The Catch Up Temme Meil

Pamela Koster and Mindy Hale from Falling Colors join us to discuss how to have potentially uncomfortable conversations about social, environmental, cultural, and health topics in the workplace. They provide insights, strategies, and methods to incorporate and develop the ability to allow employees to have conversations about prevalent, potentially sensitive topics. Join us as we catch up!

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Garima Sharma, a professor in the department of Public Management and Policy at Georgia State University, about how businesses can position themselves within potentially uncomfortable conversations. We discuss how CEOs can enter and help evolve the conversations, how businesses can benefit from taking stances on social and environmental topics, how businesses can help become problem solvers in these spaces, and why it's important to be having these discussions now more than ever. 
Dr. Sharma discusses her research, B Corps, and how we can all play a part in collective discourse.
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In this episode, we discuss power and control within uncomfortable conversations. We give you insight into recognizing their presence, and how to give and get them in communication. After listening to this episode, you'll be able to more agilely navigate uncomfortable conversations knowing how to maintain a balance in power and share control. Catch up with us!

In this episode, we have guest Emmy Schneider-Green on to discuss ways to have productive confrontations. Using her insight into communication practices and intersectional activism, we provide empathetic, meaningful, and authentic ways to go about having these potentially uncomfortable conversations.

In this episode, we catch up on how to communicate through uncomfortable conversations with those people we're most comfortable with: Our friends and family. We provide tools and insights for navigating uncomfortable topics with those we're closest to. As Frank Costanza said, "I've got a lot of problems with you people!" After this episode, you'll be able to more comfortably talk about those problems with your people and be able to address them better.

Season 2 of The Catch Up is all about uncomfortable conversations. This first episode discusses typically taboo topics and how we can talk about those topics in ways that let all sides be heard. Let's catch up!