Ep 101: Matthew Trombley | The intentional work of cultivating common ground

Rethinking Communication

I’m more than 100 episodes into this podcast now, and along the way, many of the guests I’ve had on the show have introduced me to some words and phrases that I’d never heard before yet have helped give me the vocabulary to appropriately express the things I see in this messy world.

My guest in this episode brings with him another word and another definition that I was previously unaware of that deepens my understanding of the world we live in, and I hope it does the same for you, too. You’re going to have to listen to hear what that word is.

Matthew Trombley actually lives about 30 minutes away from me here in Colorado, but until I came across his TED Talk, The Beauty and Complexity of Finding Common Ground, I didn’t know Matt.

But we grabbed coffee one snowy winter day and got a chance to hear each other’s story, and, well, now he’s here on my show. Obviously, something Matt said resonated with me.

As you get ready to listen to Matt’s story and his perspective of conflict and common ground, please understand this: When we start our relationships with people from a place of fighting and arguing, we tend to turn our convictions into weapons.

And I ask you: Is that how you want to show up in the world?

Listen to Matt's TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UdTys0yd90