Soft skills are the key to smoothing out conversations with challenging people. Learn how to use the soft skill of adaptability to temper your approach. Adjust your delivery without losing the message!

No two people agree 100% of the time. However, solid partnerships only happen when there is respect for each person’s authentic self. Click to hear what Dolly Parton discovered about healthy, respectful give-and-take.

Do you want to build strong partnerships? Drop your game face and face vulnerabilities together. Learn the importance of the soft skill of empathy in this week's podcast. Don't let old mistakes and misunderstandings become the boss of you!

Are you rushing through conversations to get to "yes"? Slow down—your partner needs your insights, wisdom and compassion. Build your relationships by being a thoughtful, curious listener!

Have you let your personal power slip by waiting for your true love or your new manager at work to make you happy? Quit delegating your happiness through unrealistic, unstable transactional relationships. Call back your power as the creative, wise CEO of your life—a Soul Boss.

Have you lost relationship norms like respect and collaboration? Healthy relationships take time. They’re nurtured by listening—even when you have to bite your tongue while the other person finishes their point, honest communication that may include a little friendly back and forth, and finding common ground.

But nurturing a dynamic where one person wins all the time, especially at the expense of the other person? That's not normal.

Click to learn how to use soft skills to reset!

Most of us set intentions with a big, kind of fuzzy idea like “happiness” or “abundance.” But here’s the trouble: You can’t reach a destination you can’t describe. Think of it this way—If you had two minutes alone with your Fairy Godmother, could you give her your elevator pitch? Skill up and exchange dreaming for doing!

Exchange All Talk For Real Talk by Michelle Mains

Are your 2020 goals giving you trouble, where you’re realizing the How you thought was a slam dunk may not work? That problem is more common than you think. In fact, MJ Ryan says that "unwilling to go through the awkward phase" is one of Ten Resolution Pitfalls. People get stumped, take a time out, but never go back. But that doesn’t have to be your experience. Listen to this week’s podcast about a multi-millionaire kept her What and reinvented her How.

Exchange Tactics For Strategy by Michelle Mains