Michael Ashford

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523 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 6 Jul

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Speaking With Confidence · How Asking Questions Builds True Communication Confidence · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

But what what social media, what what people tend to focus on are those areas where they diverged.

Do they agree on everything?

Of course not.

They they definitely have differences of of experience and opinions on how to get that done.

Yeah.

But we can start at a baseline of look, we're aiming for the same thing.

Right.

And and but and we tend to jump to the other side and just argue over the fact that we are arguing.

disagreeing over the fact that we disagree.

And it's one one example uh of that, Tim, is and this is where curiosity comes into play.

You've got to be curious enough to know the language and the background of that language from somebody else who is on the quote unquote other side from you.

I interviewed one gentleman who did a a documentary in rural Oregon about climate change, about how the the changing

landscape and environment are affecting rural workers out in in eastern Oregon, heavy logging community, heavy agriculture and farming community that was feeling more and more disconnected from the western part of the state that was, you know, more liberal, more progressive.

We'll just call it what it is.

And they did a documentary where those two groups came together, people from the western part of the state, people from the eastern part of the state, and they got curious with each other about what they cared about, and they started to understand the language that each other used.

So where you had people from the left saying that it was climate change and global warming and environmental destruction.

You had people from the right saying that they deeply cared about environmental stewardship, that they were stewarding the land well, that they wanted to preserve and protect the the livelihood of their people for their families, people who had been in that in on that ground and worked that ground for generations.

Now, when you can use the language that people care about, how do you get there?

You've got to ask them questions.

You've got to be curious.

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