Hello everyone, this is Tonya Dawn Recla, Your Super Power Expert. And we are back today talking with just this beautiful woman, so near and dear to my heart. We’re talking today with Wendy Perrotti again about The Battle between Privacy and Transparency. So last week we had the battle between privacy and transparency part one which is the focus on privacy. And that was all over, I mean the dimensionality that’s encompassed in just that conversation alone is wicked.
And today we’re talking about part two, which is the transparency piece. So, we’re going to tie up some loose ends around that first conversation. But really, this is at the heart of the work that we do here at Super Power Experts that Wendy does in her ecosystem, that The Super Power Network is all about. And we’re going to add in a little bit of flare here and look at the matter of how much is too much when we’re talking about transparency. And so, Wendy, first of all, thank you so much for coming back and chatting with me here.
It’s always a ball. I love it.
It gets a little ridiculous, but that’s good. That’s good. We need a little ridiculous and especially around privacy and transparency because these really sucker punch us, right? That’s to the gut, like the heart of our survivability, our safety, everything else is all mixed up in this. We really need to really want to connect with people and we’re really, really, really, really, really afraid to. And we really, really just naturally want to trust people. But we’re really, really, really, really afraid to and if we just look around at the world, we can find why we should be afraid of that. So maybe we should start in at that place of let’s kind of pull on, see if there’s any interweaving here between that idea of how that transparency component really hits us in that vulnerability space.
Yeah. I think it’s also for those listening in from the United States, it’s a part of the culture here and in many other countries around the world this notion of independence and privacy is built into our culture. And I think that adds an additional layer of vulnerability for some people that there are things that we don’t speak about in public. That we don’t share with people because it’s impolite or impractical. And so, when you’ve got this additional layer of culture and things are changing as rapidly as they do, I think there’s a lot of backlash for people both internally and collectively.
Mm-hmm. Well and then you take into account just the chronology of things as well. So, we’ve got consciousness-wise, we’ve got kind of technology-wise, we’ve just, just aging and maturation-wise. And you see that across generations and what privacy meant to one generation. I look at Nivas’ generation now and compare it to my parents’ generation of what do you talk about? It’s not even, those aren’t even apples and oranges anymore. And what crafted that and what was the world like? What was our worldview like at that time and what are the pros and cons? It’s easy to say, I kind of, I’m pretty pleased that I matriculated prior to social media. There are a lot of things that happened in my younger years that I’m perfectly glad did not get memorialized on the internet.
And yet there’s something kind of cool, there’s a lot of memories gone. And because they weren’t captured in a way that was kind of at least as it looks right now longitudinal. So, it’s never just the grass is greener. And how do we take this really kind of complex thing and say, “Okay, I want to grow. I’m on my journey. I want to discover the bigness of who I am. And I feel drawn to help others or to support others in this work. How do I play in this transparency conversation in a way that’s helpful and yet still gives me my space to be and evolve and everything else?”
And before you answer that because I know your answer is going to be eloquent and amazing, not to put any pressure on you, but it’s beautiful. We’re going to jump to break. So, you’re going to have to come back from break to listen to Wendy’s prolific answer to that question, but before we do Wendy let’s guide people to where they can go to check out your ecosystem.
Well you can find the work that I do at wendyperotti.com. And you can certainly listen to my podcast on Super Powers Experts Network by going to aglimpseinside.superpowerexperts.com. And if you go there, there are links to all kinds of cool tools and ways to share your story with me. It’s a really cool page and I hope you’ll visit it.
Beautiful, beautiful. Definitely check that out, her show A Glimpse Inside is one of our most popular. It’s wonderful, wonderful show. Stick with us folks, we are going to be right back after the break. We’re talking today about the battle between privacy and transparency, part two.
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