And that's the word I like to use instead of saying that it's an argument with someone, I like to call them spirited conversations. 

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And that tends to take some of the intensity out of what's happening and what's going on. And as I often say, the words we use, they change the way we feel about the experience we're having.

So if you say versus spirited conversation, it completely changes the visual that you have of what's happening. So that's why I'm very particular about the words I choose to use, because I know they not just the meaning, but the impact they have and how as confident and effective communicators, we can change an engagement simply by the words we choose to use. But let's see now if Edith is able to, if we can hear Edith now.

Edith, how are you today? Hi, Tim, please confirm that you can hear me. Yes, I can. I can.

Hello. Hello. I'm so happy to be here today, as always, and it's not like that always, but I believe that today is also another special day for me to meet and greet and engage with everyone here.

Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity to co-host with you. And I'm looking forward to this space tonight because, yeah, I love the topic and I can't wait to see the ball rolling and how it rolls through people's minds and how everyone is going to respond. So thank you, Tim.

Over to you. Absolutely, absolutely. And I look forward to it as well because I know this is something that can be very sensitive. 

It can get touchy in a lot of circumstances and the number of environments we find ourselves in. We have to really be extremely careful as to whether we are providing strategic responses or are we attacking or retaliating in situations. And as I think about even sports, a lot of times you will see players on the field, you'll see players on the court or wherever these athletes are participating, and you can see someone initiate a dispute.

They push or shove, they punch another player. Well, I won't say punch because usually if you throw a punch, it doesn't matter who threw the first one. 


But when they push a little bit and they instigate a disagreement, and it's usually almost always, I would say 95 percent of the time, it's the person who retaliates that gets punished, even though everyone saw the person do what they did initially to instigate that situation.