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Aug. 4, 2026

From Litigator to Connection Expert, Shari Leid's Flip the Box Story | Shari Leid

How to make friends as an adult is the question at the center of this episode of The Holly Hughes Podcast, and Shari Leid has spent the last several years answering it one stranger at a time. If you've moved to a new city, gone through a divorce, or feel invisible in your own life right now, this conversation names exactly why connection feels harder than it used to and what actually rebuilds it. Shari was found as an infant in a cardboard box in Seoul, South Korea, with no name, no birth ...