Polly Campbell, Simply Said
266 episodes - English - Latest episode: 27 days ago - ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsIf you want to succeed in today’s changing business climate and create the life you desire, you’ll need to understand the psychology of success. Join author and entrepreneur Polly Campbell as she offers science-based success strategies and practical ideas you can adopt today, to build a better business and create a life you want to live.
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Ep. 259 Transform Your Future Today
April 02, 2024 11:00 - 28 minutesWe can transform our lives at any age by taking small steps today, and it doesn't have to be difficult or overwhelming, says executive coach and the author of Power Up, Hilda Fainsod. For more, join our Simply Said community at https://pollycampbell.substack.com. Get in touch with Hilda Fainsod at https://hildafainsod.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep. 258 Loneliness is Universal: Here's How to Handle It
March 26, 2024 11:00 - 22 minutesMillions of people say they experience feelings of loneliness sometimes daily. Often we are ashamed of that, thinking we are unworthy of friends, or that people don't like us. That is not true, of course, but we must shift our thoughts and expectations to manage those feelings and lean into the things we love. Listen today as we talk about loneliness, how we can use it, and what we can do to cope with the big feelings. For more on this and other practical ways to live well, do good, and be ha...
Ep. 257 Be Happy Now With Cynthia Gregory
March 19, 2024 11:00 - 23 minutesWe are born creative and we can use that quality to amp up our happiness and find the "miraculous in the moment." How do we do that? In this episode life strategist Cynthia Gregory talks about learning to pause, scheduling play, and creating the experience you want to feel better in your life. "Creating a life that we truly desire to live is the most important creative endeavor we can undertake," Gregory says. Get in touch with Cynthia Gregory on LinkedIn by searching Gregory Cynthia or reach...
Ep. 256 Sleep Better Tonight
March 12, 2024 11:00 - 25 minutesSleepless nights are linked to a host of mental and physical disorders, plus it just doesn't feel good to be sluggish and groggy every day. The good news is, that we can take our sleep schedule more seriously and offset the health risks by creating better sleep habits. In this episode, Polly shares the top tips sleep researchers, doctors, and the National Sleep Foundation recommend to sleep better at night. Start by resetting your circadian rhythms, especially after a clock change, and establ...
Ep. 255 How to Cope with the Stress of Climate Change
March 05, 2024 12:00 - 32 minutesImagine if you had a fever. Your temperature is only a couple of degrees high, yet it throws your body out of whack. The same is true for our planet, as a result of carbon emissions. The stress of climate change --and other problems we feel like we can't do anything about--weighs heavy on many of us, But in this important episode, climate change expert, author, and therapist Leslie Davenport offers practical strategies to help us better understand what is happening to our environment, what we...
Ep. 254. The Language of Optimism
February 24, 2024 12:00 - 28 minutesHow you explain the circumstances of your life influences how you manage the stresses and setbacks you will inevitably face. Life is not easy, but how we talk to ourselves can hurt us or help us. Whether you tend toward a more pessimistic mindset or optimistic approach you can adopt more positive language that can help you through even the most difficult situations. By choosing more positive--yet accurate--language, you Want more practical ideas to uplevel your life? Join the Polly Campbell, ...
Ep. 253. Madeline Schwarz: Make Your Voice Heard the Right Way
February 20, 2024 12:00 - 25 minutesMadeline Schwarz was told she was too quiet. She had a hard time communicating her points and didn't want to go through her career feeling nervous about communication. So she learned to communicate better and now, as a communications coach she helps others do the same thing. It's O.K., normal even to feel nervous about speaking up, but when we recognize that and get clear about what we want to communicate we can get better at getting our ideas across and being heard in all parts of our lives....
Ep. 252 Feel Less Stressed, Get Unstuck, and Come Alive
February 13, 2024 12:00 - 23 minutesLife is challenging and the stress we feel isn't going away anytime soon, but we can buffer the stress, and feel more capable and alive by adapting a few simple strategies. The good news is, that these simple habits fit right into our days and can help us manage stress in the months to come. But the best perk is they make life more fun and meaningful NOW. Are you ready to feel happier and more energized, give some of these research-based tips a try. Listen in the learn about the things you ca...
