Connectfulness Practice
48 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsDeep conversations about the roots of our disconnects and how to restore relationship with Self, others, and the world. Hosted by relationship therapist, Rebecca Wong.
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What Does It Mean To Grow Up? with Julie Lythcott-Haims
October 14, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 87.9 MBFor this final episode of the season, I talk to Julie Lythcott-Haims, who is asking the question “what does it mean to grow up?” For her, it’s about lovingly letting go of your past burdens so that you can be true to yourself – while not trampling on anybody else. Our conversation flows naturally from topic to topic as we learn about how learning mindfulness took her from being a lawyer and dean of a university to becoming a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and activist focused on...
The Impact of Racism on Relationships with Akilah Riley Richardson
September 21, 2022 23:30 - 1 hour - 151 MBI'm excited to share this podcast conversation with one of my dearest friends Akilah Riley-Richardson. Akilah has been in clinical practice for 16 years, is based in Trinidad and Tobago, and specializes in work with sexual and racial minorities. In this conversation, Akilah and I talk about relational privilege and the impact historical and race based trauma has on relationships. Akilah teaches to pivot, rumble and imagine to help gain a sense of where the hurt is, what the body needs, and h...
Show Up In Your Complete Identity with Moraya Seeger DeGeare
September 06, 2022 20:30 - 53 minutes - 122 MBMoraya Seeger DeGeare is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, consultant, writer, activist, and mom. We recorded this conversation in-person, meandering in our discussion around moving within a world that tries to adhere to dominant culture all the time. Here’s what we hope you get out of this conversation: if you are someone who’s not walking around in a dominant culture body, we hope you can simply listen and not have to do extra work to find resonance. And if you are someone that's w...
Recontextualizing Healing In Community & On Social with Dr. Han Ren
July 14, 2022 11:00 - 42 minutes - 97.7 MBDr. Han Ren (she/they) is deeply rooted in Liberation-oriented, anti-oppressive, culturally informed therapy. In this time of global upheaval and collective trauma many people have experienced increasing amounts of isolation. Social media is one of the places people turn when they feel alone. Han's widely viewed content on social media centers on liberating the idea that healing has to look a certain way, especially for often historically overlooked people and communities. Normalization goe...
Shifting From Me vs You to Us Consciousness with Terry Real
June 10, 2022 11:00 - 55 minutes - 128 MBPatriarchy, supremacy, and toxic individualism are cultural values that really are at the root of so many social and political problems we face today. Systemic change can seem overwhelming, if not nearly impossible. But changing the power structure within our most intimate relationships? That’s something we can definitely do–starting today. How? By shifting from Me vs. You consciousness to Us consciousness and learning to act from our wise adult rather than our adaptive child as we work...
The Truth About Mismatched Libido & Desire with Cyndi Darnell
May 13, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 169 MBWhat our culture teaches us about sex isn’t very useful. Many of us have absorbed the message that sex is a means to some kind of end–orgasm, connection, a baby. We’ve learned that there’s a right and a wrong way to do it. We’ve even learned that sex is natural. It’s no wonder then that when our libido doesn’t match our partner’s or our desires don’t match our politics, we assume there must be something wrong with us. Here’s the real truth: There is nothing wrong with you. Or your part...
The Paradoxes of Healing with Dr. Lissa Rankin
April 26, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 184 MBIn Lissa Rankin’s book, Sacred Medicine, she writes, "We live in a disembodied culture because trauma causes us to leave our bodies. It is a defense mechanism and in extreme cases, a survival skill that can save you. Yet you can't heal the body without being in it." Our culture encourages dissociation: Buy this product to feel better, drink this to escape, distract yourself with social media. Numb out, stay busy, look outside yourself. And yet, science has enough data to say with certai...
Lean Into the Awkwardness: An Interview with Rebecca
March 30, 2022 15:00 - 57 minutes - 132 MBDear listeners, for this month’s episode, we decided to do something a little different. Instead of interviewing a special guest, we’ve turned the tables and your host has become the guest! Out of curiosity and a sense of play (two things we adore here at Connectfulness), Rebecca agreed to be interviewed by our podcast editor, Al Hoberman, who is also a fabulous music therapist. Together, they let the conversation meander where it will, delving into topics like why we can never be “healed...
