"Friends who speak the TRUTH": Shark Tank's Jamie Kern Lima shares things to keep in mind while building your inner circle

Shark Tank mentor and two-time New York Times best-selling author Jamie Kern Lima shared insights and tips about choosing your "inner circle." In a post shared on Sunday, February 9, 2025, she shared essential tips regarding the same.

Fans must know how the female entrepreneur often shares useful tips, goals, wisdom, guidance, and self-acceptance quotes and posts. In a similar post, Jamie Kern Lima shared a carousel post containing six pages where she revealed:

"What to look for when building your inner circle!"

From a total of four tips for building your "inner circle," part of the fourth tip mentioned:

"Surround yourself with friends who speak the TRUTH, love AUTHENTICALLY, and dream BIG."

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Shark Tank mentor Jamie Kern Lima opens up about things to look for while "building" your inner circle

Shark Tank's Jamie Kern Lima shared four tips to keep in mind while building one's inner circle. The female author stated that choosing individuals who "truly want" what is "very best" for them would be the best choice.

Similar to that, she also mentioned that choosing people with whom you can share both happiness and sadness would be the perfect choice to be added to your "inner circle."

She captioned the post with:

"When it comes to your inner circle, choose the people who truly want the very best for you! Who you share the hard times with and also who you share your greatest joys with because you know they’ll be truly happy for you!"

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Four tips from Shark Tank mentor Jamie Kern Lima: "To look for when building your inner circle!"

"Have people who aren't afraid to tell you the hard truths - friends that tell you what you NEED to hear, not what you want to hear."

Having a friend who is willing to tell your "hard truths" goes into the inner circle, especially those who tell you what you "need" to hear and not what you "want" to hear.

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"Look for friends who want to see you WIN rather than those who get jealous when you are flying high."

Individuals who celebrate your wins side by side with you, rather than those who get jealous, also need to be added to your inner circle. Referring to "WIN," she mentioned "flying high" and suggested finding friends who are willing to fly with you in your wins.

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"Sometimes your friends will have nothing positive to say...Turn down the volume of negativity and turn the volume up on your inner light!"

While facing a situation where no one has anything "positive" to say, turning down the "volume of negativity" is suggested by Jamie Kern Lima. The Shark Tank mentor also shared that the volume of your "inner light" needs to be turned up during such tough situations.

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"Surround yourself with friends who speak the TRUTH, love AUTHENTICALLY, and dream BIG."

The last point refers to surrounding yourself with friends who are always there to speak the "truth," no matter how harsh it may be. Additionally, they also need to love "authentically" and dream big.

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On the last page of the Instagram post, she mentioned sharing the post with "a true VIP from your INNER CIRCLE!"

Jamie Kern Lima, one of the newly joined Sharks on the ABC reality show, often shares such tips, wisdom, and helpful insights with her fans and followers.

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