292. Crafting Authentic Connections with Topaz Adizes (Part 2)

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Greg McKeown

Education, Business, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Join me as I continue my enriching dialogue with Emmy Award-winning creator Topaz Adizes. Together, we explore the profound art of meaningful conversation through the lens of Topaz's compelling questions from his card game and book. Discover how to craft questions that not only initiate dialogue but also create a narrative journey, leading to intimacy and understanding in our most significant relationships. Hone your conversational skills with us as we examine the subtleties of question formulation. I share strategies for asking more impactful questions and offer a framework that can transform the way you approach dialogues. The episode culminates with a heartfelt invitation to reflect on the essence of love and connection by considering the profound questions posed in Topaz's "12 Questions for Love." Tune in to this thought-provoking episode and equip yourself with the tools for fostering deeper relationships and conversations that truly matter. Visit Topaz's website. Buy Topaz's book and card game. Follow Topaz on LinkedIn. Follow Skin Deep on YouTube and Instagram. Join my weekly newsletter. Learn more about my books and courses. Join The Essentialism Academy. Follow me on LinkedIn, Instagram, X, Facebook, and YouTube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back everybody. I'm your host Greg McEwen and I am here with you on this journey to learn how to live a life that really matters, how to connect
0:16.2	with the people who really matter, how to be able to have the conversations that
0:21.2	really matter most. And so I'm so delighted to be back here for part two of my
0:27.7	conversation with Topaz Odezas. He is an Emmy Award winning writer, director,
0:33.0	visionary, all of those marvelous things.
0:35.0	His tremendous video work has been captured in film festivals
0:40.0	like at Cans and Sundance and IDFA in South by Southwest and so many more.
0:45.6	In the first part of our conversation, we talked about why we should try to be able to
0:52.2	have these more meaningful conversations with the people
0:55.2	who matter.
0:56.5	Some of the things that get in the way of being able to do that, the sense of discomfort,
1:01.2	the sense of not having created a space to be able to even do this. And we also talked about what we would need to do, physically creating a space and then using the card games that as is created to be able to initiate the kinds of
1:18.1	conversational moments that actually unite us, bring us closer together, help us to be able to feel safe enough to be unsafe
1:28.9	together so that we can be vulnerable about the things that are so valuable but so often lie hidden below the
1:39.2	surface. In this conversation we're going to get into the practical things,
1:43.3	some of the specific questions that you can ask as you try to create conversations that
1:48.7	really matter.
1:49.7	Tophas, welcome back to the show.
1:51.1	Great, good to be here.
1:52.1	Go to continue this conversation.
1:53.8	Through a process of years selected through your own curiosity, questions that you felt would most likely lead to a deep conversation, a curative conversation,
2:07.6	with two people that matter to each other, and then as you experimented with them you were able to
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