Saying the Hard Thing
The Follow-Up
What you'll learn
- →Plan the follow-up before you have the original conversation.
- →Learn the check-in script: "I've been thinking about what we talked about. How are you sitting with it?"
- →Understand that the follow-up is often where the real conversation happens.
Proof task
Don't just watch. Do.
If you had a hard conversation in the last month, plan a follow-up this week. Send the message: "Hey — been thinking about our talk. Want to grab 10 minutes to check in?" The follow-up is where repair lives.
Share this lesson
Pass it on.
Chapters
Jump to a moment.
- 0:00The hook
- 1:15The pattern
- 2:45The interrupt
- 4:30Practice scenario
- 5:30The proof task
Reflect
“What hard conversation in your past would have ended differently if someone had circled back the next week to check in?”