418: Neighboring — How to Do It and Why It Will Enhance the Quality of Your Everydays
The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
Shannon Ables
4.7 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
"There's a sense of comfort and safety that can come with knowing [our neighbors] — and building a safe and caring community is a valuable way to stay connected to the place you live." —Diana Opong and Janet W. Lee, in their article "How to be a good neighbor"
Being a good neighbor is a daily practice in awareness. Both in what and who surrounds us, as well as how our own choices might affect others.
Tune in to episode to discover 7 ways to strengthen your neighboring skills and also discover three significant life benefits when we put them to practice.
Find the Show Notes for the episode on The SImply Luxurious Life blog - https://thesimplyluxuriouslife.com/podcast418
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the simple sophisticate, where in 2014, this podcast premiered, and now in its 12th season, |
| 0:10.0 | the show continues to focus on the same principles it was founded upon, the art of living a life of quality over quantity. |
| 0:18.0 | Topics range from creating an everyday life you love living, strengthening mindfulness |
| 0:22.9 | practices, building a capsule wardrobe, preparing seasonally delicious meals, traveling and exploring |
| 0:29.2 | France and Britain, and living life to the fullest as you courageously honor your true self, |
| 0:34.8 | because living well really is quite simple once we know the skills of |
| 0:39.3 | cultivating contentment. I'm your host, Shannon Ables, and whether you're listening while |
| 0:44.7 | you're on your commute, exercising, working in the garden or art studio, in route or returning from |
| 0:50.4 | that dream destination, or sitting down and savoring a hot cuppa or a cafe au lae. Thank you for |
| 0:57.1 | tuning in. Let's get started. Welcome to the 418th episode of the simple sophisticate. In today's |
| 1:06.5 | episode, we're going to talk about a skill that sometimes we might not necessarily take for granted, |
| 1:12.4 | but we might unconsciously practice it or unconsciously forget to practice. It's never something |
| 1:18.6 | we do with intention to forget. We just get busy with our lives. But it's something that when |
| 1:24.0 | we consciously choose to put into practice this skill, we bring into our lives |
| 1:30.8 | amazing benefits. And we don't have to do all that much except for simply be aware. |
| 1:38.7 | We're going to break all of this down as we talk about the skill of neighboring, to do it and why it will enhance the quality |
| 1:46.1 | of your everydays. Now, before we get into that, because we're very much a neighborhood in many |
| 1:51.8 | ways on this podcast, the listeners around the world that have been tuning in for, oh my gosh, |
| 1:58.0 | what has it been, 12 years, we're in season 12. |
| 2:06.1 | So I want to extend a huge thank you to listener VKW Green. |
| 2:13.8 | You wrote such a kind, lovely, truly, I am deeply chuffed by your review. |
| 2:19.8 | You posted it just after episode 417, and you titled it Smart, Classy, Relatable, |
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