Welcome to the Commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasno. Okay, today I dive into the ice bath of

stressful conversations with my better three quarters, Skyler, who plays the role of interviewer in this episode.

This is a salient topic, of course, as the holidays approach and potential stressful

conversations loom on the horizon.

Whoever clustered election day and Thanksgiving christmas so close together in the calendar

perhaps needs to undergo a brain scan but the reality is many of us will be traveling home or

hosting friends and family with opposing political viewpoints yes we all seem to have an uncle bob

poised to make a snarky comment. And it's just

so easy to get triggered or mad or simply avoid people that we otherwise really love and care about.

So this episode serves as a guide for how to have profitable, stressful conversations.

So this idea is connected to my upcoming book called Good Stress,

in which I apply the use stress protocols of fasting, cold plunging,

and resistance training to our psychosocial lives.

It's too easy to sit behind a keyboard and avoid thorny conversations, but it really is these

very conversations that separate the human condition from a better world that our hearts know

is possible. So if you are inclined to support my writing, and I'd appreciate it if you did,

please pre-order the book by going to

goodstress.com. And if you order now, it comes with all sorts of bonus goodies, including

courses from some of my favorite people that I've had on the show here, including Mark Hyman,

Casey Means, and Zach Bush. Okay, in this episode, we talk about my experience building what I call my

psychological immune system, having Zoom calls with people that don't agree with me. We talk about

our Palestinian-Israeli summit and my recent experience as interlocutor between a Harris

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