145 / How To Talk To Your Enemies with Alicia Dunams
b'I admire SO MUCH when I see people deal with difficult personalities, big egos, or people who\\u2019ve done major harm and they somehow manage to stay cool, calm, and collected. Being able to have a productive conversation with someone who makes your blood boil is a true superpower.\\nWhich is why I\\u2019ve invited Alicia Dunams, speaker, coach, certified mediator, peacemaker and author of the book, How to Talk to Your Enemies to the show. She shares specific words, phrases, and approaches to start dialogues off on the right foot toward mutual understanding and healing. Whether it\\u2019s expressing boundaries, handling political and moral differences, giving sincere apologies, responding to accusations of racism or sexism - Alicia provides the tools to have even the most bitter enemies experience compassion and catharsis.\\nThe skill of communicating effectively with people we disagree with is desperately needed.\\nRage, cursing, and walking away have their place, but listening, apologizing, empathy, curiosity, understanding, healing, and peacemaking are necessary in todays climate.\\nWho better to lead the way than us? WOMEN have long understood the POWER and STRENGTH required to do any one of those things\\u2026 listening isn\\u2019t the easy way out, ignoring is. Empathy isn\\u2019t weak, righteousness and revenge are.\\xa0\\nThe irony is all the things they\\u2019ve been calling soft skills are the hardest ones. It\\u2019s time to do woman\\u2019s work.\\nTo learn more about Alicia you can visit her website or follow her on IG @AliciaDunams. You can access the first chapter of her book for free by going to www.talktoyourenemies.com\\nTo join Nicole\\u2019s pod (to get all the inside scoops, free stuff, and the occasional rant), click here'