Look Up! Staying Connected in a Disconnected World

About this episode

Steve and Kali discuss the impact of technology on real-life connections and attention in modern relationships.

“I’m not in the concert. I’m recording it. Why am I recording it?” Welcome back to the NLP UK Training podcast! Hosted by NLP Trainers Steve Kay and Kali Fraser from NLPUKTraining.com – a leading provider of NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner certification in the UK. In this episode, Steve and Kali tackle a quiet epidemic of modern life: the slow erosion of real connection in a world built for scrolling. It kicks off with a perfect moment – Kali introducing the topic while Steve is happily filming something on his phone next to her, oblivious. That’s the whole conversation in miniature, and from there they dig into what it actually costs us when our attention is always somewhere else. Kali opens up with her own confession – sitting on the sofa after a long day of training, scrolling Instagram reels, until her partner Matt tapped her on the shoulder and asked her to put her phone down because she hadn’t heard a word he’d said. She follows it with a beautiful contrast: a recent Italian dinner where she watched a family of four spend £120-plus on a meal while Dad scrolled, the kids were on their phones, and Mum tried gamely to hold the conversation together. On her own…

People in this episode

Hosts: Steve Kay, Kali Fraser

Topics covered

• connection
• technology
• social media
• attention
• relationships

Keywords

• NLP
• connection
• social media
• attention
• relationships
• disconnection
• modern life

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