#HURDLEMOMENT: 6 Steps to Having Hard Conversations
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
There's a whole lot going on right now. On top of the global pandemic and the fight for racial justice, there's also the everyday hardships that go hand-in-hand with your "regular" routine. It's not easy to have difficult talks with your friends, family members, coworkers, and (especially) complete strangers. But, if there's one thing I do know, it's that a hard discussion is always worth having. So, today for #hurdlemoment I'm offering up six steps to opening and executing tough dialogues. Keep in mind: these tips are coming from a place of love, all strategies that have helped me in the past to get to a better place with the people that I care about. I want to know: What would you add to the list? Reach out to me on social media, and as always — stay kind.
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| 0:00.0 | If a conversation is hard to have, that means it's pretty important. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey, hurdlers, Emily Abadi here, bringing you another installment of Hurtle moment from Hurtle. |
| 0:24.6 | I thought a lot about what I wanted this first hurdle moment back to be about. And I think now more than ever, my mission stands true. I want to help you be your best self, move with intention, |
| 0:42.3 | and of course, have some fun along the way. And so in order to have fun, in order to move with |
| 0:49.8 | intention, in order to be better, it's important that we have hard conversations. |
| 0:56.0 | Now, here's the thing about difficult conversations is that a lot of the times we don't want to have them. |
| 1:03.0 | Mostly because, A, they are difficult and conversation is scary, but also because, and I can definitely speak from experience, |
| 1:10.0 | I am worried that having them could make things worse, and I can definitely speak from experience, I am worried that |
| 1:11.6 | having them could make things worse. And that's never really the goal. But we have to face the |
| 1:18.3 | facts. We are in the middle of a revolution of sorts with protests happening in major cities |
| 1:26.6 | and towns across the world on top of what's been happening |
| 1:31.1 | with the global pandemic. And this is all to say as if life before both of these things |
| 1:37.0 | didn't have its difficult moments as well. Right now, so many of us are feeling super |
| 1:42.3 | emotional. I know that I am. I have been reflecting |
| 1:45.1 | on some of the past episodes of Hurdle, one of my favorites, how to protect your energy. I'll link to it |
| 1:50.4 | in the show notes. Just because I am trying to show up every day and be my best and most |
| 1:56.5 | authentic self. Now, again, in order to be that person, that means that I've got to have some |
| 2:02.4 | tough conversations. And again, I have a hunch that you're having some of them too with |
| 2:07.0 | your friends, with your family, and even with some people that you don't even really know |
| 2:12.2 | through social media. So today, I am bringing you some of the helpful steps that I have used to approaching difficult |
| 2:20.9 | conversations in hopes that my experience can help you navigate yours. Like with everything, |
| 2:28.9 | I do not at all have all the answers. But what I do know again is that I just want to help in whatever way |
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