Michael Sorensen

And yet at the end of the day, while most of us want to avoid those conversations, the issue likely won't go away without having something like that.

And so I personally am a big fan of therapy, seeing a good therapist, or at very least finding a good friend, somebody that you can confide in, who's emotionally healthy, that can help you practice, you know, bounce ideas off of how to have those difficult conversations.

Well, and to that again, I would say having an outside party.

can be quite helpful there because I absolutely do see that, you know, they just, they feed off each other and they just go down and down deeper and deeper.

And that's, that's no spot to live in, you know?

And so, you know, if, if somebody is in a situation like that, hopefully they are starting to feel like, gee, this isn't very fun.

Maybe there's,

Maybe there's a happier way to live life.

And that's where there's tremendous value in working to surround yourself with emotionally healthy people, people who will validate you, who will listen to you when you need to be heard and who also aren't afraid to call you out when you need to be called out.

The two are not mutually exclusive.

In fact, the two work better hand in hand.

When you feel heard and understood, you feel safe and you can confide in these people.

And then that allows them to speak candidly back and give you feedback that you might otherwise be closed off to.

First, you really have to understand the why behind it.

And speaking frankly, the benefit to you and the other person of validating.

And so this isn't something that you're just doing just to help the other person.

Certainly you are.

You have to care about the other person.

But when you learn how to validate, when you learn how to hold off on advice for just a

It makes a tremendous difference in your business negotiations.