Magnificent Midlife

In this episode, I welcome back Dr Kathryn Mannix to the podcast. Kathryn’s first interview was titled Talking About Death because that’s exactly what we did. Kathryn spent many years as a palliative care doctor and wrote the best-selling book With The End In Mind. Here we’re talking about her latest book Listen: How to Find the Words for Tender Conversations. This is a powerful and moving conversation which I hope you will love as much as I did. We talk about: The experience of recording Kathryn’s own audiobook Why Kathryn felt this book needed to be written after her first one What it means to have a tender conversation Why listening is so important when it comes to having these conversations How we can get better at listening The power of silence Some of the wonderful stories in the book How to have tender conversations in a professional context Moving away from trying to fix someone’s problems Some of the ways we can encourage others to open up The devastating impact of Covid on communication in a h