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Jan 2023

30m 39s

#8 - Whatever Happened To Work Friends?

Matt Ritter and Aaron Karo, Bleav

About this episode

The Wall Street Journal says people aren’t interested in making friends on the job anymore. Matt and Karo beg to differ and offer some tips on how to form healthy work friendships. They also discuss how they’ve made friends with their barbers, trainers, agents, and Karo’s primary care physician, who doesn’t ask him to turn and cough anymore.

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