#HURDLEMOMENT: How to Have Tough Conversations
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In a perfect world, a lot of us would choose to avoid confrontation at all costs. Reality check: Tough conversations aren’t ideal, but there’s always growth on the other side of adversity. In today’s #hurdlemoment, I’m highlighting four strategies I use to navigate rough dialogues, and offer up the best piece of advice I’ve been given over the past few years. Plus: A necessary reminder on what it means when someone approaches a situation with unshakeable negativity, and how to best greet that person with grace.
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| 0:00.0 | we all have hurdles in life and we are all strong enough to get over them and emerge victorious |
| 0:07.2 | on the other side. |
| 0:23.1 | Hey, hurdlers. |
| 0:29.6 | Emily Abadi here with a new episode of Hurdle, a wellness-focused podcast where I sit down with inspiring individuals to talk about everything from their big wins to how they've gotten |
| 0:33.9 | through some of life's toughest moments. |
| 0:36.4 | For Hurdle Moment this week, |
| 0:38.0 | I am chatting all about the best ways to handle any important conversation. Now, I am not |
| 0:45.1 | saying I have all the secrets on lock, but the reality is that some of the most tough |
| 0:51.1 | discussions that we need to have, whether they be personal or professional in nature, |
| 0:56.6 | they're also some of the most critical or pivotal. |
| 1:00.0 | Especially as I've grown my business over the last few years, I've learned just how |
| 1:04.4 | important it is to be your own advocate. |
| 1:07.6 | So when it comes to these big combos, you owe it to yourself to go into them with a bit of a game plan. |
| 1:15.4 | And that's why I've got you back. |
| 1:18.1 | Been getting a lot of great feedback on this week's hurdle episode with the co-founders of Beam, Matt Lombardi, and Kevin Moran. |
| 1:25.7 | As I mentioned in the intro to that episode, after recording near the end of last year, |
| 1:30.0 | we realized that we really aligned in our values and just our hopes for the direction of the |
| 1:35.0 | wellness industry. |
| 1:35.9 | And we really vibe. |
| 1:37.7 | And that's why Beam came on this quarter to sponsor the hurdle moment series. |
| 1:42.2 | In this week's episode, Kevin talked about how the formula |
| 1:45.4 | that would become there, the one tincture, literally changed his life and helped him overcome |
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