Adult Friendships w/ Gugulethu Nyatsumba | Outgrowing Friends, Boundaries, Jealousy & Sisterhood

This one is for everyone trying to successfully navigate adult friendships👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

✰ ABOUT ✰

We’re back for another episode of According To B and my co-host for this one is fellow YouTuber, podcaster and creative entrepreneur Gugulethu Nyatsumba popularly known as Sis G.U! Join us as we talk all about adult friendships and her experiences navigating them. We also discuss adjusting to changing friendship dynamics, the importance of communication, space and healthy boundaries.

Gugulethu expresses her views on learning to evolve together and preserving the love in friendship, shares how being in community with other women saved her life, speaks on the importance of needing space in her friendships,how to create healthy and long lasting boundaries and why communication is necessary for the survival of friendship.

✰ MEET OUR CO-HOST ✰

Gugulethu Nyatsumba is a South African social media influencer, YouTuber and podcaster. She is known for her relatable, empowering and fun content coupled with a powerful and perfect voice for broadcasting voice; Nyatsumba has won the hearts of many. Her podcast After School is After School was inspired by her YouTube channel Uncomfortable Growth where many enjoyed her highly sought after/unique voice and she also saw an opportunity to translate her videos into a podcast. (She has also worked with multiple high-end brands in her capacity as a social media influencer.) Both her podcast and YouTube channel focus on topics relating to navigating the turbulence and fun of the twenties

✰ TIME STAMPS ✰

00:00 - Intro

02:56 - Understanding the origins of the name SIS GU

04:12 - About The Assembly 

06:47 - What friendship means to Gugu

07:59 - How important friendship is to Gugu

12:40 - Sustaining a good friendship 

16:19 - Outgrowing friendships

21:16 - Adjusting expectations in friendship

24:20 - Making new friends in adulthood

28:07 - Romantic relationship changing the friendship dynamic

32:29 - Comparison and envy in friendship

37:53 - How the girls should be pouring into their friendships

40:56 - Question for Gugu from the co-producer

44:47 - Where to find Gugu on social media

45:23 - Outro

✰  SOCIAL MEDIA ✰

Bokang

➜ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sheisbokang/ 

➜ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sheisbokang?lang=en

 ➜ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SheIsBokang 

The B Word

➜ Instagram: @thebword_za - https://www.instagram.com/thebword_za/ 

➜ Twitter: @thebword_za https://twitter.com/thebword_za 

➜ Tik Tok: @thebwordza https://www.tiktok.com/@thebword_za?l... 

Gugulethu

➜ Instagram: https://instagram.com/gugulethu_nyatsumba?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

➜ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Guugu_lethu?s=20

➜ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gugulethu_nyatsumba?_t=8cUxBFbyoEA&_r=1

✰ BUSINESS INQUIRIES ✰

E-mail: [email protected]

✰ TEAM/CREDITS ✰

Director: Bokang Lehlokoe

Producer: Bokang Lehlokoe & Tshegetso Moepi 

Videographer: Maxine Araujo

Editor: Nelani Majozi