Ep108 | Say the Thing You Have Been Avoiding

There is a sentence you have been carrying. You have half said it in the shower, in the car, at two in the morning. You have not said it out loud to the person who needs to hear it.

This episode comes at it through sport, because it shows up there first. The player everyone knows is not pulling their weight. The tension in the change room the whole group works around. The feedback a coach softens so far it stops being feedback. From the outside the team looks fine. Underneath, every person is spending energy managing something nobody will say, and that is the exact energy the team needs to perform.

It works the same way in your leadership, your business and your kitchen.

We choose months of low grade tension over ninety seconds of honesty.

Silence is not kindness. It is avoidance wearing kindness as a coat.

What you avoid is almost never the conversation. It is the feeling you will have during it.

Say it kindly. Say it once. Say it early, while it is still small.

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00:00 Intro

00:15 The sentence you have been carrying

00:50 What quietly kills a team

01:30 The energy everyone spends working around it