Mark Shapiro: The Art of Authentic Connection
Wellness + Wisdom Podcast
Josh Trent
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2018
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
What can social media be? We can either waste time on our smartphones with social media or we can invest our time in social media. That's what my birthday experiment is about. It's about investing time in relationships and giving our time, energy, and love away to others. - Mark Shapiro
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Is social media helping you authentically connect or disconnect with friends and family?
When you send or receive a message on social media, does it come from the heart or does it feel empty?
In Wellness Force Radio episode 175, Social Experimenter, Host of The One & Only Podcast, TEDx Talk Speaker, Founder of Are You Being Real, and Founder & President of Winning Weeks, Mark Shapiro, shares how you can become more authentic online, the basics of social media etiquette, and the 3 Social Media Fails.
Try to answer this question for yourself once you finish listening to this episode: What can social media be for you?
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- Learn empowerment & productivity techniques
- Meet & connect with inspired people
- Express yourself however you wish
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| 0:00.0 | I realized that I needed to take responsibility for my life and the choices that I was making and I really saw how my creativity had been shrinking and how that whole box that I was living in was getting smaller and smaller and smaller. |
| 0:20.0 | That's when I really chose to take responsibility and to take action for the things that I truly wanted most. |
| 0:27.0 | So those dreams, those ideas that I'd be telling myself in my head, when I started actually believing it and taking steps one at a time |
| 0:35.6 | courageously naturally over time I started feeling empowered I realized that |
| 0:41.1 | when I was honoring my authentic truth and voice that we built |
| 0:45.0 | confidence and built momentum. That's Mark Shapiro and this is episode 175 of |
| 0:50.4 | Wellness Force radio. What's up, my friend? |
| 0:53.0 | It's your host Josh Trent, |
| 0:55.0 | and welcome back to another episode |
| 0:56.0 | for your weekly access to global experts in all things wellness |
| 1:00.0 | as we discover the physical and emotional intelligence we need to live life well. |
| 1:04.9 | In this episode, we're talking with my friend, |
| 1:07.4 | TEDx speaker, and podcast host Mark Shapiro |
| 1:10.6 | about the art of authentic connection |
| 1:12.3 | and its relationship to our emotional |
| 1:14.4 | intelligence. Now why this is so fascinating what's most intriguing about this |
| 1:18.6 | upcoming conversation is that authenticity it's kind of a buzzword right now. I'm sure you hear about this all the time online, but truly being authentic and connecting with yourself first, then other people has never been more challenging than right now, with the rise of social media and where you see the highlight |
| 1:34.3 | reels from everybody's life on their green screen lens for just the best of the best |
| 1:38.0 | vacations around the world not ever showing those intimate moments where we're all |
| 1:42.4 | perfectly imperfect. |
| 1:43.7 | These things don't get shared. |
| 1:44.9 | Now this aspect of only seeing the highlight reels is actually degrading our ancient brain's perception |
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