Ep. 251. How to Find Love with Love Coach Carisa Montooth
February 06, 2024 12:00 - 28 minutesMost of Love Coach Carisa Monthooth's clients meet their partners in one of three ways: They reconnect with a friend from the past, they fall in love with someone they already have a friendship with, or they meet each other through mutual friends. But the one thing they have in common, is the women she works with have healed old wounds, taken care of themselves, and changed their mindset about what it means to date and fall in love. When you change those sabotaging beliefs and get clear about...
Ep. 250. Tracking Your Way to Success
January 30, 2024 12:00 - 21 minutesTracking, sometimes called self-monitoring, is a comfortable way to chart your progress toward your goals--and can help us accomplish them. Whether your goals include consistent exercise, more piano practice, saving money, or more time spent with friends and family creating a tracking system can help you see the incremental progress you are making, and that increases more motivation. Consistent effort over time is the foundation of goal achievement and tracking helps us stay focused and aware...
Ep. 249 Failing Better with Emily McIntyre
January 23, 2024 12:00 - 27 minutesEntrepreneur Emily McIntyre was wracked by pain and self-doubt when her business failed. It took some time to see that the failure, also held great opportunity. The big things in life, she says, the biggest successes and biggest failures, call on us to be bigger. They help us clarify our vision and access our potential. But how can we find our vision and cope with the setbacks? In this episode, the leadership consultant, speaker, and entrepreneur explains how we can fail better to discover ou...
Ep. 248 Two Step Process to Manage Stress
January 16, 2024 12:00 - 30 minutesStress is a part of life but how we think about it can change the damage it does to our physical and mental health. Learning to accept and adapt can help us respond better to stressful moments. In today's episode, we talk about some of the most stressful things we experience--usually it's those things like commuting that weigh the heaviest--and how we can manage them. To get in touch, join the Simply Said community at https://pollycampbell.substack.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...
Ep. 244 Design Your Life with a Vision Board
January 09, 2024 12:00 - 27 minutesDue to a last-minute scheduling snafu, this week's new episode was postponed. The good news is we decided to provide this encore presentation of Marcia Layton Taylor explaining how to develop and use a vision board --that's something I'm working on this month too. Enjoy the show and tune in next week for an all-new episode of Polly Campbell, Simply Said. Happy New Year, Friends! Do you want a beach house in Maine, more money, a new job or a healthier body? It's good to have goals, and a Visi...
Ep. 247 You Matter and It's Important That You Know That
January 02, 2024 12:00 - 23 minutesMattering is that sense that you would be missed if you didn't show up. It goes beyond belonging and leaves us feeling like not only do we count, but we also can make a valuable contribution to others. It's essential to our well-being and research shows that those who believe they matter are more capable of achieving their goals. They are happier in their relationships and act with greater self-compassion. On the flip side, those who don’t feel as though they matter to anyone are more likely ...
REPLAY Ep. 246 Christy Whitman Manifesting Your Dreams
December 27, 2023 00:00 - 30 minutesEnjoy this replay of one of our most popular shows from our second year We'll be back with all new shows, Jan. 2, 2024 Christy Whitman, bestselling author of The Desire Factor and other books talks about all things Law of Attraction and how we can access it to create the lives we desire, raise our energy, and feel good. Get in touch with Polly at https://pollycampbell.substack.com and join our Simply Said community. Find Christy Whitman and her book, The Desire Factor, at www.ChristyWhitman....
Ep. 245. Fantasizing About the Future Helps Us Achieve Our Goals
December 19, 2023 12:00 - 28 minutesThe researchers call it prospecting the future. And just like miners seek out gold or other valuable resources, prospecting the future means taking a look at our skills, abilities, goals, and dreams and imagining the best future for ourselves. Casting an eye toward how things will look and feel when we accomplish our goals can help us achieve them. In the process, it can boost our well-being and help us manage the darker moods and symptoms of depression. It's not magic, of course. With the im...
Ep. 244 Design Your Life Using a Vision Board
December 12, 2023 12:00 - 27 minutesDo you want a beach house in Maine, more money, or perhaps a new job or a healthier body? It's good to have goals, and a Vision Board can be a fun way to keep our goals and priorities in mind--right up until they become real. In this episode Polly talks with Dr. Marcia Layton Turner, a ghostwriter, author, and specialist in business writing who is also the author of Create Your Vision Board: The Two-hour Guide to Attracting the Life You Want. Layton Turnerr explains how to make Vision Boards,...
