Best MJ Murray Vachon LCSW Podcasts (2023)

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Inner Challenge Podcast with MJ Murray Vachon LCSW

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Ep. 52 Mental Wellness & The Grinch! 31:26

9h ago31:26

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Join MJ and life coach Joan Claire Gilbert as they ponder some of the holiday classics! You know those family issues that can turn you into The Grinch. We might not have Peace on Earth this holiday season but MJ and Joan Claire give some practical solutions to help you make your holiday a bit brighter. They share some ideas to help you not let your…

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Ep. 50 Mental Wellness & Turkey 36:21

27d ago36:21

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It's the season of turkey, cranberries (who eats these??) and THANKS! Join MJ and her guest, best selling author and wellness innovator David Romanelli, as they gather around the table and talk gratitude. Usually at this time of year podcasts feature episodes about how to tolerate your great uncle who drinks too much or your family member who won't…

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Ep. 49 Mental Wellness & Compassion: Soundbite 0:57

28d ago0:57

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Join MJ as she talks with her husband Dr. Dominic Vachon. No, they aren't talking about wash,(which he excels at) or raising kids but COMPASSION! As Director of Notre Dame's, Ruth Hildebrand Center for Compassion in Medicine, Dr. Dom has a lot to say but it's how he says it that makes this episode a MUST. In these challenging times of war, politica…

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Ep. 49 Mental Wellness and Compassion 44:49

1M ago44:49

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Join MJ as she talks with her husband Dr. Dominic Vachon. No, they aren't talking about wash,(which he excels at) or raising kids but COMPASSION! As Director of Notre Dame's, Ruth Hildebrand Center for Compassion in Medicine, Dr. Dom has a lot to say but it's how he says it that makes this episode a MUST. In these challenging times of war, politica…

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Ep. 48 Mental Wellness & Exercise: Getting off the Couch! 33:30

2M ago33:30

33:30

Are you a couch potato? A Sofa Spud? Does your critical voice constantly call you lazy? Do you plan on working out but don’t follow through? This is the episode for you!!!! We all know the stats: working out is essential for the wellness of our body, spirit and mind. But, what to do if you’re a GOOD person but can’t get yourself to exercise? Maybe …

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Ep. 47 Are Your Emotions Potty Trained? Taming and Aiming (Part 2) 41:16

2M ago41:16

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Want to feel better? Get better at feeling!!! In this episode MJ and her guest dive into the model MJ has created to manage feelings in a more direct and healthy way. Most of us are taught to use an external mindset to manage our feelings. You know, Blame & Unclaim--send a text complaining how awful someone is, doom scroll, eat chips or have a glas…

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Ep. 46 Are Your Emotions Potty Trained? Naming! 37:06

3M ago37:06

37:06

Stop Trying to Feel Better and Get Better at Feeling? This pithy statement, credited to Whitney Johnson, sums up this episode. Did you know the average feeling moves through us in 90 seconds? EXCEPT, most of us disrupt this natural process by avoiding, minimizing, maximizing or soothing our emotional reactions because at about the 30 second mark fe…

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Ep.45 Mental Wellness & Your Spirit! 22:43

3M ago22:43

22:43

Welcome to Season 3!!! One of the most underutilized tools in cultivating mental wellness is your spirit!It's with you from the minute you're born so why not figure out how to use it to feel better? Join MJ for this 20 minute episode where she shares 10 Inner Challenge Insights to help you figure out how to boost your spirit. Our contemporary cultu…

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Encore: Handling the Pressure! 31:51

3M ago31:51

31:51

August brings with it lots of new pressures! Yep! Listen to this live coaching session as MJ explores with a D1 Athlete how he grew into handling the pressure. Be it on the field of life or football our mind is the best tool we have to manage pressure. This is a LEARNED skill and this episodes gives very doable tools to balance the ups and downs so…

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Encore: Oh What a Beautiful Morning! 34:36

