This is an All-Ears English Podcast episode 1626.

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We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection.

With your American hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer,

and Michelle Kaplan, the New York Radio Girl.

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When people are sharing stories, and the group goes off on a tangent,

how can you stay flexible and add to the conversation and know when to bring it back to the main topic

in English? Build these connection skills today in this episode.

heard about magpie, the vegan pie truck that needed a bit of help from gold daddy.

One day the owner's a light, this business hasn't reached this potential.

And the other one goes, we need a bigger piece of the pie.

And then it hits her.

We need gold daddy.

Look, we can get a domain name and create an online store,

so we can sell to more customers.

Now they've gone from serving a couple of pies to a flogging nationwide.

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