The Friend Who's Known You Your Whole Life (And Happens to Be Your Sister) | 🎙️ Episode 5
Sisterhood and Becoming Best Friends With My Sister, Megan
What happens when the person who’s known you your whole life becomes your closest friend—and what does it take to actually get there?
This week I sit down with my amazing sister Megan, the only person on earth who has seen every version of me—the awkward ones and the becoming ones, even the mullet haircut ones—for a fun conversation we should have had years ago. With a six-year age gap between us, we weren’t always close. We were siblings growing up in different worlds, and there were seasons where I wasn’t the sister I wanted to be. (Raise your hand if you’ve been there and would go back 🙋♀️.) This is the honest story of how we found our way to real sisterhood and chose each other as friends in our early twenties and midlife.
Megan is a speech-language pathologist who is quietly changing the world for children and families, a mother of three, a bread baker, a thrifter, and the person whose name on my phone makes everything feel a little more okay. She was also, for a while, the little sister I was too caught up in my own inner circle to truly see. This episode is my attempt to say that out loud—and to ask her what it was really like.
We get into the camp summer where Megan wanted into my inner circle and I wasn’t paying attention, the slow burn of becoming actual friends through motherhood, a fight in Chicago I’m not proud of, and what sisters bring to friendship that nobody else can. We talk about aging parents, the sister-in-laws who became dear friends, staying close across distance when life has taken you in different directions, and the Yeah, No, For Sure lightning round (including whether Dad actually likes me better).
One of her answers surprised me. One made me emotional. And one involves Santa Claus, a boombox, and Amy Grant at Christmas.
This episode is for anyone who has a sister they love, a sister relationship that’s complicated, or has ever wondered whether the person who’s known you longest could also be the one who knows you best.
Have a listen:
"What makes a friendship so special is when it starts to feel like a sister. What makes a sister so special is when she starts to feel like a friend.”
In this episode, we talk about:
The six-year age gap that made us strangers before it made us close
The camp summer Megan wanted into my inner circle — and what I missed
The slow burn: how motherhood finally brought us together as real friends
A fight in Chicago, mutual accountability, and what repair actually looks like between sisters
What sisters bring to friendship that literally nobody else can
Aging parents and the shorthand that only siblings have
Sister-in-laws as the insiders who are also outsiders — and why that’s a gift
Staying close across distance when life has taken you in different directions
The Disney World story
Plus, a Santa Claus spoiler alert
Megan’s Friend Picks: Megan’s current favorites for the friends in your life:
Thrifting — her love language and her recommendation for everyone. Buy less, buy secondhand, feel better about all of it. (It runs in the family - she, my brother Andy and sister-in-law Katie are the best at it I know.)
Self-tanner drops — by Beauty by Earth because some of us (hi, melanoma) are vampires who still want a sun-kissed glow. A few drops in your moisturizer and you’re golden. Literally.
A really great tote bag — the RUX 70L organized, hard-sided, fits-everything kind that makes you feel like you have your life together even when you don’t.
Join the campfire:
Talk to us: When did your sister become your friend? Was there a moment, or was it a slow burn?
And if it’s complicated, that’s welcome here too. Tell us your stories and tag your sister people.
If this episode makes you want to call your sister - or whoever your sister is in your life - please do it. Today, not tomorrow. Send them this episode and tell them you’re thinking of them.
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*Fun fact! Megan came prepared to this episode with her own Yeah, No, For Sure questions for me. I did not see that coming. Sisters, it turns out, always find a way to get the last word.