What if you didn’t have to know exactly how a hard conversation would go before you were willing to have it? If you knew that you could speak up and handle whatever happened next, how much more freedom would you have in your relationships?
This episode is the second part of my conversation with Master Coach Sara Bybee Fisk, where we’re talking about one of the most important skills for women: learning how to have hard conversations. When you’re able to stop rehearsing, trying to find the right words, and walking on eggshells until it’s the “right time” to speak up, you get your life back and gain the confidence to have any conversation you need to. Last week, we laid the groundwork for understanding why so many women struggle with this skill. This week, we’re diving into actually developing the tools that help you speak up in your life.
Sara shares three foundational skills she teaches women to help them have these conversations: stop debating whether something matters, say what you actually mean without editing yourself to manage someone else’s reaction, and trust yourself to handle whatever happens afterward. We also explore how to recognize when fear is keeping you from speaking up, and what effective communication actually looks like.
Speaking up helps you know yourself more deeply and build more honest connections in your relationships. When you trust yourself to have the conversation and handle whatever comes next, you get to decide which relationships you want to invest in and how you want to show up in them. That’s the kind of freedom and confidence I want for all of you listening. Let’s dive in!
What you’ll learn:
- The three skills that will help you have hard conversations with more confidence
- How to stop debating whether something is “valid enough” to bring up and trust that it’s enough if it matters to you
- How to recognize when fear of someone’s response is keeping you from speaking up
- Why trusting yourself to handle whatever happens after you speak up is an important part of the process
- How parts work can help you care for the part of you that feels afraid to have a hard conversation
You can read the full show notes here.
About Sara Bybee Fisk
Sara Bybee Fisk coaches capable women through the conversations they're afraid to have. As a Master Certified Coach and host of the Ex-Good Girl Podcast, she's worked with thousands of women in medicine, business, and faith communities who've done years of personal work but still freeze when something they care about is at stake. Her approach is straightforward: most women don't need another insight or a better script. They need to interrupt the calculation loop that runs before they ever open their mouth, what she calls “Good Girl Math”. Sara teaches three concrete skills to help women locate exactly where they get stuck and what needs to change. She's a born-again feminist who grew up in a high-demand religion and now speaks nationally on conflict, communication, and what it looks like when women finally learn the skills needed to have any hard conversation they need to have.
Website: sarafisk.coach
Podcast: sarafisk.coach/podcast
Instagram: instagram.com/sarafiskcoach
Free workshop: sarafisk.coach/voice
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