Let's face it, family gatherings can be challenging to say the least.

That's why this episode with Kirsten Powers is perfect for right now.

She gives us simple but powerful tools for getting along with others even when we disagree.

So you never got to dread those holiday get-togethers again.

Enjoy.

Kirsten Powers is a USA Today columnist, best-selling author, and senior political analyst.

Her writing has been published in The Washington Post, L. Salon, the Wall Street Journal,

the New York Post, among many other places.

Powers was raised in Fairbanks, Alaska, and currently lives in Washington, D.C.

Her newest book called Saving Grace, Speak Your Truth,

Stay Centered, and Learn to Coexist with people who drive you nuts is available now.

Kirsten, thank you so much for coming on the show, and congratulations on this beautiful book.

I know it is not easy to put one of these together. It's not your first one. But how do you feel now that it's done?

Oh, well, it's so nice to have it done. It's like now the baby's going out into the world. And so, of course, you're like, be nice to my baby.

Yes, of course. And it's honestly coming out at the perfect time, both what we're experiencing and have been experiencing, right, collectively

for years now.

But I think seasonally, as I was opening the show, is talking about, you know, we're

coming up on the holiday season.

And most of us are going to see folks, whether family members, neighbors, friends,

friends of friends, right, that are going to come to our parties or we're

going to be at a dinner or we're going to be at some kind of gathering.

And inevitably, conversations may pop up that involve people who have very different and

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