3 Steps to Say the Hard Thing
The Jefferson Fisher Podcast
Civility Media
4.9 • 8.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's somebody who's listening to this right now and needs to have a conversation that they've been avoiding. |
| 0:07.1 | And I'm going to tell you, and the point of this episode is, if you're choosing not to have the conversation, then you're choosing the result that you're getting. |
| 0:18.0 | There's not going to be some aha moment in this episode. What this episode is going to give |
| 0:23.6 | you as a perspective and the courage to say the thing that you've been avoiding, that angst, |
| 0:32.9 | that thought that you want to say something, and all of a sudden it just makes your stomach |
| 0:36.9 | churn. |
| 0:38.1 | I have had difficult conversations like you so many times in my life. |
| 0:43.9 | And the perspective that I'm going to give you is one that I use every day when I have to |
| 0:48.5 | give hard advice. |
| 0:51.3 | I need to give a hard truth to my legal clients or I need to say something to a judge or to a jury. |
| 0:58.7 | And there's a process in which I go through in my mind that I want to share with you. |
| 1:03.9 | So listening to this episode is going to give you the, I want to put some air in your balloon. |
| 1:11.1 | I want to put some air in your lungs that's going to encourage you today. |
| 1:14.3 | All that more coming up. |
| 1:16.3 | Welcome to the Jefferson Fisher podcast where I'm on a mission to make your next conversation |
| 1:20.3 | the one that changes everything. |
| 1:21.8 | Wherever you're listening, it would mean a great deal to me that if you would press |
| 1:24.9 | the button that says subscribe, press the button that says subscribe, press the buttons |
| 1:28.0 | that says subscribe or like or comment, what it does is tell wherever you're listening that |
| 1:33.7 | this is good quality content. And that's my promise that wherever you're listening, |
| 1:37.8 | if you listen to these episodes and subscribe, I'm going to make you a better communicator. |
| 1:43.0 | Thank you very much. Before we keep going, I want to take a moment to tell you about Cozy Earth. Not only is Cozy Earth one of my favorite sponsors of this podcast. I'm also wearing their shoes, their house shoes in particular, right at this very moment. That's how much I like Cozy Earth. Not only do I like their house shoes, which Sierra's like, my wife, is like, |
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