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The Trauma Therapist

Episode 812: The Willingness to Hear with Mónica Guzmán

The Trauma Therapist

Guy Crawford Macpherson

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement

4.5580 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Mónica Guzmán is Senior Fellow for Public Practice at Braver Angels, a nonprofit working to depolarize America. She is host of A Braver Way, a podcast that equips people with the tools they need to bridge the political divide in their everyday lives, and founder and CEO of Reclaim Curiosity, an organization working to build a more curious world.

Mónica is also the author of I Never Thought Of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times.

Mónica is the inaugural McGurn Fellow at the University of Florida, working with researchers at the UF College of Journalism and Communications and beyond to better understand ways to employ techniques described in her book to boost understanding.

She was a 2019 fellow at the Henry M. Jackson Foundation, where she studied social and political division, and a 2016 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, where she studied how journalists can better meet the needs of a participatory public. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, the Glenn Beck Podcast, Reader’s Digest, BookTV, and EconTalk, and she is an advisor for Starts With Us and the Generations Over Dinner project.

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My name is Guy McPherson.

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1:59.5

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we know. And this requires cultivating authenticity, genuineness, and vulnerability, and that requires

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project.com. That's the Traumathotherapistproject.com. Let's get started.

2:19.3

All right, Monica, here we go. So five, four, three, two, and one. Our folks, welcome back to

2:25.5

the podcast. I am very excited. Happens in my kiss today. Monica, Kuzman. Monica, welcome.

2:32.0

Thank you for having me. Hello.

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Welcome.

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So Monica is Senior Fellow for Public Practice at Braver Angels, a nonprofit working to

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