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Saying No Is One of the Most Powerful Things You Can Do for Your Relationships — Tassos Kotzias on Assertive Communication
Most people who struggle to say no tell themselves it is a kindness — that they are being accommodating, flexible, considerate. Tassos Kotzias has spent years working with people on assertive communication, and what he has found is that the inability to say no is rarely about kindness. It is about fear — fear of conflict, fear of rejection, fear of what happens to a relationship when you stop saying yes to everything. He joins Stacey Chillemi to explore what assertive communication actually looks like in practice, why the word no is one of the most important tools available to you in both…
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