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What You Focus on Expands with Mark Groves

11/3/2026
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What is your attention costing you, and how is it shaping your relationships, your happiness, and the life you're creating?

I'm joined by relationship expert Mark Groves for a powerful conversation about the attention economy, social media addiction, and the importance of reclaiming our connection to ourselves and each other. Mark shares his personal journey of walking away from a thriving social media business after experiencing overwhelming anxiety and burnout, and what he discovered about the psychological impact of technology, the power of discernment, and choosing a life that feels aligned with who you truly are.

We explore how our addiction to distraction can keep us disconnected from our intuition, why being right can come at the expense of love, and how taking responsibility for our patterns creates greater freedom in our relationships. From setting intentional boundaries with technology to nurturing friendships and choosing curiosity over judgment, this conversation is a reminder that what you focus on expands, and that the most important things in life can't be found on a screen.

In This Episode We Explore:

  • How the attention economy is quietly reshaping our relationships and emotional well-being
  • Why Mark walked away from Instagram despite building a highly successful business
  • The surprising connection between social media, codependency, and people-pleasing
  • What it takes to stay true to yourself when your choices challenge others' expectations
  • How the need to be right can prevent genuine connection and relationship repair
  • Why healing self-betrayal is an important part of taking responsibility for your relationships
  • Simple boundaries with technology that create more space for presence, intuition, and connection
  • Why nurturing friendships and building meaningful community matters more than ever

Your Practice for This Week:

Pay attention to where your energy goes throughout the day. Notice how often you reach for your phone, engage with something that creates fear or frustration, or give your attention to things that leave you feeling disconnected.

Then ask yourself: Is what I'm focusing on creating more of what I want in my life?

Choose one intentional shift. Put your phone away during dinner, reconnect with a friend, or create space for a conversation that matters.

About the Guest:

Meet Mark Groves: Human Connection Specialist, Speaker, Author, Coach, Podcast Host and founder of Create The Love. Born with an innate curiosity and a hunger for truth, Mark’s journey of self-discovery and personal liberation has led him to spend the last decade coaching and inspiring millions worldwide to create the life and love they desire. Through his candid but compassionate, no-BS guidance, Mark has helped empower countless individuals, teams, and companies to step into their most authentic, effective, and loving selves, transform how they relate to themselves and others, and create profound changes in their lives and relationships.

Website: www.markgroves.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/itsmarkgroves

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Join Me for the Starting Over Weekend

Ready to rewrite your relationship story and create a new chapter rooted in self-trust and love?

Join me for Starting Over Weekend, November 20–22, 2026, a three-day interactive Zoom experience designed to help women release old relationship patterns, reconnect with themselves, and move forward with greater clarity and confidence.

Visit https://www.theunscriptdwoman.com/startingover

About the Host:

Kate Harlow is the founder of The Unscriptd Woman, the creator of The Expanded Love Coaching Method, and host of The New Truth podcast - ranked in the top 1.5% globally. With over 15 years of experience teaching, coaching and facilitating transformational retreats worldwide, Kate has helped hundreds of thousands of women break free from outdated relational patterns, old patriarchal ways of thinking and unspoken rules to live by.

Her infallible methods guide women to release the deeply ingrained scripts that keep them stuck- empowering women to step into their highest, most magnetic, and fully expressed selves. Through her coaching, retreats, podcast and upcoming book The Unscriptd Woman, Kate is redefining what it means to be an empowered woman in today's world, showing women how to stop waiting for permission and start creating a life and love that aligns with their deepest truth.

Known for her rare ability to see exactly where women are out of alignment with themselves, Kate offers a path back to unwavering self- trust, meaningful joy and true fulfillment. Her work is a revolution - one that liberates women from societal expectations and invites them into a life of radical authenticity, thriving relationships and unshakable self-worth.

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