Episode 44: Africa Brooke on Taking our Sovereignty Back From the Social Media Machine
“We are human beings that need time to process.”
-Africa Brooke, The Everything Belongs Podcast
Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Africa Brooke. Africa is a globally recognised mindset coach, business consultant, podcaster, and speaker who specialises in helping people overcome what is commonly known as self-sabotage. Her work takes a close look at the complexity and messiness that is the human experience, and she makes an argument for why we need to make room for discomfort. You can find her musing on the mic via her podcast ‘Beyond the Self with Africa Brooke’, or you can catch her pouring loose leaf tea while tackling necessary themes over on her only social media (IG- @africabrooke). In this episode, Madison and Africa speak on breaking free from the machine of social media in ways that alter our natural state of processing and sovereignty. They sink into topics like over-attaching ourselves to how others see us, ways we seek belonging that are unsustainable, seeing our audience as our community on social and so much more.
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In this episode we have a conversation about:
Understanding the differences in all humans, even when we share identities
The rise of social media diagnosis and labels for our experiences
Labels being useful until they are not
Over-attaching to how others view us and isolating other's from belonging
Making the distinction between Community and Audience on Social Media
How to come home to yourself from the cyberspace
Tea and other practices as meditation, getting into the 3D and "doing"
Alcohol, sobriety, sexuality and our urge for belonging
Self righteousness as we learn, change and live differently
Healthy detachment as part of sovereignty and self-responsibility
Editing ourselves, resentment and remaining open
Language and the breakdown of communication
Dealing with Sovereignty and processing in social media
Slowing down to transform
