The Most Important Question

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"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, whom would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?" ~ Stephen Levine

Now asking that question is going to feel way too morbid for most on-air talent. Listeners come to you for entertainment, right? Not that, whatever that is.

Ok, so how about taking out "...were going to die soon and..."?

It becomes "If you had only one phone call you could make, whom would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"

If I were coaching you, I would encourage you to be vulnerable and honest and answer it yourself, for your listeners.

I'd encourage you to actually make that call on your show and air it, even if it makes you emotional -- especially if it makes you emotional.

Maybe, approaching it from a different angle, obliquely, is a way that works for you and for those who hear you.

It’s a heck of a question, isn’t it?

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There is a way to be with anger and fear and grief
A way to hold them with so much tenderness
That terror cannot take root.
Let us make a light of that tenderness
Leaning into each other, feeding each other
Creating together a heart that can hold it all.
~ Oriah House