Quick Cut: S2E299 REAL Communication with Rachael Yeaman

It's a Good Life

Brian Buffini

Business, Unknown, Entrepreneurship, Life, Good, Entrepreneur, Coaching

4.4 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Everyone has a unique communication style. In some interactions, you feel like you’re on the same page; in others, nothing clicks and you feel totally misunderstood. In this episode, REALStrengths expert Rachael Yeaman explores why so many people struggle to connect and reveals the secrets to high-level communication in business and in life.

YOU WILL LEARN:

· How most people communicate.

· Why miscommunications can happen so easily.

· How you can identify and use your natural communication style.

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NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:

“The only way to have deep connection is to actually show someone who you are, which means you need to open yourself up.” – Rachael Yeaman

“Our connection with others is only as strong and as deep as our connection with ourselves and the strengths that we have.” – Rachael Yeaman

“Be mindful that who you are is not how the entire world is programmed.” – Rachael Yeaman

“Be aware that not everybody is wired the exact same way. Ask questions to determine how they’re wired, and then adjust your style accordingly.” – Rachael Yeaman

“Relationships are a two-way street. We don't need to have every problem solved in our heads before we open our mouth to actually speak. Allow it to be a reciprocal dynamic.” – Rachael Yeaman

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0:00.0	Welcome to It's a Good Life with Brian Bafini, founder of America's largest business coaching company.
0:10.4	Here's a short classic cut from one of our all-time favorite episodes.
0:16.9	We're going to get right into it today.
0:18.8	We are going to be talking about communication. The greatest
0:21.9	problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. And so today we're bringing back
0:27.6	our real strengths expert, Rachel Yehman, to talk about how most people communicate, the best
0:33.0	ways to communicate, and how you can use your natural communication style to communicate at a very,
0:38.6	very high level. Rachel, we have you in studio. You're back in from Texas. Welcome back home.
0:44.4	Thank you for having me back. And it is good to be in San Diego. It is. It's not bad. So let's just
0:49.9	talk about it. Communication. It's really such a key ingredient to success. Why do so many of us
0:55.9	struggle with communication? It's at the heart of everything that we do, and it is hard. People are
1:01.7	criticized nine times more for under communicating than over communicating. In addition to that,
1:07.2	it takes five to 12 times for people to actually hear the heart of what the other person
1:12.9	is trying to say to them. And then you layer on that 55% of all communication is nonverbal. Tell me how
1:20.1	to get that right on a consistent basis. It seems almost impossible. Yes. That's crazy. Yeah. That's
1:26.3	crazy. And it's exactly why. It's one of the elements that, you know, we assess in real strengths. That's crazy. Yeah. That's crazy. And it's exactly why.
1:27.9	It's one of the elements that, you know, we assess in real strengths because it's hard and we have to do it every day to be in a relational system in our home, in our workplace.
1:37.6	You know, we had a little phrase in the company for years.
1:40.7	You said, but I heard.
1:42.1	So there's not just what's communicated.
1:45.2	There's what's received.
1:49.9	It's very complex. And if you think about it, you know, we know what the divorce rates are. We know what the conflicts are. We know what Thanksgiving dinners can look like. First of all, I believe
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