AEE 2510: NYT Author Maya Rossignac-Milon Shares How Riffing Builds Connection in English

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Education, Language Learning, Business

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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0:00.0	This is on All-Ears English podcast, episode 2510.
0:04.2	New York Times author Maya Rosiniak Milone shares how riffing builds connection in English.
0:12.6	Welcome to the All-Ears English podcast downloaded more than 200 million times.
0:19.4	Are you feeling stuck with your English? We'll show you
0:22.7	how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection, with your American
0:30.0	host, Aubrey Carter, the IELTS Whiz, and Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer. coming to you from Arizona and Colorado, USA.
0:43.0	And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to all-earsenglish.com
0:49.3	forward slash subscribe.
0:54.3	Do you have difficulty knowing what to say when you meet someone new?
0:59.1	Today, our guest, Maya Rosignac-Milone, provides tips from her research about moving past
1:05.5	small talk to build real connections in English.
1:14.8	Okay. build real connections in English. Are you feeling stuck at your English level?
1:18.1	Are you sure what your real English level is?
1:21.1	If you take our free quiz, we'll tell you what level you're stuck at
1:24.8	and how to reach your next English milestone.
1:34.8	Go to allersenglish.com slash fluency score now. That's fluency score, one word.
1:38.5	Allersenglish.com slash fluency score.
2:04.1	Hello, everyone. I am very excited to welcome our very special guests today. Maya, Rossignac-Milon, welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much for having me. Yes. I will first introduce you, but I'm very excited for listeners to find out about an article that Maya and a friend of hers wrote for the New York Times recently about small talk, improving your small talk
2:09.6	what the real keys are to building relationships and connections. So you are going to learn
2:14.6	so much today from this article. But first, Maya is an assistant professor in the managing people in organizations department at IESE Business School.
2:26.1	Before joining IESE, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia Business School.
2:32.0	Her Ph.D. is in psychology from Columbia University. Her research
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