Think about your closest friend right now. Not the one you text every day. Not the one you see at every party. The one who knew you before — before the career, before the relationship, before you figured out who you actually were. The one who read your rough drafts, sat with you at Panera while you poured your heart out, and never once made you feel like too much.

Do you have someone like that? Because John does — and her name is Bijal.

John sits down with his Supergirl, his decade-long friend and ride-or-die Bijal Damania — health and fitness enthusiast, painter, crocheter, California transplant, and one of the most quietly wise people to ever sit across from this microphone — for a conversation about the thing nobody really teaches you growing up: how friendships actually work.

Because here's what they don't  ...