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The Follow-Up Question

Apr 15, 2024

What do you think you might learn about communication if you held thousands of conversations with strangers over the course of a decade?

 

Well, you don't have to wonder. My guest in this episode can tell you.

 

Back in 2015, while working as a sales rep tasked with cold-calling people who didn't want to talk to him,...


Apr 1, 2024

If you were to track how many times per day someone tried to convince you to change in some way, chances are you'd fill up pages worth of tally marks.

 

We often get sucked into thinking that the way to change people's minds to get them to do what we want them to do is to present them with enough evidence, data, and...


Mar 18, 2024

This episode is taken from my recent appearance on Kwame Christian's "Negotiate Anything" podcast. In this discussion, Kwame and I take a deep dive into my book, "Can I Ask A Question?" and explore how the book came to be and the lessons about communication and change that I learned along the way.

 

To order a signed...


Mar 4, 2024

My guest in this episode is Steve Leskovek, a retired nurse who has created a resource to teach teens and young adults valuable life skills that Steve realized were not being taught in schools.

 

The word resource might be underselling it a bit — Steve created an entire curriculum, complete with video tutorials and...


Feb 19, 2024

If you’re anything like me, you’ve noticed over the past decade or so the emergence — or at least the increased use of — the word neurodivergent.

 

And if you’re anything like me, you heard the term and made some assumptions about what it meant, what and who it described, and why it started showing up in more...