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Rise Up with April Poynter
Rise Up with April Poynter
This is the unfiltered version of April.
Rise Up is a podcast about the real stuff — healing, leading, building, and figuring it out along the way.
No single lane. No neat category. Just honest conversations and solo thoughts from someone who has spent over 20 years in boardrooms, break rooms, and every space in between.
Some episodes are about chronic blushing and breaking the loop.
Some are about the alignment gap between leaders and the people doing the work.
Some are just audio messages — unscripted, unedited, straight from wherever April is in that moment.
Because some thoughts are too real to wait for a recording schedule.
All of it comes from the same place.
Just a human. Navigating being one.
All of it is Rise Up.
Come for one thing. Stay for all of it.
Learn more at www.aprilpoynter.com
Rise Up with April Poynter
73: I don't want friends
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Hear me out.
Friendship should feel like a choice and not a responsibility.
It should flow.
If friendships aren't working out for you - perhaps it's not YOU.
Perhaps, your defintiion of friendship isn't in alignment with their definition of friendship... and therefore there's just overall misalignment that creates a mismatch.
And that's okay.
Trust that you can handle the discomfort of setting boundaries and holding to them.
Trust that you can handle the discomfort of misaligned relationships coming to an end.