207. How to have a difficult conversation with anyone

Do You F*cking Mind?

Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa - Neuroscientist and Mindset Coach

Self-improvement, Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 914 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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On this episode I go over a whole bunch of tools to take with you when entering a difficult conversation. It doesn't matter if you are breaking up, asking for a pay rise, talking to your parents about a sensitive topic, ANYTHING. This will help you feel more comfortable and confident approaching these kinds of conversations.

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0:00.0	Hello, my beautiful boons and welcome to today's episode. So this episode is all about how to have a
0:07.8	difficult conversation. This could be how to pull up your partner for something that you're not
0:12.7	happy about. It could be how to confront somebody about something that they've done. It could be
0:17.6	speaking to your boss about a pay rise.
0:24.6	It could be confronting your parents about something that you have never been okay with.
0:26.0	And finally, you're going to tell them.
0:27.8	It could be about putting someone in their place.
0:31.7	It could be a million things, dumping someone, if I haven't already said that,
0:33.9	breaking up with someone, confessing your love to someone.
0:40.9	Anything, a difficult conversation with somebody, you know, there's,
0:47.0	this could be a million categories and you can apply it to any category you want. But that is the topic of today's podcast. Hopefully by the end of this episode, you're going to feel more
0:52.1	equipped with tools to make you feel more comfortable, more at ease with approaching someone and having a difficult conversation. You're
0:58.3	going to be able to do it in a way where you get your point across, where you don't feel
1:02.7	stuck or nervous or like you choke up in the moment and then you walk away. You feel like,
1:09.8	yep, I got my point across.
1:11.4	That's what I needed to do.
1:14.0	Yes.
1:14.5	All right.
1:14.8	Little life update.
1:16.0	Not much.
1:17.2	Not much right now.
1:18.3	I kind of just want to get straight into the episode of today.
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