How to Stop Breaking Your Own Heart (with Meggan Roxanne)
Made To Thrive
Kris Carr
5 • 702 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In a world that seems increasingly divided, what if our deepest hopes, fears, and struggles are actually what unite us? Today's guest has a unique window into the human heart – Meggan Roxanne, founder of The Good Quote, touches millions of lives through her social media inspirational posts. What she's discovered through a decade of connecting with people worldwide is profound: beneath our surface differences, we're all searching for the same things – love, belonging, healing, and the courage to be ourselves.
In this soul-stirring conversation, Meggan shares what she's learned from creating a sanctuary of connection online. Through her work and her new book "How to Stop Breaking Your Own Heart," she reveals the patterns that emerge for people about family trauma, fear, self-love, and friendship. Whether you're struggling with grief, wrestling with vulnerability, or trying to find your way back to yourself, this episode reminds us that we're far more alike than we are different. It's a powerful reminder that in a world that tries to divide us, our shared human experience is what truly connects us.
WE DISCUSS
(05:30): The universal patterns Meggan sees in her community: family trauma, fear, self-love, and friendship
(08:38): Building a healthy relationship with fear and transforming it into power
(10:42): The courage to be vulnerable and how it transforms relationships
(16:05): What it means to stop breaking your own heart
(20:39): The connection between abandonment and self-worth
(27:24): How loss teaches us about love and living fully
CONNECT WITH MEGGAN
Meggan's book "How to Stop Breaking Your Own Heart"
CONNECT WITH KRIS
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I believe we have much more in common than we have differences. |
| 0:04.7 | But every day we are bombarded with messages that say the opposite, that we are different, |
| 0:10.9 | that others don't share our beliefs, our values, our challenges, our dreams, that we're alone. |
| 0:17.4 | This feeling has never been more intense than right now in the midst of this very stressful election season. |
| 0:25.8 | And so I've been thinking about this a lot, and maybe you have too. |
| 0:31.1 | Well, that's why today's episode is so timely to get us back in touch with the reality of our shared experience. |
| 0:40.7 | Megan Roxanne runs one of the most influential positive spaces on social media, the good quote. |
| 0:47.6 | And she has a front row seat to the things millions of people all over the world from all walks of life are struggling with and overcoming. |
| 0:59.2 | We shine a light on the universal aspects of heartbreak, abandonment, fear, friendship, and above |
| 1:05.9 | all love. This conversation was just what I needed right now, and I'm sure it will inspire you too. |
| 1:15.4 | Welcome to Made to Thrive. |
| 1:17.4 | I'm your host, New York Times bestselling author Chris Carr, and it's my mission to help you feel better, live bolder, and create a more meaningful life. |
| 1:26.8 | Let's get started, my friend. |
| 1:33.2 | Megan has built a industry of kindness. |
| 1:39.4 | Thank you. |
| 1:41.0 | Yeah, and I'd love for our listeners out there to just learn for anybody who doesn't |
| 1:48.3 | know about the good quote, which I don't even know if that's possible. I think you have like 30 |
| 1:52.0 | million followers. Tell us about the good quote. Yeah, so the good quote, it's such an interesting |
| 1:58.5 | story. So in the past, the good quote was simply a safe space community that I was looking to find for myself, which ended up being a space for everybody to congregate. And, you know, it started off on Tumblr under a completely different name. I took lyrics from hip-hop songs, positive lyrics, and I put them onto pictures |
| 2:18.8 | and on Tumblr, we gained a million followers within a short space of time. My business partner |
| 2:24.4 | was encouraging me to take this concept over to Instagram because it started to get popular |
| 2:30.8 | around 2014. And we did. And we gained a million followers very quickly. |
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