What if the missing link to hearing one another isn’t speaking louder, but instead becoming more inquisitive?

In this episode, I share how fear and division have has broadened the gap in the US, and why choosing curiosity has been the shift that personally brought me back to peace. I open up about my own journey from rage for the state of our country to calm, and how embodying love in small everyday ways can change everything.

Listen to learn how to claim your own peace regardless of the noise, to bring you back to center, and bring you closer to your fellow (wo)man in ways you never thought possible.

Here are the Highlights:

00:00 – What freedom, love, and peace mean to me

01:35 – Fear and how it feeds the divide

03:40 – Why I think talking isn’t enough

04:35 – Social media and the fire we’re all fuelling

06:50 – My own shift from rage to curiosity

14:30 – How curiosity has helped me heal

21:10 – What I learned at the African Creators Festival

23:50 – Love as an action, not a dialogue

Check out the African Creators Festival in Denver, CO hosted by Koya Nyangi

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