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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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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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