Megan Welsh and Nadine Walsh: The Story Behind Us Two

Written by Charlotte Lewis

What does 15+ years of friendship actually look like?

It's easy to glimpse moments of friendship through social media, a holiday photo, a birthday post, a quick appearance in someone's latest vlog. But those snapshots rarely tell the full story. The awkward teenage years. The difficult conversations. The heartbreaks, the inside jokes and the decision, over and over again, to keep choosing each other. Every great friendship has an origin story.

For Megan Welsh and Nadine Walsh, it begins somewhere between a mutual friend, a school playground and an apple pie bought from the Co-op after class. Fifteen years later, the details have become blurrier, but the friendship hasn't. While audiences may have discovered Megan through social media, their podcast or The Agency: Unfiltered, what people have truly connected with is something that existed long before any camera was switched on.

"The only thing I really remember," Megan laughs, "is that everyone went into the Co-op for snacks and Nadine came out with a full apple pie."

"I've always been a grubber," Nadine replies, laughing.

This funny anecdote has become the first chapter in a friendship built on countless moments just like it: small, hilarious, and unforgettable memories.

Although they spent secondary school in the same friendship group, they admit they didn't become inseparable until after leaving school. "We were close," Nadine explains. "But I'd say we became really, really close afterwards."

Looking at them now, it's difficult to imagine there was ever a time they weren't. Throughout our conversation, they constantly finish each others sentences. Stories merge together. One remembers the beginning while the other fills in the ending. Every serious moment is quickly followed by laughter. It's less like conducting an interview and more like listening to two friends catch up over coffee.

If their teachers saw them today, neither imagines they'd be particularly surprised.

"We weren't naughty," Megan smiles. "We just loved to talk." "We always got separated." "The goal was always speaking," she laughs. "Not learning."

Ironically, talking has now become part of both of their careers. Megan has spent years building an online audience through honest, relatable content, while the pair's podcast, Us Two!,  has quickly found its own community by discussing everything from dating disasters to therapy and navigating adulthood. More recently, Nadine stepped further into the public eye alongside Megan in BBC Scotland's The Agency: Unfiltered, offering audiences another glimpse into the friendship many had already come to love.

Yet despite cameras, podcasts and growing recognition, the thing they're proudest of isn't any of it. It's each other. When I ask what has kept a friendship alive for more than fifteen years, neither hesitates.

"Communication," Nadine says.

"And honesty," Megan adds almost instantly.

Growing up together hasn't always been easy. Life becomes busier. Careers evolve. Relationships begin and end. Priorities shift. The challenge, they explain, isn't avoiding change but choosing not to let it pull you apart.

"It's choosing to prioritise each other," Nadine says. "Life gets busy, but we still make time for sleepovers or nights together after going out. You have to water the grass to make it green." Their conversation constantly bounces between sincerity and silliness, never staying serious for too long. That honesty has also meant surviving the moments many friendships don't. Following the breakdown of a previous relationship, Megan admits she lost herself.

"I just wasn't myself at all," she says candidly. "Naturally our friendship wasn't the same."

Rather than creating distance, it forced the difficult conversations neither had wanted to have.

"I'm not allowed to keep anything from Nadine now," Megan jokes.

"And I'm not allowed to protect her peace," Nadine adds. "I have to tell her exactly what I think."

It's refreshing hearing two women speak so openly about friendship without pretending it's effortless. Social media often celebrates friendships as something that simply happen. Megan and Nadine describe something much more intentional. Choosing honesty over comfort. Choosing difficult conversations over resentment. Choosing each other.

That same openness has naturally found its way into their podcast. Rather than positioning themselves as relationship experts, the pair simply share what they've learnt through their own experiences.

"I feel like if we've learnt something that can help somebody else, then that's worth sharing," Nadine reflects.

Whether discussing therapy, heartbreak or rebuilding confidence, they hope listeners feel as though they're sitting alongside big sisters rather than listening to polished advice.

Perhaps that's also why Glasgow feels so deeply woven into everything they create. Ask either of them to plan the perfect day in the city and the answers overlap almost completely. It starts with a morning workout at Aura Lagree or LYK Hot Sculpt, followed by coffee and breakfast at Gizzi’s, a walk through Queen's Park and, after getting ready with friends, dinner and margaritas at Sebb's before wherever the night leads; perhaps a couple of drinks at kloud before inevitably ending up at Kong Rooftop.

They light up speaking about the Southside in particular. "We're loving the Southside right now," Nadine says. "There are so many great date spots and new bars popping up." Megan agrees, adding that Glasgow itself feels like it's changing. "I feel like it's getting better," she says. "There's more food places, more drinks places." They talk enthusiastically about Queen's Park's summer events and the sense that the city continues to grow alongside them.

Of course, opening your life to thousands of strangers inevitably means inviting opinions too.

As Megan's platform has grown, so has public scrutiny. When I ask about anonymous gossip forums and online criticism, she doesn't become defensive. Instead, she becomes surprisingly compassionate.

"I would never go on those websites," she says firmly.

"I know my boundaries. People are always going to have something to say."

Rather than responding with anger, she says she genuinely hopes those leaving hateful comments are able to heal from whatever they're experiencing themselves.

"I've had opportunities because of social media that I'll never take for granted," she says. "If that's the price I pay, then that's the price I pay."

For Nadine, the experience has been entirely different. Unlike Megan, she never actively pursued life in front of an audience. Recognition has arrived almost accidentally through the podcast and television.

"I've never had people come up to me before," she laughs. "Now people tell me they love the podcast and I'm like... people actually listen?"

Megan remains characteristically unfazed.

"I just don't really think about it," she shrugs. "I put my life online, so I don't find it strange when people know things about me."

Perhaps that grounded perspective explains why neither woman appears particularly interested in fame. Instead, they speak far more enthusiastically about future travel plans, documentary ideas and continuing to build a community around conversations that genuinely matter. One dream they both share is creating a documentary in the style of Stacey Dooley or Louis Thereoux , using honest conversations and real experiences to tell stories with substance. They also laugh about the idea of a travel series where Nadine takes Megan around the world, pushing her far beyond her comfort zone. It's the kind of concept that perfectly captures their dynamic: one encouraging, one reluctant, and both finding the humour in whatever unfolds.

As our conversation comes to a close, I ask what advice they'd give their younger selves. Megan doesn't hesitate. "Dream bigger," she says. For years, she underestimated what she was capable of achieving, convinced she should make herself smaller rather than believe in what she could accomplish. She laughs that she'd also tell herself to "avoid boys" for a while, but beneath the joke is a reminder to stop limiting her own ambitions.

Nadine's advice is gentler. "Trust the process." There were moments when she questioned her career path, wondering if she should give up on creative work for something more conventional. Instead, she kept going. Buying her first home, building a career she genuinely loves and finding stability all arrived in their own time. Looking back, she'd simply tell her younger self to keep believing that everything would eventually fall into place.

It's simple advice, but perhaps it perfectly sums up both women. Somewhere between school corridors, heartbreak, podcast microphones, television cameras and a whole apple pie from the Co-op, they've built something increasingly rare.

Not simply an online brand, not just curated content; a true friendship.

And perhaps that's why people keep watching. Not because Megan and Nadine have mastered social media, but because, in a world built on performance, they've never stopped feeling real.