TQ35: What's the most difficult thing you've ever had to tell someone

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🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Every Tuesday, we grab a past question from the Facebook group, then Meredith and Scott answer it and read some of the answers given by other listeners. The question for this episode: What's the most difficult thing you've ever had to tell someone? Links for this episode: Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott: https://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Conversations-Achieving-Success-Conversation/dp/0425193373 Meredith’s podcast is Meredith For Real – the Curious Introvert: https://MeredithForReal.com To check out the new Tuesday Question and get in the discussion, join us at WhatWasThatLike.com/facebook. Sponsor deals: Head to http://Lumen.me/WWTL for 20% off your purchase. Go to bluenile.com to shop Blue Nile, the original online jeweler since 1999! Follow “MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark and Mysterious Stories” on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at BetterHelp.com/WHATWAS and get on your way to being your best self. To get 15% off your next gift, go to UNCOMMONGOODS.com/WHATWAS Sign up today at https://www.butcherbox.com/whatwas and use code whatwas to get chicken breast, salmon or ground beef FREE in every order for a year, plus $20 off your first order. Cut your wireless bill to 15 bucks a month at mintmobile.com/WHAT Go to Quince.com/whatwas for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns! Go to cookunity.com/What or enter code What before checkout for 50% off your first week. Go to Seed.com/what and use code 25WHAT to get 25% off your first month. Go to storyworth.com/what to save $10 on your first purchase! Get 15% off OneSkin with the code [WHATWAS] at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpod Cancel your unwanted subscriptions by going to RocketMoney.com/whatwas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Scott, and you're listening to What Was That Like? New episodes with guests telling their
0:05.9	amazing stories are every other Friday, but today we have the Every Other Tuesday, Tuesday
0:11.9	question. In the podcast Facebook group, we have a new thought-provoking question every Tuesday,
0:17.2	and it generates some really interesting and sometimes deep discussions.
0:21.5	We'd love to have you join us.
0:22.8	Just go to what was that like.com slash Facebook.
0:26.2	But if you're not in that group, we bring it to you here in a short episode every other Tuesday.
0:31.7	We dig into the group archives and find one of the past Tuesday questions that we've discussed.
0:36.8	Then Meredith and I answered that question and we talk about some of the answers Tuesday questions that we've discussed. Then Meredith and I answered that question,
0:39.1	and we talk about some of the answers that came in from other listeners.
0:42.4	And in a few days, I'm talking this coming Friday,
0:45.6	a brand new What Was That Like episode?
0:48.5	Let's do it.
0:50.5	Okay, today's question.
0:53.4	What is the most difficult thing you've ever had to tell someone?
0:58.6	Honestly, some of these questions have to do with death, obviously, because that's like
1:03.8	the worst news you can deliver to someone, and that's what mine is as well. I've told this
1:08.5	story before. My daughter, Bree, was married to Fernando. They were
1:12.5	married for a year and one day when he was killed in a motorcycle accident. And yeah, getting that
1:19.3	news was difficult, but we at that point had to make plans to go out to Las Vegas because that's
1:25.3	where it happened. So we were doing all of this,
1:28.0	but I had to tell my mom. And I was not looking forward to that, obviously, but even more so
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