Stepping into Your Wise Adult Self with Terri Delaney
February 20, 2022 14:30 - 1 hour - 219 MB“I can’t adult today” makes for great social media fodder. But as with all humor, there’s a nugget of truth in there. How many models do we have for adulting that is healthy, balanced, secure and relational? Our culture has sold us quite a bill of goods: Independence and “rugged individualism” as an indication that we’ve become successful adults. Perfection or mastery as the ultimate goal. Self-care has become “treat yourself”. The pop psychology idea that having boundaries means you ge...
Taking Responsibility for Your Feelings with Shane Birkel
January 19, 2022 19:30 - 54 minutes - 126 MBSo often, many of us are still just waiting on our parents to show up for us in the way we needed them to when we were little. Sometimes we’re consciously aware of this, oftentimes we’re not. And it can continue long after our parents have passed, if we haven’t made the unconscious conscious and learned to reparent ourselves. Otherwise, we often unintentionally seek this fulfillment from our most intimate relationships. In this episode, I chat with fellow Certified Relational Life Therap...
We Are Going To Have Discomfort
December 17, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 54.2 MBLife gets bumpy at times. We as humans make mistakes, we cause harm, things can get awkward or uncomfortable. This doesn’t change when you learn new relational skills. We never stop having those moments in our intimate relationships. We just get better at sitting with the awkward and imperfect. In this episode, I chat with Gina Senarighi about what happens when we bring the observational self onboard and practice being in the awkward with our partners. We discuss perfectionism, creat...
Teach Your Friends This Language
November 06, 2021 20:30 - 58 minutes - 66.4 MBWhen conflict arises in our relationships, what does it mean to shift from 1st consciousness to 2nd consciousness? It has a lot to do with shifting from a preoccupation of the self into self-awareness of our own “going up” and “going down” as well as curiosity about other perspectives. This alone is a complex conversation, but believe it or not, it’s one that can be grasped and practiced quicker than you’d think. And once you have an understanding of it, it’s like someone’s turned a light o...
Better Boundaries with Sharon Martin
October 14, 2021 20:05 - 44 minutes - 40.3 MBSo often, we tend to think of boundaries in a punitive way, a way to protect us after something has happened. They often show up as consequences, even sometimes creating a continuous cycle of retaliation and defensiveness. But what if there was a way of thinking about them as a protection that helps us understand how to be relational—A protective layer for your relationships to ensure needs are met while preventing resentment or hurt? It’s not only possible, it’s so necessary. There’s ...
Baby Bomb with Stan Tatkin & Kara Hoppe
September 22, 2021 15:15 - 1 hour - 52.7 MBDr. Stan Tatkin and Kara Hoppe, psychotherapists and co-authors of Baby Bomb: A Relationship Survival Guide for New Parents, join the podcast to share their wisdom on creating secure, purposeful relationships in a world that is indifferent to us. They explain why this relationship is so imperative, especially when it comes to raising healthy, happy children. Stan and Kara both bring a wealth of understanding of neurobiology and personal relational experience to this conversation. We talk a...
How Has The Pandemic Changed Us? with Paola Bailey
June 29, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 50.2 MBThe pandemic isn’t over yet, but life is opening back up again. For some of us reopening can feel like whiplash just as much as it did when everything suddenly shut down. This comes as a surprise for so many because who of us didn’t dream about what we were most looking forward to doing when the world reopened again? It turns out it’s not so simple. With everything opening up so rapidly, it takes slowing down to reflect and notice what is bubbling up for us. In this episode, we explore w...
Boundaries Are An Invitation with Esther Boykin
June 12, 2021 04:00 - 54 minutes - 62 MBNo matter where you are on your healing journey, this episode has much to offer about therapy and setting boundaries. It highlights a gentle way to approach long term healing and reinforces the value of discerning and setting boundaries that keep our selves safe and deepen our relationships. Relationships are foundational to our individual and collective wellbeing. Generation after generation of intergenerational trauma have imparted messages that tell us it's selfish/unsafe to focus on our...
