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Listening is the most important skill most of us never learned. We're taught how to read, write, and speak. When was the last time you took a listening course? This is it.
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The quality of your listening determines the quality of your life
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Season 2 · Episode 21
"Discipline is the ultimate form of self-love."
Season 1 · Episode 9
"I refuse to wait for someone else to provide the affection I've longed for."
Season 4 · Episode 50
"Rad taught me things about listening that no human being has."
Season 2 · Episode 16
"It is never too late to start your day. Even at 8pm."
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From the show
"I am exactly perfectly on time."
Ep. 48 · The Radical Medicine of Slowness"A no is a yes to something better."
Ep. 2 · The Power of The Pivot"Direct is kind. Stop trying to be nice."
Ep. 40 · Direct Is Kind"Ask great questions, get great answers. Ask crappy questions, ruin your life."
Ep. 39 · The Art of Inquiry"Lose your shit, find yourself."
Ep. 5 · Own Your Mess"This is it. This is life in this moment."
Core Mantra · All Seasons"Do no harm. But take no shit."
Ep. 7 · Boundaries as Self-Love"No is a full sentence."
Ep. 2 · The Power of The Pivot"Peaceful productivity is the new hustle."
Ep. 3 · The Slow Revolution"What you seek is seeking you."
Rumi via Svet · All Seasons"Get the message. Forget the messenger."
Core Mantra · On Receiving Hard Truths"Boundaries are a form of love."
Ep. 7 · Boundaries as Self-Love"Simplicity is genius."
Core Mantra · All Seasons"Wherever you go, there you are."
Core Mantra · On Presence"The quality of your listening determines the quality of your life."
Ep. 1 · Welcome to the School"Feelings are not facts. But they are real."
Ep. 55 · Permission Slip to Feel Like Sh*t"You can't listen your way out of something you behaved your way into."
Ep. 43 · Radical Accountability"It takes radical courage to go slow in a world of such urgency and haste."
Ep. 48 · I Am Exactly Perfectly On TimeGo deeper
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Svetlana Saitsky is a certified executive coach, facilitator, and Mental Wealth advocate. With 17+ years across Tech, Finance, Life Sciences, and Education, she has coached leaders at Google, Apple, Airbnb, Netflix, Asana, Square, and more.
She is a certified Ambassador of Compassion through Stanford Medical School's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research — and a lifelong artist, hat maker, and radically poetic human being who has lived many lives in one.
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