Ep. 243 Embrace these Habits for a Happier Winter
December 05, 2023 12:00 - 26 minutesFor many the dark winter months and holidays season increases stress and can lead to the blues. Despite the happy stories all around us, loneliness, grief, and stress can get in the way of our happiness. It's healthy to experience a range of emotions--even during the holidays, after all, even Hallmark characters have ups and downs. But when Polly feels her stress rising and low moods arrive with winter rains, there are a few habits she relies on to feel better. Happiness, say researchers, is ...
Ep. 242. Access Your Spirit Guides to Access Abundance
November 28, 2023 12:00 - 37 minutesDo spirit guides really exist? And can all of us access their energy for help, insight, and wisdom to help us live the lives we want to live. Mindset coach and author Erin Newman says the energy is there for all of us if we learn how to tap into and work with it in our lives. In this episode, Newman, a mom from corporate America turned transformational mindset coach explains how we can work with our guides to co-create with the energy of the Universe. For Newman, it starts with meditation and...
Ep. 241 Gratitude Makes Your Relationships Stronger
November 21, 2023 12:00 - 24 minutesA growing body of research shows gratitude can lift our spirits and improve our health, but now we know it is also good for our relationships. When your partner feels appreciated, those feelings create a buffer protecting it against future stresses. Gratitude makes a marriage or partnership more resilient, researchers say. How can something so simple--the expression of appreciation and thanks--have such a powerful impact on our relationships? And how can we develop our gratitude practice? Thi...
Ep. 240 Creating Good Energy with Feng Shui
November 14, 2023 12:00 - 27 minutesPolly is taking on the one-bag challenge are you in? Interior designer and feng shui consultant Julie Ann Segal shares the practices we can use to release clutter and infuse our homes, offices, and spaces with positive energy. Feng Shui she says is an ancient practice that involves creating, building, and decorating our physical environments, the spaces we use in our homes and offices to create a positive energy flow that will support our health, growth, abundance, and good feelings. Feng shu...
Ep. 239 Raising the Level by Replacing Bad Habits
November 07, 2023 12:00 - 31 minutesBreaking Bad Habits With Something Better The best way to break a bad habit is to do something better and Polly has been working on that lately. When she noticed she was feeling stressed or bored at certain times of day, she decided to add in some new ideas and actions to uplevel the moment. For example, she puts her phone down whenever someone comes into the room or addresses her. Instead of fracturing her attention and even sometimes feeling frustrated by the IRL Facetime, like eye-to-eye s...
Ep. 238 Changing What It Means to Be Productive with Dr. Nicole Byers
October 31, 2023 11:00 - 28 minutesIt's Time to Change How We Work It's time to reassess how we are spending our time. Are we doing things that are meaningful or are we operating mindlessly getting things done without noticing whether what we are doing is actually moving us closer to our goals? Neuropsychologist Nicole Byers explains how our drive to be productive leaves us feelling stressed and burned out and often keeps us from the goals we aspire too. Working harder, longer and multi-tasking often diminish how much we accom...
Ep.. 237 Choosing a Powerful Monday Mindset
October 24, 2023 11:00 - 26 minutesChoose a New Monday MIndset If you dread Monday you are not alone. In fact, our Monday reticence often leaves us feeling low on Sunday. Polly was feeling all of this and decided to change things up. She wasn't ready to give up 52 days a year to feeling bad on Mondays. After researching some of the factors that cause us to dread the day--lack of schedule autonomy is a big one--and some of the tips to get through, she'll share how these schedule tweaks have helped her feel better. A couple of t...
Ep. 236. Developing Digital Literacy with Dr. Pamela Rutledge
October 17, 2023 11:00 - 30 minutesBuilding Digital Literacy to Aid Our Health and Wellbeing Technology is here to stay -- but that doesn't mean we have to download every app or respond to every text. Having boundaries around our technology use and being deliberate about when turn to our devices and what we look at when we do is a part of being healthy, happy, and digitally literate, says Dr. Pam Rutledge, a media psychologist, https://www.pamelarutledge.com/ Digital literacy begins, she says, with self-awareness and identify...
