We Cannot Heal Alone with Rabbi Sharon Brous

A Bit of Optimism

The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek

Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Management, Education

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Loneliness is now an epidemic, with devastating impacts on our health. How can we rekindle the deep human connection we need now more than ever?

For Rabbi Sharon Brous, this question is the focus of her work. Considered one of the most influential rabbis in the U.S., she's founded her own congregation and has led multiple White House faith events. In her new book, The Amen Effect, Sharon explores how grief and heartbreak can be gateways to truly seeing each other.

Sharon and I talk about what it means to be present to someone else's pain and how a 2,000-year old ritual taught her the meaning of healing together.

This...is A Bit of Optimism.

For more on Sharon and her work, check out:

her book The Amen Effect

her congregation iKAR

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0:00.0	We live in a time when loneliness is now an epidemic.
0:04.6	And with all of the information coming out of the advice industrial complex,
0:08.9	there's one place that most people aren't looking.
0:12.3	Religion.
0:14.0	Putting belief aside, the question is,
0:16.0	are there lessons about human connection
0:18.0	that our faith communities have yet to teach us?
0:20.0	Stay tuned.
0:22.0	I never thought I'd take my three young kids to Sicily to solve a century old mystery, but that's
0:29.0	what I'm doing in my new podcast, The Sicilian Inheritance.
0:32.6	Join us as we travel thousands of miles on the beautiful and crazy island of Sicily.
0:37.9	As I trace my roots back through a mystery for the ages and untangle clues within my family's origin story which is morphed like a game of
0:45.9	telephone through the generations.
0:48.7	Was our family matriarch killed in a land deal gone wrong or was it by the Sicilian mafia a lover's quarrel or was she as my father believed a witch listen to the Sicilian inheritance on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:07.0	Oh, hi, I'm Rachel Zo, and I'm back for another season of my podcast, Climbing in Heels.
1:17.1	You might know me from the Rachel Zow Project or perhaps from my work as a celebrity stylist.
1:21.8	And guess what? I'm still just as fully obsessed
1:24.2	with all things fashion beauty and business my podcast climbing in heels is all
1:28.6	about celebrating the stories of extraordinary women and this season we're
1:32.4	taking things up a notch.
1:33.7	I'll be talking to some incredible women across so many industries.
1:37.2	From models and beauty industry stars to doctors on tripinors and TV personalities.
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