Cultivating Authentic Connections for True Happiness and Fulfillment

Can authentic connections truly be the key to your happiness and fulfillment? Join me, Larissa Vakulinago, on this week's Heart of Success podcast as we delve into the unique persona of the Connection Maven. If you thrive on building meaningful relationships and creating expansive networks, this episode is your blueprint for navigating modern life's social challenges. Discover the Connection Maven's talents and struggles, and why understanding your need for deep connection can be a game-changer in achieving true happiness.

We'll discuss the critical first step of establishing a connection with yourself to foster genuine connections with others. Learn practical advice on managing your energy, setting realistic expectations, and finding fulfillment even in environments dominated by surface-level interactions. I’ll share insights on how societal norms and personal insecurities can impact your ability to form meaningful relationships. Tune in for an enlightening conversation that promises to transform your approach to relationships and personal happiness.

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Speaker 1: 0:33

Hello, welcome to the Heart of Success, and I'm your host, larissa Vakulinago. Live every Wednesday at 2 pm, south Australian time zone. Here on this podcast, I am helping you to travel from the relentless pursuit of success to a real place of power and fulfillment and happiness. Today, I'm continuing to share with you my exploration of different personas in relation to happiness and fulfillment, because we all have our unique needs that we need to fulfill and that is directly related to the level of happiness and fulfillment that we have. For example, if you are someone that really value your personal space and quietness and you really need to then create it in your life and you need to combine your professional and personal life to make sure that you have space for yourself, that you have your own boundaries are strong, so that you are meeting your needs of this type of character, so that you stay well and you express yourself in a healthy way. So we already considered two categories of these four personas, so today we're looking at the third one, which is the connection maven. So these people are thriving on connection, on building networks, on authentically connecting to other people and being in authentic interactions. Connectivity and genuine connection to people we all have this longing, but at the same time, because we run in energy differently, we have our unique expressions and also unique blockages and traumas. This need, or any other need, is actually maybe a major denominator for your happiness and fulfillment, or maybe not so important. That's why I have created an amazing tool that you can use to actually find out what type of character you are belonging to, what type of character you are belonging to, what type of persona in relationship to happiness and abundance and fulfillment you are. So the connection maven is a person that is thriving when there is a true, deep, authentic, healthy connection with others.

Speaker 1: 3:39

But we all know how it is difficult for us in our modern life to make these connections because, number one, we are so deeply indoctrinated with the reprogramming and all of the social standard models of relating to ourselves and to others so that we actually not embodying that much of the connection to ourselves. That's why, for the connection maven type of personality, it is really crucial to start to understand, first, connection to yourself. And also because this type of personality thriving, feeling happy and fulfilled when they are deeply connected to others. And these people are naturally having these talents to create big networks. They have natural talents to be feeling comfortable with many connections among a lot of people, with big groups of people, but it also has its own shortcomings.

Speaker 1: 5:01

This type of persona has some kind of misalignment as well. In our modern life we can have the criticism for ourselves, we can have not enough confidence. Although we have this learning and we try to express it in a healthy way, the connection maven a lot of time, have these higher expectations for themselves and for others. They have this emotional drain or drainage and a drain of energy. Because they try to connect to a lot of people because that's their need and because in our society we're not having this really strong groundness and we're not embodying the connection to ourselves first, then connection may even have really struggling time to make this need fulfilled because of these beliefs that maybe we're not good enough and you're trying hard to connect with other people, but because most of our relationships are still on a very shallow surface level, the connection may be suffering a lot from this reality of not being able to connect authentically. And if you not manage your energy optimally and healthy, you can really face the risk of high expectations where not all the relationships reciprocate in depth and engagement you are seeking. So it may lead really to deep frustrations and disappointments and when you are unaware of your innate need to be connected on a deeper level. So you you may find yourself often running into the conflicts or experiencing life's unfulfillment.

Speaker 1: 7:33

And this is a challenge for the connection maven that in our society, because of the demands of our life and the busyness of us running fast and having all of these success races, we a lot of time don't have capacity to create healthy, deep or scientific relationships. And especially, it is important for the connection maven because that's their nature. They are thriving on this community connection, on all of the networks, and connection to others in a very, very honest way. So if we, for example, working in the corporations or companies where the relationships are mostly surface and mostly artificial, well then connection maven would have a really hard time. Uh, they may feel isolated, they may feel unvalued, they may feel really um lack of energy, there's no vitality in their own um anatomy, in their own subtle bodies, that there is no support from your energy to your body. And that is the the challenges that connection may face. Because of this beautiful, authentic longing to connect deeply. These people are finding themselves really unfulfilled in this area of their lives so they may shut themselves down to suffer themselves.

Speaker 1: 9:35

But what I'm inviting you to do, actually go and confirm if you are the one who is having a connection-maving persona, so that you will understand better yourself, so that you have this awareness of your innate need to be connected deeply and authentically. And also, after the quiz, you can receive full report that is explaining all the tips, your opportunities, your challenges, your makeup, your energetic configuration, and all of this in the report will be explained for you so that you're equipped better to understand your personality and how you can actually navigate and create and seek environments that actually value the authenticity, that actually value the authenticity. So you may seek jobs or companies where they value authentic connection, where they have environment and conditions to be emotionally connected. So it might mean choosing careers that are collaborative, that are actually engaging in a community work and simply being selective with personal relationships. So this is really crucial for the connection maven to choose carefully and wisely where you are having your professional expression Because of your deep need to be connected with seek job opportunities or the companies where there is an environment set up for the emotional connectedness in the teams at this type of businesses.

