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Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships

271 - The Power of Receiving "No"

Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships

Multiamory, LLC

Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Education, Relationships, Self-improvement

4.9970 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Why is it so hard to say no sometimes? During this episode we'll explore why some of us have such trouble saying no, why the word "no" is so powerful, and some ways to help you get better at both giving and receiving it. Join our amazing community of listeners at multiamory.supercast.com. We offer sliding scale subscriptions so everyone can also get access to ad-free episodes, group video discussions, and our amazing Discord community.Multiamory was created by Dedeker Winston, Jase Lindgren, and Emily Matlack.Our theme music is Forms I Know I Did by Josh and Anand.Follow us on Instagram @Multiamory_Podcast and visit our website Multiamory.com. We are a proud member of the Pleasure Podcasts network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

If you're in a sexual situation or any type of situation and you do take it really seriously or personally when somebody tells you know and then kind of throw a hissy fit about it or you know get walk out of the room in a

0:16.8

huff or something like that then yeah you're not like these or powder

0:20.2

anything or yeah stone wall yeah then that is you're not an easy person to say no to.

0:26.0

Welcome to the multi-amory podcast. I'm Jace. I'm Emily and I'm

0:30.7

Dettaker. We believe in looking to the future of relationships, not maintaining

0:35.2

the status quo of the past. So whether you're monogamous, polyamorous, swinging, casually dating,

0:41.4

or if you just do relationships differently. We see you and we're here for you.

0:46.0

Fongs I know I did.

1:00.0

forcing me to for myself to fit.

1:06.8

On this episode of the Multiannammery podcast we're going to be talking all about one little word no so they're not actually just going to be talking just about the

1:11.8

word but more about the concept of saying no.

1:14.5

So I don't know if you have heard this out there, but the power of no is this expression that's been around for a while,

1:21.8

and it tends to come up in two different ways.

1:25.9

On the one side, it's used in personal care and self-improvement sort of ways of like the power

1:32.3

of saying no to things that you don't want.

1:34.8

Or it also comes up in terms of things like sales and negotiation and things like that

1:41.6

of that like going for no and like pursuing what you want until you get the no is kind of another way that it comes up and so for this episode we're going to explore each of those as well as a third potentially even more powerful or at least

2:00.7

Magical way that no can improve your life, which is specifically being a good receiver of No.

2:10.0

And that's a little bit different from the ways that it tends to be talked about in the zillion blogs out there that are written with the title the power of no or something like that.

2:18.0

Yeah, see the funny thing is that when you sent me this episode and I saw that it was titled the power of no I was like is did

2:24.9

he misspell the power of now? That's my touch point to that phrase okay

2:29.6

the Eckhart totally book. That's good.

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