Ep. 20 - The Company We Keep
Barb Knows Best
Michelle Maros & Barb Schmidt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode of the pod, Barb and Michelle discuss the old adage “you are the company that you keep”. Learn how Barb and Michelle think is the best way to cultivate meaningful, aligned relationships as well as being the example for the people in your life.
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Episode Notes:
- Emotional contagion refers to a phenomenon of an automatic adoption of an emotional state of another person. We, as humans, have a natural tendency to mimic the people around us.
- Spend time with people that align with you are. Carefully choose the company you keep as they can influence how you think about yourself and how show up in the world.
- Be mindful of the places you hang out in, in the digital sphere, as it can influence you as much as those around you.
- You have choice. You can determine how you process and interpret the situation.
- Choose people that inspire you. Embrace the habits that you see in other people that will help you be the best version of yourself.
- Instead of modeling perfection, model authenticity. Be exactly who you are and just show up.
Resources Mentioned in Today’s Podcast:
- Emotional Contagion (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction) by Elaine Hatfield, John T. Cacioppo, Richard L. Rapson
https://www.amazon.com/Emotional-Contagion-Studies-Emotion-Interaction/dp/0521449480
- Atlas of the Heart - Brené Brown https://brenebrown.com/book/atlas-of-the-heart/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to Barb knows best the podcast. I'm Michelle |
| 0:19.5 | Marros, your co-host and it's a lovely rainy day and I'm here with my mother Barb Schmidt |
| 0:27.4 | peaceful Barb or happy smiley face staring back at me, which is always a joy. |
| 0:35.0 | Well, we are, you're right. |
| 0:36.1 | Good morning. |
| 0:37.1 | Good morning. |
| 0:38.1 | It's a nice rainy day here in Florida. |
| 0:39.9 | We are in the summer. |
| 0:40.9 | We are officially in rainy season, hurricane season, all the seasons here. |
| 0:45.8 | So funny sidebar before we hop into things. |
| 0:50.3 | It's recently come to my, I had a realization last week that you hold, so growing up I loved 20 the poo. |
| 1:03.0 | You did you know as most do and I love the rain. I love a rainy day. I love being cozy at home. I love, you know, alone time and you are very high energy |
| 1:21.4 | wants to go wants to do wants to go, wants to do, wants to be on the move. |
| 1:26.3 | And we were in a meeting last week |
| 1:28.5 | and you were in your most high energy self |
| 1:31.9 | and I was in my most want to snuggle up and sleep self and it |
| 1:36.8 | hit me that I have big your energy and you have big tigger energy and this is just coming to you it's coming to |
| 1:48.6 | me because I'm like it's just so perfect so I've been like looking at memes of like |
| 1:52.0 | eor and tigger and like you know tear bounces around and |
| 1:57.3 | Eor just sits in the rain so it's a rainy day so this Eor is very happy. I do love rainy days, but once in a while not every day. |
| 2:07.3 | Yeah, well it is summertime in Florida, so but I just thought that that was funny. |
| 2:12.8 | A nice little mental image for you all listening to picture us |
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