Mother Hunger with Kelly McDaniel
May 06, 2021 14:12 - 43 minutes - 50 MBKelly McDaniel, LPC returns to the podcast (she joined us on episode 28: The Legacy of Chronic Loneliness) to explore the legacy of maternal deprivation. Her upcoming book, Mother Hunger, soothes the legacy of shame that accompanies being under-mothered. Mother Hunger addresses the constant search for love —nurturance, protection, and guidance— that may lead to a lifelong quest for what was missing. It’s not about critiquing how you were raised, rather it’s about learning how to heal and r...
Embodying Anti-Racism in Interracial Relationships with Francesca Maximé
April 22, 2021 11:00 - 52 minutes - 59.9 MBOur society is constructed to benefit White people, whether they're conscious of it or not. The “norm” we’ve inherited centers an oppressive and privileging system when it comes to equity and power. And it plays out in relationships... In this episode, Francesca Maximé joins us to explore how interracial partners can embody anti-racism in their relationship. We explore how blind spots and racial misattunements affect interracial relationships. And we discuss how to build more equitable part...
Introducing the "Why Does(n't) My Partner ...?" Podcast
March 15, 2021 23:56 - 14 minutes - 12 MBMy colleagues Jules and Vickey and I just launched a new podcast and I am super excited to share it with you, so I'm sharing it here!! In this trailer, we're sharing the story of how we met, how we've come to work together, how this podcast came to be, and what you can expect in future episodes. We're calling this podcast Why Does My Partner (or Why Doesn't My Partner, it's interchangeable) because these are the questions we hear over and over again in our offices. We believe these question...
Creating A Sense of Your (Imperfect) Self with Rick Butts
March 03, 2021 11:30 - 1 hour - 98.3 MBToday’s guest, Dr. Rick Butts, cofounded the Healing Our Core Issues Institute (HOCII). We discuss how the nature of the child —to be imperfect and human— is linked to how we humans come to know ourselves as we mature. We explore the woundings, teachings and adaptations that shape us in our formative years and become how we present in the world. And we examine the tasks of recovering our sense of self which comes when we can see and accept ourselves as human in all areas of our life. These t...
The Legacy of Chronic Loneliness with Kelly McDaniel
February 06, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBWe need relationship in order to survive. If you were raised without a secure base you likely learned early on to modify yourself. In this episode I am talking with Kelly McDaniel, LPC, NCC, CSAT, author and psychotherapist, about the complex trauma of chronic loneliness and how to heal from the toxic stress of disconnection. Kelly McDaniel’s first book Ready to Heal (2008) was written for women healing from addictive love and sex. Her new book Mother Hunger arrives July 2021 from Hay House...
Into The Deep Creative Process with Chris Zydel
December 30, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 87.8 MBSo often in the journey of relational healing we discover parts of our Selves have been disowned — the parts of one's spirit which allow spontaneity and imperfection and cultivate abundance and joy. In this episode we explore the creative process as a way to bear witness to these parts of Self. My guest, Chris Zydel, The Wild Heart Queen, works with people using creativity and artistic expression as a way to get in touch with the deeper aspects of who they are. Chris says the ‘creative juic...
How Sex Education (Or Lack Of) Impacts Us All with Elizabeth Greenblatt
November 23, 2020 20:28 - 1 hour - 64.2 MBSexuality is a part of who we are and we all deserve to learn about it in a way that is safe, comfortable, and judgement-free. Learning about positive sexuality is transformative for individuals and society overall. My guest, Elizabeth Greenblatt, strives to support young people develop the skills to navigate their sexuality in a healthy and fulfilling way and believes young people must be at the center of this work. Elizabeth says “we must understand that young people are the experts on th...
The Science Behind How Your Relationship Can Help You Heal with Juliane Taylor Shore
September 15, 2020 01:42 - 1 hour - 64.7 MBWe’re excited to bring Juliane Taylor Shore, LPC, LMFT, SEP (AKA Jules) back to the podcast — last time she joined us, on episode 18, Jules introduced us to the brain science around how to stay relational when our protective systems are activated during times of chaos, like these. In this episode we’re talking about how your relationship can help you heal…and the brain science behind why and how it works. Expect lots of delicious neurobiological explanations around how healing occurs in the ...
