Alison Wood Brooks, TALK: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Celebrated Harvard Business School professor and leading expert on the psychology of conversation, Alison Wood Brooks, chats with Zibby about TALK, a groundbreaking and immediately useful book that reveals the hidden architecture of our conversations and teaches us how to be better at them. Alison shares her personal and professional journey and then introduces her framework for better conversations—TALK: Topics, Asking, Levity, and Kindness. Zibby reflects on her own experiences with social anxiety and public speaking, and then they touch on parenting, teaching children social skills, and the transformative potential of thoughtful communication.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive
0:24.0	look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't
0:29.3	have to.
0:30.3	Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day.
0:36.2	For more information, go to zibbmedia.com and follow me on Instagram
0:40.2	at Zibby Owens. Allison Woodbrooks is the author of Talk, the Science of Conversation, and
0:48.7	the art of being ourselves. Dr. Allison Wood Brooks is the O'Brien Associate Professor of Business
0:54.0	Administration and
0:55.2	Helman Faculty Fellow at the Harvard Business School, where she created and teaches a course
0:59.2	called Talk.
1:00.3	As a behavioral scientist, she is a leading expert on the science of conversation.
1:04.8	Her award-winning research has been published in top academic journals and is regularly
1:09.3	cited in media outlets, as the new york times
1:11.7	the wall street journal harford business review and npr her research was referenced in two of the
1:16.8	top 10 most viewed ted talks of all time and depicted in pixars inside out too in 2021 she was
1:23.6	named a best 40 under 40 business school professor by poets and quants.
1:28.5	Talk, the science of conversation, and the art of being ourselves is her first book.
1:32.7	Welcome, Allison.
1:33.8	Thank you so much for coming on my show to talk about talk.
1:38.4	I guess I didn't need quotes, but the science of conversation and the art of being ourselves.
1:43.3	Thanks for being here. Thank you so much for
1:45.5	having me, Zubi. I'm so happy to be here. So as I was just saying, this is so meta to have a
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