42 | Anchoring Humanity in Compassionate Conversation

Rodney Campbell and Keith Richardson are hosts of the More in Common Podcast, where their work around guest discussions, focuses on amplifying voices, and abstracting stories that leverage real human experiences. Keith and Rodney are professional conversationalists, but in the context of having really tough conversations, and having them well. As a result of their podcast they also launched a consulting business, where they help organizations engage in the fundamental fact that we all have more in common than that which divides us, and the basis for this, is anchoring humanity in compassionate conversation.

Keith and Rodney are also providing workshops in the community, through the National Conversation Project, in Cleveland and Los Angeles, and they are releasing apparel that will be donated to causes focused on reforming criminal justice.

Items we discuss:

-anxiety, and how we each attempt to deal with in in our lives

-the nuances of maintaining mental health, setting goals, and competing with yourself

-the challenges of being who we are - from the tyranny of "should", to creating safe spaces for engaging dialogues, to the true power of execution vs planning, and "showing up"

-how to have better conversations, and why it's not about you, but about the lived experience of the person you are engaging

Thank you for listening!

Ways to contact Keith and Rodney:

Keith: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-richardson-8950bb4/

Rodney: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodneybcampbell/

Podcast and website: https://www.moreincommonpod.com/

Books:

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, Eckhart Tolle: https://amzn.to/3huBkMX

Podcasts Mentioned:

Finding Mastery, Dr. Michael Gervais: https://findingmastery.net/

Masters of Scale, Reid Hoffman: https://mastersofscale.com/

Resources:

Les Brown Speeches: https://youtu.be/gXuSMjrx_e8

The Man in the Arena, Teddy Roosevelt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_in_a_Republic

Statistics:

When you are emotionally well as an employee, you can engage in your work: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nazbeheshti/2019/01/16/10-timely-statistics-about-the-connection-between-employee-engagement-and-wellness/#634046e122a0

Upcoming LIVE Broadcasts & Events:

Friday, June 19th, 2020: 930-1030am PST - Innovation in K-12 Education, and the Venture Capital Model as the Funding Mechanism for Education, with Ian Connell: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-data-binge-podcast

Thursday, June 25th, 2020: 12-1pm PST - Experiencing Racism, a Virtual Reality Driven Perspective on Simply Tech LIVE with associate professor Courtney D. Cogburn of Columbia University, and professor Jeremy Bailenson of Stanford University: https://www.linkedin.com/company/simplytechlive

Anti-racism Causes and Nonprofits that I am supporting and am working to collaborate closer with:

https://eji.org/

https://thelastmile.org/

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