20 Aug 2025

Feature interview: Are you a good friend? Are you sure?

From Afternoons, 3:10 pm on 20 August 2025

 If friends keep cancelling on you, ignoring your success, or talking behind your back it might be time to ask, are they a bad friend, or are you? Loneliness is often called an epidemic, but it's not always about lacking friends, it can be about failing to be a good one. Danielle Bayard Jackson is a friendship expert and host of the Friend Forward podcast.  She says neglect, poor communication, and one-sided effort quietly erode relationships and offers the tools to re-evaluate what it takes to have friends and to be a good friend. 

Danielle Bayard Jackson

Danielle Bayard Jackson Photo: Shaniya Clarke