People Skills That Strengthen Friendships, Marriage, and Family :: Debra Fileta [Ep 554]
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Don't Mom Alone Podcast
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Talking with our kids, navigating our husband’s work party, connecting with other moms, or building our own friendship. All of these moments show who we are and how we communicate.
Today, Debra Fileta, counselor, author, and podcaster, joins me to share practical tips on how to communicate effectively with friends, family, and loved ones. In our tech-driven world, we’ve lost many opportunities for genuine connection, and often we don’t realize how we come across when meeting new people or entering a room full of strangers.
Debra shares insights from her new book, People Skills, to help us connect in deeper, more authentic ways. Here’s some of what we cover:
- Relationships and people skills: The strength of your relationships depends on the skills you bring into them.
- Communication matters: In a tech-driven world, real-life interactions with tone, body language, and facial expressions are more important than ever.
- Understanding communication styles: Learn the four types—assertive, aggressive, passive, passive-aggressive—and how to navigate them.
- Practical tips for being a great conversationalist: Honor your story, honor theirs, and create space for give-and-take in relationships.
- Instagram: Debra Fileta
- Facebook: Debra Fileta Truelovedates.com
- Website: Debra Fileta, M.A. LPC (@debrafileta)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast. |
| 0:10.9 | I'm your host, Heather McFaddean, and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone. |
| 0:20.0 | And in this episode, the first one of |
| 0:21.9 | 26, episode 554, I'm welcoming to the show, Deborah Felata. And I'm going to give you |
| 0:29.4 | the same advice for friendship. Keep trying. The skill set of you need to keep being intentional with your relationships. |
| 0:40.4 | Keep trying. |
| 0:41.2 | Keep investing. |
| 0:42.3 | Keep believing. |
| 0:44.0 | Keep offering your best and looking for their best. |
| 0:48.3 | Keep believing for a give and take relationship. |
| 0:51.9 | Not one where you give too much and burnout and not one where you give too much and burn out and not one where you |
| 0:56.7 | give too little, you know, what could it look like for us to be intentional with a few friends |
| 1:02.9 | this coming year to bring them close and to really nurture that relationship? |
| 1:09.0 | Deborah is a licensed professional counselor. She's a best-selling author, |
| 1:13.3 | national speaker. And today we're talking about the topic of people skills. Now, at Domam alone, |
| 1:19.4 | we're always encouraging you to expand beyond your home and build your relationships. And so I |
| 1:25.6 | wanted to equip you with this information from Deborah. |
| 1:28.7 | I found it super helpful heading into the holidays. |
| 1:30.9 | And I know it's past the holidays, but we're starting off 2026. |
| 1:35.0 | And wouldn't it be great if by the end of the year we have improved our communication, |
| 1:38.6 | our conversation. |
| 1:39.9 | I loved how she defines the four types of communication styles. |
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