“You need to be heard and valued as much as anyone else needs to be heard and valued.” —Listening 2by2: A Paradigm Shift for Leaders (That’s When the Magic Happens!) Every week, for the next six weeks, we are sharing one of Someone To Tell It To’s values, one for each letter in the acronym…
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I recently made a post on my LinkedIn page, an online space specifically designed to help us with virtual networking and career development. In the past two years, I’ve tried to up my LinkedIn game, which is still well-below par, but I have noticed some common trends. One of the most common I’ve noticed seemed…
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SEASON 4: EPISODE 3 | September 21, 2021 …So We Can Hear Something New with John Noltner John Noltner set out on a road trip across the United States to rediscover the common humanity that connects us by asking people a simple question: “What does peace mean to you?” Traveling with the foundational belief that, “connection…listening…
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SEASON 4: EPISODE 7 | November 17, 2021 Being Heard is So Close to Being Loved with Benjamin Mathes In a rebroadcast of a January 2019 episode with our dear friend Benjamin Mathes, founder of Los Angeles-based Urban Confessional, we have a conversation about how profound and innate to our human need is the act…
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I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best. Marilyn Monroe A huge part of our job, our mission, calls for us…
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If you don’t own your story, … Father Basil We sat there talking long past each of the meals had ended, the last ones remaining in the dining room, long after everyone else had gone. We could have sat there for many hours more. Through three meals we listened, we shared, we learned and…
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One of the things that has been most helpful for us in developing and growing our relationship together, in our relationships with our wives and in our relationships with others in our lives has been learning our own love languages. Dr. Gary Chapman, in his book, The Five Love Languages, states that every person needs two…
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One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. ~Mother Teresa Both of us know friends who for many years have bottled up deep feelings, wounds, guilt, and pain inside. They have been afraid to share because they fear being judged–they think to themselves, if she or he only knew where I have…
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