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Erika Taught Me

How To Put Yourself First and Stop Wasting Time on Meaningless Connections

Erika Taught Me

Erika Kullberg

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

#18: Co-founder and CEO of Squad, Isa Watson shares her story from a dark relationship with social media to fostering meaningful social connections. We discuss social media, how it affects our happiness and mental health, and how we can find true and meaningful connections outside social media. Learn how to stop seeking validation from likes, find your joy centers, and invest your energy into stronger relationships, your own truths, and emotional health. Isa’s book, Life Beyond Likes: Logging Off Your Screen and Into Your Life, comes out today, February 7, 2023. Get it here. To apply for the Senior Podcast Producer position at Erika Taught Me: https://erikakullberg.com/producer-application Special thanks to our partners: Webull (free stocks) - erikataughtme.com/invest Aura - erikataughtme.com/aura Bilt Rewards - erikataughtme.com/bilt Thanks for tuning in and come back every Tuesday for a brand-new episode! Make sure you hit the follow button to get notified. Prefer video or want closed captions?⁠ Watch this episode on YouTube. Did you enjoy the episode?⁠⁠ Please leave us a review here⁠⁠: https://erikakullberg.com/review (just scroll to the bottom and tap on “leave a review”) It really helps the podcast especially since we’re just getting started. Even just a sentence is perfect! Follow the podcast @erikataughtme across platforms. ⁠Connect with me on Instagram.⁠ For more information, go to⁠ https://www.erikataughtme.com/⁠. Get on my personal finance & investing course priority waitlist here. https://erikakullberg.com/3DMoney Get my Mastering YouTube course, to learn how to grow a YouTube following and monetize it. https://erikakullberg.com/MasteringYT ⁠Get more of my free resources.⁠

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0:00.0

The fact that we had gotten to such a dark place as a society in our relationship with social media,

0:07.2

you know, we scroll endlessly and we're scrolling a bunch of content that people put out there

0:12.8

that are essentially their highlight reels. Hey, let me put the most beautiful photos up.

0:17.1

That people love. Oh, let me put the fabulous stuff out here. I was like, I am so fake.

0:23.1

I am showing up in such a fake way right now and that's not authentic. We have gotten so caught up

0:29.0

and getting validated by likes. And as I was talking about squad in many different venues,

0:34.3

people were like, wow, that is so true. I am lonely. I am also not talking to my friends. I am

0:40.5

spending so much time scrolling on social media. Today, I'm talking to Aisa Watson,

0:45.6

co-founder of the voice-only messaging app squad, which encourages genuine connection with

0:50.3

your closest friends. Aisa is also the author of Life Beyond Likes and we're going to be discussing

0:55.6

just that how social media effects our daily lives, living a more fulfilled life and diving

1:01.5

into Aisa's inspiring journey. I'm Erica Colberg. This is Erica taught me and today we're here with

1:07.9

Aisa Watson. You guys know that I love investing because you know that if your money is just

1:14.2

sitting in a bank account, you're losing out to inflation every single year. That's why you

1:20.2

invest it so that it grows for you without you having to put in any extra work. I've been using

1:26.3

an investing app called Weeble for almost four years and I had them do something really special

1:31.7

for my listeners. By using my link to sign up today, you can get between six to 12 fractional shares

1:38.8

for free. All you need to do is open an account and deposit any amount, even a dollar to claim your

1:45.8

free shares. So just by depositing a dollar, you'll get between six to 12 free fractional shares.

1:52.7

And if you're wondering what to actually invest in, we talk all about investing in episode 28,

1:58.1

so go ahead and listen to that episode. To claim your free shares through my special link,

2:03.6

just go to erica.com slash invest or click the link in the show notes and it's Erica with a K.

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