What happens when reality TV says no, but your friendship says yes and you build something impossible together anyway?

I sit down with Lindsey Witmer Collins, the brilliant software architect and tech founder who saw my Pumpspotting pitch deck and believed I’d succeed before we’d even met. We pitched to Gwyneth Paltrow and Will.i.am on a moving escalator for Apple TV’s Planet of the Apps, got all green lights, and still got rejected. So we drank tequila until 4 a.m., dreamed up the Breast Express, and spent the next few years proving everyone wrong by building a startup that changed the conversation around breastfeeding.

We talk about what it’s like when your app consultant becomes one of your soulmate friends, the isolation of being an inventor, and why our friendship survived when the business didn’t. We get into the serendipitous Costa Rica connection that brought us together, standing in that pitch circle refusing to back down, and the beautiful role reversal happening now where I support her dream of Scribbly Books after years of her holding me together on her couch.

This isn’t about perfect partnerships. It’s about startup friendships forged in fire - matching someone’s ambition, saying “let’s do it” instead of “are you sure?”, and building something that changes lives even when it doesn’t work out the way you planned.

For anyone building something impossible, wondering if friendships survive business failures, or looking for that one person who sees your vision before anyone else does.

Lindsey’s Friend Pick: Small dogs, sparkly OJS‑M nail polish from Olive & June, and Lake Pajamas.

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What happens when a friendship hits a breaking point, and you choose to repair it instead of run?

I sit down with Holly Curtis—brilliant creative director, sauna companion, and the friend who answered the phone when I had my first panic attack in an orthodontist parking lot. Holly and I have been friends for a decade, we're on each other's emergency contact lists for literally everything, and we almost lost each other.

We talk about the Newport Folk Festival rupture, the midnight apology letter, and why we decided this friendship was worth fighting for. But we also get into matching metallic snowsuits through Covid fires, constantly lowering our expectations and being really excited when plans actually happen, and the Gilmore Girls vs. Parenthood debate.

This isn't about perfect friendship. It's about the messy, vulnerable, life-saving kind - the kind where you can call from a parking lot and someone says, "I can feel that you're not okay."

For anyone who’s ever almost lost a friend, wonders if deep friendship is still possible in midlife, or knows the feeling of calling someone, crying from a parking lot.

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Holly's Friend Pick: Wooden Spoon Magic Magnesium for better sleep (way better than another glass of rosé). Use code YEAHNOFORSURE for 10% off.

If you're in the messy middle of life craving friends who truly get you, welcome to the campfire.

I’m Amy VanHaren, and in this first episode, I share how friendship carried me through business collapse, perimenopause, and outgrowing old connections — and why I’m starting a show about the beautiful mess of showing up for your people.

In this episode, I talk about the loneliness epidemic, shifting seasons of friendship, and why now - more than ever - friendship deserves the mic.

This isn’t an advice show. It’s a campfire for women who love their friends and are still craving something more.

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