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Bewildered

Feeling Like an Alien

Bewildered

Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan

Business, Courses, Education, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever felt like a stranger in a strange land? In this BeWild Files episode of Bewildered, Martha and Ro dive into a question from listener Alia about feeling like an alien when you're among the people you’re “supposed to” feel at home with. Tune in to learn how the spirit of community is different from the simple grouping together of people, and how sometimes differences can be a good thing because they enhance the wisdom of the crowd. It's a thought-provoking conversation you won't want to miss!

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0:17.6

Hey Marty. Yeah. So we've got a good episode for the peats coming up today. I think so. Yeah. Yeah. We talk about in this episode we talk about what it's like to feel alien when you're among the very people that you're supposed to feel at home with, right? And that's come from, it's a be wildfiles.

0:20.6

It's come from one of our beautiful listeners.

0:23.0

And we're going to talk about how the spirit of community is different from the simple grouping together of people into clusters and how if you have people that you feel different from that can be a good thing because it enhances the wisdom of the crowd.

0:44.0

Yeah, it's like, we sort of went in two directions,

0:48.5

and I think it will be an interesting listen,

0:50.2

because on the one hand, you know, we want to be with who we want to be with and on the other

0:55.9

hand sometimes we need to challenge ourselves so that is a great episode ahead for you settle down make a cup of tea enjoy and we'll see you

1:06.4

on the other side mmm mmm so mary so mary I think there's a pretty good chance that our listeners are out there going,

1:14.7

oh wow, I have a lot of cultural messages in my head and it's not that easy to access the voice of my true nature.

1:21.7

Yes.

1:23.0

And I don't know, they might be thinking,

1:25.0

is there anything else that I could do

1:27.0

other than listening to this podcast

1:29.0

to help me learn to listen to my heart? Well I had this question even as a young child I would say I am

1:37.3

not happy and people would say well it's all in your head and I'd be like I know get it

1:42.4

out of my head.

1:44.4

But nobody could really help me do that.

1:46.2

And so in my 20s, I sort of made up a system

1:50.0

to help me detach from cultural messages and connect with my true nature.

1:54.1

And it ended up being my career as a life coach and then training people to do the same thing.

1:59.5

And I think that, you know, it's just like people who feel the urge to heal themselves help others heal

2:05.6

and heal the world that this this term life coach sort of slots into that in our

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