Shonda Rhimes
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1,129 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 10 Apr
Shonda Rhimes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because otherwise, if I have to hold off while I'm saying all that, I'm never going to say it.
I can't bear the conflict.
So to me, I'm like, you have to have the difficult conversations because the peace it brings you is incredible.
The peace it might bring the other person is incredible to have it be acknowledged out loud that this thing is not working is great.
Right.
But you really have to be willing to say the hard thing.
And I'm always like, say the hard thing first, if you can.
That way, I don't have to worry that maybe I have never said it at all, which is the other thing.
I was like, that meeting went great.
And then the next day, there they were.
And I realized I'd never said it because I'd been so busy trying to figure out a way to make them feel good and not have the conflict happen.
And suddenly you've been together for so long that it feels really, really horrible what you're doing.
Yes.
Yeah, I agree.
Yes.
The pain of that is so much worse.
So yeah, I really have a thing about getting difficult conversations going and just leaning into the idea of it versus running away.
Having those conversations about things that you generally just try to avoid to keep from hurting another person, to keep from feeling uncomfortable with what you're doing.
Having that difficult conversation, I think, saved my life in lots of ways.
I think it really hurt somebody else, but I also think it saved their lives in lots of ways because what would their life have been like married to me when I didn't want to be married?
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