Welcome to the Salt Strong Podcast, disrupting fishing entertainment as you know it, prepare

to laugh, prepare to get to know fishing legends in a whole new and unfiltered way.

And on occasion, you might even learn a thing or two about fishing.

Here's your host, Joe Simons, Like Diamonds.

I believe that almost all issues, relational issues, in our lives are caused by a failure

to communicate.

In general, humans don't communicate that well.

And what I mean is we're good on the surface level.

Very few of us really dig and dig.

Or even know how to just unpack everything that's truly on our minds to make sure that the other person

we're dealing with, whether it's a spouse or a coworker or a child, doesn't matter.

Regardless, it's very, very tough for most people to really get what's off their chest.

And maybe they're even afraid to.

And the other person we're dealing with, whether it's a spouse or a coworker or a child,

doesn't matter, regardless, it's very, very tough for most people to really get what's off their chest.

And the other person, the receiver, is not really great.

It's trying to even extract all of that.

They just hear what they want to hear and usually move on and ask me how I know I'm very, very guilty.

And I had an instance here just yesterday with someone I work with.

And there was some things that I would just kind of really bugging me.

And it's just always awkward to have those honest conversations, right?

And this is a big reason I'm doing this podcast.

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