54: 10 Ways to Deal with Toxic People
The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
Shannon Ables
4.7 • 944 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2015
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Even when we can identify a toxic person a mile away, we will still will have to deal with them from time to time. Whether it's in the workplace, at home or out in the community, there will be moments that can either leave us deflated if we don't know how to handle them or conversely simply be a minor road bump when handled effectively.
While we can limit our interactions, we'll talk about how to do just that as well as how to deal with toxic people we may encounter from time to time.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style. |
| 0:16.2 | I'm your host, Shannon Ables. |
| 0:18.8 | And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a |
| 0:25.0 | cafe ole, thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Good morning and welcome to the 54th episode of the simple |
| 0:47.6 | sophisticated. In today's episode we are going to talk about relationships, how to get along with people, our social world, and specifically |
| 0:56.7 | today's episode is all about how to deal with toxic people. |
| 1:01.4 | Today I'm going to share with you 10 ways to effectively deal with these people, whether we find |
| 1:06.7 | them at work, in our personal lives, or simply to strangers we made on the streets. |
| 1:11.7 | So today I'm going to start with a quote that I'm not |
| 1:14.6 | really sure who said it but I thought it really set the tone for what this episode |
| 1:19.6 | is all about. Quote, until you let go of all the toxic people in your life, you will never grow into your |
| 1:27.7 | fullest potential. |
| 1:29.7 | Let them go so you can grow. I love this quote because as much as we want to say it doesn't |
| 1:37.2 | matter what goes on around me it doesn't matter about the the town I live in |
| 1:41.9 | of the people I surround myself with. |
| 1:43.4 | I can still have so much controlling my decisions, I can live a full life. |
| 1:46.9 | Well, not truly, because you're affected by what surrounds you. And we've talked about this many times so I'm |
| 1:54.3 | I know this does not come this does not come as a surprise so it really has to do |
| 1:59.1 | with some inner strength on our part to determine preemptively what we want to surround us but also in the |
| 2:06.1 | moments and in response how to deal with toxic situations when we are |
| 2:11.5 | confronted with them. |
| 2:12.7 | And that's what we're going to talk about today. |
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