Leveled Up Friendships
Leveled Up Friendships is a show for adults who want richer, more meaningful friendships — but sense that something about their relationships isn’t quite working the way they hoped.
Maybe conversations feel surface-level. Maybe you’re always the one reaching out. Maybe a friendship feels tense, draining, or confusing and you’re not sure why. Or maybe you simply want friendships that are deeper, more honest, and more supportive than the ones you currently have.
On this show, host Zoe Asher explores the real dynamics behind adult friendships — the unspoken expectations, awkward conversations, misunderstandings, emotional blind spots, and growth moments that shape our relationships.
Through honest reflection, practical questions, and real-life examples, Zoe helps listeners become more self-aware and intentional in how they show up as a friend. Because the fastest way to improve your friendships isn’t trying to change everyone around you — it’s learning how to level up the kind of friend you are.
Episodes explore topics like navigating difficult conversations, repairing strained friendships, recognizing one-sided dynamics, reconnecting with old friends, setting healthy expectations, and building friendships that can handle honesty and growth.
If you’ve ever wondered:
-Why do some friendships fade while others grow stronger?
-Why do certain relationship patterns keep repeating?
-How do you build friendships that actually last?
You’re in the right place.
Because great friendships don’t happen accidentally. They level up when we do.
www.accidentallyintentional.com . To contact the podcast and/or request a booking for Zoe to be on your show or speak at your event, please email: contact@leveledupfriendships.com
Episodes
138 episodes
The Podcast’s First 1-Star Rating Arrived: This Was My Reaction...
It was bound to happen at some point, but I wasn't prepared for how it would feel. If you are struggling with negativity, or perhaps trying to fully protect yourself from any negative criticism at all, give this a listen! It's bound to encourag...
How to Find and Become an Intentional Friend | Conversation with my BFF, Brooke Hiott
To find an amazing friend is one thing, but to actively work to become an intentional friend yourself is another thing entirely. So, today I recruited the best person I could think of to discuss this with...my best friend Brooke (aka the world'...
How to Go From Dreamer to Doer & Take Action This Year | Conversation with Therapist Turned Stylist, Rachel Wallick
The hardest part about chasing a dream is...well, just starting, and taking that first step. This past year, my friend Rachel started at zero and since taken SO MANY steps to move the needle forward on her dreams, refusing to let a global...
How to Talk About Your Faith with Someone Who Doesn't Agree | Conversation with a Christian Apologist
How exactly can we navigate a conversation about our faith with someone who vehemently disagrees, or has a very different opinion? Kind of intimidating right? Today I brought in truly one of the best, and it's my very own brother! As a Christia...
Singleness, Shame, and What the Gospel Means For All of Us | Conversation with Global Speaker, Lou Phillips, Part 2
We are back with PART 2! Continuing our conversation on "How to Be Content and Happy While Single," Lou and I now dive even deeper in this second part to more nuanced facets of singleness. We discuss shame, regret, temptation, how married/datin...
How to Be Content & Happy When You're Single + The Meaning of Marriage | Conversation with Global Speaker Lou Phillips, Part 1
He's a global speaker, and he also has been single for these past 29 years of his life. I couldn't think of a better person to sit down with and discuss practical ways in which people can learn to be not only content, but joyful and happy in th...
Church Hurt: How to Navigate and Heal | A Conversation Between 2 Friends Who Hurt Each Other, with Mackenzie Te'o and Zoe Asher
If you've ever been to, or even associated with a church before, there is a high chance you have experienced "church hurt." It's the act of being hurt by someone in a church. It's an important conversation to have, and in this episode, Mackenzi...
How Someone "Stole My Idea"...and What Our Brains Are Really Trying to Tell Us
Someone "stole my idea". Well, technically I let them. It's confusing, I know. In this short bonus episode, I share what happened, and how a recent conversation with a friend brought this moment back to my memory. I have since learned what the ...
How To Find Someone's Strengths and Unleash Their Full Potential | Conversation with Molyneaux Flooring COO, Melissa Molyneaux-McFarland
Have you ever met someone that just has the gift of being able to spot potential strengths in a person before they may even see it in themselves? My great friend Melissa Molyneaux-McFarland is the MASTER at doing this, and today she is going to...
How He Became A Millionaire - From Quitting a 6-Figure Job, to Building a Company with 10,000+ Clients, & Everything In-Between | Convo with Entrepreneur, Taylor Hiott
Why in the world would someone quit their very comfortable 6-figure salary to take a huge risk and start a company?! In this conversation, which is more of an interview style, I sit down with one of my friends Taylor Hiott, who quit his job as ...
3 Ways To Make Sure The Phrase "I Don't Know How To Do It" Does NOT Stop You From Moving Forward!
One of my New Year's Resolutions for 2020 was to launch this very podcast. It could have been launched 10 months ago, but why wasn't it? Well, in today's short episode, I get brutally honest about how one singular question that held me ba...
How to Thrive in Hollywood Without Losing Your Soul | Conversation with Film Director Spencer Folmar
I think we've all heard it before: "Hollywood is so ___ (fill in the blank with a negative phrase or connotation somehow relating to people having no soul, no moral compass etc.)" So, how then, is it possible to stay grounded in such an cut-thr...
Introducing Accidentally Intentional - Why Should I Listen To This?
In this short intro episode, I share how the podcast name came to be, how I used to not have any idea how to talk to people, why I'm now committed to dropping a new episode every other week, and what my goal is for you, the listener, with each ...