639: Stop Looking For Love And Do This Instead with Branden Collinsworth
Highest Self Podcast®
Sahara Rose
4.8 • 6.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Love and relationships are at the heart of the human experience, yet navigating them in today's world can feel confusing, disappointing, and often painful. Today's conversation explores what it means to truly lead with love and how to break free from patterns that keep us stuck.
Branden Collinsworth is a poet, philosopher, and teacher whose work centers on the transformative power of love. We connected in Bali and immediately dove into deep conversations about Love, both universal and personal, and the complexities of the heart.
In this episode, we explore:
💔 Why love is the ultimate mission (and what happens when you declare it)
🪞 The truth: we attract what we are
💪 The difference between boyhood and manhood (and why initiation matters)
🌹 Why self-love changes the entire texture of your life
👑 How to stop repeating toxic relationship patterns
🎯 The power of standards, values, and energetic boundaries
💫 Reframing the narrative around available partners
🔥 Physical attraction vs soul connection: what matters more?
⚡ Why personal transformation is the key to changing your relationships
We discuss the journey from head to heart, why self-love is the foundation for all healthy relationships, and how our standards determine who we allow into our world. The conversation covers the importance of community, accountability, and why both men and women need proper initiation into adulthood.
This episode offers permission to reframe limiting narratives, step into proactive change, and trust that healthy, conscious relationships are possible when we do the inner work first.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you think everyone's kind of trauma bonding or it's just like everyone has trauma? |
| 0:02.9 | Both. |
| 0:03.8 | What is beautiful is with the right person, you can bring your traumas to the altar. |
| 0:08.8 | In holding it all, I think that it opens up the doors for true intimacy to come online. |
| 0:14.8 | Even men beneath the hard exterior just want to be seen through a society that has told men to be overtly hard and suppress |
| 0:23.6 | their emotional bodies completely what advice do you have for women is this something that can |
| 0:28.5 | be taught to men or is that just going to depolarize the relationship it's a deep question respect |
| 0:33.3 | why we're here trust flows surrender let the high self podcast. My name is Sahara Rose and And on this podcast, I love to take spirituality matters of the heart and make them modern, fun, grounded, and relatable so they can actually serve your needs. So if you haven't noticed, I'm quite obsessed with love and relationships. I try to talk about it to |
| 1:11.3 | pretty much everyone that I know. And so I'm really excited for today's conversation because |
| 1:16.5 | you're going to hear someone that I bet a lot of you guys already follow on Instagram or maybe |
| 1:20.9 | you've just like reposted these like black quotes with white font. They're always like the same. |
| 1:27.2 | You know, these men, they don't have to do all |
| 1:28.4 | the reels that we have to do sometimes. But there are these amazing quotes about love. And I remember |
| 1:33.6 | coming across his work years ago, and it wasn't until we were both living in Bali that we were |
| 1:37.8 | able to connect and instantly just like soul fam vibes having these really deep conversations |
| 1:42.7 | about love, like capital l love like |
| 1:45.6 | universal love and also lowercase love matters of the heart and heart breaks and you know all of the |
| 1:50.8 | things so i feel we both really embody divine masculine divine feminine energy within ourselves but |
| 1:57.4 | and also both and i wanted to just have a deeper conversation about love in the |
| 2:02.3 | state of this world today. I feel there is a lot of confusion, disappointment, unhealed heartbreak, |
| 2:12.1 | let down sadness. I mean, should the list go on about what it's like to deeply believe in love and often be |
| 2:20.4 | met by forces that are not working on the behalf of love? And so it can be challenging for us, |
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