Mark Groves is one of the greatest new friends that I made in 2021. He's a former pharmaceutical rep-turned connection and relationship expert. In this episode we bounce from community and connection to self-knowing to building a better world. If we don't know ourselves, then how can we support others? If we can't sit with our own pain, how can we attend the pain of those we hold dearest? In birth and in death, there is a transformation of spirit. You don't get a vote as to how or when these things events unfold; the only thing we can control is how we spend our time from now until then. If I had a choice, I would be spending more time with people like Mark.This was one of my favorite interviews so far!



[00:06:45] - “Systems” don’t always prioritize community

[00:09:45] - Attunement, “our reactiveness to other people”

[00:20:50] - What if you weren’t broken? And had everything you needed?

[00:24:10] - You only get a vote as to what your happens from this moment until you die

[00:29:30] - Be you and watch the world adjust

[00:31:10] - Relationships invite us to examine those areas in which we aren’t liberated

[00:36:00] - Would you rather live in connection for 10 years or live in isolation for 50 years?

[00:39:00] - The newly emerging world

[00:44:45] - Dehumanizing anybody dehumanizes yourself

[00:49:00] - “You can only alchemize the lowest level of truth that you can hold”

[00:52:30] - You can’t un-see the man behind the curtain

[00:59:30] - Nature rewards courage

[63:00:00] - Communitas begets catharsis



References and Links

Mark Groves - Website, Instagram, Podcast, Youtube Channel

Wayne Dyer

Gabor Mate

Harriet Lerner’s book: Dance of Intimacy and Dance of Anger

Charle’s Eisenstein’s essay “The Coronation”

Ram Dass

Paul Selig’s book: The Book of Truth

Aldous Huxley’s book: The Doors of Perception

Film: American Circumcision

Byron Katie

Brene Brown



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