Ep 100: Oscar Trimboli | The contact sport of becoming a deep listener

Rethinking Communication

Here’s the thing about listening: the person being listened to has to feel heard for true listening to have taken place. And not just what they say, but how they say it, and what they mean by what they say.

My guest this week is Oscar Trimboli, host of the Deep Listening podcast, author of the book How To Listen, and a man on a mission to create 100 million deep listeners specifically in the workplace.

Oscar delivers some of the most profound and paradigm-shifting wisdom I’ve heard on the topic of listening because Oscar believes there’s doing listening, and then there’s being listening.

He describes listening as a contact sport, and that the best listeners realize when they’re not listening faster than others, and that you can begin to offer true wisdom to someone else when you become more concerned about their outcome of the conversation rather than your own.

In this, the 100th episode of this podcast, I’m grateful that Oscar took the time to listen to me during the course of this interview and provided an example of how I can improve my own listening, just as we all can.