Hey, it's Ella. I want to share a concept that I am fascinated by that I read about recently,

and I want to share it with you. Are you from an ask or a guest family communication dynamic?

What do I mean? I'll tell you and I'll tell you why it matters. Let's go.

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Let's go. Hey, it's Ella. It's a solo show. I just read something that I found so compelling

and I wanted to share it with you. I believe this was originally based in

a medium article, but I'm going to link to the Mamma Mia podcast. That's an Australian podcast

where I first heard about this concept, Ask versus Guess Culture. I'll link to the Medium article

and a few other resources just to give proper attribution.

But here it goes.

Okay.

Let me share a summary of this theory that I find so interesting.

The Ask ASK versus Guess framework describes two fundamentally different approaches to communication,

especially around requests and getting your needs fulfilled and expressing

those needs to begin with. In summary, in an ask culture, and perhaps you were raised in an

ask family, in an ask culture, people are encouraged to directly state what they want or need,

regardless of whether the requests might be

declined. The expectation is that everyone will take care of their needs and a no is a perfectly

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