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Couples therapist, coach, and author, Carolyn Sharp is back.

I'm so glad to have you back. Thank you for being here with us.

Kelly, I am thrilled to be back. I loved our conversation a year ago, and I'm so excited to get to

talk to you. So if you guys missed that podcast, Carolyn wrote a book called Fire It Up, and it's all about

reigniting the fire in your relationships. I know that's a very common theme amongst

so many couples. I'm in my 40s. So I think that's kind of the phase. I'm sure this happens

in different phases, but there's a big phase of it happening in the 40s where people just get

really stagnant in their relationships, not that they want them to end, but they don't know how to

get back to the fire.

And so we talked about that.

It was a great conversation.

Go check that one out if you haven't heard it yet.

But you're back today because you released a TEDx talk in December.

And to me, it was so much of the stuff that we talk about on this podcast, the stuff that I want to put out into the

world and some insight into maybe some changes we could individually make to help bring communities

back together. Because I think if anyone listening isn't feeling this, I would be shocked.

But I think all of us are just feeling this massive disconnect and divisiveness.

And it's been happening for years now.

I'm personally exhausted.

And so I'm very open to hearing any sort of ways that we can come back together.

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