Creating Deeper Connections in a Digital World

We have so many ways to stay connected online, but doesn’t it feel like something’s still missing?

This episode is about rethinking how we connect. Real friendships aren’t built on likes, quick messages, or perfect posts. They’re built with face-to-face interactions that feel real and meaningful.

Let’s talk about how to bring back those deeper connections. Together, we can create friendships that truly matter and make life feel richer.

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Transcript

CT: 0:07

Hey, what's up? This is CT Kaupp. I'm the creator of The Mindful Soulpreneur. I guess now I have a podcast. It's called Soul Path, brought to you by . I don't know how long this is going to go. We don't know if this is the only episode I will do, if this will be one of many, but my hope is that I provide you with more value per minute of recording or listening than many others that you listen to, and so episodes may only be a couple of minutes. The goal here is to make them short, sweet and to the point, but, like I said, I have no idea how long I'll do this, but I want to give it a shot and see where it goes. So thank you for being here. Thanks for listening to the very first one. Let's dive in.

CT: 1:02

So I've been wanting to do this podcast for a while and there's so many things that I want to talk about. There's so many topics that I want to cover. It's kind of limitless, it's kind of endless, which is exciting, but also it's a little daunting to get started, because you could say I'm a perfectionist. So I want to have the and I want to plan everything out, but I kind of let this one, this one just come to me, so I'm hoping that this resonates with you. Out there there's I've been talking about this on LinkedIn and I just feel like very aligned that I need to kind of get this out here more.

CT: 1:41

So it's this whole notion that we are the most connected, especially digitally, yet the least meaningful connected. So we're the most digitally connected society in human history, yet we are the least meaningful connected, and I think that's pretty ironic. It seems to be a lot harder to find those meaningful relationships. I mean, it's definitely equality over quantity, but it just seems harder and harder to find. Everything seems to be very surface level exchanges, social media, highlight reels and just like the convenience of digital communication, like it's hard, it's easier, it's a convenience factor. I guess it's easier to hide behind a screen, behind your phone, and let's just type a few messages on X, y, z social media platform, rather than picking up the phone. Getting on a phone call, you know, or meeting in person phone. Getting on a phone call, uh, you know, or meeting in person, and uh, it's like our culture just shifted towards those superficial relationships. And uh, I read a book which I'll definitely be talking about in future episodes. Um, because that it was called the Good Life and the longest study on human happiness, and in there it's like.

CT: 3:07

So to me, like the recipe is quite simple, because it's really at the end of our lives, we are going to, we're not going to regret the oh, I wish I went viral one more time. Oh, I wish I spent more time on social media. Oh, I wish that. You know, replace it, whatever, uh, materialistic thing that you want, it's, it's really going to come down. The richness of our life is going to come down to the quality and I'll I'll just say a volume of of deep, vulnerable relationships that we have, you know, real connections, real friendships that you know that if something goes wrong, you can call that person and they got your back. Like that is the type of relationship that I would like us to.

CT: 3:56

Let's just call it rebuild. Let's figure out I don't have all the answers, but let's figure out a way to kind of shift the. I don't have all the answers, but let's figure out a way to kind of shift the culture of society here on relationship, let's shift back to that, let's get back to that, let's go back to the one-on-one human connection. So, like I said, let's phone that friend, do the video chat if that is the easier way to do that, but create those one-on-one connections again and then maybe you can go meet up at the coffee shop if that's the cadence that you want to do.

CT: 4:31

But whatever you can do to just to build the more one-on-one relationships and kind of bring, let's say, like going into 25, kind of bringing it back home, bringing it back to center, bringing it back to like who we truly are as human beings. So I just wanted to share that with you. I hope that resonates, kind of reflect on that as you go throughout your week, and that's a good place to wrap for now. Thank you for being here, whether this is the first and only or the first of many. Thank you for being here and until next time if there is a next time, clarity and fire. Have a good rest of your week.