How do you raise a good communicator? How do you teach kids to be kind but not a pushover? And what actually matters when it comes to parenting? In this episode, I’m sitting down with the two people who shaped my life the most—my parents. This is a personal one. But whether you're a parent, thinking about becoming one, or just curious about how childhood shapes the way we communicate, I think you’ll take something valuable away from this conversation. This episode is sponsored by Cozy Earth. Upgrade Your Every Day. Get 40% off at cozyearth.com/jefferson or use code JEFFERSON at check out. Like what you hear? Subscribe and leave a 5-star review! Order my book: The Next Conversation Suggest a topic or ask a question for me to answer on the show Want a FREE communication tip each week? Subscribe to my newsletter Join My School of Communication Watch my podcast on YouTube Follow me on Instagram Follow me on TikTok Follow me on LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Welcome to the Jefferson Fisher podcast, where I'm on a mission to make your next conversation the one that changes everything. If you enjoy learning tools to improve your communication, I'm gonna ask you to please follow this podcast. And if you would, leave a review. My new book, The Next Conversation, is out to order.
You can find the links there in the show notes, as well as my School of Communication and Membership. Today, I cannot be any more excited to be speaking and bringing to you some people that mean the absolute world to me, where it all started, and that would be my parents. Hey, Mom. Hello. Hey, Mama. Hey, Dad. How are y'all?
Doing great. Awesome. Are y'all comfortable? You're all good? You bet. So for anybody listening, this is the very first time I've ever had a guest, and so I want to make sure that my first guest that I ever had was going to be y'all. Yeah. And make sure that this was important to me and that y'all knew how much I loved y'all and how thankful I am for everything you've done for me.
This is the very first time I've had guests, so we're just going to make it work. Anybody listening, they know how my style is and they know that this is just a... a casual conversation. There's none of this that is pre done or set up. Y'all really don't have any idea what I was going to ask you. Uh, and mom, you look beautiful. I know you were worried about what y'all are going to wear.
Y'all did. You did great. Yeah, that's a good idea. Yeah. So I want to make sure we're all good and comfortable. And so I have some have some questions. There's some that I pulled from people that follow my content that I put out on social media. And I also had some of my own. So I want to.
Here's my plan for this is for anybody listening, we're going to talk a few things about Jefferson, because I know there's some curiosity of how did this guy get so weird about communication? And on this other end of making sure that we're giving very practical solutions and techniques of how y'all raised me and my siblings, I'm the oldest of four, for anybody that doesn't know, how y'all...
kind of laid the strategy for how you wanted to be parents. So I'm going to ask right at the outset, is what was the main themes and thoughts and hopes and prayers before you had children before you had made anybody out there that is hoping to have children, they have very new kids, what were some of the things that was very important to to y'all?
Sherilyn, you go with that one.
Yeah, does my mama Sherilyn?
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