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When friendship-based creative projects change the underlying relationship

My friend and I started this podcast because we love talking to each other, but now that we have an audience I'm realizing she performs our friendship for the microphone in ways that feel strange to me. Our real conversations are quieter and more thoughtful but the show version of us is becoming this exaggerated thing that I don't recognize.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The public performance of a private bond is creating distortion in both the creative work and the foundational relationship.

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