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The Greg McKeown Podcast

357. The Art of Listening with Anna McKeown

The Greg McKeown Podcast

Greg McKeown

Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Greg and Anna McKeown discuss the art of listening, exploring its transformative power in relationships. They discuss a pivotal moment from their dating history where effective listening shifted their connection and emphasized how empathic communication fosters understanding. Drawing insights from Carl Rogers' listening techniques, they share personal anecdotes about applying these principles in family dynamics and their marriage. Join my weekly newsletter. Learn more about my books and courses. Join The Essentialism Academy. Follow me on LinkedIn, Instagram, X, Facebook, and YouTube.

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Now, let's get into today's conversation.

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Okay, this might be a bad idea, but Anna, maybe you tell your side of the story from when we were first dating and this pivotal moment.

1:36.3

Well, we have kind of a unique dating story, which is a fun one and could take a long time to share it, but I will skip to a glorious moment.

1:46.2

A glorious moment when we had just taken a trip with roommates to the Grand Canyon and I'd actually

1:54.2

set up the whole thing because you had mentioned once in one of our conversations that that was

2:00.4

essentially a bucket list item.

2:02.6

I don't think you used that term at the time, but that you'd always wanted to do that at some point.

2:07.5

And it was a lovely weekend. We had our first kiss. I was about to leave in two weeks or so to join

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