Ep. 235 How to Deal with Sticky Counters and Relationship Annoyances
October 10, 2023 11:00 - 27 minutesSticky Counters and Other Petty Relationship Arguments He rarely wipes down the counters. This drives me crazy. But could my upset over sticky counters be masking something deeper? Sometimes, and sometimes we just need to pause and take time to reflect and what's triggering our upset and how we can talk about those things in a meaningful way. This can feel a little vulnerable even with the people we cherish, but we can also use the pesky annoyances to create a deeper connection. In this episo...
Ep. 234 Making WOW Moments with Stephanie Vozza
October 03, 2023 11:00 - 32 minutesAdding WOW to Your Week After the unexpected death of her husband Stephanie Vozza decided to make it her mission to add more Wow Moments to her life. Now, she is inspiring others with her actions and her Wow-Moments.com blog. Wow moments, Vozza says, are the things that take us out of the regular routine. The unusual things that make us stop, notice, feel, and experience the world in a new way. Whatever you are interested in, whatever you've ever wanted to try, Vozza says, just go do it now. ...
Ep. 233 Use These Habits to Make A Hard Day Better
September 26, 2023 11:00 - 29 minutesQuick Strategies to Feel Better When a bad mood lurks due to frustration, stress, and annoyance, Polly has five go-to habits that she can do in minutes that help her validate her frustrations and move into a better-feeling space. If we remain stuck in bad feelings, fears, or anger it's tough to have the clarity we need to respond to daily challenges. By recognizing what we are feeling, and responding with movement, physical nourishment, awe, and gratitude, we can help change our attitude and ...
Ep. 232 How to Get Stronger as We Age: Dr. Maria Cristina Sheehan
September 19, 2023 11:00 - 24 minutesWe Can Get Healthier and Stronger As We Age University president Dr. Maria Cristina Sheehan of Sheehan Health and Wellness was out of shape, tired, and stressed. When a colleague died at his desk, Sheehan decided she needed to make radical changes. She called a trainer and started to get in shape, lose weight and become stronger. Now, at 77 she is a certified trainer, who competes in fitness contests, and helps train and consults with others who want to live healthier, more energetic lives an...
Ep. 231 Learn For Life With This Practice
September 12, 2023 11:00 - 23 minutesTry This to Make Learning Easier No Matter Your Age Lifelong learning is good for our brains and bodies, it may even help us live longer, but learning is about more than rote memorization. We not only have to take in the information but be able to retrieve it and apply the knowledge. Retrieval practice is a powerful tool that involves unaided recall of the stuff we are learning. Whether it's about how to use our streaming devices, or understanding climate change or learning a new language, we...
Ep. 230 Credit Expert Beverly Harzog Talks Toxic Debt and How to Avoid It
September 05, 2023 11:00 - 32 minutesDrop the Toxic Debt With rising costs and interest rates, credit card debt can create a crushing toxic debt that is hard to overcome. Yet, credit expert Beverly Harzog says there are options and she talks about how to navigate these challenging financial times. Harzog talks about budgeting, and eliminating toxic credit card debt and provides ideas about paying off high-interest balances and creating an emergency savings account to protect your financial health going forward. Beverly Harzog al...
Ep. 229 Finding Your Purpose in the Work You Don't Love
August 29, 2023 11:00 - 30 minutesYou Write the Definition Is it possible to live a life of meaning and purpose even if we are in a dead-end job? Yes. And doing that might be the secret to a happy life. When we live a life of meaning and identify with our purpose, research shows we live healthier, happier lives. Yet, we all have roles and responsibilities that may feel less than fulfilling. Even then it is possible to connect with our purposes and find meaning by looking at the patterns in our lives and recognizing the times ...
Ep. 228 Amy Williams Talks Navigating Transitions and Back-to-School
August 22, 2023 11:00 - 30 minutesEase the Drama of Transition Many families are in the back-to-school process and others are gearing up for the seasonal shift. Fall is a time of flux for Polly. It's the time she reflects on the first half of the year and makes any adjustments needed to align with her goals and values going forward. But like any time of change, the back-to-school season can stress kids and families and cause drama. But, we can learn to navigate these and other transitions to create a sense of calm instead of ...
