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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

691: How to Listen Like You Mean It with Ximena Vengoechea

Aug 5, 2021
42:41

Ximena Vengoechea breaks down the formula for effective listening. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) The psychological trick to help you stay in the conversation 

2) The questions that create better conversation 

3) The cues to look out for in a conversation 


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— ABOUT XIMENA — 

Ximena Vengoechea is a user researcher, writer, and illustrator whose work on personal and professional development has been published in Inc., The Washington Post, Newsweek, and Huffington Post. She is the author of Listen Like You Mean it: Reclaiming the Lost Art of True Connection (Portfolio/Penguin Random House). 

She is a contributor at Fast Company and The Muse, and writes Letters from Ximena, a newsletter on tech, culture, career, and creativity. She is best known for her project The Life Audit. An experienced manager, mentor, and researcher in the tech industry, she previously worked at Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Twitter. 

• Book: Listen Like You Mean It: Reclaiming the Lost Art of True Connection 

• Website: XimenaVengoechea.com 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman 

• Book: Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by Sherry Turkle 

• Book: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech 

• Book: What Every Body Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro 

• Past episode: 341: Decoding Body Language with ex-FBI Special Agent Joe Navarro 

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