3 Steps to Say the Hard Thing
4/7/202622 min
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There’s a conversation you’ve been avoiding—and it’s already costing you more than you think. In this episode, I’m breaking down why not saying the hard thing is shaping your relationships in ways you don’t even realize. When you avoid the truth, you keep everyone stuck in a version of reality that isn’t real. I’ll walk you through a simple, practical way to have difficult conversations with clarity, confidence, and respect—without overexplaining or softening the message...
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First 90 secondsJefferson Fisher· Host0:00
There's somebody who's listening to this right now and needs to have a conversation that they've been avoiding. And I'm going to tell you, and the point of this episode is, if you're choosing not to have the conversation, then you're choosing the result that you're getting. There's not going to be some aha moment in this episode. What this episode is going to give you is a perspective and the courage to s- say the thing that you've been avoiding, that angst, that thought that you want to say something, and all of a sudden it just makes your stomach churn. I have had difficult conversations like you, uh, so many times in my life, and the perspective that I'm going to give you is one that I use every day when I have to give hard advice. I need to give a hard truth to my legal clients, or I need to say something to a judge or to a jury, and there's a process in which I go through in my mind that I want to share with you. So listening to this episode is going to give you the... [lips smack] I mean, I, I want to put some air in, in your balloon. I want to put some air in your lungs that's going to encourage you today. All that and more coming up. [upbeat music] Welcome to the Jefferson Fisher Podcast, where I'm on a mission to make your next conversation the one that changes everything. Wherever you're listening, it would mean a great deal to me that if you would press the button that says s- subscribe. Press the button that, that says subscribe or like