Hello and welcome to our sparring session. In our sparring sessions, we invite our guests to showcase their skills in a realistic scenario. In these sessions, don't look at what I do. Look at what our guests does and learn from their style. In some sessions, I'm pretty easy to deal with. But usually, my goal in these conversations is to become the embodiment

of your worst nightmare, someone who's unnaturally persistent, unnecessarily difficult, and at

times a little bit socially awkward. I want these conversations to be more difficult than it would

be in real life. So when you encounter these types of situations, you'll know exactly how to handle it.

We do the exact same things in our trainings and in our one-on-one coaching sessions with clients.

I strongly recommend listening to the accompanying episode with our guests before listening to the sparring session.

That'll give you a little bit more context and help you to develop a better understanding for the scenario.

So without further ado, let's jump into this sparring session.

This sparring session is unlike any other session we've done before on the show.

In every other session, it's been me versus the guest, but in this session, it's really

me versus myself.

If you listen to our episode with Stacy, you'll realize that when it comes

to managing your emotions, it's almost like an internal negotiation. In this sparring session,

I'm playing the role of somebody who's in the middle of a difficult conversation, who's

struggling with frustration and anger. Stacy walks me through how I can use mindfulness techniques

during the conversation to calm down.

And listen, I know that for my hardcore business listeners, this might seem like it's a little bit out there.

But I'm willing to take that risk.

Because I know that in the business world, a lot of times we make the mistake of focusing so much on the strategy and substance of the negotiation

that we miss the critical

internal battles that are happening beneath the surface.

If we are unable to master ourselves and our emotions, it will be nearly impossible for us

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