4M ago34:36

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As we say good-by to another summer we find ourselves once again facing the dreaded MORNING ROUTINE! Listen as MJ and her guest dive into the latest science that helps us get up and go each and every morning. You might be surprised that a little knowledge can make a HUGE difference in how you start your day! Why not get this new season off to a gre…

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Encore: Mental Wellness & Parenting Adult Children in Distress! 31:05

4M ago31:05

31:05

Listen to the first episode of Season 2 as MJ meets with a mom who is trying to figure out the best way to parent her adult child who is going through some tough times. This is not easy!!!!! Just the term Adult Child makes for confusing times and confusing roles! Listen as MJ and her fabulous guest brainstorm some best practices of supporting our k…

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Encore: Mental Wellness & Comparison 27:01

4M ago27:01

27:01

In this live coaching session, MJ works with a college student who is courageous enough to battle comparison head on! Is comparison really a thief of joy or is it just a human reaction that we can acknowledge and work with in order to get a more accurate picture of a situation. Sit back listen and learn, you're gonna love this young mans' journey! …

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Encore: Traveling the Road of Loss & Grief 30:43

4M ago30:43

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Grief and Loss, while being a natural part of life, brings most of us face to face with many new and often uncomfortable feelings, situations and relationships. Grief not faced or processed easily disrupts mental wellness. Listen as this wise and articulate woman shares the road she traveled after losing her husband of 41 years. Her insights and pr…

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Encore: Mental Wellness & Procrastination! 37:23

5M ago37:23

37:23

Don't put off listening to this episode on Procrastination! In this episode, a podcast listener takes on the role of guest to explore his problem with procrastination! You may be surprised (and relieved) to learn the origin of procrastination is not laziness. Tune in as MJ shares with this young man her tested and successful method of dancing with …

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Encore: Mental Wellness & Weight Loss! 32:42

5M ago32:42

32:42

I want to lose weight! I have tried everything!I think about it daily! When I look at all the various diets they all are too much work, too expensive or too confusing. Today's guest is one of the few people I have talked to about losing weight, and trust me I have talked to thousands, that never said any of the above statements. Instead, one night …

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Ep. 44 Mental Wellness and Family Caregiving! 40:26

5M ago40:26

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The very essence of family revolves around caregiving. Yet, amidst the chaotic demands of work and our daily lives, we often find ourselves struggling to provide the heartfelt care to those we love the most. And of course, there is the additional challenge of caring for those family members who can truly test our patience! In this episode, MJ engag…

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ENCORE: Adulting! Adulting! Adulting! 31:18

5M ago31:18

31:18

On today’s episode, MJ and her guest take on the topic of Adulting! Adulting! Adulting! As children we are given the impression that becoming an adult is an on/off switch. Something that automatically happens at 18, 21 or when we become a parent. In reality, becoming an adult is more like a dimmer switch, a way of life that we grow into as we figur…

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Ep. 43 Mental Wellness & Cell Phones: Some Solutions! 34:17

6M ago34:17

34:17

Cell Phones:We love them! We hate them! Join MJ as she talks with a neuroscience major who becomes her own cell phone therapist. All of us will gain from this young women's guts, information and wisdom to face her cell phone addiction head on and put her life back on track. It is not as hard as we make it and she offers us some little known solutio…

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Ep.42 Who Am I? Legally Blonde Edition! 38:15

6M ago38:15

38:15

This is a delightful episode! Join MJ as she wraps up her series on Ages & Stages with a guest who went back to law school in her 50's!! What kind of Ager are you? Hopefully an Engager! Not sure what that means? Listen to this episode whether you're 30 or 80 as our guest shares the Engager Mindset. Most of us have interests and dreams that are set …

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Ep.41 Ages & Stages: Young Adulthood to Old Age 24:09

6M ago24:09

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Listen as MJ shares the GPS from young adulthood to old age. This episode starts where Ep. 38 left off, giving accessible and vital information to help you navigate each life stage with more ease. Knowledge not only helps us cultivate mental wellness but it just makes living a whole lot more fun! One listener commented, "Why do I know more about my…

