This is an All-Ears English podcast episode 1810, three ways to acknowledge your

colleagues' feelings at work. Welcome to the All-Ears English podcast

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We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on

on connection, not perfection. With your American hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English

adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York Radio girl, coming to you from Colorado and New

York City, USA. And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to allearsenglish.com,

forward slash subscribe. When you know someone is swamped or hungry, but you need to ask

them for something, what can you do? Today, learn three simple constructions that are great for

business English and life. Hey, Lindsay, how's it going? It's going pretty well, Michelle. What's

going on with you? What's new? Nothing too much. You seem really happy today.

Do I? Well, I mean, I'm usually pretty content. Well, yes, I suppose I am. You just labeled

my feeling right? I labeled your feeling, Lindsay. And so that's actually what we're going to be

talking about today. So on episode 1751, we were talking about doctors. And what to do if your doctor

is rushing out of the room and you still have a question. And one of our suggestions was

dealing with something like saying like, oh, I know you're in a rush. And you mentioned,

Lindsay, that it's helpful to say this because it shows the person that you see them. You're looking

at things from their point of view, and you're kind of labeling the situation or even a feeling.

So you suggested doing a follow up. And I thought it was a great idea. So this is all the way back

from 1751. So go ahead and listen to that one first guys. I mean, not first or next.

I love it. Yeah. And we actually had, now that I'm thinking about it, we had a guest episode.

I'm going to have a hard time finding the guest name. I think his name was Doug. Come on,

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