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Oct 2021
14m 13s

First 5 Minutes: Tell Me About a Place…:...

ELENA AGUILAR
About this episode
Today’s episode is the first in our special four-part First 5 Minutes series. These short episodes will provide you with all you need to know to incorporate one resilience-boosting question to use in your conversations. In addition to providing you with a new question each week, Elena also walks through how to introduce this new type of question, models what ... Show More
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