All Episodes

Ep 159: What lies beneath your words

Ep 158: Learning to communicate well as a leader shouldn't be on-the-job training

Part 6: The 6 communication skills to improve in the age of AI - Being yourself

Part 5: The 6 communication skills to improve in the age of AI - Pausing before you respond

Part 4: The 6 communication skills to improve in the age of AI - Staying present and observant

Part 3: The 6 communication skills to improve in the age of AI - Asking questions

Part 2: The 6 communication skills to improve in the age of AI - Impromptu speaking

Part 1: The 6 communication skills to improve in the age of AI - Storytelling

Ep. 151: The No. 1 communication lesson I want you to take into 2026

Ep. 150: Who leads the way into difficult conversations?

Ep 149: Emily Kasriel | How deep listening creates 'a spacious permission to think new thoughts'

Ep 148: John Wang | Getting the context of conversation right to solve conflict

Ep 147: How to communicate with people you disagree with

Ep 146: How never questioning yourself undermines your ability to fully communicate well

Ep 145: Following your curiosity beyond your comfort zone

Ep 144: Information overwhelm is crushing communication

Ep 143: Neil Gordon | Persuasion is about convincing people that change is possible

Ep 142: How communicating through conflict makes us uniquely human

Ep 141: Mischa Zvegintzov | You are not the center of the universe

Ep 140: Ditch clichés and jargon in your communication

Ep 139: Rich Harwood | 'You have to decide what you're going to see'

Ep 138: Stick to sports!

Ep 137: Aden Nepom | Communicating through change at work and letting go of past expectations

Ep 136: You're 2 questions away from becoming a more curious person

Ep 135: Tim Wenzel | The consequences of being kind

Ep 134: Are sunk costs sinking your communication?

Ep 133: Vikram Mansharamani | Approaching life, conflict, and uncertainty as a generalist

Ep 132: The story I'm telling myself is...

Ep 131: Robin Reames | The lost understanding of rhetoric and the power behind words

Ep 130: 6 things school didn't teach you about communication

Ep 129: Patrick Williams | Restoring your innate creativity to solve your greatest challenges

Ep 128: Inviting curiosity into conversation before common ground

Ep 127: Orly Israel | Listening is access to the infinity of other people's universe

Ep 126: Rob Lawless | "The more I interact with the depth of people the more I acknowledge it exists"

Ep 125: Michael McQueen | We're not afraid of change...we're afraid of loss

Ep 124: Why I wrote my book and what I learned about communication and change

Ep 123: Steve Leskovec | Closing the gap on the things you weren't taught in school

Ep 122: Meghan Bonde | Neurodiversity, the 5 intensities, and communicating to meet social-emotional needs

Ep 121: Amy Morin | Building mental strength through reclaiming control over your thoughts and emotions

Ep 120: Jason Rosoff | The importance of delivering feedback and criticism with care

Ep 119: Steije Hofhuis | What 16th Century witchcraft panic can teach us about human behavior today

Ep 118: Gary John Bishop | This 'blame thing' and the space you take up in the universe

Ep 117: David Samson | Understanding our tribe drive and how to use it for good

Ep 116: John Noltner | The road to peace is paved with our stories

Ep 115: Mark Feldmeir | Challenging long-held assumptions about God, the Bible, and what it means to be Christian

Ep 114: Andy Norman | Why it feels dangerous to challenge our deepest beliefs

Ep 113: Josh Lewis | Recapturing the original promises of conservatism

Ep 112: Dr. Reneé Carr | Reframing conflict and telling your ego to calm down

Ep 111: The ASK then SEE approach to conflict communication

Ep 110: The misunderstanding of active listening

Ep 109: Scott Lyons | Is the whole world addicted to the drama?

Ep 108: Dr. Kurt Gray | Morality, values, and the 'problem of other minds'

Ep 107: Robin Steinberg | Holding compassion for others, even when they do the unthinkable

Ep 106: Mónica Guzmán | What happens after we find common ground?

Ep 105: Mariama Whyte | How do you best show up in the world?

Ep 104: Tim Wenzel | Responding to labels and stereotypes with kindness

Ep 103: Fred Dust | Is change the purpose of conversation?

