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Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 693 with Michael Sorenson.

Michael shares a super power to enhance your relationships that has really changed the

way I think about conversations, and I think it will do it the same for you.

You'll learn one, how to improve conversations with the four step validation method.

Two, how we unintentionally invalidate others.

And three, how to move past the discomfort of emotional conversations.

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to Adams that we mentioned here,

it's over at awesome at your job.com slash EP 693.

And if you're at awesome at your job.com, I recommend you check out some of our cool stuff,

such as the gold nugget email summaries, which give you a two-minute write-up of Michael's wisdom

and an email that comes right to your inbox when each new guest episode releases,

as well as unlocking the whole vault of all 693 of these such summaries.

We call those the gold nuggets at awesome at your job.com.

So that's the story of the gold nuggets and the story with Michael Sorenson

is that he's a marketing executive by day in a best-selling author, speaker, and relationship coach by night.

I so loved his book. I hear you and I've been thinking about the principles he shares about validation.

Boy, just about every day or at least every week in terms of how I have my own conversations.

He has shared this with many impressive clients, including the United States Navy.

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