Our life and success as a person have relied on our ability to form relationships with others. The most valuable lessons, chances, and blessings in life come from our interactions with others. However, how can we establish meaningful connections that bring out the best in ourselves and the people around us?

In this episode, Work Happiness Project Founder Nini Fritz joins us to talk about genuine connection. She offers valuable insights on how to cultivate genuine, meaningful connections and emphasizes the importance of choosing people who uplift you and enrich your life.

If you're looking to deepen your relationships and connections, this conversation is for you. Tune in now to gain valuable insights on fostering genuine connections that bring joy and fulfillment to your life.
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Building Genuine Deep Connections with Nini Fritz
Welcome to Action’s Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less, and, today, I want to talk to you about a really important topic and that is building genuine deep connections. Looks like an entire culture, a lot of people are suffering from the consequences of not building as deep of connections as we once did. We see a lot of problems with the loneliness epidemic and people that feel like they just really don’t fit in. My guest today, Nini Fritz, is the founder of The Work Happiness Project as well as The Digital Detox Connections Stronger than Wi Fi Program, sharing one of my great passions about getting people off the internet and into real life, connecting with real people and connecting with the real world.

 
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Nini, welcome to the program.

 

Thank you so much. Lovely introduction.

 

I’m glad. I usually try to think through these introductions a little bit. 

 

You did well.

 

All right, well, let’s start with talking about what you’re observing and what we all are observing in the world around us today. We just went through the pandemic but even before the pandemic, there were people increasingly moving their lives online and people becoming increasingly disconnected from one another in the world.

 

Yeah, that’s correct and, well, I think we live in this time age of this loneliness paradox. It’s pretty much a connection paradox. I think that is actually like an even better description. It’s statistically proven that we are like the most connected generation ever existed when you look at all like the online connections we have, but we’re also proven to be the loneliest generation in history. And, yeah, I think that’s very shocking, fun fact that we all have to accept. There’s misconception of having thousands of LinkedIn followers, millions of YouTube subscribers, a few hundred Instagram followers, Facebook friends, whatever it is, but when it comes down to needing someone to call or like a shoulder to lean on, we look at all these connections we have and then we realize the people we can actually go to, if we’re lucky, is like a handful of quality connections. And I think this gap between the perceived connection and the actual connections we have makes us feel much lonelier. When you feel like you share your meal on social media, post a picture of your pizza, but you don’t have anyone to share your meal with, that makes us feel like this is hyper — yeah, this pathetic connection pretty much and that is very dangerous, actually, for human connection to think we have that but we actually don’t have it and then it makes us feel much lonelier and much more disconnected.

 

Now, just to preserve my own innocence, I just looked this up now. My LinkedIn profile only has 960 connections so I’m not guilty of this thousands of connections thing quite yet. So, what do you think is creating these weaker connections? Because it seems like, in the past, we’d have fewer total connections but the connections we had were more likely to be deeper. Is it kind of this whole idea of I just posted,