Family is about healthy, meaningful relationships, and sometimes those relationships come by way of proximity to people we aren’t related to by blood.

On this episode, Les Morley-Hart, Collaboration Customer Success Engineer at Cisco, details his journey to finding new families around the world. He uncovered important truths about himself and his newfound community:

- Knowledge is the first step in undoing prejudice.

- It’s okay to walk away from relationships that inhibit your true self.

- Honestly confronting the ways we have been hurt by others can lead to newfound intimacy and the mending of broken relationships.

- Sometimes we have to build our own family when our blood relatives can’t meet our needs for acceptance and community.

Allowing ourselves to get proximate to others, and them to us, allows us to build our own community that we might one day be able to call a second family.

Les Morley-Hart - https://www.linkedin.com/in/leshart/?originalSubdomain=au

Cisco - https://www.cisco.com/

Alex Allen - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-allen-a4334210/

Callie McKee - https://www.linkedin.com/in/callie-mckee/

You can find a human-verified transcript of this episode here. - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rQw-HiaGSsUWw2d373325bn_ENd5iEH9cUrUUYxzr-w/edit?usp=sharing

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