How To Have Difficult Conversations with Hayden Brown and Greg Burgoyne

Why do the conversations that matter most feel the hardest to start? And why, when you finally have them, do they so often come out wrong?

In this episode of BREAKTHROUGH, we get tactical. Following on from our recent episode on 'why' we avoid hard conversations, Greg takes the lead to walk through exactly how to have them productively.

Greg and Hayden break down five practical keys for any difficult conversation, at home, with a partner, or at work: starting with your intent, sitting beside the person instead of across from them, processing your own emotion before you speak, getting clear on what you actually want, and making a plan for how and when you'll raise it.

The reframe underneath it all: the person you're talking to isn't the problem. The pattern between you is. That one shift changes the whole conversation.

👉 If you've ever found yourself: • putting off a conversation because you don't know how to have it • firing off an angry text or email you later wished you'd sat on • avoiding the topic until it comes out emotionally

👉 This episode will help you: • walk into a hard conversation with the right intent, before you say a word • separate the person from the behaviour so it feels like teamwork, not an attack • turn “you made me feel” into more empowering language

The goal of BREAKTHROUGH is to help you uncover the ‘why’ behind your challenges and gain clarity on your next best steps to break the pattern.

This episode helps you turn the conversations you've been avoiding into ones you can actually have, calmly, clearly, and without losing the relationship in the process.

Watch our previous episode on 'why' we avoid hard conversations here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frfHVir5xXY

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