Michael Bungay Stanier

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505 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 5 Jun

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The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose · How to Tame Your Advice Monster and Become a Better Listener | Michael Bungay Stanier · 5 Jun 2026 podcast

It's like I'm not wearing any trousers.

Does that help?

That does help.

Yeah.

So I think of this as the paradox you bring to relationships with others.

You know, I'm saying in a coaching conversation, but I'm really thinking of this in any relationship that you care deeply about.

So this may be you as a parent or as a child of parents or for your closest of friends or for the people you have a coaching relationship with.

You're like, how do you show up for this person?

What's the fullest expression of holding the relationship so they feel seen and heard and encouraged?

And I think it starts with this kind of love, which is my job is to want the very best for you.

you need to know that I am on your side.

I see who you are and all your complex messiness.

And like my heart is full for that.

You know, I heard a Tibetan nun once teaching from a stage saying, you know, when she moves, when she comes into a large room, when she's on a stage, when she's presenting, she tries to imagine her sense of love enveloping the entire room.

So she's holding everybody in that space.

I'm like, I love that.

I'm not that good at doing that, but I love that idea.

So it's like I am full in on this person.

Even with all the things that I can see are complicated about them, I'm unreservedly on their side.

And then the fierceness comes from, if that is true,

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