Jeff Krasno

Because I think we live in a world where we tend to avoid stressful conversations, right? And that's okay. Sometimes it is best to create space and disengage yourself Particularly when the behavior is really odious, if it's racist or abusive or really neglectful. What sits on the other side of these stressful conversations really can represent a world that our hearts can imagine as possible.

Because I think we live in a world where we tend to avoid stressful conversations, right? And that's okay. Sometimes it is best to create space and disengage yourself Particularly when the behavior is really odious, if it's racist or abusive or really neglectful. What sits on the other side of these stressful conversations really can represent a world that our hearts can imagine as possible.

The first key to having a stressful conversation is doing work on yourself, is becoming emotionally regulated. And that could be through building your psychological immune system, as I've described, but it also could be through breath work, through meditation, even through the psychological benefits of ice plunging or fasting, candidly.

The first key to having a stressful conversation is doing work on yourself, is becoming emotionally regulated. And that could be through building your psychological immune system, as I've described, but it also could be through breath work, through meditation, even through the psychological benefits of ice plunging or fasting, candidly.

The first key to having a stressful conversation is doing work on yourself, is becoming emotionally regulated. And that could be through building your psychological immune system, as I've described, but it also could be through breath work, through meditation, even through the psychological benefits of ice plunging or fasting, candidly.

So you have to go into stressful conversations yourself, emotionally regulated. You have to be what Stephen Porges called sort of in ventral vagal activation. You know, you can't be shut down, you know, in totally in your parasympathetic, but you can't also be amygdala hijacked because if you come into a conversation all up here, it's never going to go anywhere, right? You're just going to fight.

So you have to go into stressful conversations yourself, emotionally regulated. You have to be what Stephen Porges called sort of in ventral vagal activation. You know, you can't be shut down, you know, in totally in your parasympathetic, but you can't also be amygdala hijacked because if you come into a conversation all up here, it's never going to go anywhere, right? You're just going to fight.

So you have to go into stressful conversations yourself, emotionally regulated. You have to be what Stephen Porges called sort of in ventral vagal activation. You know, you can't be shut down, you know, in totally in your parasympathetic, but you can't also be amygdala hijacked because if you come into a conversation all up here, it's never going to go anywhere, right? You're just going to fight.

So you come into a stressful conversation regulated. That creates the opportunity for coherence and attunement. And then one of the key skills to develop is really listening, deep listening to understand and not listening to respond.

So you come into a stressful conversation regulated. That creates the opportunity for coherence and attunement. And then one of the key skills to develop is really listening, deep listening to understand and not listening to respond.

So you come into a stressful conversation regulated. That creates the opportunity for coherence and attunement. And then one of the key skills to develop is really listening, deep listening to understand and not listening to respond.

And this is really hard because even in our conversation today, you'll say something and I'm so excited about what you're saying that I'll almost interrupt you, right? And vice versa, just because we're in the flow of each other. But also sometimes that makes a good podcast. Totally.

And this is really hard because even in our conversation today, you'll say something and I'm so excited about what you're saying that I'll almost interrupt you, right? And vice versa, just because we're in the flow of each other. But also sometimes that makes a good podcast. Totally.

And this is really hard because even in our conversation today, you'll say something and I'm so excited about what you're saying that I'll almost interrupt you, right? And vice versa, just because we're in the flow of each other. But also sometimes that makes a good podcast. Totally.

Yeah, and oftentimes we are concocting a rejoinder or a rebuttal in our heads before our adversary has even finished speaking. We don't even know what point they're going to make. We're already so obsessed with making our own point.

Yeah, and oftentimes we are concocting a rejoinder or a rebuttal in our heads before our adversary has even finished speaking. We don't even know what point they're going to make. We're already so obsessed with making our own point.

Yeah, and oftentimes we are concocting a rejoinder or a rebuttal in our heads before our adversary has even finished speaking. We don't even know what point they're going to make. We're already so obsessed with making our own point.

So this was a big one, you know, really listening to understand and not to respond. It actually came out of experiences that I used to have in Japan. I used to go to Japan quite a bit on business and I was pitching bands. I was in the music industry and I'd go into like some CEO's office or Toshiba Yama or something and I'd, pitch, pitch, pitch, pitch, pitch, pitch, and I'd be done.

So this was a big one, you know, really listening to understand and not to respond. It actually came out of experiences that I used to have in Japan. I used to go to Japan quite a bit on business and I was pitching bands. I was in the music industry and I'd go into like some CEO's office or Toshiba Yama or something and I'd, pitch, pitch, pitch, pitch, pitch, pitch, and I'd be done.

So this was a big one, you know, really listening to understand and not to respond. It actually came out of experiences that I used to have in Japan. I used to go to Japan quite a bit on business and I was pitching bands. I was in the music industry and I'd go into like some CEO's office or Toshiba Yama or something and I'd, pitch, pitch, pitch, pitch, pitch, pitch, and I'd be done.