E47: Dr. Jeremy Goldberg: The Long Distance Love Bombing Kindness Pirate

Dr. Jeremy Goldberg is a writer, a speaker, coach, podcast host, and spoken word poet. His mission is to make kindness cool, empathy popular, and compassion commonplace. He believes that kindness and empathy are a life hack that allows people to navigate their lives with the least amount of strife, struggle, pain, and then the most amount of acceptance, love, and belonging.

In this episode, Jeremy talks about how to cultivate emotional bravery and how to create an authentic space for people to come to.

Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation:

Becoming a man at six years old

How to create a space for people to come to

His thoughts on emotional bravery

The three-step framework to cultivate emotional bravery

Discovering and exploring what you truly want

Episode Highlights:

Becoming a Man at Six

When Jeremy was six, his parents got divorced. One day, his dad got down on a knee and told him that he was going to be going away for a while and so he needed Jeremy to be the man of the house. And he asked Jeremy to look after his mom and his sister. And so, at age six, Jeremy became a man. He was partly angry about that because he felt his childhood was stolen from him in a sense. But he took on the responsibility nonetheless.

How to Create an Authentic Space for People to Come To

It's hard to make big ideas small, and small ideas felt because life is complex and there are so many intricacies to address. And so, it's hard to communicate easily and to convey your message in a way that's short, snappy, memorable, and fits into the Instagram character count limit, but also tackles important issues fundamental to the architecture of life.

Thoughts on Emotional Bravery

The most vulnerable courageous person is the one that takes their guard down first, or puts their sword down first, and drops the bravado and allows themselves to be seen, felt, and heard. And so, Jeremy thinks of emotional bravery as authenticity or sovereignty. It's about being okay with whatever it is you're feeling. And being brave enough to share that with the world, or with someone, or even with yourself.

The Three-Step Framework to Cultivate Emotional Bravery

The A-team of emotional bravery is awareness, acceptance, and action. Develop an awareness of what you're feeling. Accept that without trying to judge, shame, change, or negate it. And then take action from that place that is most aligned with your integrity, courageousness, and the most loving, generous, best version of yourself.

How much do you love yourself? How much do you like yourself? How much do you accept yourself? These questions are very important to ask yourself. Then know what you want because a lot of people don’t really know what they want. So you have to start from there.

Resources Mentioned:

www..longdistancelovebombs.com

Follow Dr. Jeremy Goldberg on Instagram @longdistancelovebombs