Well, hello there, my friends, and welcome to this episode of the Terry Cole show.

All right, I'm going to start with a question.

Raise your hand.

If you've ever gotten defensive when someone gave you feedback.

Anybody?

You can't see me, but I'm raising my hand.

Yeah, me too.

And let's be real, getting defensive at times is very human. But here's the thing.

If you get defensive, every time your partner or your boss or your best friend gives you

feedback, you're basically putting up a giant wall between you and a deeper connection with them

or a better relationship with them.

So today on the Terry Cole show, I'm breaking down how to stop being defensive and how

to give feedback without being critical.

So we're going to do it in a sort of fun way of like, say this, not that.

And of course, I'm creating all the scripts for you.

You can get them at terrycolle.com

forward slash guide. They'll all be in the guide for you. So because I want you to walk away from

this episode with real scripts that you can use in real life. So before we dive into that,

I just want to take a moment to say, thank you for hanging out. Thank you for being here. You could be doing lots of other things, and I'm glad that either you brought me with you. Maybe you are doing other things, and I'm just on the road with you, and I love it. Or maybe you're just hanging out and just this is the only thing you're doing, and I love that too. Either way, you tuning in means the world to me.

So thank you. If you want to support the show, it helps me so much if you rate, review,

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