S2 E3: [INTERVIEW] Building authentic adult connections and friendships with Helene Brolund, Friendship Coach

During this episode of the So She Did Podcast, Kristin speaks with Helene Brolund, Friendship Coach in Copenhagen, Denmark. The two discuss the need for authentic connection and the value of building friendships as adults. In addition, they discuss the challenges with building friendships including time-constraints, struggling with our own identity, becoming comfortable with vulnerability and developing a language around our needs and wants in our relationship with others.

• Why do we need to build friendships and why is it hard as adults?
• We are taught our whole lives to celebrate our 'successes,' but not our connections, sharing of friendships and love. We discuss rewarding ourselves off-line, building authentic relationships and how to venture out of our comfort zone to meet people.
• Learning to see vulnerability as a strength, not a weakness.
• Getting comfortable 'feeling awkward.'
• Leaning into who we really are.
• Overcoming the Myth that friendship is something that is just "supposed to happen" naturally.

Helene suggests that we are 'Human Beings, not Human Doings." It is not our career, our accomplishments, or our outside image that defines us, rather it is who we are on the inside --- our wants, our thoughts, our goals, our hobbies, and the way we interact with others -- that defines who we are. Kristin and Helene discuss how to change a conversation from "What do you do?" to "Who are you really?" in order to build better connections and simultaneously becoming more self-aware.

For more information or to work with Kristin, visit:

www.LevelUp2You.com

https://www.instagram.com/kristin_n_co/

For more information or to work with Helene, visit:

https://simonandhelene.com/

https://www.instagram.com/simonandhelene/

https://www.facebook.com/SimonandHelene/

https://network.simonandhelene.com/