Your ability to persuade or resolve conflict in a way that is agreeable to you

is almost always limited by your openness to being persuaded.

When you think about conflict, what comes up for most people,

conflict brings up all sorts of instant emotions, and usually they're not good.

It's anxiety, it's angst, it's fear, it's concern, it's repulsion, rejection, we just want

nothing to do, with conflict. And yet, it doesn't have to be that way. Truth is, human beings

live and think and feel and believe differently. Sometimes we believe and see the same things,

but other times we don't. Sometimes it's around really big issues that we feel are central to

our lives. Sometimes the conflict or the disagreement or the different viewpoints,

it's around little tiny things, or maybe it's deeply personal and it happens in a personal

relationship or in a family or between friends, or maybe this shows up at work between you and

colleagues, you and teammates, or you and those you lead or those that you're led by.

And when this happens, the natural reaction is often to recoil, to back pedal, to pull yourself

out of the moment or the interaction that led to conflict to try and sort of deescalate it.

But what if there was a different approach? What if actually we could look at conflict and say,

here lies an opportunity to create some understanding, some empathy, some engagement, and maybe even

resolution that feels good for both sides? How might we do that? Are there steps or their ideas

or their methods and strategies and tools that would help us actually look at conflict

and not have it for us so readily, but rather have us say, okay, this is an opportunity for me to

actually step into it. I feel comfortable, I feel at peace, I feel considered and well prepared,

and let's actually see if we can create something really cool out of this moment.

That is exactly what we're diving into. In today's solo episode, yep, you just have me today

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