Two Peas on a Pod
A podcast that takes adult friendship seriously, hosted by clinical psychologist Dr. Miriam Kirmayer. Each episode explores the many layers of friendship through real conversations, expert perspectives, and answers to questions we often don't know how to ask. The show covers topics like conflict, change, closeness, and personal growth, offering practical tools for showing up more intentionally in relationships. Thoughtful and revealing, it combines stories, science, and the secrets behind how we connect with the people who matter most.
Episodes
Office Ours: Different Lives, Different Jobs, Different Ages... Same Friendship Questions
What if the friendship questions you'd never dare ask your group chat are the ones everyone is secretly wondering about?For our very first Two Peas Q&A, Dr. Miriam is answering your questions, sent in over Instagram, email, voice messages, her Friendly Advice newsletter, and conversations at events. Whether she's talking to college students, CEOs, or healthcare leaders, the same quest
Rory O'Malley & Jenny Kanelos: Twenty Years of Showing Up For Each Other
What does it take to stay best friends for twenty years, across three coasts, and a loss neither of you saw coming?Meet Today's Peas: Rory O'Malley is a Tony-nominated Broadway actor known for The Book of Mormon and Hamilton, and for co-founding the marriage equality nonprofit Broadway Impact. Jenny Kanelos co-founded Broadway Impact alongside Rory and the late Gavin Creel, mobilizing tho
Office Ours: The Connection Habit (with Happiness Expert, Gretchen Rubin)
What if connection didn't have to be something you reinvent from scratch every single time?Gretchen Rubin has made a career out of asking one big question: what makes us happy? She's the bestselling author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before, The Four Tendencies, Life in Five Senses, and most recently, Secrets of Adulthood, with millions of copies sold in over 30 languages. She h
X-CETRA: Finding Your Way Back To Old Friendships
What if that embarrassing thing you did as a teenager turned out to be exactly what brought your oldest friendships back to life?Meet Today's Peas: Jessica, Ayden, Janet, and Mary have been friends since they were kids, and even forming their own girl band as teenagers called X-Cetra. Ayden, now a professional actor, directed the group's reunion documentary, Summer 2000: The X-Cetra Story
Office Ours: One Affirming Adult Can Save a Life (with Jaymes Black, CEO of the Trevor Project)
What if the friendship you needed most as a kid never showed up, so you built it for millions of others instead?Jaymes Black is the CEO of The Trevor Project, the leading suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ+ young people. Jaymes spent childhood and adolescence without a friend group who truly understood, including being outed in high school and ultimately dec
Joslyn & Lily: From Indispensable Intern to Inseparable Besties
What does real friendship look like beyond the highlight reel?Before they were two of the most recognizable faces in early YouTube pop culture coverage, Joslyn was a host at ClevverTV and Lily was her unpaid intern, commuting hours from Thousand Oaks and working restaurant shifts on the side just to be in the room. What started as an intern-and-boss dynamic dissolved almost immediately in
Office Ours: A Real Guide to Adult Friendship
Is it just me, or does making new friends as an adult feel so much harder than it used to?In this solo Office Ours, Dr. Miriam breaks down why the friendships that used to happen by accident stop happening once real life gets in the way. She walks through the three real reasons adult friendship gets harder (vanishing structure, the mere exposure effect, and follow through fatigue), then b
Heidi Clements & Constance Zimmer: Finding Your People at Every Age
What if the same instant spark you feel falling in love could happen with a friend?Meet Today's Peas: Constance Zimmer is an actress known for iconic, sharp-edged roles in Entourage, UnREAL, House of Cards, and Love Story. Heidi Clements is a television producer, writer, social media force, and pro-aging influencer.Constance and Heidi's friendship started, of all places, in a business mee
Office Ours: Busy Isn't Better (with Dr. Jessica Stern)
What if the busiest thing about your friendships isn't your calendar, but the story you're telling yourself?Dr. Jessica B. Stern is a licensed clinical psychologist, a faculty member at NYU Langone Health, and the host of Doctor Radio on SiriusXM. She's also the founder of Three Lemons, a firm that helps people and organizations reduce burnout and build more sustainable ways of working.Dr
Love on the Spectrum’s Lise & Nicci: Stronger Together
What does it mean to care deeply for someone else without losing yourself in the process?Meet Today's Peas: You'll recognize Lise Smith and Nicci Smith from Netflix's Love on the Spectrum, but behind the cameras, they've built a remarkable friendship of their own. What started with raising their sons, Connor and Tanner, together grew into Talk To Me Sis, the podcast where honesty, humor,
Office Ours: Mom Needs a Moment (with Dr. Cassidy Freitas)
When was the last time you had a moment? Not a vacation, not even an afternoon off, just a moment to breathe before you react, to notice what you're feeling before it spills onto the people you love most.Dr. Cassidy Freitas is a licensed marriage and family therapist, the author of Mom Needs a Moment, and the host and creator of the Holding Space podcast. She's also a mom of three, a bird
Eden Sher & Brock Ciarlelli: A Friendship Built Off Script
