114: Cultivating Better Connection (with Brooke Romney)

Cultivate a Good Life

Becky Higgins, LLC

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Everyone has a story. Sometimes we agree with them and sometimes we don’t. But surprise! We don’t have to take sides! Isn’t that a relief!? We can just listen for the sake of understanding, and sit with our feelings for a while. In this episode, we chat with Brooke Romney and learn how to be a better listener and how to connect with others whether we agree with their viewpoints or not. Brooke is a writer, speaker, and educator who is passionate about making connections. Through her articles and on her Instagram, she helps parents connect to their children and to the world. She helps parents initiate conversations with their kids as they talk about real life and current issues. After listening to this powerful episode, you’ll have a desire to be real with others as you share stories and cultivate meaningful connections with them. SPONSOR: Always save 20% at [beddys.com](http://beddys.com/) with the code BECKY. SHOW NOTES: Have conversations, not inquisitions with your children. Listen to others’ stories or read books to help learn about others. Connect with Brooke on her [website](https://brookeromney.com/) or on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/brookeromneywrites/). FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM: @BeckyHigginsLLC and @BeckyProudfit. THANKS FOR THE LOVE! Love the podcast? Please share with your friends, tag us in your Instagram stories, and leave a review on iTunes!

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0:00.0	This is Cultivated Good Life, episode 114.
0:02.8	Cultivating better connection with Brooke Romney. Hey, I am Becky Higgins, and with me is my friend and co-host,
0:13.0	Becky, and with me is my friend and co-host Becky Proudfit.
0:24.0	H ao!
0:25.0	And both of us are delighted to be with you again this week.
0:28.0	Yes.
0:29.0	And both of us have recently seen a documentary that maybe some of you guys have seen that really ties in to what
0:35.6	we're talking about today, but who even knew, right?
0:37.8	Because we recorded this a little while back with Brooke Romney, who we will be thrilled
0:42.0	to introduce you to here in just a moment.
0:44.0	But back what was the connection that you were feeling with watching this documentary
0:48.2	by the way is called... The Social Dilemma.
0:51.0	The Social Dilemma. We watched it on Netflix, I think.
0:53.0	Oh, wow.
0:55.0	It was, so I watched it honestly because it's kind of like the Buzz documentary that's out right now and I
1:00.1	love that kind of stuff.
1:01.1	So I watched it and essentially what it is touching on is how
1:05.4	as humanity we are becoming more divisive so we're becoming the gap between
1:11.2	our belief systems is becoming further and further and further apart.
1:15.0	And where this gets really dangerous is it's not just that you can be firm in your beliefs,
1:19.0	but we're having an inability to even try to understand someone else's point of view.
1:24.0	And what this documentary really highlights is that with Google, with Gmail, with Pinterest,
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