New Friends with Jordana Bryant

eli patterson’s new song “spin the bottle” blew up on social media last week — millions of views, love from artists like julia michaels and david kushner, and comments pouring in from people saying “this is exactly how i feel.”

in this episode, we talk about the power of vulnerability, the pressure to be confident when you don’t always feel it, and how scary it is to share your insecurities with the world.

we also open up about compa...

in this solo episode, we're diving into something so many of us—especially girls—struggle with: people pleasing. i talk about why it’s so hard to stop trying to make everyone happy (even when it’s killing you in the process), and how sometimes putting yourself first can feel selfish—even when it’s the healthiest thing you can do. i share what’s been helping me recently, from talking to fellow people pleasers (shoutout mom 😁) to ge...

back by popular demand (and because we missed each other), lily grace is on the pod for round two—and we’re talking about everything. from cancun tan fails and crashing an office party where a married guy hit on us 😬 to the not-so-glamorous parts of chasing your dreams 24/7.

we get real about what it’s like putting your career first when your friends are doing the whole college thing, how dating guys your own age is weird when you’...

in this solo episode, i’m sharing the story behind new friends—a song i wrote when i was 16 and going through one of the most painful friendship shifts of my life. it was about feeling someone pull away and wishing things could just go back to the way they were.

but what came out of that heartbreak changed everything.

i talk about how writing new friends helped me process something really hard—and how the song that started from hurt ...

Skylar Lee and I go way back—we first met at a songwriters round a few years ago and reconnected recently after I hit her up for a Raya referral lol. In this episode, we talk about being artists from PA (home to legends like Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter), what we’ve learned from taking different paths after high school, and why chasing your dreams takes more than talent—it takes patience, grit, and speaking them out loud. We ...

Lately I’ve been feeling this pressure to hurry up—to be further ahead in life, in my career, in everything. And honestly? I think a lot of us feel that way, even if we don’t say it out loud. In this first solo episode of New Friends, I’m opening up about how that pressure has shown up in my own life, how comparison has shaped the way I view success, and why I’ve had to remind myself that my younger self would be proud of me—even i...

In this episode of New Friends, I’m joined by my friend and fellow artist Ava Liv Mabry, and we dove into all the little things that make friendships last—especially the ones where you go months without talking and somehow pick up like nothing changed. We talked about meeting when we were 14 (filming a cover that we’re both very thankful never saw the light of day 😂), how we reconnected recently, and the ways we stay close to frie...

This week I’m joined by my friend Juliana Talbert, and we’re talking all things college, friendship, and dating—aka the full Belmont experience. We get into how we met at Berklee’s 5-week summer program, staying close with hometown friends while making new ones, and what it’s like joining a sorority. Juliana also breaks down the 5 G’s that every Belmont guy seems to fall under, we share our dating red flags and icks, and she opens ...

This week I’m joined by my friend and duet partner Joseph O’Brien—aka the guy who got ghosted by his now-fiancée and still somehow ended up engaged in less than 3 months. We talk about how we met working on our new song “Out of the Blue”, navigating dating in and outside the music world, and yes… the Hinge horror story that gave me mono. Plus, Joseph answers 5 questions every girl wants a guy’s honest opinion on (like: do guys stal...

This week I’m joined by my friend and songwriting collaborator Lydia Sutherland—who you might know as the co-writer of Miles Don’t Matter on my new EP. We open up about today’s pressure to always look “camera-ready,” struggling with disordered eating, and the many influences that shape how we see our bodies. We also talk about how social media affects self-worth, and what it’s like when your image starts to feel like your identity ...