REPLAY Ep. 164 Living a Rich and Happy Life
August 15, 2023 11:00 - 25 minutesFor the last week of our summer vacation, I am re-releasing one of the most popular Simply Said episodes ever. In this episode we talk about money and abundance, happiness, and what it means to live a rich life. Then tune in on Aug. 22, 2023 for all new episodes starting with how to transition into Fall and thrive and practical, non-stressful ways to live our lives on purpose. For now though, enjoy this episode about Living a Rich and Happy Life and join our Simply Said community for more a...
Ep. 227 Changing How We Talk About Aging, Caregiving
August 08, 2023 11:00 - 34 minutesWhat Happens if We Change the Way We Think About Aging and Caregiving? How we think and talk about getting older changes how we experience aging and care for those we love. Too often the narrative focuses on the negative aspects of aging. Caregiving and care receiving are seen as a burden or problem when loved ones who need our help can still live a life of meaning and engagement and so can their caregivers. Caregiving can be stressful but also a love-filled, interesting time, says gerontolog...
Ep. 226 Get Back Into Life
August 01, 2023 11:00 - 27 minutesIt's easy to get locked into the daily routine and lose track of what makes us feel good, the things we enjoy doing. Whether is baking or learning a new language, going on a solo hiking trip, or taking a deep dive into music, whatever it is, the way back into life is to start exploring to discover what we love to do now, no matter our age or stage of life. It's O.K. to have fun, though we might have to experiment with new things to find what feels good now. That's the good part though, becau...
Ep. 225 Dr. Donna Marks Explains How We Can Replace Fear With Love
July 25, 2023 11:00 - 34 minutesWhat Voice Are You Listening To? Are listening to the fear or the voice of love? One keeps us stuck in trauma, anxiety, upset and has us reaching for things that temporarily make us feel better like food, alcohol, drugs, technology. The other helps us acknowledge our pain, so we can resolve it and past traumas and live in a place of compassion, growth, and peace. So what voice are you listening to? In this conversation addictions expert, psychotherapist, and author of The Healing Moment : 7 ...
Ep. 224. The Importance of Autonomy to Our Health and Happiness
July 18, 2023 11:00 - 25 minutesWhy We Must Protect the Rights For All to Direct Their Lives We want to be in charge of our own lives. Or at least feel like we are. That sense of autonomy motivates us to do purposeful things in our lives, create things that matter, and contribute to our communities. When we feel like we are in charge of how we live and work, we are also more productive, resilient, confident, and happier. Polly has been thinking a lot about our personal freedoms and autonomy this July (Happy Fourth peeps)and...
Ep. 223 Discover Your Twin Flame with Leslie Sampson
July 11, 2023 11:00 - 25 minutesAre You Seeking Your Twin Flame? Leslie Sampson was skeptical at first. After all, what really is a twin flame and what was the energy named Chico bombarding her thoughts? But those questions and some synchronistic experiences sent the author and psychic on an exploration to understand more. Now Sampson helps Polly and the Simply Said community understand that force that she says is a perfect spiritual match and essential to our soul's evolution. In this fascinating conversation between Polly...
REPLAY: How to Get Happy
July 04, 2023 11:00 - 24 minutesPolly is taking a few days off, but we wanted to leave you with some happy-building ideas that she first talked about when the podcast began more than four years ago. This stuff still works today and o we thought we'd put these ideas about happiness back in rotation. And sometimes just thinking about happy things, can help us feel happier too, so we hope you enjoy. We all want to feel good, have a lasting sense of satisfaction and joy. But that kind of happiness doesn't linger when we buy a ...
Ep. 222 Chazz Scott On Why Self-Care is Integral to Our Success
June 27, 2023 11:00 - 39 minutesThe worst thing that can happen, says Chazz Scott, author of Success Starts Within: Achieve Your Potential Through Radical Self-Care of the new book is to get to where you wanted to go and discover it's not where you really want to be. But when we take care of our mindset and beliefs, come into alignment and purpose, and develop our awareness to understand what helps us remain psychologically stable we can elevate our experience right now and ultimately achieve the outer success we desire and...
Ep. 221 How to Deal With Difficult People
June 20, 2023 11:00 - 29 minutesManaging Difficult Interactions Have you had enough of the difficult people in your life? You know those who are always gossiping, or making you the brunt of every joke, leaving you or others out of conversations or bossing you around? Yep, we all have our share of difficult people, but when we are regularly required to work with difficult personalities, it adds to the stress and exhaustion at work and in our everyday lives. Polly discusses what we can do about the difficult people in our liv...
