Ask Amber: My Friend Started a Podcast and Keeps Sharing Secrets

January 31, 2025

Question

Dear Amber My best friend has just started a podcast about dating in your 30s, and her “relatable content” is mostly just our group’s personal drama and her sharing secrets. She’s spoken about my bad Tinder dates, my friend’s situationship drama, and times that we have gotten too drunk on a night out. She thinks it’s hilarious and relatable, but I feel really betrayed. I’ve even had a friend message me who recognised one of the stories as my own experience. She keeps saying, “No one knows it’s you” but it’s obvious to anyone who knows us. Do I call her out and risk looking like I can’t take a joke? Or do I just ride it out and hope she gets bored of airing our dirty laundry?

Answer

Hey there reader Gosh, that is such a hard situation to be in. It sounds like you’re being pulled between trying to support your friends new endeavour and being a good sport, and advocating for yourself in a situation that is making you feeling really uncomfortable. A friend sharing secrets and private information without your...

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Amber Sargeant

Meet Amber Sargeant, The Modern Muse’s resident psychologist, however, you might know her better as The Anxious Psych on TikTok or from her clinic The Sunshine Club Psychology. With a Masters of Professional Psychology, and a Masters of Psychology Practice (Clinical) under her belt, Amber works with all different kinds of presentations from anxiety and depression to personality disorders, ADHD, and everything in between. Her TikTok forms a community hub for accessible information about mental health and psychology in a way that is more approachable and understandable to the average person.

Amber is also someone who also struggles with Anxiety and aims to highlight that while we each have our own experience with difficult emotions and situations, we can learn to manage effectively and to make sure we are still able to build the life we want. Amber is such a warm and passionate clinician and we are so lucky to have her on our team. We can’t wait for her to help our readers “find their sunshine”.