249 - The Power of Listening — with Orly Israel

The Futur with Chris Do

The Futur

Arts, Education, Marketing, Design, Business, Self-improvement

4.9 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Orly Israel is a communicator who wanted to improve his conversational skills, and realized the best way to do that was to learn how to listen. His concept to achieve his goal, The Listening Table, is just that - A table that he has set up in various cities across the country, where he sits and listens to anyone who wants to talk. His goal is to create a space where the other person can share whatever they need to, in a zone that is free of advice and free of judgment. Those two things are in plentiful supply in almost any conversation people have today, but Orly found out, very quickly, that those two things aren’t what people need. In fact, advice and judgment must be put aside to be a good listener. So what else makes a good listener? And what has setting up and inviting people to this table, over and over again, taught Orly? In this conversation, Chris and Orly will talk about the life changing power of these conversations, not just for the person speaking, but for the listener, as well. Orly will share the lessons he’s learned after having dozens of conversations, sometimes with friendly people, and sometimes not so friendly people. It’s an adventure that he has embarked on to understand his fellow humans more, and one he thinks all of us could benefit from. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I didn't do anything in these conversations besides sit there and listen and I just think it's amazing when someone realizes,
0:06.8	wow, all I have to do is let someone know I'm there for them for 20 minutes and something magical might happen. I'm going to do. This is an unusual podcast with my guests because I don't know that much about him but what I did see made me
0:44.6	immediately reach out and say I need to talk to you I want to have a conversation with you
0:48.0	he's a young man and he's got a very interesting perspective on the world and he
0:52.1	does this thing called the
0:53.0	listening table and I'll let him tell you his story but I just want to know
0:56.7	everything about what you're doing and how you're impacting people's lives.
0:59.6	So Orly for people who don't know who you are can you please introduce yourself? Yeah my name is Orly, for people who don't know who you are, can you please introduce yourself?
1:03.3	Yeah, my name is Orly, Nathan Israel. I grew up in Los Angeles, California, and for my whole life,
1:12.4	love children's books and children's stories.
1:15.0	And my father's TV writer, my mother was an art gallery
1:18.0	curator for children's book art.
1:20.0	So Horton hears a who and Dr. Seuss and the hungry Caterpillar and so I grew up in this world that was all about creating with art for kids and I always wanted to be a writer.
1:35.0	Sometime along the way, I got involved in entertainment media from college
1:41.0	and also had navigated tumultuous but also really great relationship with two younger brothers.
1:48.0	Just a classic younger brother kind of being the oldest and not knowing how to handle conflict as a kid.
1:56.6	So I learned a lot about how to be self-control and how to listen better because I had really great parents who taught me all about good things and I wanted to tell stories about how to get along with your family.
2:11.0	And then at a certain point, I realized in entertainment
2:16.0	media that a lot of it is like selling toys.
2:19.6	And if it's a kids TV show, it's all about selling a toy toy and I worked with so many people who had
2:25.0	these ideas that were just kind of merchandise driven and very few of the people I
2:29.7	worked with who are the best people were the people who had a why of like this is a story I have to tell and here's a reason.
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