Ep. 220 Tracking Wonder with Jeffery Davis
June 13, 2023 11:00 - 36 minutesWhat Happens When We Pause for Wonder? Consultant, teacher, and author of Tracking Wonder, Jeffrey Davis says curiosity, innovation, and wonder will not only lead to more joy and satisfaction but also help us through adversity, raise the level of our productivity and creativity, and help us flourish and it all starts with a mindful pause. Wonder, Davis says, is the ability and willingness to "heightened state of awareness. Instant mindfulness is brought about by something unexpected that eith...
Ep. 219 The Problem of Emotional Labor
June 06, 2023 11:00 - 31 minutesDo You Value Emotional Labor? Emotional labor is the unpaid and often undervalued work we do to manage feelings, expressions, and behaviors to support the emotional comfort of others. Sound familiar? It might look like a job that has a "customer is always right" policy, or regularly coming up with meal ideas and a shopping list or scheduling vet appointments and carpools, or calming the child after a bad dream. Perhaps you coordinate the office parties or always buy the presents and birthday...
Ep. 218 Dr. Grant Brenner Talks About Self-Acceptance, Compassion, and Working Through Trauma
May 30, 2023 11:00 - 30 minutesCompassion, Empathy, and Listening to Understand Can Help Use Grow From Trauma Psychiatrist and author Dr. Grant Brenner says that with reflection and curiosity, we can start to unravel the emotional barriers that can keep us from self-acceptance and intimacy with others and move learn to ease our trauma and move toward understanding. In this fantastic conversation, he explains the 40-20-40 practice that allows us to work with others to truly listen to understand and to move into a deeper con...
Ep. 217 Develop This Hopeful Habit
May 23, 2023 11:00 - 24 minutesThe Hopeful Habit There is one thing that shows up when we encounter challenge and uncertainty when we are struggling through adversity and pining for something positive to happen, and that's hope. Hope is an optimistic state of mind that is based on the belief that there can be a positive outcome. It's a mindset that leads to greater resilience, well-being, persistence, and creativity--but it emerges first during some of our most challenging moments. When we choose to be hopeful we are more ...
Ep. 216 Secrets of the Super Agers
May 16, 2023 11:00 - 35 minutesSuper-Aging Secrets from Elise Marie Collins Yoga instructor and author of Super Ager: You Can Look Younger, Have More Energy, a Better Memory, and Live a Long and Healthy Life, Elise Marie Collins explains how we can live long, healthy, and happy lives by adopting the habits of Super Agers. Living in sync with nature, tapping into our purposes, and seeking opportunities to engage and expand throughout every stage of life are some of the things Super Agers do regularly to live better and age...
Ep. 215 Find Your Way Through Brain Fog
May 09, 2023 11:00 - 23 minutesWelcome to the 5th Season of Polly Campbell, Simply Said. Thanks for listening. I love doing the show, sharing these ideas, and connecting with you. Thanks for being a part of our community. -pc Have you misplaced your car keys lately, forgotten to return an email, missed an appointment, or have a hard time making decisions? Yep, sounds like Brain Fog, the absentmindedness when we often experience when we are under stress, feeling isolated, tired, or uncertain. It's no surprise that as we ree...
Ep. 214 Life's Big Questions with Jonathan Robinson
May 02, 2023 11:00 - 27 minutesHow can you go from depression to something better? How can we connect with those we love in a deeper way? How can we use questions to direct us toward a life of service and meaning? Author and psychotherapist Jonathan Robinson, https://findinghappiness.com/, explains how asking questions and following our curiosity can help us become more open to growth and learning and discovery and that makes for a happier life. So what questions can we ask to guide us? Polly discusses those and much more ...
Ep. 213 The Polite and Peaceful Way to Disagree
April 25, 2023 11:00 - 21 minutesWhether you are negotiating with a teenager or protesting a political decision, learning how to navigate our disagreements is key to getting what we want, supporting each other, and changing the world for the better. We'll never get ahead by shouting each other down, but sharing stories and experiences, looking for commonalities, and not turning a talk into a competition can be some strategies that ensure our voices also get heard. Disparaging, bullying, and belittling one another won't chang...