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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Episode Transcript

CT (00:07):
Hey, what's up?
This is CT Kaupp.
I'm the creator of The MindfulSoulpreneur.
I guess now I have a podcast.
It's called Soul Path, broughtto you by .
I don't know how long this isgoing to go.
We don't know if this is theonly episode I will do, if this
will be one of many, but my hopeis that I provide you with more

(00:32):
value per minute of recordingor listening than many others
that you listen to, and soepisodes may only be a couple of
minutes.
The goal here is to make themshort, sweet and to the point,
but, like I said, I have no ideahow long I'll do this, but I
want to give it a shot and seewhere it goes.
So thank you for being here.

(00:53):
Thanks for listening to thevery first one.
Let's dive in.
So I've been wanting to do thispodcast for a while and there's
so many things that I want totalk about.
There's so many topics that Iwant to cover.
It's kind of limitless, it'skind of endless, which is

(01:15):
exciting, but also it's a littledaunting to get started,
because you could say I'm aperfectionist.
So I want to have the and Iwant to plan everything out, but
I kind of let this one, thisone just come to me, so I'm
hoping that this resonates withyou.
Out there there's I've beentalking about this on LinkedIn

(01:37):
and I just feel like veryaligned that I need to kind of
get this out here more.
So it's this whole notion thatwe are the most connected,
especially digitally, yet theleast meaningful connected.
So we're the most digitallyconnected society in human

(01:58):
history, yet we are the leastmeaningful connected, and I
think that's pretty ironic.
It seems to be a lot harder tofind those meaningful
relationships.
I mean, it's definitelyequality over quantity, but it
just seems harder and harder tofind.

(02:19):
Everything seems to be verysurface level exchanges, social
media, highlight reels and justlike the convenience of digital
communication, like it's hard,it's easier, it's a convenience
factor.
I guess it's easier to hidebehind a screen, behind your
phone, and let's just type a fewmessages on X, y, z social
media platform, rather thanpicking up the phone.

(02:40):
Getting on a phone call, youknow, or meeting in person phone
.
Getting on a phone call, uh,you know, or meeting in person,
and uh, it's like our culturejust shifted towards those
superficial relationships.
And uh, I read a book whichI'll definitely be talking about
in future episodes.
Um, because that it was calledthe Good Life and the longest

(03:03):
study on human happiness, and inthere it's like.
So to me, like the recipe isquite 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 wentviral one more time.
Oh, I wish I spent more time onsocial media.

(03:25):
Oh, I wish that.
You know, replace it, whatever,uh, materialistic thing that
you want, it's, it's reallygoing to come down.
The richness of our life isgoing to come down to the
quality and I'll I'll just say avolume of of deep, vulnerable
relationships that we have, youknow, real connections, real

(03:48):
friendships that you know thatif something goes wrong, you can
call that person and they gotyour back.
Like that is the type ofrelationship that I would like
us to.
Let's just call it rebuild.
Let's figure out I don't haveall the answers, but let's
figure out a way to kind ofshift the.
I don't have all the answers,but let's figure out a way to
kind of shift the culture ofsociety here on relationship,

(04:08):
let's shift back to that, let'sget back to that, let's go back
to the one-on-one humanconnection.
So, like I said, let's phonethat friend, do the video chat
if that is the easier way to dothat, but create those
one-on-one connections again andthen maybe you can go meet up
at the coffee shop if that's thecadence that you want to do.

(04:31):
But whatever you can do to justto 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 wetruly are as human beings.
So I just wanted to share thatwith you.
I hope that resonates, kind ofreflect on that as you go

(04:51):
throughout your week, and that'sa 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 anduntil next time if there is a
next time, clarity and fire.
Have a good rest of your week.