I read some books on friendship and now I think I know it all. Books mentioned: Palaces for the People by Eric Klinenberg Podcast episode of me interviewing him: https://play.acast.com/s/vintagepodcast/savingthelibraries-ericklinenberg Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict by Elizabeth Day Billy No-Mates: How I Realised Men Have a Friendship Problem by Max Dickins /// SUPPORT /// JOIN THE GUMPTION CLUB: https://www.patreon.com/thegumptionclub Being in the club means you get: a free weekly podcast, access to a secret facebook group, a free poetry collection and play written by me, access to livestreams AND you get to access to all my videos before anyone else sees them! CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP - for those lovely people who don't want to use Patreon and aren't bothered about the patreon perks, but who'd like to buy me a drink as a thank you for the free videos... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpqf-UHCeCSd0BqoxxrDv8g/join ORDER my poetry collection, BARGAIN BIN ROM-COM! https://linktr.ee/bargainbinromcom // COME AND HANG WITH ME IN BETWEEN UPLOADS // IF NEWSLETTERS ARE YOUR THING, sign up to get a little letter in your inbox from me once in a while! As a thank you for signing up, you’ll get a FREE downloadable list of my best books of all time: https://leenanorms.substack.com/subscribe INSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/leenanorms TWITTER: https://twitter.com/leenanorms I use Octopus Energy which are a clean green sustainable energy company - if you're in the UK and are curious, here are the two videos I talk about them in: https://youtu.be/O0TR7RvVRlI and https://youtu.be/IEqf94lb44U And here's my referral link if you'd like to get £50 off (I get £50 off too, woo!) https://share.octopus.energy/fun-hawk-883 All music used is licensed through Epidemic Sound - I've been using them for years and hand-on-heart it's really fab. You get unlimited use of their music per month for a pretty bargain fee. Here's my referral link (if you sign up through it I get a free month): https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/1b1yhj/ If you're a company that makes plastic-free products, pays their tax and doesn't exploit people, I'd love to hear from you if you'd like to sponsor the channel: [email protected]