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(#176) After The Conversation: What I Learned w/ Doug Kaplan

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This week, I’m doing something different.

After my conversation with Doug Kaplan pollster, public perception expert, and someone who’s spent years studying how Americans think. I walked away with more than just answers. I walked away with perspective.

In today’s episode, I’m unpacking the biggest lessons I took from our conversation:

• Why people often believe what they feel, not what they know

and how that shapes everything from politics to everyday disagreements.

• The real reason it’s so hard to change someone’s mind

(and why evidence alone almost never does it).

• How to talk to people you disagree with—without losing yourself

Doug gave me one line that genuinely shifted how I see conflict and communication.

• Why conversations matter now more than ever

and what our dialogue actually says about us as a society.

• The hopeful part

Yes, there is something hopeful here. And Doug gave me a new way to look at the future of human conversation.

This is a personal, reflective episode, more focused on the “conversation beneath the conversation.”
My goal? To make sure every listener walks away with something they can actually use in their own life.

If you heard the interview, this will deepen it.
 If you didn’t, this will give you the heart of it.

Either way, I hope it encourages you to talk with people, not at them.

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