Less Reaction, More Intention (The Edge)
Velvet's Edge with Kelly Henderson
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
These days, it feels like everything—especially politics—is designed to divide us. The outrage, the blame game, the constant fighting…it’s like throwing salt on a wound, making things worse instead of better. After Kelly's conversation with author, psychologist and executive coach, Dr. Harry Cohen, this week, Kelly and Chip ask: What if we approached things differently? If we’re all looking at the world through different lenses, how do we hold space for those differences without working against each other—and against ourselves? They explore how negativity and conflict are being used to manipulate us, why kindness and unity are often dismissed as weak or boring, and the small but powerful shifts we can make to actually create change.
Book: Be the Sun, Not the Salt
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Kelly Henderson // @velvetsedge // velvetsedge.com
Chip Dorsch // @chipdorsch
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:15.4 | What's up, you guys? |
| 0:16.5 | It's Kelly, and it is Friday. |
| 0:18.5 | Happy Friday. |
| 0:19.4 | I hope you guys have had a great week out there. |
| 0:22.6 | Chip will be here on today's podcast. It is going to be a podcast that we did a couple or a little |
| 0:30.1 | bit ago. I can't remember exactly when it was. But the reason I'm on here by myself right now is we |
| 0:35.0 | did actually record a new episode for today. And I have to |
| 0:39.5 | tell you guys the truth. I just went back and was listening to it. And some of the topics that we |
| 0:45.3 | were discussing felt just a little bit too political for me. And I've told you guys a million |
| 0:52.1 | times this is not a political podcast. I do my best to take |
| 0:55.8 | responsibility of having a microphone or a platform, as they say, but also just really trusting my gut on some |
| 1:03.0 | things. And this podcast is here to bring peace and beauty and hopefully light to you guys and especially our Friday podcast. |
| 1:12.7 | It really is supposed to be here to find connection. And we talk about that a lot. And it's |
| 1:18.7 | really difficult when you get into any of these conversations to not start taking aside |
| 1:24.1 | or participate in all of the opinions out there and the voices and the negative |
| 1:29.8 | narratives. And it just does not feel right to me. That doesn't mean I don't have an opinion or |
| 1:35.6 | thoughts about all of the things that are happening in our world today. But what I don't want to do |
| 1:40.6 | is contribute to noise and be divisive. So it's such a fine line. I really try to walk |
| 1:47.3 | it to the best of my ability. And we can't always get it right. And this was one of those things where |
| 1:53.6 | I actually don't think Chipper I said anything in particular that is incredibly offensive or anything like that. |
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