Hi, I'm Laura Vandercam. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, and speaker.

And I'm Sarah Hart Unger, a mother of three, practicing physician, writer, and course creator.

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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning.

This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is to make shallow questions deeper.

By tweaking your usual small talk ever so slightly,

you can wind up with much richer conversations.

Today's tip like another one this week

comes from Charles Doohig's new book,

Supercommunicators.

In this book, he shares strategies for how anyone can connect with others more effectively.

Dewig notes that many of us ask pretty straightforward questions

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