Hello and welcome back to Franklin Covey's Twice Weekly Podcast on Leadership with Scott Miller.

I am your host each week's almost seven years now, nearly 500 episodes taped, where on Tuesdays and

Fridays, I have the privilege of releasing great interviews on audio and video with a collection

of the world's most amazing thought leaders. Sometimes they arrive as CEOs, founders, entrepreneurs.

They are academics, researchers, practitioners, all designed to

help make you a better leader. This podcast, of course, sponsored by the Franklin Covey Company,

known as the world's most trusted leadership firm and founded nearly 40 years ago in part by

the renowned author and researcher, Stephen R. Covey,

of course, who wrote amongst many books, the seminal title, The Seven Habits of Highly

Effective People.

Can you believe this book has sold, gosh, close to 70 million copies in 50 languages?

And there is rarely a guess.

It doesn't say, I loved that book, and it changed my life. I'm privileged to

be the host each week twice weekly on this podcast. And today our guest is an expert on something

you do every minute of every day when you are awake and that is talk. She is a renowned expert on

communication. She is a professor at the Harvard Business School.

Her name is Alison Woodbrooks,

and she's authored this new book titled Just That,

Talk, whose tagline reads to Science and Conversation

and the Art of Being Ourselves, Alison Woodbrook.

Welcome to On Leadership. Thank you so much for having me, Scott. How are you doing?

I think you may have matched my energy. I like positive people. I like contagious

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