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How to Have Difficult Conversations at Home and Work | Melissa Belongea
Melissa Belongea joins Greg Aden to talk about regenerative relationships, emotional intelligence, and how parents and leaders can start hard conversations about technology.
Melissa explains what makes a relationship regenerative, one with enough room for two people to keep growing instead of hardening into fixed roles, and why renegotiating the terms of a relationship is often a better option than walking away. She and Greg look at why emotional skill is rarely trained in our culture, so people struggle to say what is on their heart.
The conversation turns to the tech industry's focus on velocity to market and what that leaves in the dust. Melissa shares two practical tips for child safety, building emotional intelligence and keeping devices out of bedrooms, and tells the story of a Sunday afternoon family meeting over pizza with her nieces and nephews where she asked them what they do when they get that uh oh feeling. Greg adds his coaching on preparing for a courageous conversation, letting the other person pick the place, and noticing when a trigger belongs to you. A family is an organization, and culture follows the leader.
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