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Ep. 40 Who Am I? External Self-Awareness (Part 2) 34:54

6M ago34:54

34:54

Listen as last week's guest takes on a topic he had not anticipated-- external self-awareness. In this episode, MJ helps guide this young man with how to take feedback from others so he can answer the question, Who Am I? more fully. Being open to feedback is a learned skill. MJ shares a process she created to help manage the natural demon of defens…

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Ep.39 Who Am I? Internal Self-Awareness (Part 1) 28:34

7M ago28:34

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What Disney Princess are You? Is your Myers-Briggs type ENFJ or ISTP? Maybe your top two E-Colors are yellow/red. What number are you on the Enneagram? Yes, personality inventories are a fun and helpful way to give us words for what we often know about ourself. Join MJ as she talks with a 20 year old who shares how taking the Enneagram not only hel…

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#38 Who Am I? Ages & Stages 31:07

7M ago31:07

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Want a GPS for your life?? Listen to this podcast series, as MJ shares with you information about human development: Ages & Stages? Whether you are 1, 13, 25, 30, 60 or 80 years old you will learn the big question for each life stage increasing your self-awareness as well as enriching your relationships with others. Hey, if you use GPS to travel to…

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Ep. 37 Noticing Our Way to Mental Wellness! (Mindfulness) 34:00

7M ago34:00

34:00

In this episode, MJ speaks with a listener who tried out the two mindfulness exercises, Notice On The Inside and Notice On The Outside. Mindfulness is often presented in a way that makes it seem woo woo or something for Buddhist Monks. Listen as today's guest helps all of us learn to apply these easy inner workouts to our daily life in practical wa…

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Ep. 36 What is a Inner Workout? (Notice) 27:50

7M ago27:50

27:50

Let's Get Practical! Practical! Practical! If you sing this to the tune of Let's Get Physical you are singing my song! No fancy gyms, no expensive work out clothes are needed to up your Mental Wellness Game. In this episode, MJ shares with you her two foundational Mental Wellness Exercises used by literally thousands of people. They are junior high…

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Ep.35 Bringing Baby Home:Attachment & Attunement (Part 2) 32:46

7M ago32:46

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Have you taken an attachment quiz-- one of the latest fads on the internet? Maybe you read an article or heard attachment talked about on the news. Today's episode picks up where last week's left off--the little discussed topic of how do we lay the foundation for our child's mental wellness?? Babies are great teachers but it helps if we are willing…

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Ep. 34 Pregnancy & Mental Wellness: Baby Makes MWE!(Part 1) 32:12

8M ago32:12

32:12

There are few things in life that change how we answer the question, Who Am I? then becoming a parent. While timing and circumstances are unique to each of us, as the due date gets closer, all of us ask, who am I now that I’m a parent? In today’s episode MJ talks with a couple who are weeks away from delivering their first child. As you listen you …

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Ep. 33: Mental Wellness and Weight Loss 32:45

8M ago32:45

32:45

I want to lose weight! I have tried everything!I think about it daily! When I look at all the various diets they all are too much work, too expensive or too confusing. Today's guest is one of the few people I have talked to about losing weight, and trust me I have talked to thousands, that never said any of the above statements. Instead, one night …

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Ep. 32: Mental Wellness and Cancer 48:22

8M ago48:22

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Lyn and Jay Caponigro share with us how they are navigating their mental wellness during this last year since Jay's diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. In listening to them we learn more about living than dying, the importance of dancing and how we have choices even in the most dire of times and circumstances to manage our thoughts and feelings. This e…

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Ep. 31: Taking On The Mental Wellness Challenge! 28:37

