Daily Dose: Difficult Conversations
What's Up Docs?
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4.4 • 659 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
In this Daily Dose, Chris and Xand return to their episode on difficult conversations. Chartered Psychologist Kimberley Wilson has some great advice on how best to approach a difficult conversation and what happens when we find ourselves confronted by one.
Daily Doses of expert wisdom from previous episodes will be dropping each weekday throughout January (except Tuesdays). You'll find them in the What’s Up Docs? feed on BBC Sounds, alongside all the main episodes of the podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.5 | Chris, I've been meaning to talk to you about something you did last week that really upset me. |
| 0:10.9 | Well, it'll have to wait, Zandi, because we have to record another daily dose, another tantalising takeaway from one of our WhatsApp docs experts. |
| 0:23.1 | Our daily doses are dropping every weekday |
| 0:25.4 | other than Tuesday throughout January. |
| 0:27.5 | And this week, we're hearing from Kimberly Wilson |
| 0:29.5 | about difficult conversations. |
| 0:31.9 | Perfect. |
| 0:32.5 | Well, I hope you're paying attention. |
| 0:34.1 | Kimberly had some great advice |
| 0:35.6 | on how best to approach a difficult conversation and what |
| 0:38.4 | happens when we find ourselves confronted by one. So there are a plethora of difficult conversations, |
| 0:46.3 | right? You know, if you want a promotion, if you're in a relationship and maybe your sex life |
| 0:51.6 | isn't so great anymore, if you have a friend and things are getting a little bit weird or distant or something's changed and you don't know what it is. |
| 0:59.0 | Let's say your mom is constantly commenting in your body and you don't like it. |
| 1:03.0 | You need to have a difficult conversation with that person, with your mother, whoever, so that that changes. |
| 1:08.0 | Essentially, everything that you want in life is on the other side |
| 1:13.2 | of a difficult conversation. And we have this belief or idea that, A, if we ignore it, |
| 1:20.6 | or just go away, it doesn't. I'm trying to think of the exception. Go on. Or that there are no costs. And actually, |
| 1:30.5 | there are lots and lots of implicit costs, right? Let's say you and I are friends who have |
| 1:34.9 | slightly drifted. Every time we meet up, there's something between us. There's like a boulder |
| 1:39.9 | in the path between us. We're not really being very honest with each other, which means we |
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