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Why Listening Strategies Plus Native Interviews Create Connection.

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Hey Jessica, how's the sunshine out in Portland? Is it sunny today? How's the weather?

Oh my gosh, it's gorgeous. It is beautiful. And it was beautiful all weekend. We had soccer games, we went to the park a bunch we

went to the farmers market yesterday it was just it was great we were outside all

weekend farmers market all that actually reminds me.

It's funny because when I was driving across the U.S. a couple years ago, actually, to build our

Bridge to Connection Method course, I hit a Farmers Market out west.

And so Farmers Markets, those are like a big deal

in the US, aren't that?

Oh, totally.

And it's not just in the US either, right?

I mean, there, this notion of outdoor market really exists everywhere. I mean even in Taiwan we

would have like night markets were the big deal right? So it's this notion of like

what type of people go to a market like this what do you expect to find in these

places and these comparisons I find really interesting like the one of my favorite things

about our course the the Connected Communicator, is the shared cultural aspects of stuff,

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