And baked into every conversation that you study are these moments or the very persistent feeling of anxiety for most people.

Because conversation is a very uncertain environment and you don't have control over how your partner interacts with you.

So it's like the perfect recipe for anxiety is uncertainty, not knowing what's

going to happen next and lack of control.

I'm Amy. And I'm Abby. And as women, we are constantly comparing ourselves to others.

But your life isn't supposed to look like hers.

Being your best self means standing firm in your decisions and always being willing to grow

with a purpose.

We get vulnerable and real with an honest look into the challenges and triumphs we all face.

Every woman listening gets the opportunity

to choose what life looks like for herself. Today on the podcast, we have Dr. Allison Woods,

Brooks, who is the O'Brien Associate Professor of Business Administration and Hellman faculty

fellow at the Harvard Business School, where she created and teaches a course called Talk.

So this conversation is really all about conversation. And we made it so that we're talking

about, of course, as adults, the art of conversation,

but really how to teach kids how to be good conversationalists. We touched on if you have extroverted

kids, teaching them how to balance that and make sure they let other people participate in

conversations. And then if you have introverted

kids, how do we help them to come out of their shells and participate in conversation so that

they can make really good friends and participate in school? So this is a really balanced conversation.

It ends with talking about apologies and why they are so hard for some people,

but why they are so, so important in relationships. So we are covering all things conversation

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