Welcome, I'm your host, Greg McEwan, the author of Two New York Times Best Selens, Essentialism

and Effortless. I'm on this journey with you to learn how to be better at negotiation

and conflict resolution. Have you ever experienced tension in your relationships at work or at

home? Have these tensions ever lasted for an extended period of time? Where the communication

became frozen, the relationship strained or even estranged? Are any of these tensions occurring

right now? What would happen if you could immediately dissolve that tension? What if you

could shift from gossiping about each other to supporting each other? What if you could

unfreeze the communication and have it flow openly and naturally again? Today I will share

a story that changed my life, also something I am learning and actionable advice.

By the end of this episode you will be able to eliminate tension in almost any relationship.

Let's get to it.

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