In this week’s episode, I am joined by Emily Kasriel! Emily is a journalist, researcher, and executive coach whose work explores one of the most underrated and powerful tools we have in relationships: deep listening.

Emily has worked all over the world with the BBC, led major global media and leadership projects, and developed her Deep Listening method as a Senior Fellow at King’s College London.

She’s trained thousands of people, from army officers to corporate leaders to students in over 100 countries, on how to listen in a way that creates real connection and trust.

In this episode, we talk about what deep listening really means, and how it’s different from the kind of listening most of us do every day. Emily shares simple, research-backed tools that can transform how we connect with our partners, kids, and even with ourselves. Key Points

• Deep listening vs superficial talk

• 8 steps to mastering deep listening

• Silence is golden in conversation

• Transform relations with profound talks

• Ethics & boundaries in deep listening

 

Best Quotes

03:43 - 03:51

• "And it's such a beautiful gift to be able to give to people around us and to strangers and even people we disagree with."

03:55 - 04:03

• "So often when we listen to other people and they say, let's say they talk about, I've had a really difficult day, my boss was being impossible."

06:46 - 07:00

• "Research evidences that when we do take the time to listen, when we use more silence, when we are genuinely curious, people are able to, you know, not only at work, feel more incentivized, the bottom line increases."

07:49 - 07:57

• "And it's also because of time pressures. We've all got so much to juggle in our lives, and we're bombarded with an overplay of information."

08:19 - 08:31

• "I know from my work as an executive coach with leaders in the BBC and in many different corporations and organizations, that when you do give people the space, they will create new understandings."

25:33 - 25:47

• "The evidence from the academics into deep listening approach found that when people were practicing deep listening, they felt much safer, safer to express themselves and more understood."