Ep 102: Racquel Garcia | We're all trying to find our way back home

Ep 101: Matthew Trombley | The intentional work of cultivating common ground

Ep 100: Oscar Trimboli | The contact sport of becoming a deep listener

Ep 99: Manu Meel | Battling political apathy through building conversational bridges

Ep 98: How to communicatively hold space for someone else

Ep 97: Jeff Schoep | How does a person change, and is change real?

Ep 96: Elizabeth Doll | Shouting louder isn't the answer to communicating across divides

Ep 95: Karen Hardwick | Doing the work of self-reflection before it becomes damage control

Ep 94: Kwame Christian | To have difficult conversations about race we must practice the skills to do so

Ep 93: Ari Wallach | Leaning into relational tension to create an examined desired future

Ep 92: Dr. Corey Yeager | Inviting others into the playground of conversation

Ep 91: Martin Carcasson | Solving our most wicked problems together at the local level

Ep 90: Eli Zupnick | Can more political parties solve our polarization problems?

Ep 89: Karen Cerulo and Janet Ruane | Dreaming big, and how life circumstances affect our ability to do so

Ep 88: Jack Buckby | The dangers in assigning labels and calling people names that are untrue

Ep 87: Dan Vallone | To build trust you must create belonging

Ep 86: Adam Wilkinson | The individual responsibility we each own to deescalate hate

Ep 85: Dr. Christia Spears Brown | Why children keep getting caught in the crosshairs of confronting bias

Ep 84: Greg Offner | Being more intentional about how you use your voice

Ep 83: Wayne Francis and John Siebeling | Moving beyond black fists and white knuckles in conversations about God and race

Ep 82: Chris Duffy | How 'Tell me more' can be the unlock to deeper conversations

Ep 81: Mónica Guzmán | The perspective-changing power of asking 'What am I missing?'

Ep 80: Josh Stepakoff | A mass shooting survivor's plea for something to change

Ep 79: Belinda Liu and Omar Brownson | Creating a gratitude practice that serves more than yourself

Ep 78: Mehran Sahami and Jeremy Weinstein | Confronting uncomfortable questions about technology's role in our lives

Ep 77: Daryl Davis | Nothing gets resolved without talking about it

Ep 76: Ian Morgan Cron | How the Enneagram can help rewrite life's broken narratives

Ep 75: Dominic Packer | Overcoming groupthink and harnessing the power of our shared identities for good

Ep 74: Justine Lee | Can people who disagree share meals to help bring about 'radical empathy?'

Ep 73: Bruce Ledewitz | Is the universe on our side?

Ep 72: Mike Ganino | Seeking honest connections as mic drop moments

Ep 71: Is our pursuit of self care creating unhappiness and division?

Ep 70: Adam Russell Taylor | Building the Beloved Community as a new vision for America

Ep 69: Heather Heying | Are hypernovelty and the desire for comfort making us miserable?

Ep 68: James Parker | Amplifying unheard voices and common ground solutions through film

Ep 67: Amy Herman | Using art to better articulate our thoughts, ideas, and biases

Ep 66: Tony Chatman | Why leadership is about so much more than simply being the best

Ep 65: Andy Norman | Do our minds have an immune system to fight bad ideas?

Ep 64: Nealin Parker | What can we learn about post-conflict cultures to help us bridge divides?

Ep 63: Stacey Copas | Resilience is not coping or getting back to what once was

Ep 62: John Noltner | Ask gently and continue to show up in the search for peace

Ep 61: Gale Sinatra and Barbara Hofer | How science's misunderstood 'embrace of uncertainty' fuels denialism

Ep 60: Bruce Bond | The spark of inspiration needed to seek common ground

Ep 59: Tania Israel | What's my goal, and do my strategies help?

Ep 58: Graham Bodie | Why is it so hard for us to adopt a "listen first" mentality?

Ep 57: Leaving Behind Extremism Pt. 2 | How the right questions at the right time deradicalized Jeff Schoep

Ep 56: Leaving Behind Extremism Pt. 1 | How "us vs. them" creates the very thing you hope to avoid, with Jesse Morton

Ep 55: 'Often wrong but never in doubt'

Ep 54: Layla Zaidane | Is there more cooperation happening in government than we are led to believe?

