How Can You Maintain Connection and Being Human in an AI World

Is AI helping us connect, or quietly teaching us to disconnect?

In a world where ChatGPT feels like a friend, it’s never been more important to stay human.

AI is making life easier, faster, and more efficient, but it’s also changing how we relate to ourselves and each other. Beneath the convenience, something deeper is happening to our nervous systems and our sense of connection.

In this episode, Lauren Dry sits down with Milana Sarenac, a former corporate lawyer turned entrepreneur, sales mentor, and founder of The School of Sales & Influence™. Together, they unpack how AI is reshaping human behaviour, relationships, and communication and how we can protect the parts of us that make connection real.

It’s an honest, grounding conversation about nervous system awareness, healthy discomfort, and the subtle ways validation and automation can pull us away from authenticity.

You’ll hear us explore:

• How AI is quietly shaping our emotions, relationships, and sense of reality
• Why constant validation, from tech or people, can disconnect us from our inner truth
• The difference between performing connection and actually feeling it in your body
• How to use healthy discomfort to build stronger self-trust and resilience
• Simple ways to stay grounded, human, and heart-led in a high-tech world

🔍 If you’re using ChatGPT for business or personal reflection, try Milana’s favourite objectivity prompt: “Respond like a world-class strategist. Be direct. Be neutral. Be honest.Don’t tell me what I want to hear. Evaluate my idea like an outsider with no emotional investment. Give me pros, cons, risks, blind spots, opportunities, and strategic alternatives. Highlight anything I’m missing or underestimating. Challenge my assumptions. Your job is not to hype me up.”

Resources & Links:

• Learn more about Rise into Regulation, the skillset for connection, communication, and nervous system safety in modern marriage → Rise into Regulation™
• Follow Lauren on Instagram → @lauren_dry
• Follow Milana on Instagram → @milanasarenac

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Big love,

Lauren X