What happens when the friendship that got you through growing up on a hit TV show has to survive real life once the cameras stop rolling? That's the story of Eden Sher and Brock Ciarlelli...Eden and Brock met as teenagers on the set of The Middle, playing Sue Heck and Brad Bottig for nine seasons before it became something more than a job. These days, Eden's debut comedy special, I Was On
Attica & Tembi Locke: Sisters Who Chose Friendship
What if the letter that saved your closest relationship started with "I hate you"?Meet today's Peas: Tembi Locke is a New York Times bestselling author whose memoir From Scratch inspired the popular Netflix series. Attica Locke is an acclaimed novelist (Black Water Rising, Heaven, My Home, Guide Me Home) who also helped bring her sister's memoir to the screen as showrunner on From Scratch
Office Ours: Friendship Breakups (Part 2: Ghosting, Slow Fades & the Breakup Talk)
There's no right way to end a friendship, but there is a wrong one.Dr. Miriam closes out the two-part Office Ours series on friendship breakups with the part nobody teaches us: how to actually let go of a friend. She starts with the five questions to ask yourself before deciding whether a friendship is worth saving. From there, the four ways friendships really end: the slow fade, the comp
Office Ours: Friendship Breakups (Part 1: The Hurt Nobody Talks About)
What if the hardest breakup you ever go through isn't romantic at all? If you've ever felt more heartbroken over losing a friend than a romantic partner, you are not alone, and you're definitely not overreacting. Friendship breakups don't come with a script. No agreed-upon custody battle for mutual friends, no ritual to eat ice cream and listen to a sad playlist. Just silence, and a grief
Jamison Lange & Alaire Thomas: Creating Content & Fast Friendships
What makes a friendship feel different from a networking lunch? Jamison Lange and Alaire Thomas know the answer, and it starts with a DM about an uncredited video, a brunch that ran four hours, and a vibe that neither of them could fully explain, but both of them immediately felt.Meet Today's Peas: Jamison is a content creator known for his viral transition videos and boundary-p
Office Ours: Modern Loss (with Rebecca Soffer)
What if grief didn't have to be something you move through alone even when it feels like no one else could possibly understand what you're carrying? On this episode of Office Ours, Dr. Miriam sits down with Rebecca Soffer to talk about what it really means to show up for someone who's grieving and what it means to let people show up f
Pauline Chalamet, Lily Sondik & Zoe Mylonas: Across the Globe and Still Inseparable
What does it take to keep a friendship alive across different cities, different countries, and every version of who you're becoming? Pauline Chalamet, Lily Sondik, and Zoe Mylonas have been figuring that out since they were teenagers. Meet Today’s Peas: Pauline is an American-French actress and writer, best known for her role as Kimberly Finkle on HBO Max's T
Office Ours: The Unicorn Friend at Work (with Fahd Alhattab)
What if the most underrated career move you could make was... making a friend? In this Office Ours episode, Dr. Miriam sits down with Fahd Alhattab, startup workplace expert, leadership strategist, and founder of Unicorn Labs, for a conversation about why connection at work isn't a distraction from the job. It is the job. From Halloween culture shock on his first night in Canada to n
Ashley I. & Naz: An Untold Bachelor in Paradise Soulmate Story
The real love story from Bachelor in Paradise? Ashley I and Naz. This week on Two Peas on a Pod, Dr. Miriam sits down with longtime best friends Ashley Iaconetti and Naz Perez to unpack the friendship that began behind the scenes of Bachelor in Paradise and lasted long after the cameras stopped rolling. From bonding over MAC’s Ruby Woo lipstick and navigating heartbreak together
It's Time to Rethink Your Friendships
Here's a secret nobody's talking about: you're probably undervaluing your friendships. And it's not your fault.Dr. Miriam Kirmayer is a clinical psychologist and one of the world's leading experts on adult friendship. She's spent two decades trying to understand why friendship is our most valuable and most overlooked relationship. In this very first episode, she's making her opening
Office Ours: The Power Pause (with Neha Ruch)
What if stepping back was actually your next big step forward? Neha Ruch is an author, researcher, and the founder of The Power Pause, a movement that is quietly dismantling one of the most outdated stories we tell about ambition: that if you slow down, you're falling behind. On this episode of Office Ours, Dr. Miriam sits down with Neha to unpack what it really means to take a pause
Tabitha Brown & Nic Few: How Friends Become Family
What happens when a director tells you you're falling flat, and you become inseparable anyway? That's the story of Tabitha Brown and Nic Few, and it's one for the books. Tab is the internet's best friend: two-time Emmy Award-winning TV host, bestselling author, and warm voice millions turn to every day. Nic is an NAACP Award-winning actor, prod
Introducing 'Two Peas on a Pod'
Your friendships called...they want your attention. Two Peas on a Pod is hosted by Dr. Miriam Kirmayer, clinical psychologist and one of the world's leading experts on adult friendship, and it's the podcast that finally takes your closest relationships as seriously as you do.Each week, Dr. Miriam takes you inside the many layers of friendship, through r
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