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014 (Sometimes) Face The Problem By Not Facing The Person
(Sometimes) Face The Problem By Not Facing The Person
Dealing with an alpha personality in a vulnerable situation, body language can help a lot. And how you design the setting can make "safer" body language easier.
In...
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013 Conversations As Campaigns, Not Events
Conversations As Campaigns, Not Events
Have you ever heard the phrase, "When the student is ready, the teacher appears"?
Well, there's a corollary. The best teachers lay the groundwork to make the student...
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012 (Not So) Small Talk and the Gold Rush
(Not So) Small Talk and... the Gold Rush?
Samuel Brannan was California's first millionaire. He made his millions during the Gold Rush, but he didn't do it by finding gold. Rather, he mined the periphery.
While...
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011 Whine and Moan? Or Glad To Be Home? Your Choice
011 Whine and Moan? Or Glad To Be Home? Your Choice
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One of our biggest problems in communication is that we tend to do things off-the-cuff, without planning, and without...
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010 Anxiety and Intentional Attention
010 Anxiety and Intentional Attention
Throughout my time running a peer support network for healthcare workers (2020-2022 during the pandemic), there was one exercise that was repeatedly cited as super helpful. The...
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009 Toggling Empathy
Toggling Empathy - For Deeper Influence and A Better Path Forward
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I am an empath extremist; I feel what others feel and I extend it beyond them. If it's joy, I feel it and...
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008 End-of-Life Reflections
End-of-Life Reflections
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For nine years, I managed patients before and after cardiac surgery and noticed that every single person – no matter their culture, gender,...
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007 Two-Do Lists - Your Productivity (& Mood) Will Skyrocket
Two-Do: ToDo Lists & How To Skyrocket Your Productivity (& Mood)
Managing your to-do list has the potential to change how you respond to the world, how you show up, and even who you are. How is that possible?...
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006 Three Transformative Reframes
How Rapid Reframes Can Change Lives Almost In An Instant ... (and you can make it a habit)
After demonstrating the power reframes can have on our own emotions in episode 001, the obvious pushback would be, "Yeah, but...
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005 Can Your Mask Make You A Better Public Speaker?
Can wearing a mask help you improve your public speaking abilities?
Absolutely.
If you were to look at the advice that coaches and public speaking trainers give those who are learning to be better public speakers or...
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004 The Body Language of Listening
Body language can be cause AND effect. For example, when we have rapport with someone, we tend to exhibit certain behaviors (matching, mirroring, eyebrow flash, etc). If we want to establish rapport, we can start by...
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003 Deliberate Practice Because Practice Makes... What?
Deliberate Practice Because Practice Makes... What?
With any new skill, we begin unconsciously incompetent. Not only can we not perform the activity, but we don’t even know its relevance. A period of discovery...
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