Patricia Bathory - Building relationships for success and impact

Keywords

Resilience - Relationships - Connection - Success - Impact

In this episode of Resilience Unravelled Patricia Bathory, a psychotherapist and the founder of a thriving import/export business talks about how our connections influence our achievements in both business and life. With master's degrees in business administration and counselling psychology, coupled with advanced training in psychoanalysis and family dynamics, Patricia has a blend of experience that gives her unique insight into the personal and professional problems that entrepreneurs and leaders face every day.

For the past eight years, she has also been researching and studying interpersonal dynamics, including how our relationships directly affect our ability to succeed in business and in life. She believes that by improving our relationship skills and strengthening our connections, we feed the wheel of good and position ourselves to make a lasting impact.

In this podcast Patricia discusses the importance of personal growth, cultural awareness, and understanding diverse perspectives in building better relationships. She also explores the potential of therapy to reimagine and re-engineer relationships, and the concept of a "Happy Ever After Contract" for outlining the terms of a relationship.

Main topics

• The significance of personal growth and self-improvement in building better relationships
• The complexity of relationships and the value of diverse perspectives
• How some relationships may seem dysfunctional but can work well for the individuals involved.
• Why trying to impose our own perspective on others can lead to problems
• The importance of cultural awareness and the ability to adapt to different situations
• Bringing together different perspectives, experiences, and cultures to lead to a better understanding of ourselves and others
• The importance of utilising these differences to improve relationships
• The challenge of diverse generations and the importance of building a supportive "village" of connections
• The need for a variety of relationships
• Investing in relationships to combat the "loneliness epidemic

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You can find out more about Patricia at https://reconnect.dev/ Her book is Connected: Building Relationships to Achieve Success and Make a Lasting Impact