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Welcome to the More In Common Podcast — where curiosity meets courage. Hosted by Keith Richardson and Gerren Taylor, this show explores the human side of connection, communication, and emotional intelligence. Every week, we dive deep into real conversations that challenge assumptions, build trust, and help us all navigate complex relationships — at work, at home, and in our communities. 🎙️ From mindful parenting to leadership, political division to self-awareness — we ask the hard questions and model the tools to stay in the conversation when it matters most.
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Jun 12, 2026
Jun 12, 2026
32 min
Can we buy back what we gave up?
This week Keith and Gerren close out a three-episode arc on the cost of independence with the hardest question of all. Not apps. Not initiatives. Not policy alone. Until the identity of the person shifts — until they see themselves as better with the group than alone — none of the programs work.
Keith gets personal about his own lifelong pattern of stepping back from community at the last moment. They get into Robert Bellah's Habits of the Heart, Adam Smith vs. Milton Friedman, Alan Greenspan as an Ayn Rand acolyte, the temporarily embarrassed millionaire, and Harvard's 85-year study on happiness. The number one predictor? Social connection. Not wealth. Not career. Not health habits. Other people.
And then Gerren connects both full arcs — trust collapse, identity, the stories we tell, and now this — into one throughput about how human connection breaks down in America. Institutionally. Personally. Cognitively. Narratively. Structurally.
Hard questions. No easy answers. Arc closed.
The Full Arc: Part 1 — The Deal We Didn't Know We Were Making Part 2 — What We Left Behind Part 3 — Can We Buy It Back?
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Thinking out loud about what gets in the way of connection.
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