paid subscribers receive opportunities for pitch reviews, plus bonus clips from Freelance Writing Direct guests https://estelleserasmus.substack.com