From years of teaching self defense and martial arts, some tips for difficult holiday conversations.

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Those times you want to punch somebody over holiday dinner, but you don't? Andrea Pitzer is here to say "Well done" and to give you some options between starting World War III and just enduring nasty rhetoric. In this short holiday-themed episode of Next Comes What, Andrea talks about the years she spent teaching martial arts and self defense and offers ideas for fraught conversations when you're more interested in getting your point across than winning. From the power of reaching people with the quiet voice to minding your footwork and not wasting your energy, here's hoping you can enter 2025 with no hangovers, no arrest record, and no regrets.