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Rediscovering connection.
Articles and conversations accompanying the Rediscovering Connection podcast and Shelley's guest appearances, exploring Social Wealth, Social Health, relational design and the future of work.
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Internal Comms in 2026: Rediscovering Connection with IC Expert Rachel Miller
Internal Comms in 2026: Rediscovering Connection with IC Expert Rachel Miller
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Building Social Wealth: How Leaders Create Lasting Social Health in Their Teams
A research-backed invitation to move beyond loneliness and design the relational conditions that help people feel socially wealthy at work.
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Your Inner Circle is Probably Smaller Than You Think (And That’s Okay)
Strong workplace connection is not built through volume alone. It is built through depth, trust, and the consistent activation of the relationships that already matter.
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How Knowing More About Each Other Opens New Paths
Tristan Claridge explores how knowing more about people creates opportunities for trust, collaboration, and Social Wealth.
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How Quality Relationships Help Us Move Towards Flourishing
Professor Corey Keyes explains why quality relationships, social fitness, and flourishing matter more than counting connections.
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How Less Screen Time Can Give Your Relationships Room
Mark Saxby shares practical ways to use phones and social media with intention so richer relationships have room to grow.
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How Shared Stories Help Us Enter Midlife Fully
Amy Schroeder explains how The Midst uses honest stories and community to redefine midlife as a creative, connected life stage.
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How Play Creates Trust We Can Carry Into Work
Brett Macdonald explains how improv and play create shared experiences, trust, and more connected professional relationships.
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How Everyday Invitations Grow a Human Connection Movement
Pete Bombaci shares how small invitations, strong ties, and community rituals can grow a human connection movement.
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How Consistent Storytelling Turns Contacts Into Community
Trish Tonaj explains how regular storytelling, mentorship, and intentional gatherings help entrepreneurs build global community.
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How Small Practices Create More Joyful Seasonal Connection
Nathalie Grand and Wayne Greenway share practical resilience practices for creating joy, connection, and belonging through the holiday season.
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How Caring Responsibilities Belong Inside Workplace Wellbeing
Jaqueline Oliveira Cella explains why caregiving, psychological safety, and daily mental wellbeing belong in workplace design.
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How Protecting Time Makes Family Connection Possible
Ashley Chang shares how time and energy audits, delegation, and life operations help ambitious parents protect family connection.
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What Happens When Connection Becomes Public Health
Dr Kiffer Card helped write the first national social connection guidelines. He shares what they ask of us and how connection becomes something we design.
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How Grandparents and Grandchildren Learn to Love Each Other
Eben Pingree built an app that helps children and grandparents know each other across the miles, one small story at a time.
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What Horses Know About Reading a Room
Christina Marz works with horses to teach connection. She explains how heart rhythms and intention shape every meeting we have.
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Connection Does Not Happen by Accident at Work
Emilia Salhotra leads digital transformation in the UAE. She shares why team connection must be purposeful, surgical and intentional.
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The Thirty Minute Rule That Changes Where You Live
Seth Kaplan explains the thirty minute rule, thick versus thin societies and why local bonds are worth deliberate investment.
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Culture Is Made of People, Not Buildings
Sotos Poulimenos explains why culture lives in people and belonging, not in office spaces, and how to design moments that matter.
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The Board of Modern Elders We All Deserve
Nim de Swardt shows how intergenerational friendship improves health and happiness, and how a deck of questions opens the door.
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A Best Friend You Have Not Called Yet
Michelle Maree built a community of location independent entrepreneurs. She shares what makes it work and what it costs to host it.
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The Gift of Feeling Everything
Rachel Radway coaches high sensory leaders. She explains the trait, the gifts it carries and how connection can be built around it.
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Map Your People Before the Feed Maps You
Monika Jiang built community at the House of Beautiful Business and now creates spaces for honest conversation about what we feel.
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How a Personal Brand Becomes an Invitation to Be Known
Aarti Parmar explains how an intentional personal brand turns quiet expertise into visible value and authentic connection.
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How Five Mindful Minutes Can Change a Whole Relationship
Billy Lahr shares mindful practices and community wisdom that help midlife professionals be present for the connections that matter.
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How Masterminds Turn Shared Purpose Into Belonging That Lasts
Chris Chandler Yates explains how masterminds turn shared purpose into belonging, accountability and lasting peer connection.
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How Switching from Queen Energy to Lover Energy Restores Connection
Josephine Palermo on retreats, feminine power, and the small pause that helps you switch from work energy to connection.
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How a Weekly Dinner Party Builds Minimum Viable Community
Priya Rose explains how a weekly dinner party and co-living design build minimum viable community in New York City.
