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Five with Fry
Think of this podcast as your go-to for tackling the hard stuff with clarity and confidence. On Five with Fry, Dr. Jen Fry breaks down the rules, challenges the norms, and dives deep into the tough conversations that shape our lives—conflict, culture, family, sports, tech, and everything in between. This is where you learn to rely on yourself, embrace the messy, and come out stronger on the other side.
Five with Fry
1: Embracing the "Hard"
Life’s tough moments can actually be our biggest opportunities to grow. In this first episode of Five with Fry, I’m diving into why we shouldn’t shy away from challenges. I’ll share my own journey, from Five Minutes with Fry on YouTube to launching this podcast, and explore how embracing “hard” moments can lead to stronger relationships and personal breakthroughs.
We’ll talk about why difficulties aren’t something to avoid—they’re what help us grow, connect, and thrive. Whether it’s love, friendships, or work, leaning into the tough stuff can make all the difference. I’ll share tips on figuring out your tolerance for challenges and how to use it to grow.
Join the conversation, share your stories, and let me know what topics you’d like to hear about next. Let’s build a community that doesn’t fear the “hard” but leans into it together. Connect with me on social media at @jenfrytalks. I can’t wait to hear from you!
Friends, welcome to Five with Fry, where five is the magic number, whether it's five minutes, five questions or anything that fits in five. I dive into the big topics that matter, sometimes alone and other times with a friend. From navigating sports conflict to family dynamics, travel, tech, hard-hitting issues and even politics. Nothing and I mean nothing's off the table. This is where curiosity meets conversation, and we always sit at an intersection. I'm your host. Dr Jen Fry of Jen Fry Talks. Let's get into it.
Jen:Friends, I'm so excited to start this podcasting journey with you, but before we get started in the journey, I want to tell you where we began. So I began years ago, starting off with Five Minutes with Fry, and so I started this YouTube series, if you Must Say, and this Five Minutes with Fry was either me talking about an idea for five minutes or interviewing a wide variety of people for five minutes, and let me tell you, I absolutely loved it. It was fun. I got to interview really cool people and even my friends about a wide variety of topics. From that point, I retired it, if you must, and then started my webinar series called you Know, I have Something to Say, and if you know me, you know I always have something to say. And so you know me, you know I always have something to say. And so I really enjoyed doing that webinar series.
Jen:And so Dawn, my chief of staff, and I started evolving, and so we left the webinar series you know I have something to say and decided to start this podcast, which is Five with Fry, where we talk about a wide variety of either topics, information, whatever it is but surrounding number five. And so today we're going to start off this first episode chatting about the idea of hard, and I know the word hard can be taken in numerous ways, but I want to start off with this topic because I think many times people don't talk about the idea of hard enough, and so what I mean by that is the idea that life will get hard. You're going to have to work really hard at certain things, even if you love them. Relationships are hard that with everything there's this level of hardness, and I think we have been taught the idea that certain things are not going to be hard, and if they are hard, that means that we shouldn't be a part of them. And I see this all the time with relationships, and you hear people say this relationship shouldn't be this hard, and many times what they're talking about is that when you're journaling through relationships of any type, there's going to be conflict, there's going to be pushback, there's going to be arguments, there's going to be times where you completely dislike each other in every step of the way, and that's just a hard period.
Jen:But people have been taught through society that these things shouldn't be hard, and if it's hard, that means it isn't for you, rather than understanding that any type of relationship family, friend, romantic business, whatever it is. There's going to be moments of heart and you have to figure out what is your tolerance for heart, what's willing to work through or what are you willing to just say it's not worth it anymore? But people don't really think about this level of tolerance, what they think of any hardness means they shouldn't be in, whatever it is. And I want to tell you that you've been sold this lie.
Jen:You've been sold this romantic book fantasy that hard doesn't exist in relationships with people you love. In reality, I believe the complete opposite, that in those relationships with people you love is where hard happens and you navigate and work through it. The best relationships happen when hard is present. Now these are the type of topics that I'm going to be diving into. I hope you really enjoyed this first podcast episode, understanding we're diving deep into all the topics that people just don't like talking about well, friends, that's it for this episode of five with fry your dose of five insights, ideas and inspiration.
Jen:If you love what you heard, don't forget to head over to where podcasts are played, to subscribe, share and leave a review. Got a topic you want us to tackle? Drop us a message. We love to hear from you. You can come follow me on ig, twitter, the tiktok at gen fry talks, or join me on linkedin. Look for me at dr gen fry. Until next time, stay curious, stay bold and keep the conversation going. See you on the next five with fry.