Ep 53: Rebecca Pacheco | Mindfulness and its role in helping us show up fully and compassionately

Ep 52: Matthew Barzun | Get out of the argument-winning business and co-create big things together

Ep 51: Claire Nelson | What do you do when you're waiting to be saved?

Ep 50: Heino Falcke | Light, black holes, and the space between science and God

Ep 49: Propaganda | Creating a culture capable of sustaining all life

Ep 48: Rasheed Ogunlaru | The strange conflict between who we are and who we feel we need to be

Ep 47: Peter Coleman | Why complexity is critical to overcoming toxic polarization

Ep 46: Nisha Anand | The ability to move between worlds is the key to finding common ground

Ep 45: Karen Wright | The ingredients of happiness and thriving in the work we do

Ep 44: Matis Miller | What finding common ground with "uncontrollable" children can teach us about acceptance, flexibility, and love

Ep 43: Ashley Lemieux | Why we must take an active role in the healing process

Ep 42: Jeffrey Shaw | Living for the sake of what we value most

Ep 41: Anthony Shefferly | A police officer's view of how we move forward

Ep 40: Nick Laparra | Giving a damn and living an others-focused life

Ep 39: Annie Auerbach | Flexing how we think about work, home, and life

Ep 38: Brian David Johnson | You control more about your future than you might think

Ep 37: Leslie Ehm | So, you think you have Swagger?

Ep 36: Carla Johnson | Insisting others listen to us is the thing that drives them away

Ep 35: Denise Woods | How our voice reflects our inner pain and trauma

Ep 34: Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe | You can't hate yourself healthy

Ep 33: Jessica Holmes | Comedy's place in helping us deal with life's struggles

Ep 32: Denise Jacobs | How do we banish our inner critic?

Ep 31: Ashley Vanderbilt | The truths you find after leaving QAnon

Ep 30: Christopher Hadnagy | Is empathy always a good thing?

Ep 29: Stan Pearson | Do we truly understand what it means to be emotionally intelligent?

Ep 28: Jen Poyant | Experimenting with your craft and passion to find what works

Ep 27: Matt Gutman | Collecting experiences through talking to people

Ep 26: Alex Perry | Having the confidence to stay in the struggle

Ep 25: Why wait?

Ep 24: Drew Davis | We stop paying attention when we have no more questions

Ep 23: Daniel Thompson | Peaceful doesn't mean quiet

Ep 22: Neil Matthews | We've put more value in being right than being human

Ep 21: Chelsea Ursin | The value in exploring our messy emotions

Ep 20: Greg E. Hill | The people with the loudest voices don't always represent those who need a voice

Ep 19: Dr. Liane Davey | Getting beneath the facts in an argument

Ep 18: Robin Dreeke | Using non-judgmental curiosity to build relationships and trust

Ep 17: Now what?

Ep 16: Harri Hursti | Ask 'is it true?' even when you like the message

Ep 15: John Eldredge | How Christians should show up in a world gone mad

Ep 14: Jakk Gerard | Be intentional in seeking the space to find yourself

Ep 13: Jonathan Ronzio | Resiliency, fear, speed, and unconventional possibilities

Ep 12: Michael Chernow | It's OK to change your mind

Ep 11: Wendy Behary | Empathy's role in understanding how to deal with narcissists

Ep 10: Teresa Abram | Every stroke tells a story

Ep 9: Rebecca Fleetwood Hession | Hold up the mirror and get curious about yourself

Ep 8: Jay Acunzo | Changing the story is changing people

Ep 7: Jeremy Ryan Slate | Clean hands, happy life — the importance of personal responsibility

Ep 6: Jordan Harbinger | Ask experts and seek truth

Ep 5: Tim Fitzgerald | How news reporting and opinion have intertwined and hurt journalism

Ep 4: Lindsay Tjepkema | In all things, ask who is it for and why are you doing it?

Ep 3: Jesse Newell | Be naturally curious and great stories will come from it

Ep 2: Dr. Kimetris Baltrip | Don't take for granted how much your voice matters

Ep. 1: Intro to The Follow-Up Question