Simon Greer is the founder of Bridging The Gap and the host of Courageous Conversations at the Nantucket Project in the United States. He's known as a social entrepreneur and has spent the last 30 years on the front lines of the most contentious social change and struggles.

Do you struggle to listen when you're in disagreement? How do you hold your presence, maintain your focus, when everything the other person says is the opposite of what you've come to believe? Do you get so angry that you lose track of your argument and theirs?

Today's episode may be able to help you explore how to listen when you disagree and the difference between arguing for truth or arguing for victory.

Zoom Fatigue is a well-documented phenomenon. It is more draining and depleting for women than men. There is a Zoom Exhaustion & Fatigue Scale (ZEF Scale) you can take the survey via https://vhil.stanford.edu/zef/

Dr. Anna Queiroz is a post-doctoral researcher at the Virtual Human Interaction Lab and at the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. Written in collaboration with Fauville, Luo, Beilesnon and Hancock - 'Nonverbal Mechanisms Predict Zoom Fatigue and Explain Why Women Experience Higher Levels than Men'.

During this discussion with Anna, we explore the impact of fatigue while listening on a video conference. It's important to understand that Zoom fatigue and exhaustion has of five different elements. They are emotional, motivational, visual, social, and general fatigue.

We explore the techniques you can use as a host and guest to improve the quality of the video conference - what to do before, during, and after the video conference to reduce exhaustion and fatigue.

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Zoom Exhaustion & Fatigue Scale - https://stanfordvr.com/pubs/2021/zoom-exhaustion-fatigue-scale/

Stanford researchers identify four causes for 'Zoom fatigue' and their simple fixes https://news.stanford.edu/2021/02/23/four-causes-zoom-fatigue-solutions/

Zoom Exhaustion & Fatigue Scale - https://stanfordvr.com/pubs/2021/zoom-exhaustion-fatigue-scale/

Stanford researchers identify four causes for 'Zoom fatigue' and their simple fixes https://news.stanford.edu/2021/02/23/four-causes-zoom-fatigue-solutions/

https://www.oscartrimboli.com/podcast/088/ Podcast Episode 088: How to listen in a video meeting with Professor Sheryl Brahnam, from Missouri State University.

https://www.oscartrimboli.com/videoconference - The ultimate guide to listening during a video conference

Heather Morris is most well known for being the author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, which has sold over 8 million copies since its first publication in 2018. The story, is a story of beauty and hope and it's based on years of interviews by Heather Morris and the interviews she conducted with real-life Holocaust survivors and Lale, The Tattooist of Auschwitz.

The Three Sisters is the next book in the series, an astonishing story about a promise to stay together, an unbreakable bond, and a fierce will to survive.

" People have been telling stories long before they've been writing them down. That storytelling is literally what makes the world go round, it is what connects us, not only with our friends and family, but with the past, and also with the future. I'm all about storytelling and to be able to tell your stories, you've got to listen to them in the first place. The two are intrinsically entwined.".

The irony for me is that to help everyone become better listeners, I had to become better at telling stories. For many of us sharing our own stories is as uncomfortable as listening to someone else's story. So, what am I taking away from Heather's conversation today? I need to tell more stories. I need to be comfortable telling stories about myself, about my family, about others.

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Sergeant Kevin Briggs is an international crisis management and suicide prevention expert. His Ted Talk – "The bridge between suicide and life" has been viewed over 6 million times. Kevin is a retired California highway patrol Sergeant. He has spent many years patrolling the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, where he witnessed many individuals clinging to life by a thread, people who had lost hope and could see no way out.

Through his compassion, gentle voice, eye contact, and his ability to listen, encourage them not to go over the rails of the bridge or come back to solid ground and start a new chapter in their life. His nickname is the Guardian Angel of the Golden Gate Bridge.

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Dr Alison J. Barker is a neuroscientist from Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin.

Dr Barker explains the importance of listening with patience over her multi-year study into language and dialects.

During this discussion, Dr Barker explains the importance of listening to yourself, the content and the context.

Using complex computer algorithms to listen, Dr Barker discerned patterns in language faster than a human listening. She explains the limitations of software and where humans hold an advantage.

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Michael Bungay Stanier is at the forefront of shaping how organisations around the world make being coach-like an essential leadership competency.

His book The Coaching Habit is the best-selling coaching book of this century, with nearly a million copies sold and thousands of five-star reviews on Amazon.

In 2019, he was named the #1 thought leader in coaching. Michael was the first Canadian Coach of the Year, has been named a Global Coaching Guru since 2014 and was a Rhodes Scholar.

Michael founded Box of Crayons, a learning and development company that helps organisations transform from advice-driven to curiosity-led.

Learn more at www.BoxOfCrayons.com

Michael is a compelling speaker and facilitator, combining practicality, humour, and an unprecedented degree of engagement with the audience.

He's spoken on stages and screens around the world in front of crowds ranging from ten to ten thousand. His TEDx talk

is called How to tame your Advice Monster.

What I love about this discussion is Michael's energy, enthusiasm and capacity as speak to be clear and cut-through –

When I think of Michael, I think of one of the worlds true blue flame thinkers – what is a blue flame thinker

The blue flame is the hottest and more potent part of the flame it can burn through steel with its clarity and focus

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Danish Dhamani is co-founder and CEO of Orai, a public speaking app that has helped over 300 hundred thousand people speak more clearly and confidently with AI feedback. a TEDx speaker coach he is uniquely placed to understand what the audience is listening to and for when you speak because his company Orai has analyzed over 2 million speeches uploaded to the Orai application to improve their speaking

I loved spending time with Danish as he has spent over 5 years analysis the difference be good and compelling speakers.

Listen carefully as Danish explains the impact of categories of speaking impact

1. filler words
2. energy
3. tone
4. volume
5. vocal clarity
6. Enunciation
7. Facial Expressions

During our discussion, listen carefully for the seven categories during our discussion.

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