Wonder Your Way To Brilliant

When is sharing silence the most powerful way we can connect? We are so acclimated in our culture to fill space with words and time with doing, that moments of silence, particularly during a conversation or when spending time with friends and family, can feel really awkward. However, in this week’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant I get curious about the opportunities for deep connection that lie in the negative space of silence. Whether you are someone who feels completely uncomfortable with silence or you value silence, I invite you to join me this week in thinking about and experimenting with connecting through silence.  

This past week I was in Costa Rica and had the humbling experience of not having the words to be able to communicate effectively with native speakers whose language is different from my own. There is so much to learn from this space of feeling humbled. On this week’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant I get curious about what it would mean to bring this level of humility into our everyday communications? What might we do better if we did not assume that someone who shares common vocabulary actually understands us or we them?

On this week’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant I am taking on a topic that is very close to my personal world right now. Having just experienced the loss of my father and noticing many people around me who are also navigating the loss of loved ones or difficult times, I wanted to discuss what it means to courageously connect during times of loss. It is not an easy time for many of us and it has taken me a number of experiences of loss to find a means of connecting courageously. I hope this offering is of service to you or can be for someone you know.

This week’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant is inspired by one of the courageous young leaders who participates in one of my corporate Leadership Development Programs. She asked, how do you create Courageous Connections? Her question was in fact inspired by personal experience with someone she knew who was very skilfull at this and she wanted to know more about how she could advance her own practice of connecting deeply. This episode is dedicated to this amazing young woman. In it, I hope to provide some of the tools that I am aware of and use (in my best moments) to create Courageous Connections.

I used to feel very awkward when people around me would be sad, angry, frustrated, filled with shame, or disappointed. I could give them a hug, but beyond that, I either wanted to get far away from them and their dark space or I tried all my tricks to get them out of the ‘bad mood’ they were in. None of this was really helpful for me or them. On today’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant I not only provide some useful strategies for showing up in these challenging moments but also discuss how we can transform them into moments of courageous connection.

The month of May is always filled with lots of celebrations… Mother’s Day, graduations, weddings, reunions, and more. The celebrations are great times for friends and family to come together, but in my experience, it is easy to just go through the motions of meeting and greeting and never feel connected to anyone. On today’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant, I offer an alternative. Questions are one of my primary tools for igniting a meaningful connection and in this episode, I suggest the type of questions we can ask at celebratory events to connect more meaningfully.

On today’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant, we begin to discuss HOW we decide which connections to have and keep in our life and WHERE to place these connections in relationship to ourselves. The truth is that we do not have the same level of connection or relationship with each member of our family or everyone in our circle of friends and acquaintances. Much frustration can come when, for example, someone who brings out the worst in us or frustrates us occupies a lot of space in our lives. Today’s episode offers thoughts on how we can think about this and how we can manage our network of friends and family connections to achieve a happier and more fulfilled life experience.  

Are you online? Are you proud - or uneasy about the number of online connections you have? On today’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant ,I am totally unconcerned with how many connections you have but the ways in which we create Courageous Connection online. What are Courageous Online Connections? What can be transformed through the formation of these connections? Curious….?

Are you a dreamer? I mean actually… do you dream at night and are you curious about what the sorted fragments of your dreams mean? On today’s episode of Wonder Your Way to Brilliant, I talk with Sharon Pastore and Cara Imperato, co-founders of Dream Girls, a private group dedicated to dream interpretation and enhancing one’s connection to self and life through dreams. In this dynamic conversation we discuss everything from how to form an affinity group among people who share a common interest to how you can train yourself to remember more of our dreams and receive guidance from them.

On today’s episode I am talking about those precious LIVE connections that await us beyond the screens of our cell phone and iPads. For me, some of my most beautiful connections happen when I am traveling and this is the case this week. Join me on  Wonder Your Way to Brilliant for a journey through a series courageously beautiful connections formed on my recent travel to Colorado.