322. Build Fierce Relationships ONE Conversation at a Time

Do you know the questions you should ask to ensure a happy, fulfilling, and lasting relationship? More importantly, do you know who you ask them to? (Hint: sometimes, the correct answer is yourself).

Conversations are the backbone of a relationship, but that doesn’t mean we know how to have them. Whenever one stops working, it’s a safe bet that it’s because of a breakdown of communication, be it not ensuring each other knows what’s expected of them, or simply allowing a disconnect to take hold.

Friend of the show and New York Times bestselling author, Susan Scott, founded Fierce in 2001, after 13 years of leading CEO think tanks and over 10,000 hours conversing with senior executives led her to realize that, while no single conversation is guaranteed to change the trajectory of a career, business, or life, any conversation can. This led to her sharing her valuable knowledge in the form of the Fierce book series, starting with the award-winning Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life, One Conversation at a Time.

Now, she’s turning her insights toward the world of romance with the upcoming Fierce Love: Creating a Love That Lasts, One Conversation at a Time, so she joins us to lay everything out there: where do we go wrong in our love lives and what can we do to align them with our ONE Thing?

THE ONE THING TO IMPLEMENT FROM THIS EPISODE

Susan Scott’s philosophy is to take things one conversation at a time, but to really maximize what we get out of each one. Those conversations require us to think and define the parameters of what we want to get out of them – and, sometimes, that’ll mean that we have the conversation with ourselves. That’s the best way to discover our relationship ONE Thing.

To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: the1thing.com/pods.

In this episode, you will learn...

• [02:30] What inspired Susan to venture away from business and toward romance
• [13:50] Some of the myths that derail relationships
• [21:30] The most important conversations you can have
• [28:20] Susan’s best advice for people starting their search for answers

Links & Tools From This Episode

• susan@fierceink.com - email Susan and she’ll alert you when the book is available to order
• Read Susan’s first book: Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work & in Life, One Conversation at a Time

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