The Catch Up

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. Catch up with us!

In this episode, we discuss power and control within uncomfortable conversations. We give insight into recognizing them, and how to harness them to balance out critical conversational equations. After listening to this episode, you'll be able to more agilely navigate uncomfortable conversations knowing how to maintain a balance in your relationship with power, while sharing healthy amounts of 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!

In this episode, we discuss how to unleash your inner artist through your communication and self dialogue! We give you tools to rely on in order to get creative with your expressions. Let's catch up!

In this episode, we discuss how everyone has a dream self that they can access and connect to in order to have enhanced awareness and more effective communications. Catch Up with us on how to sync up with your dream self!   Song: Black Habits I by D Smoke ft. Jackie Gouché from the Black Habits album

In this episode of The Catch Up, we dive deep into non-literal speech: The analogies and metaphors embedded in every conversation. We talk about their functions, where and how they appear, how to see them, and how to have fun with them in your own communications. Come catch up with us!   Song: "End Credits" by Bruno Coulais from the Coraline soundtrack

Let's talk about our Collective Self! In this episode we discuss how our internal collective voices affect our everyday communications. The more we're aware of our collective voices the better our understanding of each other can be. Let's Catch Up.

We talk to ourselves more than anyone else. Shouldn't we know how to cultivate our healthy communication patterns and transcend past the unhealthy ones? In this episode, we discuss what taught talk looks like, where we get it from, and how to make sure we're having healthy dialogues with ourselves. Join us, and let's catch up on transcending taught talk!

Learn about Melissa and Neil, and what they're catching you up on!

This season of The Catch Up is all about Self Dialogue! Here, we focus on Personal Mythogenesis. What it is, how it affects our self communication, and how it influences the way we interact with each other. This episode will catch you up on all the things you know but don't know you know: The nuances of everyone's mind. The Catch Up is presented by Neil and Melissa Wright, husband and wife, authors, and co-owners of Temme Meil, a communication consulting company that brings together psychology, linguistics, and mythology to bring out the artistry in everyday communications.