Speaker 1: 12:06

So if you are the one that resonates with connection maven type of personality, well then you need to recognize that you are one of them and you need to recognize that you are one of them and you need to start to embody this type of personality by creating internal awareness of it and also create the alignment of that need in your external environment. You need to create the supportive structure in the way that you, if not having a great deep connection in your work, you have some other places or some other hobbies or some other activities where you can express yourself as a connection person and also receive back the connection from other people who are also able to connect emotionally, who are also able to authentically support you and provide support for your need. So the first step is actually go and get the quiz, analyze and find out and confirm that you are the one, the connection maven that is holding our world together. You actually a very important type of person, that you have very important type of personality, because without you, how we're gonna to then connect on a deeper level? You are the one that is having this deep need, but also the one who is having this capacity to do this.

Speaker 1: 14:05

Uh, as opposed to, let's say I am a tranquil soul. The tranquil soul is more having its own space. They feel okay and happy by themselves and alone. Their needs are different. Or, for example, we have discussed on another episode the thrill seeker. Thrill seeker is the person who is happy when they are seeking adventure, novelty, change, constantly, have that external stimulation for their active energy to be expressed in that way. But connection maven is the one that is deeply longing to connect authentically, truthfully, honestly, and that's where the connection may be thriving and creating amazing things creating very authentic businesses, creating very life-supporting services, supporting services and products and creating teams that are evolved teams, evolved human beings with a higher and open consciousness that are able to also connect authentically and emotionally with each other and with themselves. So this is a very important type of personality and, as we all are, as the tranquil soul and the thrill seeker, and another one, the fourth one, that we're going to discuss in my following episodes, in my following episodes.

Speaker 1: 16:07

But I just really invite you to start to look at your uniqueness, at your divine gifts that you come here to bring into this world with a bit more deeper evaluation, analysis, and also to develop the awareness of your own personal persona, so that you can create consciously, intentionally, your external environment that gonna to support your personality, because that's going to support your personality, because that will be then helping you so much to create happy, joyful, fulfilled life full of free expression, full of vital energy, full of optimal health and deep connections that you are exchanging with other people and teaching them about emotional connection, teaching them how to be authentic, how to embody this type of traits, because we, in our human evolution right now, are really need. We have the deep, deep need to have this deep connections. That's why it is so important to really recognize yours first, because we all are the same and uniquely different. And imagine if we're all going to be a connection maven. Or imagine if we're all going to be only thrill seekers or the only tranquil souls. Well, it's not going to give us a lot of experiences, is it so? That's why we have our own predominant, dominated traits for the needs that we need to fulfill in our life to be able to create a happy, fulfilled life.

Speaker 1: 18:13

So, again, I'm inviting you to get into my quiz. The link is there. There is a number of very deep, provocative questions. It is thought-provoking, it makes you think deeply, although the question seems very, very simple going deeply in your internal landscape and inviting you to have that honest answers, that then it analyzed and confirm what type of persona are you and what type of unique needs for happiness and fulfillment you have. And when you know that, when you're aware of that uniqueness, well then you're totally and fully equipped to, not only internally, but also you can start to actually create and mold your reality, to be able to support yourself in your need and fulfill that need through creating environments, through creating spaces and creating activities that are actually going to be fully supporting your need.

Speaker 1: 19:48

Isn't that amazing? Because of our really tough and strong manipulation out of our core essence, out of our internal understanding of ourselves, out of this authentic self. So we are only start to learn how to be authentic, how to embody the true essence of who you are. And I'm here to help you to navigate these internal spaces and make them accessible to you and translate them all into an understandable language so that you can build the level of awareness where you would completely align with your uniqueness, and then you will build the life that is aligned to this unique part of yourself, and imagine how much easier it's going to be for you to create your life when you know that you are connection-making but possibly you're not even having awareness of it and possibly you've been so traumatized that you completely lost your confidence, that you completely lost the ability to connect to yourself first of course. And you you have no ability to connect to others.

Speaker 1: 21:20

But imagine the conflict in here. If your unique divine mindset and configuration as a connection maven, you have this big, big, deep longing to be connected deeply to others. And what if you just cover yourself up and you created, mask and construct, not connecting to other people. Imagine the struggle, imagine the pain that you are suffering and going through because you're rejecting a part of you that is actually divinely in you. It is inbuilt in you. That's who you are.

Speaker 1: 22:10

If you're not working through this, if you're not peeling away all of these erroneous beliefs or limited beliefs, all of this traumatic memory, all of these wounds that you went through when you've been a child and when you've been displayed by, maybe your parents or maybe your care you know, your caretakers that connecting to other people is a big no-no because it's dangerous. So we all go through this artificially created construct that we do when we are little children out of not being able to process emotional pain. And that's where I am trying to invite you all, regardless of what type of personality you are. If we are still keeping our constructs and external self-image high and we hide behind this wall of the artificialness, imagine how much we are betraying the important part of ourselves, the important persona that is in us, waiting to be fulfilled, waiting to be given attention, waiting to be embraced. So please go to this quiz, confirm the persona that you belong to, and then you receive your full report. Then you read about all the little insights about that particular persona Well now I'm talking about Connection Maven and then, if you have questions, please contact me, let's talk, let's discuss this, let's see if you really been struggling with expressing your true self, with covering your authentic persona to be happy and fulfilled.

Speaker 1: 24:32

Well then, you struggle to create a happy, fulfilled life. So we can go through all of these distorted realities that you created I mean realities so we go through this construct and we deconstruct it back so that you can touch and connect to your authentic, to your core essence, to your unique persona and a gift that you actually going to discover with that unique persona, so that you can bring your gift out into the world and so that you can express fully your gift and make the world a better place. So, thank you so much. Please, like it, subscribe to my youtube channel. We can go over to many other insights and find out our last persona that I still need to have a episode episode about, and so I hope I can help you to connect to yourself better and find your true, authentic self and honor that part through developing a deeper self-awareness. Thank you so much and I'll talk to you next week.