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That's artofcoaching.com slash events right now. Check it out, check it out. Welcome to the Art of Coaching Podcast. I'm Brett Bartholomew and at a young age, poor communication nearly caused me my life. Now I help others navigate the great area of social interaction, power dynamics, and communication so they can become more adaptable leaders regardless of their profession, age, or situation. This podcast is for everybody who is fascinated with solving people problems. So if you're in the no-nonsense type who appreciates frank conversations, advice you can put to use immediately and learning how others others navigate the messy realities of leadership, you're in the right place. I'm glad that you're joining us. Let's dive in. Check, check. This thing on. Welcome back to another episode of the Art of Coaching podcast.

Listen, throughout the rest of the year, we're going to do some more bite-sized episodes for you guys. We've had some really great feedback to the last few. Now, it doesn't mean we're not going to go back to long form. We absolutely will, but you're going to get some quick hitters now. And today is all about when it benefits you to be the bad guy, right? the bad guy in the sense that listen,

a lot of times we're gonna have to tell people

things they don't wanna hear.

True respect and accountability, oftentimes is telling people what they don't wanna hear or what other people will not tell them, right? Otherwise, we can easily fall into being enablers. It is also about just understanding that some people are gonna be pissed because you can't serve them the way they wanna be served. And you're not going to be able to meet everybody's expectations. And actually, that's okay. So I'll ground this. And thank God the example I'm going to give here, I'll give an example of somebody in our community who I think did this tremendously well, Eve Weber, we love you. And then of course, I'll share some experiences where these things did not go so well. So context, I'm not sure how many of you know this, but over the past year and a half, I've been helping my uncle, who's in his 70s, and going through a tough time in life, right? Really, really successful guy, somebody who's very sharp, intelligent, amazing, kind of went through a tough season of life, right? Needed some help. We're happy to help him. He's helped me through many things as well. He's a great uncle to my son. But it's something that in addition to me,

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