You’ve Tried Everything, Except the Honest Conversation

You know the conversation you need to have. So why haven’t you had it?

Instead, I bet you're overthinking, dropping hints, changing your behaviour, talking to everyone except the person involved, or creating processes to avoid addressing the real issue.

In this episode, Shelley explores why we avoid difficult conversations and challenges you to look at what you’re really afraid of: the conversation itself, or what might happen afterwards.

You’ll learn how to:

Recognise the respectable stories you tell yourself to justify avoidanceSeparate facts, feelings and assumptions before starting a difficult conversationTake responsibility for what you need to say without trying to control the other person’s response

Because you cannot hold someone else accountable for a conversation you’ve only had with yourself.

Your courageous challenge: identify one conversation you’ve been avoiding and ask yourself what you’re really afraid might happen if you have it.

Then go have the courageous conversation.

She is courageous. And she is you.

CONNECT WITH SHELLEY

Shelley Bosworth is a Business Leadership & Mindset Expert for founders and senior leaders who look successful on the outside and feel the pressure on the inside. She helps ambitious women stop overthinking, stop second-guessing decisions they're qualified to make, and start leading from who they actually are, not who they think they should be.

She works 1:1 with founders and executives, delivers keynote talks, and runs leadership development for corporate teams.