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Back to EpisodesWhy Your Difficult Conversations Keep Failing - With Mónica Guzmán
Description
Mónica Guzmán is a journalist who couldn't even have an honest conversation with her own parents about politics — and she turned that painful personal failure into a methodology that works in boardrooms, courtrooms, and living rooms.
Mónica is a bridge-builder journalist, Senior Fellow at Braver Angels, host of A Braver Way podcast, and bestselling author of I Never Thought of It That Way. In this episode, she breaks down the neurological and psychological forces that shut down curiosity at the exact moment you need it most — and gives you a practical framework to stay grounded when every instinct tells you to run, fight, freeze, or fold.
Connect with Mónica Guzmán
- Website / Braver Angels: braveerangels.us
- Podcast: A Braver Way — available wherever you listen
- Book: I Never Thought of It That Way
Contact ANI
negotiateanything.com
Resources Mentioned
- Book: I Never Thought of It That Way — Monica Guzman
- Book: How Minds Change — David McRaney
- Book: We Were Made for These Times — Lingo (Black Buddhist nun)
- Book: American Covenant — Yuval Levin
- Podcast: A Braver Way with Monica Guzman
- Concept: Conflict Resilience (CQ) — Bob Bardone [00:21:52]
- Research: Receptive Language — Julia Minson, Harvard Business School [00:14:00]