“Why We’re Turning Against Each Other” - Conflict Aid Veteran
Project Possible with Rich Leigh - interviews that might just change your lifeShow Notes
We're more polarised in the West than ever. It's tearing families apart.
Rhett Power spent years working in war zones with the Peace Corps and USAID, witnessing first-hand what happens when societies fracture - and when people stop seeing each other as human.
Nearly a million people were killed in the conflicts and genocides we discuss in this conversation - the very real cost of polarisation.
Rhett recently giving a TEDx talk called How To Host A Bipartisan Dinner that caught my eye.
I wanted to speak to him about polarisation, outrage, fear and whether modern society is heading in the wrong direction.
We discuss:
political division and empathy fear, identity and human behaviour entrepreneurship and resilience grief and self-talk leadership and culture why “your self-talk becomes team talk”
A thoughtful conversation about humanity, conflict and whether we’ve forgotten how to truly talk to each other again.
Follow Rhett on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/rhettpower
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Interviews that might just change your life. And if not…? You’ll probably enjoy them anyway.
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