Generational Healing with La Shanda Sugg, LPC
August 31, 2020 20:21 - 1 hour - 49.6 MBIn this episode, La Shanda Sugg and I talk about a generational healing, a topic that truly affects us all. And if there is one message we want you to walk away from this episode with, it’s that generational healing is possible! Trauma can be caused, and passed down generation by generation, in many ways. Often we didn't even notice because it became woven into the fabric of who we think we are and what is our ”normal.” When something triggered a lack of safety — could be a physical, emoti...
Breaking the Cycle of Unavailable Relationships & Love Addiction with Shena Tubbs
August 07, 2020 09:27 - 1 hour - 50.4 MBShena Tubbs, Relational Trauma and Love Addiction Expert, Coach, and LPC joins us to talk about how early trauma manifests in our adult relationships, recreating a cycle from childhood. As Shena shares, healing begins with getting the language and words around family trauma and what did/didn’t happen. Persistent love addiction/love avoidant adult relationships are often a recreation of early trauma, of seeking out people that would do the same, in hopes that it will turn out differently. Sh...
On Self Acceptance with Jane Tornatore, Ph.D.
July 07, 2020 21:11 - 49 minutes - 39.8 MBThis episode highlights helpful ways to tend to our selves, reclaim power, and perhaps help us soothe our selves when we don’t have the power to change our situation. My guest, Dr. Jane Tornatore is a Therapist & Speaker Seattle, WA. A recovering perfectionist, she knows the pain of being bogged down by old beliefs and never quite measuring up to expectations. She supports people in converting outdated patterns and stress into more freedom, joy, and authenticity that come from being gentler ...
Antiracist Responsibility with Robin Mallison Alpern
June 16, 2020 08:14 - 1 hour - 49.8 MBSystemic racism is real and deeply rooted in society. When we center our society around whiteness but don’t discuss it we’re ignoring the problem of racism. Distancing ourselves from the problem of racism is to perpetuate it by allowing countless more injustices to be committed. When we become conscious we can take responsibility and change course. The opposite of being a racist is not being not-racist. The opposite of being racist is being antiracist. In this episode, Robin Mallison Alpern...
How Stress Affects Sex with Emily Nagoski
May 10, 2020 00:29 - 1 hour - 49.7 MBIn this episode relationship therapist and host, Rebecca Wong, talked with Emily Nagoski, New York Times bestselling author of Come As You Are & Burnout. It goes without saying that we’re all living in a deepened state of stress in this pandemic time. Emily helps us to understand how stress affects sex and learn more about what we can do to reclaim confidence and joy and transform our sex lives. Resources: Emily Nagoski’s mission in life is to teach women to live with confidence and joy in...
Storytelling, Connection, & Resilience with Eva Tenuto
May 02, 2020 01:16 - 42 minutes - 19.2 MBI'd like to introduce you to TMI Project, a nonprofit near and dear to my heart, that uses writing and true storytelling for social justice movement building, to ignite human connection and as a healing modality for personal transformation. I have gone through the workshop as a participant and became a trained facilitator of their methodology. I recently sat down with Eva Tenuto, the co-founder and executive director of TMI Project, to talk about how storytelling can enhance connection and r...
Welcoming our Protective Systems in a Disorienting World with Juliane Taylor Shore
April 17, 2020 18:16 - 1 hour - 35.8 MBJuliane Taylor Shore, LPC, LMFT, SEP (AKA Jules) joins Rebecca to discuss the impact of being quarantined at home, experiencing isolation, fear and grief. How these experiences work in tandem with our implicit memory systems, and the effect it all has on our relationships. It's such a quick process, we can’t preempt it. Instead the focus shifts towards slowing down and coming into enough relationship with ourselves that our brains hook back on. In order hold this level of fear and grief,...
Embodying Resilience During COVID19 with Dr. Shideh Lennon
April 10, 2020 14:00 - 52 minutes - 41.9 MBDr. Shideh Lennon, a clinical psychologist and Somatic Experiencing practitioner, joins us to discuss how to embody resilience during the current COVID-19 pandemic. We're talking about simple practices that we can use to bring ourselves back into our bodies. We’re still going to feel it all, but these tools may help increase our capacity by being our biggest, best selves so that we may bear and be with all that's arising. Resources: Dr. Lennon’s website: slennonphd.com Learn more about Re...
