Podcast Episodes

60. Communicating Uncertainty: How to Connect With Your Audience, Even When The Answers Aren’t Clear

Season 3

“It's not reassuring when we don't know the answers to critically important questions involved in health and wellbeing. But it's far more of a problem if we try to pretend we do.” In this episode of …

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago

59. From Dreaming to Doing: How We Set and Achieve Goals

Season 3

Why do we do what we do? What factors drive us? And how do things like competition with others help us achieve our goals?

These are the questions most interesting to Szu-chi Huang, an associate profes…

Published on 3 years, 7 months ago

58. Forgiveness: How the Right Communication Repairs Relationships

Season 3

In relationships between imperfect people, mistakes are inevitable. And when we find ourselves with damaged connections, it’s a specific kind of communication that can help us make amends.

Fred Luskin…

Published on 3 years, 7 months ago

57. Are You Listening?: How to Stay Open and Curious to Other People’s Ideas

Season 3

“Listening actively and deeply happens when I genuinely believe that the person who's speaking has intrinsic worth and brings a perspective that I lack and need.”

This episode of Think Fast, Talk Smar…

Published on 3 years, 8 months ago

56. Lean Messaging: How Simple Messages Really Stick

Season 3

“Anyone can make a complicated thing sound complicated. It takes real skill to make it sound simple.” This episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart features Steve Blank, seasoned entrepreneur, marketer, and…

Published on 3 years, 8 months ago

55. Ideas & Empathy: How to Design and Communicate with Others in Mind

Season 3

“Very often, you are not designing for yourself. And you kind of have to get out of your own way to effectively design with others’ needs in mind.”

In this podcast episode, lecturer Matt Abrahams is j…

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

54. Leadership and Ethics: How to Communicate Your Core Values

Season 3

“A mistake that some leaders make is to assume that the people in your organization share your core values. Some of the time some of them do, but there's a bunch who don't, and those are the most dif…

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

53. Step Up and Stand Out: How to Create the Right Environment for Communication

Season 3

“You’re not going to hit the mark with everybody, but you still need to be mindful of everybody,” says Jonathan Levav, the King Philanthropies Professor of Marketing. “That’s critical to create an en…

Published on 3 years, 9 months ago

52. Communicating Our Mistakes: How to Avoid Common Flaws and Make Better Decisions

Season 3

In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, host Matt Abrahams sits down with finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen to talk about their new podcast, All Else Equal.

Connect:

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago

51. We Asked, You Answered: Celebrating our 50th Episode with your Anxiety Management Plans

Season 3

In this 50th episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, host Matt Abrahams and executive producer Jenny Luna share the winners' plans from our Confident Communicator Challenge and offer new, research-backed …

Published on 3 years, 10 months ago