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Feb 2025
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The Cookie Theory: What Grandma Knew Abo...

Chad Lawson
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Ever notice how the world feels a bit like a recipe gone wrong - all the ingredients are there, but something essential is missing? In this episode, we explore how empathy might be that missing ingredient in everything from neighborhood disputes to global conflicts. Discover practical ways to develop your empathy muscles and transform difficult relationships through understanding. Learn how small shifts in perspective can create ripples of change as we Calm it Down in 3...2...1.

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