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How Collaborative Art Helps Strangers Become a Team
Karen Grosz explains how collaborative painting builds team connection through silence, quiet leadership and shared creativity.
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How Community Helps Mothers Return to Work with Confidence
Emma Padden explains how PR Mums supports mothers returning to public relations with community, policy and confidence.
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How Finding Your People Makes Your Gifts Feel Welcome
Nicole Starbuck on finding your tribe, owning your gifts, and co-creating with the universe through open doors.
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How One Unconditional Welcome Can Rewire a Whole Life
Shuang-Min Chang shares how a stranger’s welcome helped her trade perfectionism for authentic connection and a life of giving.
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How Mid-Career Change Reopens the Practice of Connection
Candice Neveu on mid-career transitions, TEDx visibility, and rebuilding in-person connection skills after years online.
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How Inner Guidance Replaces Fear with Love
Cindi Buckley shares how trusting inner guidance, releasing expectations, and choosing love over fear deepen connection.
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How Children Lead Us Back to Genuine Connection
Nichole Hamilton explains how intuitive, playful connection with children helps whole families reconnect and thrive.
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How Fireside Friendship Makes Room for Honest Talk
Erin Miller shares how intentional friendship, reflective listening, and honest communication transform relationships.
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How Circles Create Belonging We Can Carry to Work
Ame-Lia Tamburrini explains how circle practice builds belonging and prepares us for difficult conversations at work.
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How Workplaces Become Villages People Stay For
Dr Robin Dunbar explains how social rhythm, group size, and belonging shape workplaces people do not want to leave.
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How Seven Pillars Decide Who Becomes a True Friend
Dr Robin Dunbar explains friendship layers, the seven pillars of friendship, and how time builds lasting connection.
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How Scale and Rhythm Shape Communities That Last
Richard Bartlett explains micro solidarity, scale sensitivity, and the rhythms that turn groups into real community.
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How Intuition Becomes a Guide You Can Trust
Kirsten Barefoot shares how awakening intuition, community, and purpose help leaders find clarity and genuine connection.
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How Mentors and Community Shape Who We Become
Yvette Farkas shares how early mentorship, mindset, and community shape resilience, purpose, and connection.
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How a Core Support Group Steadies a Portfolio Career
Claire Skillen explains how mentorship, a core support group, and a portfolio career build resilient working lives.
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How Travel Awakens the Purpose You Carry Already
Kim Holl shares how travel, storycatching, and creative courage lead towards purpose and deeper connection.
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Data Shows One to Two Office Days Meet Social Needs
Most office mandates are decided by productivity dashboards, not by any understanding of how people actually stay connected. Leaders are told the answer is four days or zero, and neither is true.
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Aim for Social Wealth So You Fall Back to Social Wellbeing
Founders and leaders spend years building businesses and neglect the relationships that carry them through. When a hard season hits, they discover their network is wide and shallow, and that the people who could actually support them have drifted out of reach.
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Tiers of Intimacy Beat a Long List of Contacts
Engagement metrics reward reach. The more people who see you, the story goes, the more valuable your network. But reach measures attention, not trust, and trust is what turns a contact list into a community that shows up for you.
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Your Closest 15 Hold Your Health and Happiness
Motherhood splits your capacity in ways nobody warns you about. Relationships you cherished slide out of your present, not because you stopped caring but because there is no room left, and the guilt of that quietly compounds.
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Belonging Is Being Accepted as Your Authentic Self
Teams invest in culture decks and onboarding programmes and still watch new people quietly withdraw. The missing piece is rarely process. It is whether people can be themselves and still feel supported.
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Say the Assumption Out Loud and Ask If It Is True
Most workplace friction is not caused by what people say. It is caused by what they assume the other person meant, and by the trail of conclusions they follow without ever checking.
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The S in ESG Is People, and People Need Social Health
ESG frameworks are fluent in carbon and compliance, and strangely quiet on people. The S pillar gets a paragraph, while the daily experience of connection and belonging inside the organisation goes unmeasured.
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Your Tribe Changes as You Grow, and That Is Healthy
A spiritual journey can quietly rearrange your friendships. Practices change, values sharpen, and one day you notice the people around you are living in a world you no longer quite inhabit.
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Technology Can Facilitate Connection, Humans Must Create It
AI companions are marketed as an answer to isolation. The promise is seductive, an always-available presence that never tires of you. The question worth asking is whether what they offer is connection at all.
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Date Yourself First, Then Map Your People
Founders in the messy middle often discover their network is broad and their support is thin. They know how to build an audience and cannot name who would sit with them through a hard quarter.
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