Christine Miles

Well, you need those supplies.

So metaphorically, we give the tools for your backpack so that you can understand.

You wouldn't go in the woods without a map, right?

So here's probably the biggest takeaway I can give for your listeners today, is that when you're listening, you're always listening to a story.

Yep.

But people drop us in the middle, not at the beginning, and we're confused right off the bat.

Episode four, yeah.

So we live in a world of misunderstanding.

Every day, you say to your kid, how was school?

They drop you in the middle of it.

You don't know it.

Your spouse has a problem coming home from work.

You're dealing with a project at work, whatever it is.

We're in a sea of misunderstandings.

It's the job of the listener to sort that out, to guide the speaker, to tell their story in a way that makes sense to us.

If you don't have a map, you don't know where you're going.

You're going to be lost all the time.

Two plus two.

It's okay, I'm not good at math either.

So you're listening for more of the emotions, more of the feelings.