8M ago28:37

28:37

In this episode, a listener takes on the Mental Wellness Challenge! For one week she observed her mind and applied what she learned in episode #30 to her everyday life. Wowza!! You will be impressed with how she navigates the river of mental wellness to bring calm to her mind when she has one of those mornings when everything goes wrong! Join us fo…

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Ep. 30: Encore!! What is Mental Wellness? 34:57

9M ago34:57

34:57

What is Mental Wellness?? You kinda know, right? Wouldn't it be great to REALLY know? Join MJ for an encore performance of her initial episode where she gives you a practical and applicable way to REALLY understand mental wellness as well as tips to start cultivating it immediately. You don't need to feel like crap! And we certainly don't need wait…

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Ep. 29: Oh! What a Beautiful Morning...Routine! 34:36

9M ago34:36

34:36

This may have been a song from the cheesy movie, Oklahoma! but for many of us we aren't quite in tune with Curly McLain. (Google him if you are clueless). Join me in this episode as I talk with a neuroscience major to find ways that we can lean into our biology to make our morning routines a bit more beautiful. It it not nearly as hard as it seems …

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Ep. 28: Selling and Mental Wellness! 31:52

9M ago31:52

31:52

Quotas, Economic Downturns and Demanding Consumers, Oh My! Sales is one of the backbones of the American economy. A career in sales can test one's Mental Wellness whether it's your school's candy sale or your full-time job! Listen to this FASCINATING episode as a 25 year-old woman shares her journey in this career and how she has learned to steady …

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Ep. 27: Procrastination!! 37:23

9M ago37:23

37:23

Don't put off listening to this episode on Procrastination! In this episode, a podcast listener takes on the role of guest to explore his problem with procrastination! You may be surprised (and relieved) to learn the origin of procrastination is not laziness. Tune in as MJ shares with this young man her tested and successful method of dancing with …

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Ep. 26: Staying Mentally Well When Your Child Isn't... 36:22

10M ago36:22

36:22

With so many children of all ages suffering from anxiety, depression and other mental illnesses, the impact this has on parents often goes unnoticed. As today's guest says, "No one thinks to bring casseroles when someone's child is suffering from a mental illness." In this wise but raw discussion, we speak openly about the vital, scary, lonely and …

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Ep. 25: Animals and Mental Wellness 35:34

10M ago35:34

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Puppies, kitties, and ponies melt our hearts and lift our Spirit. Join MJ as she talks with her sister Ann, an animal whisperer, to think about the role animals can have in cultivating mental wellness. In her enlightened and understated way, Ann teaches us to not underestimate how the wisdom we learn from animals can be applied to our relationship …

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Ep. 24: Visioning Mental Wellness 36:50

10M ago36:50

36:50

At 18 years old, Marcus Engel was hit by a drunk driver and became blind. Join MJ and Marcus as they discuss how Marcus has learned to cultivate mental wellness as well as become an expert in Compassionate Communication. Marcus's story is inspiring but his journey teaches us many mental wellness tools that we can use in our day to day lives to help…

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Ep. 23: Adulting! Adulting! Adulting! 31:18

10M ago31:18

31:18

On today’s episode, MJ and her guest take on the topic of Adulting! Adulting! Adulting! As children we are given the impression that becoming an adult is an on/off switch. Something that automatically happens at 18, 21 or when we become a parent. In reality, becoming an adult is more like a dimmer switch, a way of life that we grow into as we figur…

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Ep. 22: Traveling the Road of Loss & Grief 30:43

10M ago30:43

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Grief and Loss, while being a natural part of life, brings most of us face to face with many new and often uncomfortable feelings, situations and relationships. Grief not faced or processed easily disrupts mental wellness. Listen as this wise and articulate woman shares the road she traveled after losing her husband of 41 years. Her insights and pr…

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Ep. 21: What it's really like to immigrate as a child? 18:37

11M ago18:37

18:37

You must listen to this profound story of immigration that builds on the last episode of reaching across the divide. Turn down the current cultural message that can cause you to be suspicious of immigrants and dial up your curiosity as this young man shares his journey of growing up in our country from a mental wellness perspective. Listen and lear…

