The Most Important Conversation is the One You're Not Having

How do you have difficult conversations with YOU, family, co-workers, friends and the annoying customer service representative? Would you like to know how to conduct tough conversations in the heat of the moment? Discover proven tools that enable you to handle anger, manage your fear and begin that conversation now. Chapter one, Did We Forget How to Be Funny learn how certain behaviors keep you from creating healthy relationships. Learn what choices impact your body and relationships in Body Beware. What triggers undesirable actions and behaviors? Discover root causes and how to change them in What is Reflected in Your Mirror. Explore brain science and how it affects your behavior in I Can’t Think Straight. After sitting in meetings you come home tired then work in the yard and feel energized. Inner Power: Keep It or Lose It, we demonstrate how this happens. What drives you to the point of anger? How do you fix it? Find answers in Anger, Rage and Hostility. Report, Report, Report, learn this valuable reporting tool that helps thousands of people. Often damage in relationships is that we do not listen enough. The Art of Candor learn how to create the space to move forward into feeling heard. Do you ever find you’re caught in a short circuit that continues to repeat over and over again? Stop the Story explore how giving up incessant addictive thinking patterns takes you into that inner quiet space that feeds your soul. What is the Conversation You’re Not Having with Yourself, discover freedom that comes when you are willing to explore behind the ego and see who is judging you. Life is a Series of Choices find out how we make conscious choices and the consequences when we don’t. When Terror Hits Home, learn how I handled daily terrorist activities in England where I worked. These exercises develop a new alertness that helps keep you safe. In the last chapter, All of Life Comes to Us with Ease, Joy and Glory discover how these precious words changed my life.

How do you have difficult conversations with YOU, family, co-workers, friends and the annoying customer service representative on the other end of the line? The tools discussed within the book, The Most Important is the One You’re Not Having create the safety to conduct these tough conversations in the heat of the moment when you do not have time to prepare. Do you really want to wait? Here among these pages you will discover proven tools that enable you to handle your anger manage your fear and begin that conversation now. In chapter one, Did We Forget How to Be Funny we cover passive, aggressive, and passive-aggressive behaviors. You learn how these inappropriate behaviors keep you from creating healthy and responsible relationships. Chapter two, Body Beware, you learn what choices make a significant impact on your body and relationships. Learn how to become more aware of their effect on your health. What triggers undesirable actions and behaviors in your home and at work? Discover the root causes What is Reflected in Your Mirror, chapter three. Then learn how you can change them? Have you ever said, I am so upset, I Can’t Think Straight? Chapter four explores brain science and how it affects your behavior. After a full day sitting in meetings you may come home feeling tired. Then on the weekend you work in the yard all morning and feel energized. Chapter five, Inner Power: Keep It or Lose It, demonstrates how and why this phenomenon happens time and again. Can you turn on the television, check your home page or listen to Talk Radio without hearing, seeing or feeling anger and hostility? What drives us to the point of anger? How do we fix it? Anger, rage and hostility are secondary emotions. Chapter six, Anger, Rage and Hostility provides the answers. Dr. Kathryn Kotrla endorsed these techniques how to handle emotions effectively on my PBS production, Brain at Work. She validated the tool, Report, Report, Report suggesting it can be used during any situation or conversation when it gets sticky. In chapter seven learn this valuable reporting tool that helps thousands. Often the damage in relationships is not that we did not listen, we sometimes do not listen enough. Are you creating the space to move forward into feeling heard? Is it more important to be right or have a relationship? Chapter eight The Art of Candor learn more valuable tools. When you find yourself in struggle, you are caught in a short circuit that continues to repeat over and over again. Chapter nine, Stop the Story, explore how giving up incessant addictive thinking patterns takes you out of struggle and into that inner quiet space that feeds your soul. Chapter ten, What is the Conversation You’re Not Having with Yourself, discover exquisite freedom that comes when you are willing to explore behind the ego and look at who is judging you. Chapter eleven, Life is a Series of Choices look at how you make choices consciously and the consequences when you don’t. When you turn on the news, whether it is on television, via the internet, Twitter, newspapers or magazines, media bombards us daily with a very hot topic, The War on Terror. In 1974, Suzy missed being a bomb casualty by seconds. Chapter twelve, When Terror Hits Home, learn how the author handled daily terrorist activities in England where she worked. Practice these exercises that help develop a new alertness. They will help keep you safe. The last chapter All of Life Comes to Us with Ease, Joy and Glory talks about how these precious words changed Suzy’s life. The expanded 3rd edition The Most Important Conversation is the One You’re Not Having, released 2013, brings into the current climate timeless proven tools to nurture you that increases your capacity to nurture your relationships. Suzy Greene learned on her 28th birthday that sometimes it’s too late. Can you afford to wait to have the most conversation?

The most important conversation is the one you are not having. You know what it is. I wonder, what would happen if you had it now? –Suzy Greene Suzy Greene says life provides us opportunities to grow, discovering how to nurture ourselves so that we are capable of nurturing our relationships. Embrace your warts and nightmares. Are you willing to forgive you and each other for that moment you went unconscious landing in a tough situation? Can you laugh at yourself? Are you fearless having difficult conversations that honor everyone involved? On Suzy’s 13th birthday life shattered into godzillion pieces! She made a decision, don’t get angry, or you won’t survive. That defined Suzy’s next 25 years. Standing by mom’s casket on her 28th birthday, Mom’s best friend said, you know Mom and I were close, but she never shared her pain. Suzy made a decision that defined her life’s work. How do you have important conversations? She learned the value to be vulnerable, share your feelings and ask for what you’d like. Nurture you and your relationships, listen, speak your truth without drama or you may die at 49 with a broken heart. On Suzy’s 36th birthday Dad died. Grieving this loss was softer. There were no unspoken words. They shared all the important conversations leaving nothing unsaid. At the end of every phone call or visit they said, I love you. Suzy appreciated those fearless conversations. How did she learn to have the most important conversation? Suzy began her career at Sheraton Hotels in England. Managing an international team, negotiating contracts with companies as far as Malaysia, Iran and the States, she won awards for achieving exceptional results in a down market. Later in the U.S. she became the first saleswoman in her industry sector. Continuing to build relationships with customers, vendors and plant managers across the country, hunting and golf were not in her business plan. Breaking more paradigms she secured the largest market share in the industry within her first year. That spurred Suzy to open her own consulting firm in 1992. Clients span North America including Fortune 500 companies, non-profit organizations, CEO roundtables and individuals. PBS called her the Communication Expert, where she had her call-in television program for two years. Her first book, The Most Important Conversation is the One You’re Not Having released 2001. The expanded third edition with new tools and updated research releases early 2013. CEO of Communicating Works! Suzy continues coaching and writing. Suzy was invited to audition for a new documentary @ http:// rippleofchange.com that launches January 1, 2013. Now she lives in the beautiful low hill country in Texas with her beloved hubby, Jim Bryant. Proud of Sam who serves in the U.S. Marines, he gifted mom a precious daughter when he married Aisha. Jim although retired is an active court appointed child advocate for CASA making a difference in the lives of two boys who have experienced far, far too much already. Their extended family includes Jim's three children & nine grandchildren. The newest member is a working feral cat that keeps the mole population down, snakes away and enjoys lap time inside. How does life get any better than that? To learn more about Suzy, Communicating Works!