Years ago, I was interviewing a celebrity relationship expert who had been married six times. You can probably guess the question sitting in the room before anyone even said it out loud. Why should anyone take relationship advice from someone who has been married six […]
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I was listening to a podcast recently and, of all things, the guest was a media trainer. You would think this would go beautifully, but life is filled with surprises. The host asked a question, the guest answered it, and then everything came to a
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A while back, I watched an interview where the host got a key fact wrong about the guest’s work. Not maliciously. Not even carelessly. It was just one of those normal human moments where a detail gets flipped and something is said incorrectly. You could
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I was watching an interview recently and noticed the host hit the guest with the triple question, and I swear I could hear time stand still. It sounded like this: “So tell us why you wrote the book, why now, and what should people do
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