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Ep. 20: Reaching Across the Divide 34:15

11M ago34:15

34:15

Our mental wellness depends on connection but what happens when we are divided with those with whom you live and love? Listen to live coaching session as this young man explores his path of living with "friends" who do not share his political ideology! Fascinating for sure! Listen and learn about a subject that not only touches most of us but disru…

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Ep. 19: Handling the Pressure! 31:58

11M ago31:58

31:58

New Year. New Goals. New Pressure! Yep! Listen to this live coaching session as MJ explores with a D1 Athlete how he grew into handling the pressure. Be it on the field of life or football our mind is the best tool we have to manage pressure. This is a LEARNED skill! There are no "emotionally gifted" humans just those of us who listen and learn as …

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Ep. 18: Life's Wisdom for Kids from 1-92! 35:07

11M ago35:07

35:07

You are gonna LOVE this episode!! MJ talks with a 92 year old woman who shares her wisdom that will help point your New Year in the right direction! This amazing human helps us focus on what really helps cultivate mental wellness and the good news is it's free and we are all wired for it! Listen and Learn in 2023!! #takingthemysteryoutofmentalwelln…

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Ep. 17: Failure and Fa La La La 31:35

12M ago31:35

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One week until Christmas and for most of us we are failing at what we had hoped to accomplish this holiday season. Fa La La La La La. In this episode MJ talks to a young woman not about her failure and the holidays but her relationship to it in the everyday. Listen and learn how this young woman transforms her relationship to failure in simple and …

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Ep. 16: Trim the Tree and Tend the Mind! 26:41

12M ago26:41

26:41

In this Season of Cheer a little Mind Tending goes along way! Listen to this live coaching session as MJ meets with a young man who explores what simple things he can do to give his mind a break from the stress of it all. (A real break not 8 hours on Netflix). Lucky for you in this season of expense tending our mind costs nothing but a bit of inten…

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Ep. 15: Battling Comparison Head On! 27:01

1y ago27:01

27:01

In this live coaching session, MJ works with a college student who is courageous enough to battle comparison head on! Is comparison really a thief of joy or is it just a human reaction that we can acknowledge and work with in order to get a more accurate picture of a situation. Sit back listen and learn, you're gonna love this young mans' journey! …

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Ep. 14: Parenting Adult Children in Distress! 31:09

1y ago31:09

31:09

'Tis the Season! Welcome to Season 2 where the pod gets REAL! Live coaching each week! This week we anticipate the holidays where families gather to eat, drink and be merrry! Then real life gets in the way. Listen to this this live coaching session as MJ helps a well meaning mother think through her parenting of an adult child who is in distress! #…

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Ep. 13: Are You Connected To Your Spirit? 34:00

1+ y ago34:00

34:00

We often think of Spirit as being the domain of religions or cheerleaders, but in this final episode of Season 1, MJ helps you to ponder the role your Spirit has in Mental Wellness. What lifts your spirit: music, nature, reels of puppies and kittens? What dampens your Spirit: conflict, judgement, bad sleep or no time off? This type of Self-Awarenes…

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Ep. 12: How Is Your Psychological Intelligence? 28:49

1+ y ago28:49

28:49

What the heck is Psychological Intelligence? It's the great connector. The skill set that helps us understand, feel heard and come to know others. Why have you not heard of this skill set? I have no idea. It's the Rodney Dangerfield of Mental Wellness and I am on a campaign to increase our knowledge of what Psychological Intelligence is as well as …

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Ep. 11: How's Your Social Intelligence? 33:26

1+ y ago33:26

33:26

Isn't it grand that Social Intelligence has nothing to do with how many likes or friends you have on social media? Are you one of the many people trying to figure out how to increase human connection after lock downs and hours scrolling on TikTok? Humans are social beings so it might seem weird that we need to up our smarts when it comes to Social …

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