Secure Relationships with Dr. Rebecca Jorgenson
February 14, 2020 15:00 - 58 minutes - 46.6 MBDr. Rebecca Jorgensen, or Becca, joins me to discuss how to avoid common pitfalls and achieve more secure relationships. Becca shares from the EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy) perspective that, being human, we all need to feel secure. Our initial insecurities often develop into defensive, protective strategies born from the pain of trying to be seen and heard. The thing is, these strategies makes it difficult for people to come close to us, or for us to maintain connection. When we feel se...
Journey To Discover The Self with Jan Bergstrom, LMHC
January 20, 2020 09:00 - 54 minutes - 43.8 MBThe family system is the first filter children experience the world through, it informs the senses and creates the meaning from which each of us understand the “me”, our unique “who I am.” It’s up to parents to reach in and help the growing child navigate their reality —but that‘s not what usually happens— usually parents try to make the child become what the parent needs the child to be so that the parent is comfortable. In this episode, my teacher, Jan Bergstrom, LMHC will help us under...
Peeling Back the Layers of Multicultural Competence with Sonya Lott, PhD
December 18, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 52.5 MBThis is a powerful discussion about the ways each of us dances with power and privilege. How the very ways we are oppressed have possibly become how we oppress others, and also ourselves. And the liberation that begins when we remove the blinders and really see ourselves in each other. I’m talking with Dr. Sonya Lott, a licensed psychologist in private practice with a specialization in complicated grief, the host of the Reflections on Multicultural Competence podcast, and the founder of CE...
Unraveling The Survival Knot, Part 2 with Hedy Schleifer
November 18, 2019 12:14 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBThis is part 2 of Unraveling The Survival Knot with Hedy Schleifer. If you haven’t already tuned into part 1 of this series, we recommend you begin there. We’re diving even deeper into the process of being a host/visitor and opening ourselves to each others deepest truths, to our own deepest truths, on a level where we may not have exposed ourselves to that in the past. Hedy Schleifer is an internationally renowned relationship builder and motivational speaker who guides, counsels and t...
Unraveling The Survival Knot, Part 1 with Hedy Schleifer
October 18, 2019 22:54 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBI’m joined by Hedy Schleifer, an internationally renowned relationship builder and motivational speaker who guides, counsels and teaches couples, partners, business associates, therapists and families about relational maturity. Hedy is the founder of the Encounter-centered Couples Transformation approach (EcCT). An integrative and interdisciplinary model that lies at the intersection of philosophy, clinical theory, organizational methodology, and relational neurobiology and memory reconso...
Riding The Feminine Current with Maya Luna
September 16, 2019 08:01 - 1 hour - 65.9 MBIn this month's episode I'm joined by Maya Luna, a Feminine Mystic and a Poet exploring the Tantric Path and Feminine Embodiment. We muse about our collective hunger for deep acceptance of who we really are. Our fear of letting go, of surrendering, and of softening into the moment. The masculine conditioning that’s taught us we have to keep doing, and controlling, and making life happen, and if we don't we're going to die. The deep feminine is the soulful nourishment of being we are craving...
Mending Racialized Trauma: A Body Centered Approach with Resmaa Menakem
August 09, 2019 14:00 - 1 hour - 77.6 MB“Healing from white-body supremacy begins with the body — your body. But it does not end there. In order to heal the collective body that is America, we also need social activism that is body centered. We cannot individualize our way out of white-body supremacy. Nor can we merely strategize our way out. We need collective action — action that heals.” — Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands Rebecca is joined by healer, author, and trauma specialist, Resmaa Menakem. Resmaa helps people, com...
Contemplating Life Through Grief with John Eric Baugher, PhD
July 19, 2019 19:50 - 1 hour - 108 MBRebecca is joined by John Eric Baugher, a scholar, writer and teacher exploring the transformative possibilities of contemplative end of life care. His book, Contemplative Caregiving offers encouragement to show up in the fullness of life. This is an in-person (one microphone) interview and it’s a long one. Resources: Find out more about John’s work at https://johnericbaugher.com/ John’s Book: Contemplative Caregiving: Finding Healing, Compassion, and Spiritual Growth through End-of-L...
