98 | What Is It Costing You Not to Listen?: Learning to Listen Well in Your Parenthood and Marriage

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Lindsey Maestas

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🗓️ 27 June 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Christine Miles is a former therapist and 'professional listener'. In this conversation, Lindsey and Christine discuss how common it is to learn how to speak as a child, but not how to listen. We are not wired to be good listeners, so we must actively practice listening well because the art of listening can deeply and positively impact our relationships as parents and as spouses.

Christine and Lindsey discuss the importance of speaking when you have something of value to say rather than speaking to fill the space. Extroverts, are you listening? ;) Lindsey asks Christine to teach her practical and implementable ways to make changes to bad listening to enhance her relationships. They also talk about offering solutions when solutions aren't wanted and how this can create a vast disconnect in our relationships.

Christine has recently published an award winning book, What Is It Costing You Not To Listen: The Power of Understanding to Connect, Influence, Solve & Sell that dives deep in how we can learn to listen differently to better understand those in both personal and professional relationships

Christine shares her story of an interest in the art of listening from a very young age and has devoted her lifes work to helping improve listening in our interpersonal relationships.

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0:00.0	with the resources that we have it is honestly easier to communicate with one another
0:05.3	more than any other time in history and yet we are listening to one another less than ever.
0:12.9	So if you think about it you guys on social media as we respond to comments or accusations
0:19.2	or politics we are speaking out we are saying things before anyone has a chance to say anything
0:25.4	and even as they say something we're preparing our next statement.
0:28.9	So on this conversation with Christine Miles we are talking about how to listen well
0:34.3	because not only does that go out into the world but it also massively impacts the state of your
0:40.4	home. So Christine Miles is an award winning author and she wrote the book what is it costing you
0:45.9	not to listen. So in this conversation we talk about how to listen well to your children,
0:51.3	how to communicate effectively with your spouse and to let them know that you hear them
0:55.5	into really enhance your relationship by listening and hearing their feelings.
1:00.6	We also talk about teaching our children how to be good listeners because that's something that
1:05.2	we as children didn't always learn. We learned how to talk, how to respond, how to be polite
1:11.1	but not how to listen. So I really enjoy this conversation and I think that it's one that needs
1:16.0	to be had more often and it means a lot to me especially as somebody who does talking for a living
1:21.9	it's something that I'm also learning and continuing to implement in my life. So I hope that you
1:26.6	enjoy this conversation. If you're new to the Living Easy Podcast we talk all about relationships,
1:31.3	sex, marriage, faith, everything with a biblical foundation and a heart to see you do better in
1:37.1	your life live well for the glory of God. So if you enjoy this conversation or if you like the Living
1:42.4	Easy Podcast please take a second to go to iTunes give a quick start rating and review it means
1:47.8	the world now let's jump in to today's conversation.
2:02.6	We were never promised that life would be easy but when we do it together it becomes
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