6th Year - 693: Building Better Relationships through Validation with Michael Sorensen

6th Year - 693: Building Better Relationships through Validation with Michael Sorensen

From How to Be Awesome at Your Job by How to be Awesome at Your Job

August 6, 2026 · 45 min

About this episode

Michael Sorensen discusses the power of validation in improving relationships.

Michael Sorensen demonstrates the simple superpower that vastly improves our relationships: validation. — YOU’LL LEARN —  1) How to improve conversations with the four-step validation method  2) How we unintentionally invalidate others 3) How to move past the discomfort of emotional conversations  Subscribe or visit   AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep693  for clickable versions of the links below.  — ABOUT MICHAEL —  Michael Sorensen is a marketing executive by day and a bestselling author, speaker, and relationship coach by night. His book,  I Hear You , has helped hundreds of thousands of people across the world become masters of connection in business, love, and life.   Michael has been invited to speak at some of the world’s largest organizations, had his work translated into over a dozen languages, and has even conducted training for the United States Navy.   • Book:  I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships   • Website:  MichaelSSorensen.com   — RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —  • Software:  TextExpander   • App: Copy’Em • Book: Never Split the Difference…

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Host: How to be Awesome at Your Job

Guest: Michael Sorensen

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Shopify, Monarch

Mentioned in this episode

Products: I Hear You, TextExpander, Copy’Em, Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It, The Compound Effect, The Slight Edge (Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness)

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