203. When Silence Speaks Louder Than Words With Karen Brown FINE Is A 4-Letter Word podcast

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203. When Silence Speaks Louder Than Words with Karen Brown

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Hey high achiever, what if the only way to save your life… was to finally stop doing all the things and learn how to be?

In this powerful and deeply honest episode of Fine is a 4-Letter Word, we sit down with Karen Brown, a global leader, poet, and mentor who has lived and worked in nearly 90 countries—and once wore her “busyness” like a badge of honor. I know you can relate to that.

Raised in Jamaica on the values of personal identity, learning, and service, Karen built her life around helping others. But when decades of stress and 18-hour workdays landed her in the emergency room, she was forced to face a painful truth: the woman who’d mastered productivity had forgotten how to pause.

What followed was a journey of rediscovering the power of silence. Because for Karen, silence wasn’t just absence of noise; silence was painful and jarring. It was a void she tended to fill with constant learning and doing. Over time, though, she learned to sit with silence, to let it restore her body, calm her mind, and reconnect her to herself.

That transformation didn’t just heal her—it deepened the way she serves others.

Now, Karen changes lives through the simplest of acts: truly seeing people. Whether mentoring a young professional, writing letters to hotel staff around the world, or stopping a stranger just to say, “You are seen,” Karen reminds us how small moments of kindness can heal invisible wounds and ripple outward into the world.

But here’s the question that lingers: when silence finally knocked on her door… what truth did it whisper that changed everything?

Tune in to find out how Karen turned stillness into strength—and how you can, too.

Karen’s hype song is "We Pray" by Coldplay.

Resources:

Karen Brown’s website: https://bridgearrow.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bridge-arrow/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BridgeArrow/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoeKJ8Bnc_POr-IidXaNAFg

Invitation from Lori:

This episode is sponsored by Zen Rabbit.

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So let’s have our sit-down with Karen. I’ve been looking forward to this, especially a story she reveals near the end where she transformed people’s careers simply by writing letters!

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