Fred Dust | How to Have the Most Challenging Conversations of Your Life

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

‘We need to talk.’ These three simple words can send a rush of anxiety through our bodies in fear of whatever unbearable conversation awaits us. Fred Dust has a wealth of experience in navigating difficult conversations and he wants to help us to only pluck the courage to have them, but also build the skills necessary for meaningful conversation.

Visit Fred Dust’s website to buy the book, Making Conversation | https://makingconversation.com/

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0:00.0	In New York, in fact I'm writing a piece on this now in New York there's a place called the Petit puppy.
0:04.4	And what's really funny about the Petit puppy is that you can go and watch all these women or gay men typically who are going to look at the puppies because the puppies are so cute and then you can watch all the women or gay or the men or gay men or women who are there to like just to pick up the people looking at the puppies because if you're like
0:24.3	looking at a puppy and then you look up you're basically looking at the love of your life because the puppies
0:28.1	trigger a doxitose. And then there's a bench that's there to like for people who just want to watch people
0:35.4	picking up people who are looking at puppies and so what's funny about that
0:38.6	story is that that's a space story actually it's like it's what you've got a
0:42.3	little unseen ecosystem. You think it's just
0:46.4	cute puppies but it's way more sophisticated than that.
0:49.6	I love that. I'm Sreeny Rao and this is the unmistakable creative
0:57.5	podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most
1:00.9	innovative and creative minds who started movements, built
1:03.8	thriving businesses, written best-selling books, and created insanely
1:07.3	interesting art. For more, check out our 500 episode archive at unmistakable creative
1:11.8	com. at Unmistakable Creative.com.
1:17.7	Fred, welcome to the Unmistakable Creative. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us.
1:19.5	I'm delighted to be here.
1:20.8	Thanks for having me.
1:22.1	Yeah, it is my pleasure to have you here. So I found out about your book by way of your publicist, making conversation, which, you know, in the time we're living in, obviously is a subject of tremendous interest to me and of tremendous importance. But before we get into all of that I want to start
1:34.7	asking what I think is a very fitting question given the nature of your work and that is what
1:38.6	social group where you are part of in high school and what impact did that end up having
1:42.2	on the choices that you've made with your life in your career?
1:45.0	That was a great, great question because it's one that I often ask to kind of warm people up is all often ask them like who were they
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