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With your host, Pete McKitis.

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for a very special episode 100 Christmas

Eve with a very special person I've known my whole life. It is Topper Steinman. He is my

uncle and he was my first mentor into the world of speaking training and whatnot. He has some extraordinary gifts and talents associated with facilitating and entering situations that people feel are

conflicted or tricky or tough conversational territory. He goes there and

somehow it makes it fun and interesting and safe for everybody involved.

So you're gonna learn one,

how to talk about just about anything with anyone.

Two, rules for engagement

for effectively handling confrontation

and three approaches for moving from what to so what and then now what

if you'd like to check out the show notes the transcripts or the links to items

or books we talk about here you can find that over at awesome at your job

dot com slash epp 100. Let's hear Topper's story right now. Topper Steinman is a

counselor and consultant from Champaign, Illinois with 40 years experience in teaching,

counseling and consulting.

As a workshop facilitator and speaker, his topics cover a wide variety of interest areas

with efforts aimed at bridging the adult youth gap while creating a healthy sense of self and others.

He holds a mediation training certificate from CDR Associates of Boulder, Colorado,

and is a certified instructor in parent and teacher effectiveness,

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