What Actually Happens to Your Friendships When You Sail Away | Cockpit Sessions Ep.08

Everyone warns that the hardest part of sailing away is losing your people. Friends, family, the whole sense of belonging. Eight years and a full circumnavigation later, it went the other way. The friends that mattered got closer, and we found a second family at sea on top.Before you even leave, some people start pulling away, which feels a lot like grief. Irenka's mum kept our spirits up with a steady supply of newspaper clippings about boats sinking. Then you get out there and find a community that forms so fast you can knock on a stranger's hull and be best mates by sundown.Irenka will talk to anyone. I get peopled out the moment a crowd forms. We never did settle which of us is right.Cockpit Sessions is the podcast where we work through the book behind our eight-year family circumnavigation, one conversation at a time.📖 Book (working title) and free sample: https://www.mothershipadrift.com/mothershipadriftbook🎬 More from us: https://www.mothershipadrift.com