In this short "Moment of Yes" episode recorded on October 14, the host (Speaker A) reflects on a recent workshop he co‑facilitated in Orlando. While dining with a colleague, the colleague opened up about personal challenges, leading to a meaningful, transformative conversation. The host ties this experience to a concept he presented at the workshop called "power listening" – an active, empathic form of listening that focuses on how the listener shows up rather than trying to force depth from others. He argues that by consistently showing up in a calm, open manner, we create a space where others can choose to go deep if they wish. He emphasizes that we cannot make others dive deeper, but we can prepare ourselves to be ready when they do. The episode ends with a prompt asking listeners to consider what might be preventing them from creating such space, framing it as their personal "moment of yes" for the day.
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Hey everybody, this is your Moment of Yes for Friday, October 14th. Special guest star, it's Mako. So last week I was kind of co-facilitating a workshop in Orlando for a couple of days and you go out to dinner with the people in the workshop, the attendees and things like that and I was sitting next to actually a colleague of mine who At this point, I would probably call him more of a colleague than a friend, great guy but more colleagues. He ended up just kind of opening up a little bit about some stuff that he was going through and it ended up being this really, really thoughtful, meaningful conversation that actually led to some transformation. The day previous before he had actually gotten here, part of my talk at the workshop was about just the idea of active listening, empathic listening, I call it power listening. is when we, regardless of how other people show up, we can actually control how we show up. And so, even though we can't force someone to go deep, if we always show up in a way— there's Mako— if we always show up in a way where people can go deep, if they want to go deep, that's what we can control. But if we're always in a rush, if we're always If we're always correcting and fixing when someone brings us an issue instead of listening and understanding, well then we're not really preparing ourselves to be ready when someone has something deep and meaningful that they want to share. So I think more than anything, the idea is how are we showing up? He's makeup. How are we showing up? And are we creating a space for people to go deep if they want to go deep? If they don't want to go deep, you can't make them go deep. But the reality is, is you, by us, by you allowing yourself to be ready, if they want to go there, you're ready to go there. If not, no big deal. But if we're never getting there ourselves, we're never going to make ourselves available for those transformative conversations. So, that's it. It's the worst conclusion to a moment of yes ever is, I guess the question would be, what is getting in the way that is preventing you to creating that space? That's your moment of yes for today. Have an awesome weekend, everybody. Bye.