Becoming Parents: A Roundtable Discussion with Elly Taylor and Barb Buckner Suárez
June 12, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour - 74.2 MBIn this episode we’re reframing how to prepare parents for parenthood and dispelling the myth that you can't prepare for parenthood. Our last few episodes have been about why relationships are difficult and inherited family trauma and as we dive into this content, we keep coming back to how significant the first 3-5 years of a child’s life and if we’re not preparing parents, it’s rippling … and so, we’re talking about creating a movement, a seed planting movement that literally prepares pe...
Inherited Family Trauma with Mark Wolynn
May 14, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 64.3 MBHave you ever said something like “I’m just wired this way” in response to someone asking why you can’t just relax and go with the flow more? Maybe you’re scared of certain smells, places, uniforms, noises and other common things found in everyday life without knowing where you developed that particular aversion. As we discussed in our last episode, our brains hold onto the negative experiences for survival -- they become a reference guide to navigating life. But what if we don’t know why we...
Why Are Relationships Difficult? with Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT
April 19, 2019 02:31 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBIf you've ever wondered "why are relationships difficult?" you'll want to catch this episode with Dr. Stan Tatkin. We start with an exploration of how our species’ survival relies on an inborn negativity bias and how this same mechanism makes relationships difficult and more challenging to sustain under stress. Everyone’s experienced some form of relational loss and developmental trauma. And so, with this in mind, we’re also discussing how early development shapes each of us and our ability ...
Pleasure and the Body's Wisdom with Cyndi Darnell
March 13, 2019 11:00 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBCyndi Darnell is an internationally renowned sex and relationship therapist. Her approach spans the clinical to the esoteric. She’s spearheading progressive sex & relationships seminars and workshops for adults and clinicians that deeply change people’s lives. Cyndi’s on a mission to eliminate stigma from discussions around sex, erotisim and pleasure and changing our fears and transform it into freedom. In this episode, Cyndi and I discuss: How the sexual revolution missed the boat to disc...
Parenting and Reckoning with Your Identity with Mercedes Samudio, LCSW
February 13, 2019 21:00 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBMercedes Samudio, LCSW is a parent coach, speaker, bestselling author, and founder of the Diversity in Parenting conference who helps parents and children communicate with each other, manage emotional trauma, navigate social media and technology together, and develop healthy parent-child relationships. She started the #EndParentShaming movement and coined the term Shame-Proof Parenting — using both to bring awareness to ending parent shame. Mercedes is on a mission to empower parents in beli...
Erotic Simmering and Lasting Love with Stephen Snyder MD
February 12, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 62 MBDr. Stephen Snyder is a sex and relationship therapist, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, and the author of the acclaimed sex and relationship book, LOVE WORTH MAKING: How to Have Ridiculously Great Sex in a Long-Lasting Relationship. In this episode, Dr Snyder and I discuss: The nature of desire and why you don’t need it. Why we make ourselves crazy trying to cultivate desire instead of a-tuning ourselves to our...
Buddhist Wisdom for Relationship Discomfort with Susan Piver
February 11, 2019 21:00 - 48 minutes - 44 MBSusan Piver is a New York Times bestselling author of 9 books including her latest, The Four Noble Truths of Love: Buddhist Wisdom for Modern Relationships, and a renowned Buddhist teacher. Susan joins me to talk about how to survive the inevitable discomfort of relationships and how she discovered what she’s called the Four Noble Truths of Love during a rough patch in her own marriage while thinking they might be through and not knowing where to begin. Which is when a voice whispered to ...
Welcome. Start Here.
February 11, 2019 09:00 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MBWelcome to the Connectfulness Practice Podcast. Here we settle in to the murky, tangled, and freaking hard parts of life to restore our relationship with the self, so it can ripple out to the people we love, the work we do, and the world around us. We can’t fix what’s wrong if we can’t talk about it. We can’t move the conversation forward if we’re not willing to be real about where we are now. And unless we push the edges of what it means to connect, nothing will ever change. I’m your host,...