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Most of us don’t wake up eager for a difficult conversation. By their very nature, these conversations can feel uncomfortable, challenging, and awkward. You’ve likely faced one you dreaded, put off, ...

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As humans, we’re talking to each other constantly. With all that practice, we must be pretty good at it—right? Not exactly. As a professor at Harvard Business School and author of Talk: The Science of ...

We have conversations every day. From surface level chats to internal ones, to awkward ones to deep and meaningful ones. But when did you last have a really great chat? In a digital age, these chats ...

Lucy Lazarony is an experienced personal finance journalist and writer who got her start in 1998 writing about financial topics. She writes accessible and easy-to-understand articles about credit, ...

Conversations about race and racism can be uncomfortable enough for adults. But too often, we don’t think about the messages our children are receiving about race from the adults in their lives. One ...