How To Build Your Village with Florence Ann Romano
Take Back Your Mind
Michael B. Beckwith
5.0 • 826 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Today, Michael welcomes Florence Ann Romano. Florence Ann is a keynote speaker, popular media guest expert/personality, and author known for helping people create meaningful connection and lasting community. In her book, Build Your Village: A Guide to Finding Joy and Community in Every Stage of Life, she explores how friendship, support, vulnerability, and discernment shape the personal ecosystems we all need in order to thrive. Through her writing and public work, she encourages people to build lives where they can be truly seen, heard, understood, and supported.
Conversation Highlights include:
-Why "it takes a village" applies to everyone, not just parents, and how real support shapes every stage of life.
-How burnout often begins when people try to carry everything alone and become afraid to ask for help.
-The difference between being around people and truly feeling seen, safe, understood, and valued.
-A practical framework for identifying the kinds of support every healthy village needs through six key archetypes.
-The reminder that there is the family you are born into and the family you consciously build over time.
-Why philanthropy, service, and giving back can be one of the most natural ways to begin building community from scratch.
-How discernment helps you ask better questions: What is working, what is toxic, what is sacred, and what are you still learning?
-The importance of trust and value alignment in relationships, along with the red flags that signal someone may not belong in your inner circle.
-Why growth in community is not instant, and how intention, encouragement, and self-awareness deepen your village over time.
-How accountability, apology, and changed behavior create a path toward healing, while the absence of those qualities can fracture connection.
Finally, a closing meditation on becoming still, listening inwardly, and reconnecting with gratitude, presence, and your True self.
🪷Connect with Florence Ann at https://florenceann.com/ and across most social media platforms.
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| 0:00.0 | The discernment piece of it is what has been working, what hasn't been working, what have I been |
| 0:05.9 | learning, what do I need to unlearn, what is sacred, what is toxic. That discernment is going |
| 0:12.7 | to be vital in this village building for you because what I hope you're going to do when you |
| 0:19.3 | start doing this work is making better decisions. |
| 0:22.9 | And that's where the word, again, discernment comes in. |
| 0:26.4 | Oftentimes, I think we start to lose trust in ourselves when we've been burned based on our decision making. |
| 0:35.2 | Then we become less trusting. |
| 0:36.9 | And we start thinking, I'm the problem. |
| 0:39.8 | It's me, quote Taylor Swift, right? |
| 0:43.3 | But it really isn't about what did you do wrong? |
| 0:49.3 | These are the moments I want you to reframe that. |
| 0:53.5 | It's what am I still learning? |
| 0:56.1 | Peace and Rich's blessings. |
| 0:58.2 | I am Michael B. Beck into the spirit of all me. |
| 1:11.6 | Feel it. Listen, listen, there's a broadcast over on. |
| 1:28.0 | There's a broadcast. |
| 1:29.1 | I'm a podcast. |
| 1:29.3 | I'm a podcast. And it is my God, the founder of the Agapa International Spiritual Center. |
| 1:47.4 | And it is my absolute joy to have a wonderful dialogue, wonderful conversations with people on a regular basis, |
| 1:54.8 | individuals that in their own unique way are making a mighty difference on the planet, touching humanity at this time in human |
| 2:02.9 | history and beyond. So today I have, and you can see her beautiful face. You have Florence and |
| 2:08.8 | Romano. Welcome to take back your mind, Florence. I'm thrilled to be here. That's a very small |
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